/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11235700
I like them, but I hate how they call them "freestyle" machines. I don"t want to be forced to think of nigger """music""" when I'm getting a soda at BK.

>>11235700
They're good if they ever have the fucking flavorings in them.

>>11235700
The “flavors” are just disgustingly saccharine syrup that inevitably taint every drink that comes out of it. Only one person can use it at a time. If you’re stuck behind a kid they will scroll through every option possible. God forbid you get stuck behind an old person who looks at it like is some alien technology.

They suck

>>11235700
I just added homemade cherry syrup to my homemade soda water.

coke freestyle machines can get fucked

>>11235708
based

>>11235716
You sound very flyover

>>11235700
Every one I've seen has had the screen covered in some disgusting shit or just extremely scratched up. I also find the concept itself a little gross

>>11235700
Shit because if I want a regular flavor I'll always get hints of other flavors in it. That being said, lime/orange coke is drinkino

>>11235724
you sound like you've never lived in a city before lmao

>>11235700
Over 100 choices

>>11235724
That doesn't sound very flyover at all.

>>11235700
>100 choices

it's all the same shit

>>11235700
>>11235716
>>11235724
>lol flyover
Fuck off, not an argument. A traditional soda fountain can serve 2-4 people depending on how big it is. A Freestyle machine can only ever serve 1 at a time and old people and kids take fucking FOREVER to use them.
ALL I WANT IS SOME FUCKING COKE YOU PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT

>coke memestyle

>>11235700
Any kind of soda you have to dispense into a paper cup is disgusting trash. Just figure out what sort of flavor you want and then buy bottles of it from Amazon like a normal person. At this point in history I'm pretty sure every flavor you could get out of that freestyle machine is something that already exists in bottled form under some brand or another out there. Although I also don't think combination meme flavors are worth it regardless, regular Coke is already a perfect flavor, people just get greedy and always want something new.

Shit because the supposedly normal Bang's rootbeer is caffeine free. Despite Bang's being a product that normally has caffeine.

>>11237223
Why would they change it like that? They should at least label it as something different.

>>11235700
The sodas come out of the same hole for the most part. The sodas don't taste right.

>>11237248
No idea
>In some locations such as Utah, Bang's is caffeine free. It has also come to our attention that Bang's served in Coca-Cola freestyle machines is also caffeine-free.

they gots to go

>>11237223
bangs has always been caffeine free

>>11235708
FPBP

>>11237316
No it hasn't

It's one of the only rootbeers that DOES have caffeine.

>>11235700
Pure cancer that should be destroyed on sight.

>>11237316
wrong

Caned Bang's
>CARBONATED WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CARAMEL COLOR, SODIUM BENZOATE (TO PROTECT TASTE), CITRIC ACID, CAFFEINE, ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL FLAVORS, ACACIA.

Fountain Bang's
>CARBONATED WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CARAMEL COLOR, SODIUM BENZOATE (TO PROTECT TASTE), CITRIC ACID, CAFFEINE, ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL FLAVORS, ACACIA.

Freestyle Bang's
>CARBONATED WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CARAMEL COLOR, CITRIC ACID, ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL FLAVORS, ACACIA.


Notice the only one to exclude caffeine is the Freestyle one.

>>11235867
t. flyover

>>11237378
>flyover
Do a lot of "flying" do you?

>>11237327
>Tim’s

That fatass has patrician taste.

Yes, the perfect machine. A poorly responsive touchscreen that confuses the elderly and excites children with ADD. Nothing better than being stuck behind a line of people who spend 10minutes trying to add a shot of gross cherry flavour into their shitty soda.

>>11235700

>>11237223
>>11237316
>>11237334
Is this some sort of meme?

Also these machines suck dick, constantly break down and run out of syrup because all the syrup is in shitty little proprietary boxes. t. Grocery store wagecuck

>>11237316
>bangs has always been caffeine free
No. Most root beers are caffeine free, but Barq's is a notable exception. That's why it's really weird they made it caffeine free in this stupid freestyle machine. Not that it matters to me since I hate soda poured into open paper cups anyway. Not sure why anyone would prefer dispenser soda over sealed containers.

>>11238566
>shitty little proprietary boxes
It's concentrated syrup with no HFCS. The HFCS is in conventional bag in box containers in a backroom somewhere.

