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Nearly 100 years later, three New York-area health food store owners created a unique apple soda Snapple. They began selling the original Snapple in health clubs in 1973.

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Throughout the 1970s, the Snapple company was known as the Unadulterated Food Corporation, later becoming Snapple Beverage Corp.

Is Dr. Pepper a Coke Product? Different Flavors & Taste

Dr. Pepper is a well-known soft drink maker in the American beverage market. So many people around the globe love and enjoy its taste.

thezohar replied to your post “it’s weird that “coke freestyle machines suck” is one of the hills I…”

I like them but now I’m curious, why do you dislike them?

basically it’s a whole host of problems that boil down to 1. it’s a poorly designed, customer-hostile product and 2. the drink tastes wrong

like: 

laggy touchscreen

more unsanitary than a classic soda fountain

also unintuitive to people over a certain age

slows down decisionmaking, whereas pushing a lever with a cup is a one-step process

laggy button

if you want your cup full to the brim…good luck

you’re either going to overflow it or spend an unreasonably long time short-pressing the button

meanwhile classic levers are basically 1:1

only one spout

on a classic soda fountain, multiple people can fill up at once if they want different drinks

this is even worse on behind-the-counter freestyle machines, which in most incarnations still only have one spout!

this has a high potential for cross-contamination, since all drinks come through the same thing. sucks for you if you’re allergic to vanilla, or if you want a drink that tastes 100% like it’s supposed to

if one spout has a problem on a traditional fountain, it’s fine. you can just not get the fanta. if one spout goes out on a freestyle machine…tough luck

choice paralysis

you ever spend hours in increasing frustration not watching a movie on netflix because there’s too many options and the good ones are lost amidst a sea of mediocre ones?

that, but with weird soda flavors

costs more for the operator, short-term and long-term

you’re probably unwittingly paying for this price hike in the cost of yr meal

tastes wrong

“hundreds of flavors” means nothing if you can’t get the basics right. freestyle coke does not taste like coke.

like, this is subjective, but I can at least rule out “oh, you must have had a bad machine” because I live in atlanta, where they make coke. we got the freestyle machines early, and we’ve got a lot of them.

and contrary to the “bad machine” narrative, freestyle coke tastes consistent! it just tastes absolutely nothing like the can/bottle/fountain variety. sugary carbonated water with an unidentifiable and poorly integrated additional flavor.

coke built its brand on one specific taste. the last time they tried to change it in the modern era is infamous, but for some reason this time nobody cares

I have had to switch to dr. pepper at fast food outlets specifically because it tastes the Least Worst of the caffeinated freestyle varieties

in general I just feel like the benefits don’t outweigh the costs. (especially since I don’t personally care about the novelty of grape sprite.)