Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten Industry

Re:Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now T... by bunderbunder on Monday December 17, 2018 @12:45PM (#18700558)

The infrastructure to deliver other drinks without bottles is easy and has existed since the 19th century. Just ship the flavoring agents in some sort of syrup form, and mix it with water at the dispensation site. Force-carbonate it onsite, if you like.

Compared to bottles, it has the added advantage of being really inexpensive. So much so that, when places like gas stations and convenience stores sell the same beverage in both fountain and bottled forms, the fountain version is typically sold at a steep discount relative to the bottled one.

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Re:Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now T... by leetcrew on Monday December 17, 2018 @05:22PM (#18702798)

on the other hand, this method has the substantial disadvantage that beverages delivered this way usually taste significantly worse than their bottled counterparts.

I suspect "natural" products like fruit juice necessarily suffer from being made into concentrates and reconstituted on demand. I'm not sure why it should be this way with soda, but in my experience soda from a bottle always tastes way better than from a fountain.

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Re:Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now T... by bluntfang on Monday December 17, 2018 @05:39PM (#18702912)

>beverages delivered this way usually taste significantly worse

As someone who prefers fountain soda and avoids bottle sodas due to taste (i believe it is level of carbonation), this is highly subjective and I urge you to look beyond your personal tastes (heh) on this subject.

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