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Well, you’re not really supposed to drink it all in one sitting. You’re supposed to drink it all in less than a full sitting and then get a free refill to throw out the window on the way back home because the ice melted and you have several liters of cola in your fridge anyway.
It’s all ice anyway….
You can ask for no ice and get the 1L of soda experience just as it was meant to be
A lot won’t do that anymore or have an auto size fill that even without ice you’ll get less of a product. Except for self serve stations, in that case, pour away! Oh, though some of them have added rfid tags to the cups so you can only use their cup and for a limited time. Ain’t capitalism grand.
Go to A&W, they never add ice.
Even the smallest size is over 400ml? How are Americans not constantly dying for a piss and feeling bloated as hell?
Aren't their drinks like 80% full of ice? I feel like despite the cup sizes they probably don't end up with that much more soda
How exactly do they advertise the cups? Because my local legislation would demand that if they said a "400ml Coke" I need to get 400ml of liquid Coke, regardless of the size of the container or the ice. But if they sneakily say "do you want a 400ml CUP" and later on you decide what goes inside the cup, then yes.
Unless you ask for no/less ice, yeah, most of the volume is ice. I'd wager that for the typical fountain drink, they're probably pretty close to the same amount of sugar syrup. Now, is the ice any better for you? No, that shits FILTHY, but that's a story for another time.
I’m American but I don’t drink soda. But if you fill this with water, I don’t think it’s that ridiculous? My point is, it’s not the amount of liquid that’s the issue, it’s the soda. Stay hydrated (with water).
"Then, there is a horrifying 512-ounce version that they call child size. How is this a child-sized soda?"
"Well, it's roughly the size of a two-year old child, if the child were liquefied. It's a real bargain at $1.59."
"liter of soda ot once.."
Well, unless you ask for no ice is more like 325oz of soda with 425oz of ice. Yet also cost $3.29 because fuck you.
Can an American confirm this is true? I checked the Polish ones and they are the same as UKs.
I'm American. It's true. But they do have a lot of ice in the cups.
Gotta specify 'light ice' or 'easy ice' or shit is 97% frozen water and 3% actual soda.
Isn't that the idea?
I used to live in a place where they just don't do ice in soda at all, and it's like licking a can of dried out syrup. In the local Imax they didn't even have ice at all as an option. They looked at me like I was insane when I asked, then calmly pointed out that the soda comes out of the machine chilled. I just had to learn to watch two hour movies while sucking on a tub of lukewarm, full-strength soda like a deviant.
When I was a teen we'd often get a "cube" (24 pack of 12oz cans) of Mountain Dew and drink it in a night. It seems horrific to me now.
Eww I’m gonna tell my buddy about this over the twelve pack of beer we split tonight.
Important to bear in mind that Americans also put a ton of ice in the cup too.
there's two things you just can't take from us americans:
edit: i'm not saying it's a good thing, i'm just saying we're weirdly politically motivated when it comes to these two things
It's insane to me that the US small is almost as big as the UK large.
To be fair it's not a full liter even if it was 1000ml.
Over half the damn thing is ice. They also have a custom blend so they can cut it with more water than normal coke. Not the same as pounding a new sealed bottle.
We take it to go. Hence the enormous cupholders in our enormous cars.
Drinking soda regularly (as a replacement to water) is fucking disgusting.
It's okay. They pack all the US sizes full of ice first, so it's simultaneously not that bad and a complete rip-off.
Visiting Texas, I was absolutely blown away at the number of people carrying around a 3L bottle (yes THREE liters) of sugar water with the cap held between their knuckles.
Time of day did not seem to matter, people were sucking them down at 7:00 in the morning.
Living in Texas all my life I literally can’t remember the last time I saw a three liter bottle. Twos are everywhere, but threes have been a rarity in my life.
Another fun comment, movie theaters used to have absolutely gigantic portions (yes, even bigger than now). Cobb Theaters had a soda called "The Cobbster" which was 80oz. It was basically a popcorn bucket full of soda with a straw. And it came with free refills, it was the only size to do so. I imagine that was because only a maniac would actually come back for a refill. I did it once to "get my value", but I couldn't actually drink any more.