>>11239202
>It's concentrated syrup with no HFCS
Wut?
Bullshit, just look up the ingredient list on the Coke website for their Freestyle offerings.

pic related

One time while trying to fill my cup up with orange fanta, one of these machines blasted out a torrent of orange syrup all over my stomach and crotch. I'm still gun shy around them.

I used to service these things at work. If you select the water option and click three times in a triangle shape in the top right corner it takes you to the operator menu.
Also the touchscreens are shit and takes a metric fuckton of force for the touch to register.

>>11239202
i can confirm this work in a movie theater we put there little boxes full of the syrup into the machine and the HFCS is in the back room with tubes leading out to the machines

>>11235700
I don't use them, but look forward to the day the idea is used for alcoholic beverages in bars. I'm sick of talking to and tipping bartenders.

Post Based Combinations

>cherry lime doctor pepper
>orange creamsicle
>lime ginger ale + vodka

>>11240554
>>orange creamsicle
I do this as 2/3 orange Coke, 1/3 vanilla root beer.

>>11235700
If they're not more expensive and they're near where I live, I try to use them if I can. Coke uses them to collect marketing data, and I want some better goddamned soda varieties available in supermarkets.

>>11240555
For me it's creme soda bangs + orange mello yellow or fanta

>>11239212
>lemon Coke
I should try one of these machines. Haven't had that in years.

>>11235708

redpilled and based

>>11235700

>literally how coke machines were in the 50's-60's
>they tout it as some new exciting innovation

>>11235700
I wish someone brings melon soda one day to the west

>>11235708
snowflake

they had vitamin water and vitamin water zero for a bit, at jackinbox, now no longer. that was cool. fuck them now. i cant drink sugar, zero is the bomb.

wouldnt you get at least 1 drop of whatever was dispensed last whenever you pour a beverage from one of these?

>>11235708
This but ironically

>>11240573
Reminds me of my grandpa. When we would go out to his farm, he would only have Diet Coke with Lemon, Diet Orange Crush, or water. Didn't drink anything else. At the time I hated it, would always wonder why he didn't buy any good drinks, only his old people drinks. But even just thinking about lemon Coke, which I bet is disgusting, is taking me back to the farm in my mind. I would suffer through one right now for the memories.

>>11235708
basedboy bestpost

Cool concept but it fails when the fucking machine has to process info and delays your input by 10 seconds

did I say input? because you have none as the hitbox of each button is a pixel small and moves to random points within the button every frame

fuck freestyle

>>11241958

yes. Its annoying

>>11242054
>which I bet is disgusting
You never tried it? It's pretty good. Probably not what you're imagining. You've never even had a restaurant include a lemon wedge with your Coke? That seems common to me, but it may be regional.

>>11243302
>You've never even had a restaurant include a lemon wedge with your Coke?
Sure, and I always set it off to the side, I need no lemon for my coke.

Coke is garbage and PEPSI has always been the king of cola.

Listen, Sprite Raspberry is fucking amazing.

Hate them. Every soda tastes like all the flavors mixed together.

>>11235716
>The “flavors” are just disgustingly saccharine syrup that inevitably taint every drink that comes out of it.

>>11240525
Are you me?

>>11241958
thats why you press it first

>>11235716
This is the only correct post. Even the regular Coke flavor is off compared to a regular machine. I usually give these freestyle machines a 3 or so second rinse before I pour my drink and it's always off. It always tastes like a bubblegum flavor version of the real drink.

I like the orange vanilla HiC...

>>11235700
boomer-tier shite.

>>11240554
Raspberry lime ginger ale.

>>11235708
Racism is the biggest sign of unintelligence. It shows weakness, insecurity and lack of world experience. It's also a red flag that you lack knowledge of your own racial identity

>>11235708
/thread

>>11235708
based and /threadpilled

>>11244690
>racism
>lack of world experience

Pffftahaha. You're kidding right?

>>11244818
It's a fact
Racism is a product of being sheltered and usually comes from hearing stereotypes from older people. Racism is also from brainwashing and propaganda so weak minded people generally are the ones to adopt ignorant/ racist ideals

>>11235700
I like them because it lets me try flavors that usually aren't available in stores, or let me try flavors that I wouldn't normally buy.

