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[-] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah I was going to say it's because neither the A/C nor the soda fountain have ever had their filters changed (which makes sense cause a dirty filter is going to allow for all sorts of nasty things to grow).

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I don't know about you guys, but the McDonalds in my area are the only ones who clean their machines.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Ahmmm… aren’t ther inspections? They’d fry your ass allive over here if they see that you haven’t changed your filters in 2 years…

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

All I can say is when I was working in a restaurant in high school the owners were bribing the health inspector and Tennessee government sucks ass in general.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I worked there. The problem is that they do clean their nozzles and machines and tanks but what they don't clean are the actual lines running the soda syrup from the storage tanks to the fountain. There's just no viable way to do it. Sure, you can run sanitizer and soap through it but that doesn't scrub off the black mold and it's not exactly financially feasible to rip out all the piping from the walls and ceiling and replace it every 2 weeks.

I'm not honestly sure what a solution would be other than not using soda fountains.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah but do they change the water filter?

[-] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago

'Glib' - when the words come out your mouth are fluent, but insincere and shallow.

McDonald's Sprite tastes good, it has just the right sweetness and fizz. It's always exactly the same wherever you go yet somewhat fake and hollow. Similarly, hotel conditioners in my experience, are cold and effective - in the way a walk in fridge is designed to keep meat fresh. Purely functional and devoid of tangible comfort. 'Glib'.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Ok, but my workplace has a walk in freezer and that place absolutely has "tangible comfort" in abundance when it's 95° outside and the air conditioner barely keeps up with the ovens....

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I worked in a kitchen at a cult on a compound in Texas for a year and that summer was a hot one. One those 100F+ days I’d head into the kitchen on my off hours and hang out in the deep freeze walk in. This was 20 years ago, but if memory serves it was set to something like -10F, and god was it wonderful to cool down in. I’d stay in for 5 or 10 minutes and come out ready to go again. I loved it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure if I understand how hotel AC functionality is devoid of comfort. Wouldn't a functional AC also be indicative of comfort? Definitely better than a Non-functional AC i suppose.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

If comments to this post don't explain it, I'm gonna need to book extra therapy 😬

[-] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

Here’s my take…

Hotel air conditioners feel like perfect air conditioning. Likely due in part to hotel rooms being a small space, usually limited to one outside window, and they are usually good sized units so they will cool it very fast and effectively. Also the rooms are usually warm when you first enter, and so you turn on the A/C and immediately feel the room getting colder.

Similarly, McDonald’s pop is essentially perfect. McDonald’s arguably strives for consistency above all else, so you know that a Sprite from any location will be the perfect mix, the exact right about of carbonation, perfectly chilled with jus the right amount of ice. It will even have their specific large diameter straw to ensure the ideal flow rate when you drink.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Ideal flow rate, my ass. Small straws are better.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Well, ideal if you're selling soda and trying to get customers to drink as fast as possible.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

McDonald’s pop is essentially perfect.

I never got this. I only had coke, but it tastes watery just like fountain drinks anywhere else. With plastic bottles being the baseline, fountain drinks are consistently below it, even at MCD. The only coke I actually find better than this baseline are from the glass bottles.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Its just that the syrup ratios are turned up because they realized at some point the average time from pour to first sip is long. So that first hit before the ice melts is extra sweet. McDonald's soda without ice is grossly sweet, especially coke or dr p.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

They ozonate the rooms to kill all the germs and creepy crawly stuff and it's similar enough (2 oxygens in CO2) to how they fizz the carbonated water in the sprite. The sprite is light enough in taste, vs coke or pepsi, that you notice it more. That's my guess but if I'm wrong, please correct me.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I used to work in a very very large well known hotel, ozone machines were only used to remove cigarette smells from guests who broke the rules.

And no one can be in the room while the ozone machine was running. They even had auto-shutoff timers so you could retrieve the machine after it had turned itself off and the room air was breathable again.

It takes several hours to run. This isn’t something you do to every room every time.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Nobody tell him

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

we had a Boston Market that had a lemonade machine which would 96% of the time give you a static shock the first time you took a sip of the lemonade. I miss them

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Did the static shock have a taste, or was it overridden by the lemonade, or do you now associate the taste of shocks with lemonade?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Don't even really understand drinking Sprite overall. 7UP or nothing.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Up yours!

Wait... that's not how it goes...

I like both depending on my mood. I fucking love the cranberry 7Up they have during the holidays.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Never understood the whole Sprite/7Up/Starry a.k.a. Sierra Mist fandom. They all taste identical.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Starry sitting in the corner: do I mean nothing to you?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

What's Starry? No such thing in Canada.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Oh ok. Not in Canada.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Water or nothing, heathen.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

To be truthful I drink Zevia and water and that's about it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

IV saline or death you dirty casual.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Are people suggesting that hotel air conditioners don't suck??? I have never been in a hotel where the AC did anything meaningful - often even when standing right over it.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Just stayed at a Courtyard in Portland this past weekend. $200 after tax/fees for the night.

It was 100F on Saturday and my corner room with a lot of exposure stayed cold. It worked quite well.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The mediocre hotel we just stayed in at Niagara Falls (it was a Quality Inn. How do you know it was quality? It had a Hooters attached.) had a terrific air conditioner. Not super loud and kept the room quiet.

But then Canadians generally do things well.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

My usual experience with hotel ACs is generally the opposite — them pouring in almost frigid air.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Dr Pepper tastes the same as how a hospital smells

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Like latex gloves, wooden tongue depressors, and Ozium? Can't say that I agree. To me it tastes like Cherry Coke with the essence of cherry removed, leaving behind just the rest of the stuff that makes up a cherry.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's almond flavouring, so you're pretty much bang on.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I mean, it was created because a pharmacist wanted something that reminded him of his pharmacy.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

But that was when pharmacies had soda fountains, milkshakes, and real fucking cocaine to go with your anti-hysteria dildo.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah you have ghosts in your blood or something.

You should do some cocaine about it

-19th century doctors

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Explain why you're fondling air conditioners first

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
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