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1) I like the drinks ice cold (as close to freezing as possible), not out of the tap cold
2) Sweet Tea sits in an un-refrigerated container in the dining room, if it was freshly made will be hotter than room temperature (because you need to melt the sugar) and if a few hours old, will be room temperature - so definitely needs ice cubes to become a cold drink. [Ice Tea from a soda fountain is not ice tea - all of us living below the mason dixon line understand this]
3) Surface tension of the ice cubes keeps the drink from spilling if you don't use a lid.
Who knows, perhaps there will be one or two people out there who will say to themselves "I never thought of it that way, maybe I will cut back or eliminate the ice and get more for my money!"
If so, I have performed a public service.
I try not to drink soda often, because it conflicts with diet/health/fitness goals I have (1),
but when I do
I actually prefer the taste of slightly diluted soda, from a fountain with lots of ice. 'Straight from the can' concentration really tastes like 'syrup' to me. And Pepsi is worse than Coke, as a poster above alluded to.
If you are really concerned about the maximum 'value' for your dining dollar might I suggest asking for a FREE cup for water? sin hielo, or con hielo, or something in between, its your choice because we live in a Free Country.
(1) = 140 cal per can, 12 pack a week, 50 weeks of the year (best case scenario) = 84,000 calories. Imagine being able to cut 84,000 calories from a year-long diet plan, just by training yourself to default to water instead of soda, with every meal.
Do you stay in a hotel until check-out time? Do you read every last story in a newspaper? Do you wait until the last minute to return a rental car? Do you watch your cable television every waking hour? That's your 'logic' there.
Beautiful! Just beautiful!
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Originally Posted by Unsettomati
I find it ridiculous that you care what anyone else does at the soda fountain, and I find it laughably inane that what one person does regarding Starbucks has anything at all to do with what the person in front of you at the soda fountain is doing. Because it doesn't. In any way.
Yes! I find it so funny in a bemused sort of way when posters on here and people in real life assume all "people" in the abstract are the same "people"
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Originally Posted by sware2cod
Once I went to Applebee's and ordered a Margarita. I asked for 1 inch of ice. It was served in a mug. The server brought a half filled mug - maybe less than half filled. It looked pretty bad - like a drink that was half done. The bartender told the server that usually it's filled with ice so since I wanted less ice that I get the mug only half filled because they weren't going to give me 'extra' margarita for the same price.
Makes sense.
After reading through this very silly thread, I have my own myopic ponderings:
Why would anyone value a $1 over their own health? Yikes. Coca-cola is one of my guilty pleasures, but I wouldn't want to overdo it to the point where I tell myself that actually consuming 32oz of high-calorie soda is a better "value" than drinking a moderate amount. Soda consumption is a lot like smoking: there's really no good excuse. If I'm doing something bad for myself, I'm going to try to limit it as much as possible.
Secondly, if one is so concerned about $1 for a completely unnecessary item, they might want to look into drinking water and cooking more meals at home.
...fill their cups completely full of ice?
Is it so difficult to understand that ice takes up space, and that space (volume) is no longer available to fill with soda?
Not to mention the fact that ice melts, diluting the soda!
The soda coming out of the dispenser is cold, so actually ice isn't really needed anyway, unless, of course, you feel it will take you a very long time to finish your drink.
When I buy soda, whether at a self serve fountain or otherwise, I don't want any ice. I am spending $1 or more for that cup of soda, and I want full value. I find it ridiculous that somebody sued Starbucks because they felt their latte was an ounce or so short, yet they will fill their cup with ice and get 1/4 the soda they paid for!
Ah. So that's what the thread is about. Why the customers sued Starbucks and the differences between that and filling a Coke with ice:
A. The customer is CHOOSING to fill/not fill the cup with ice. In the Starbucks case, the barista is the one choosing to fill/not fill the cup.
B. When a customer puts ice in the cup, he/she is aware of how much ice in the cup. In the Starbucks case, he/she was not aware of how much coffee the barista was putting in the cup, since the foam blocked the customer's view of its fullness.
C. A Coke costs about $2.00. A Starbucks latte costs about $4-$5.
D. Starbucks allegedly did this to hundreds of thousands of customers over a period of years, thus making millions of dollars it did not deserve. When I fill my cup with ice, I decide for myself that ice is more important to me than Coke. I am not deceiving myself; I make a conscious decision to put more frozen H2O than Coke in my cup, thus allowing the business to make more money on my purchase. Starbucks customers were not offered such a choice; they were possibly lied to and deceived. The courts will decide if it is true.
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