Soft drinks around the world questions

[minibois]

14 hours ago, TheGleaner said:

I have heard that it matters where soft drinks are made, such as coke is made with real sugar just about anywhere else than the us. I have also heard that in Norway/Sweden they have some of the best water in the world(treatment/filtering/etc) so through that logic, shouldn't a soft drink from there taste better and how would one go about importing some? 

10 hours ago, Implosivetech said:

I heard Israel has the best water. They do reverse osmosis and stuff.

I actually today heard the Netherlands has some of the best tap water.

 

Anyways, usually the big fizzy drink companies have some big plants in a particular region and just ship it to where ever else, so the country matters a bit less I think.

[themctipers]

so.. like

 

mcdonalds coke tastes different from wendys coke

I assume the mcdonalds one is using coke made the same way in the US than in canada

because store bought coke and gas station coke taste the same as Wendy's coke ..

[Teddy07]

fuck soft drinks because fuck sugar. It only increases your chance of diabetes.

 

I personally avoid sugar as much as i can after seeing the effects of diabetes on my grandma.

[AshleyAshes]

49 minutes ago, themctipers said:

so.. like

 

mcdonalds coke tastes different from wendys coke

I assume the mcdonalds one is using coke made the same way in the US than in canada

because store bought coke and gas station coke taste the same as Wendy's coke ..

Restaurants use soda fountains that mix the drink in real time.  Basically there is a large bag of concentrated syrup, a CO2 cartridge, and tap water. The water is mixed with the syrup and the mix is carbonated when it is dispensed.  This means that the fountain machines can have different ratios between water, syrup, and carbonation, depending on it's configuration and maintenance policies.  Bottled Coca-Cola on the other hand is produced under much more exacting circumstances and the bottling plants are much more strictly monitored to produce a precise and uniform product.

[ARikozuM]

3 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

Restaurants use soda fountains that mix the drink in real time.  Basically there is a large bag of concentrated syrup, a CO2 cartridge, and tap water. The water is mixed with the syrup and the mix is carbonated when it is dispensed.  This means that the fountain machines can have different ratios between water, syrup, and carbonation, depending on it's configuration and maintenance policies.  Bottled Coca-Cola on the other hand is produced under much more exacting circumstances and the bottling plants are much more strictly monitored to produce a precise and uniform product.

Can't speak for all of the restaurants but my mother's Burger King (store manager running a very tight ship), Coca-Cola sends out techs to maintain the equipment to proper specs. 

[AshleyAshes]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

Can't speak for all of the restaurants but my mother's Burger King (store manager running a very tight ship), Coca-Cola sends out techs to maintain the equipment to proper specs. 

For sure, it's their name on the machine and they'll do what effort they can to ensure their product tastes like their product, it's the entire thing they market on after all.  But you also have a lot more room for variation in the machines, so you can get differences in product at different locations.  As much as Coca-Cola or any other major brand would make an effort to prevent that.

[MrTiC]

4 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

the only soft drink I have:

 

The only soft drink that matters <3

[Syntaxvgm]

even cans can be different. Cans in Hawaii have ridges. 

 

[8uhbbhu8]

6 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

the only soft drink I have:

 

Ah Pepsi. The stuff hospitals used to use to remove tar from skin  

[TheGleaner]

7 hours ago, Minibois said:

I actually today heard the Netherlands has some of the best tap water.

 

Anyways, usually the big fizzy drink companies have some big plants in a particular region and just ship it to where ever else, so the country matters a bit less I think.

So I could call Coca-Cola/Pepsi-Cola Netherlands/Norway/etc  and order it from them?

Just to be clear I am a fan of the big three and many smaller brands/companies

[minibois]

6 hours ago, TheGleaner said:

So I could call Coca-Cola/Pepsi-Cola Netherlands/Norway/etc  and order it from them?

Just to be clear I am a fan of the big three and many smaller brands/companies

I wouldn't know if they would actually ship you some,. But you can try. Be sure to do a blind taste test too.