Fountain/can/bottle

**seaoharrwhy** · 03-01-2007 07:57 PM

So, to add on to the Pepsi/Coke poll, for those of you that do drink soda, which of these sources of carbonated goodness do you prefer? I'm asking this question as to taste. For example: don't say that you like bottled because you can close and reopen it later.

I myself like canned sodas because fountain drinks tend to have too much syrup and bottles always taste too fizzy.

**Kaniaz** · 03-01-2007 08:04 PM

What the hell are fountain drinks?

They have Cola fountains?

**King and God** · 03-01-2007 09:28 PM

I prefer cans of the options above; the metal keeps gives the drink a colder taste, provided that it has been in the fridge or freezer for a while. But I'm using a 32oz (1 litre) metal thingie to drink from. I don't know what it is called, but it is used for baking.

**PenguinLord13** · 03-01-2007 10:28 PM

Originally Posted by King

I prefer cans of the options above; the metal keeps gives the drink a colder taste, provided that it has been in the fridge or freezer for a while.
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That's why I prefer cans too. It also holds the fizz better because you have to drink it right away, and can't reopen and close it ten times until it loses all the fizz like a bottle. I think that can and fountain are mostly tied except the cool feeling of the can wins. But if glass bottle were an option I'd vote for that just because those glass coke bottles from the past look so cool.

**ViSions** · 03-01-2007 10:33 PM

I think cans taste better. I have fountain pop constantly at work (Pizza hut) it's nothing special. I don't mind bottles, but I think cans are better.

**Artelis** · 03-01-2007 10:38 PM

Originally Posted by Kaniaz

What the hell are fountain drinks?

They have Cola fountains?
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The pop you get in a cup from the machine at fast food places. NA WAT I MEAN?!

**Lord Toaster** · 03-01-2007 10:48 PM

Don't know what fountain drinks are

But out of bottled and canned, canned wins

Originally Posted by Artelis

The pop you get in a cup from the machine at fast food places. NA WAT I MEAN?!
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NO!

**Marvo** · 03-01-2007 11:03 PM

I prefer fountains, since they don't have the plastic taste that bottles have. I don't really care if someone with a decease drinks from the same fountain. I can't catch diceases due to my incredible omg-lolness.

**Artelis** · 03-02-2007 08:55 PM

eh, maybe fountain drinks aren't big outside of the US. Basically it's just a machine that mixes the carbonated water and the pop syrup as it's pouring into your cup. That way the company providing the machine can buy the syrup and the carbonated water seperately.

**PenguinLord13** · 03-02-2007 10:28 PM

any idea where you can buy the syrup? that would be pretty cool to be able to make custom soda with the syrup stuff, and its probably cheaper than regular soda (not that i actually drink enough that it matters).

**ben k** · 03-02-2007 10:44 PM

cans just seem to taste nicer and re normally colder with a shaper taste whereas bottles seem warm kind of bland but i dont really care that much
and what are fountains?

**~Erin~** · 03-03-2007 02:08 AM

*shrugs* honestly.. I can't even tell the diference. Though, for some reason I always go for tap water.

**ExoByte** · 03-03-2007 02:34 AM

Canned.

**Artelis** · 03-03-2007 02:43 AM

Originally Posted by ben

cans just seem to taste nicer and re normally colder with a shaper taste whereas bottles seem warm kind of bland but i dont really care that much
and what are fountains?
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READ. THREAD.

I don't know where you can buy the syrup. Probably only directly from the manufacturer. You'd also need to have a source of carbonated water. I don't think it would be cheaper unless you were doing it all in bulk.

**Marvo** · 03-03-2007 01:11 PM

That's what I see, when I think of a fountain. I prefer those, since they're like tap-water, but it feels better to drink from fountains. Atleast for me.

**PenguinLord13** · 03-03-2007 02:36 PM

Okay, for you guys who don't know what a fountain is, here:

Are these just not used outside of the US or something?, because just about every single fastfood type (like you don't have to sit at the table and be waited on) restaurant has one here.

**Kaniaz** · 03-03-2007 03:50 PM

I've been to the US and seen them a lot (and they rock), but I never knew they were called fountains. I thought of them as super express vending machines or waterholes of carbonated glory. Not fountains.

**Marvo** · 03-03-2007 04:33 PM

That's a softwater machine, not a fountain! They're in all resturants in Denmark.

**seaoharrwhy** · 03-04-2007 06:14 AM

Originally Posted by Kaniaz

I've been to the US and seen them a lot (and they rock), but I never knew they were called fountains. I thought of them as super express vending machines or waterholes of carbonated glory. Not fountains.
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Yea I wasn't wuite sure if everyone would know what a fountain drink was. I hope its cleared up by now. It would be sweet to have your own soda fountain at your house though.

**TweaK** · 03-04-2007 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by PenguinLord13

Okay, for you guys who don't know what a fountain is, here:

Are these just not used outside of the US or something?, because just about every single fastfood type (like you don't have to sit at the table and be waited on) restaurant has one here.
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Ah, yes. I never knew they were called fountains, but they're pretty common here in the Neverlands.
Well, I like canned soft drinks best - The metal gives it an icy feeling and keeps it colder, as has been said before in this topic. Also, you're sure the fizz is still in it - unless you open it and let it be somewhere for a pretty long time. With bottles on the other hand, the fizz goes out pretty quick because it, well, moves and is opened, closed, reopened, closed, etc.

So yes, canned > *.

**PenguinLord13** · 03-04-2007 10:30 PM

Originally Posted by Marvo

That's a softwater machine, not a fountain! They're in all resturants in Denmark.
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I find this really interesting. No one from europe has any idea what this fountain thing is, but when shown a picture of what is called a fountain in america, they suddenly realize that they have that exact thing everywhere too, and it is just a naming difference. I was wondering howcome nobody knew what those were. It didn't make sense that only america has them, but the different names explains everything. It's funny how a naming difference can cause such confusion between people.