>>11237223
It's barqs you fucking illiterate monkey

>>11240554
4 parts Mello Yello
2 part Blue Powerade
1 part Sprite

fucking amazing. they have one of these machines at a little pizza place near my apt. since its quiet, theres no traffic around the machine

>>11244830
Right so all those whites who get stuck living next to literal niggers only hate blacks because they were raised that way? Has nothing to do with the behavior they see on a daily basis right? Lmao racism exists because retarded gated community liberals like you can't comprehend why people don't want to live with savage subhumans

>>11235700
The opportunity for a range of flavors is great, but it does generally taste worse than older-school fastfood sodamachines. the flavors are kinda... muted? and they seem to have maybe a different consistency or texture to the carbonation, I don't know what it is.

Pros, widespread access to orange coke (based combo) and the lemonlime unsweetened dasani is v good
Cons, doesn't taste as good as other machines in general, chipotle has better coke, McDonald's is the gold standard, Portillo's, Sonic?

>>11243762
depends do you hate when people order popcorn layered with butter flavoring and salt when its a sat and there like 20 people behind them ?

>>11235716
>God forbid you get stuck behind an old person who looks at it like is some alien technology.

It absolutely baffles me how they have such trouble with them. It's a touch screen interface with the label of each product. It is utterly impossible to make it any simpler.

Does IQ decrease with age or something?

>>11244690
cringe and bluepilled

>>11245522
>It is utterly impossible to make it any simpler.
Nonsense. An old-fashioned coke machine is simpler. It's faster too since there is no lag to check touches or options to navigate through, and it can fill more than one soda at a time.

>>11245522
Industrial designer here. They have lots of problems.

1) information overload confuses some people

2) even if you know exactly what you want it can take some time to get it. for example, you walk up and you're thinking you want "mountain dew". You don't see an icon for that on the main screen, so that means you have to figure out which sub-menu it's under. Even if you know that from prior experience you still have to do multiple touches to get to that menu. Factor in that sometimes the screen touches don't register right away it takes even longer.

>>11246357
This seems to be the biggest problem with them. Why does it take 15+ seconds to take me to the next screen, in a time when a $100 tablet is fast enough to go from the home screen to streaming HD video in under 5?

Coke Zero + cherry

>>11244842

>>11246844
It's a parameter that's programmed into them. It's deliberate, not a matter of having insufficient CPU powder.

I also find their touchscreens are bad about not detecting touches a lot of the time.

>>11245522

>Touch screen

says who? The machine never explicitly states that it's touch feedback. There's a big shiny button that says push and nothing else, when you start working in tech you begin to notice just how far people will go to ignore context clues and how much you have to dumb things down.

Next time you play a video game and wonder why the tutorial is forced or a cool mechanic is now one button, remember the retards they focus tested on

>>11247488
>The machine never explicitly states that it's touch feedback.

sure it does. It has a screen on it with obvious "buttons" to touch. The screen also has that special coating or whatever it is that makes some kind of touchscreens work. You can see the matrix of little dots on it. What else would it be if not a touchscreen?

>>11247512
>It has a screen on it with obvious "buttons" to touch.

It's a screen with flashing circles on it, there are screens at gas pumps that aren't interactable.

Again, dumb yourself down, you're being way too high level for the average person

/ck/ used to be an alright board.

>>11247556
>It's a screen with flashing circles on it, there are screens at gas pumps that aren't interactable.
Sure. But those have obvious buttons next to them. That thing has only one button in the center, therefore those the screen must be a touchscreen.

>Again, dumb yourself down
I am. At least I'm trying to.

>>11247567
Imagine you didn't spend your entire life playing with touch screen phones. You in fact skipped that era of technology because you didn't see a need for it.

>>11247577
I don't own a smartphone.
I unironically don't see a need for most of it
I hate those soda machines and wish they'd put in the "old fashioned ones". Yet I still find them easy to figure out. Laggy, but easy to figure out.

>>11247582
>Laggy

This also doesn't help, if you aren't sure if it's a touchscreen and you slap the screen and shit doesn't respond you just feel stupid and even more confused.

Coke needs to do some more testing on this shit

>>11235700
Absence of teeth
Foggy mind
Fat
Just listing the bad shit coke brings.

>>11247587
Yeah, the lag combined with the lack of any kind of feedback is a problem. It wouldn't be a big deal if the screen flashed or beeped or vibrated to let you know that it detected your touch, but lack of feedback + lag does indeed give the impression that the machine is broken. It's poor design for sure.

Pic related is far superior. It has no lag and it can even dispense to multiple customers at the same time. Plus it still has the "extra flavors" like the one posted in OP. And better yet, you can choose exactly how much extra flavor you want.