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I hate how you can't really use ice with a room temperature brand new cola, it just tastes like week old shit.
what's the deal?

it's gotta do something with trying to balance out the temperature between the two but I am too lazy to think as to why all the carbonation goes to shit in the process

It's best to just chill the fuck out of it and drink it without ice. Notice how vending machines have the coldest and best-tasting Cola

Vending machine soda is a step above store-bought cans. The soda from fast food places is the best. There's a better syrup-to-water ratio.

I still prefer water, though.

so, if you want to drink cold drinks, chill them before drinking them

i knew there was a reason i kept coming back to this place

takibro man i am sorry for when i got abit curt with you when you said you couldnt tell wtf i was saying.

anyways maybe you can try cooling a heavy-bottom glass in the fridge and useing that to add a little coldness to the cola.

the freezer will work also, but it will bruise your cola, its still fun just slurpyish!

best of luck man!

lol, bruised cola

The solution to your problem is tea.

seremtan wrote:so, if you want to drink cold drinks, chill them before drinking them

i knew there was a reason i kept coming back to this place

If you want to drink them without being diluted with ice, smartass.

What soda are you drinking? Coke?

Room temp cola always tastes like shit, ice or not. And once you open a pop, the amount of dissolved CO2 the pop can hold goes down as the pressure is equalized. The ice waters everything else down as well.

I guess I'm not the only one that favours fast food dispensed cola. I don't drink any cola regularly because I don't like the sugar-laden taste, but with a satisfying meal it's somewhat appetizing.

Should mention that even with our stronger dollar, fast food is more expensive in the frigid white north, probably a net benefit to our healthcare system though.

I have always believed as well that a satisfying meal makes for a pleasurable cola drink experience.

Scourge wrote:

seremtan wrote:so, if you want to drink cold drinks, chill them before drinking them

i knew there was a reason i kept coming back to this place

If you want to drink them without being diluted with ice, smartass.

so, if i want a cold drink with no ice in it, i should chill the drink first?

that would certainly solve the problem of chilling a drink without the use of ice, no question

Massive Quasars wrote:I don't drink any cola regularly

i have a diet coke from the machine every morning after my 6 mile ride to work, even on freezing mornings. i tried bottled water (because where i work it's free) but it just didn't have the same zing

LANKe wrote:What soda are you drinking? Coke?

yes coke, and I know that I need to cool my drinks that's what I do, but there is the odd time when I come straighg from the store looking for a refreshment and ice just doesn't cut it

I guess there isn't an obvious answer to my question
and when I mean it tastes like shit the dilution in the water(ice) doesn't take place yet, I mean as soon as you introduce ice into the room temperature cola it goes to shit within 2 seconds
ps
I drink diet coke to be precise

seremtan wrote: so, if i want a cold drink with no ice in it, i should chill the drink first?

that would certainly solve the problem of chilling a drink without the use of ice, no question

Sure, take a simple suggestion and make a mockery of it's obviousness. You're that kind of person aren't you?





Smartass.

Add scotch or bourbon to put the bite back into your iced cola.

yeah but not the carbonation

could have something to do with the surface of the ice cubes providing ample nucleation sites for the CO2 + the change in pressure + warm soda probably releases CO2 faster to begin with.
top tip - use the ice on the outside of the container, not in your glass.
plug your sink, fill it with cold water and ice cubes.
drop your soda in there while you put away the rest of your groceries.
it takes < 5 min to chill cans in an ice-water bath.
in even more of a hurry? a quick blast with a fire extinguisher will work.
or you could try dry-ice cubes, those may even put CO2 back into it.

now that's what I call a post

nucleation sites are the reason mentos and coke make a fountain.

Also - are you one of those people who keeps no cold soda at their house? I have friends like that - you'll be over there for dinner or a football game or whatever, and they'll bring you out a nice warm pepsi from the fucking pantry and some grimy fucking glass with some ice cubes. Those people piss me off. They own a refrigerator. It's not full. They can keep the shit cold.

Fuck them.

And going to the dry-ice external bit to get more dissolved CO2 into the drink is taking your soda drinking to another level.

I keep all my sodas cold in my frig. No hot give outs from me. That's just rude.

Massive Quasars wrote:Should mention that even with our stronger dollar, fast food is more expensive in the frigid white north, probably a net benefit to our healthcare system though.

Doesn't stop the fatties though.

tnf wrote:nucleation sites are the reason mentos and coke make a fountain.

Also - are you one of those people who keeps no cold soda at their house? I have friends like that - you'll be over there for dinner or a football game or whatever, and they'll bring you out a nice warm pepsi from the fucking pantry and some grimy fucking glass with some ice cubes. Those people piss me off. They own a refrigerator. It's not full. They can keep the shit cold.

Fuck them.

And going to the dry-ice external bit to get more dissolved CO2 into the drink is taking your soda drinking to another level.

yeah, the mentos thing (also has something to do with the reaction with aspertime which is why it only really works with diet) is why i guess that the rough surface of ice is a likely candidate to why a soda fizzes like mad as soon as the cube sinks in.

at the warm soda freaks -- when i was a kid i had a friend who's parents were like that, fuckers kept all the soda on the counter BESIDE the fridge... wtf? you bitches got it 2ft from where it's supposed to be! man up, open the damn door, and put that shit in there.