Re:Coca-Cola Is Changing the Flavor of a Soda. Again.
by readflaggedcomm on Thursday July 15, 2021 @03:02AM
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Re:Coca-Cola Is Changing the Flavor of a Soda. Again.
by atatatat on Thursday July 15, 2021 @11:25AM
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Also how they figure out which subflavors (orange, vanilla, etc) of gunk to ship to which regions.
Re:Coca-Cola Is Changing the Flavor of a Soda. Again.
by arthurcolle on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @10:08PM
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This is how the drink machines work at Five Guys. It's just the same carbonated water base with additives for each individual drink haha. (except you can't swap the subcomponents as in your example)
Not really a "printer" though...
Online ordering systems for fast food places let you fully customize all the toppings on your hamburger. But what if you could do the same thing for drinks? E.g, you order a soda but substitute the high fructose corn syrup with real sugar or your preferred artificial sweetener.
Then when Coke changes their formula to v3, you can just order Coke v2. You could also get bootleg formulations of the soda via GitHub (or The Pirate Bay after DMCAs are sent) so that people can mix and match flavors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola_(drink) does something like this, but it's hard to mix the chemicals directly due to their toxicity in pure form.