 The future of bottle beverages, Welcome to the world of tomorrow! Sorta. |
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 Mar 30 2006, 07:39 PM
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Shooting Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,651 Joined: 23-September 05 From: Marietta, GA Member No.: 7,773  |
I saw this and was reminded of the descriptive SR texts that mention using eyedroppers to flavor soy foods.
"Programmable" drinks It's cute, but I don't forsee it doing well in the open market. |
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Mar 30 2006, 07:46 PM
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Chicago Survivor Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 5,079 Joined: 28-January 04 From: Canton, GA Member No.: 6,033 |
That is wrong on so many, many levels.
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Mar 30 2006, 08:04 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
So I get to pay for flavors I don't want and a delivery deice I won't use? Oh yeah, that product has promise. :)
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Mar 30 2006, 08:12 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 515 Joined: 19-January 04 Member No.: 5,992 |
The proper way to do this would be to buy the flavors separately in the form of droppers or tablets or whatnot, and then suggest you buy their Blind Soda.
Or, y'know, buy club soda. I've been adding flavors to club soda for an ungodly amount of time. Customized soda isn't a super-new thing. Heck, when my parents were young, they had flavor tablets you could drop into water that worked sort of like alka-setzer to make stuff like cherry soda and strawberry soda. I had some once. The only problem with them is that they all tasted like a gargantuan monkey asshole. They were _really_ bad. |
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Mar 30 2006, 08:14 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
Monkey asshole you say? Any idea where I can get some of these?
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Mar 30 2006, 08:16 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 515 Joined: 19-January 04 Member No.: 5,992 |
'Fraid not. I can't remember what the damned things were called. As for the monkey assholes, I'd try the zoo. They might have a couple in stock.
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Mar 30 2006, 08:16 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,651 Joined: 23-September 05 From: Marietta, GA Member No.: 7,773 |
I think it was McDonald's that selling the flavor for a while when it got the King Kong merchandising contract.
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Mar 30 2006, 08:18 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 160 Joined: 16-August 03 Member No.: 5,501 |
on the bright side, you Do get to chose between more than 4-6 different flavors of pop.
which is a signifigant improvement in selection when compared to the tipical corner store. I think the design will be a bit of a nightmare, because the product may become damaged mush more easily than the standard pop bottle. |
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Mar 30 2006, 08:19 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 515 Joined: 19-January 04 Member No.: 5,992 |
But, seriously, when it comes to flavoring soda-type drinks, I generally go with, y'know. Semi-real flavors. Like maraschino cherries w/juice.
Back on topic, it's a neat bottle and belongs up there with Potion and Ramune, but I figure it's going to be in the same camp as buy one, enjoy it, and go back to the drinks that cost a dollar less. |
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 Mar 30 2006, 08:37 PM
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Hoppelhäschen 5000 Group: Members Posts: 5,807 Joined: 3-January 04 Member No.: 5,951 |
Unless it becomes a trend to pop multiple flavors at once - 'Mix, Shake, Turn' ;) |
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Mar 30 2006, 08:41 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 10-March 06 Member No.: 8,355 |
I'll stick with my nuke cola
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Mar 30 2006, 08:41 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
*looks down at his empty Black Cherry Vanilla Coke on his desk...* |
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Mar 30 2006, 08:57 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,651 Joined: 23-September 05 From: Marietta, GA Member No.: 7,773 |
Yes, but is it Caffeine-Free Diet Black Cherry Vanilla Coke with Lime? Back in my childhood, we'd call the mixture of all of the fountain drink flavors a "Suicide." Although I suppose advertising "Suicide in a bottle" won't hit the intended demographic. |
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Mar 30 2006, 08:58 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,000 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Halifax, Canada Member No.: 7,975 |
When I was in Scouts, we had made drinks we called 'swamp water' which was basically a portion of every single pop in the fountain line mixed together.
Coke/orange/root beer/Sprite (and ginger ale if it was on tap) I can see people wanting to relive that :) |
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Mar 30 2006, 08:59 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,651 Joined: 23-September 05 From: Marietta, GA Member No.: 7,773 |
Heh, Dranem. :)
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Mar 30 2006, 09:01 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 515 Joined: 19-January 04 Member No.: 5,992 |
We called it a Zombie.
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Mar 30 2006, 09:09 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
Reminds me of when my sisters and I were young, we were hanging out at our family's chinese restaurant. We did the whole put a little bit from each flavour from the soda dispenser into a cup and drink it.
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Mar 30 2006, 09:09 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
I guess we were in the morbid group too, as we called 'em suicides also.
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Mar 30 2006, 09:40 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 295 Joined: 10-July 05 Member No.: 7,492 |
It's probably a regional thing. Here in texas (dallas/ft. worth area), it was called a "suicide"
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Mar 30 2006, 09:47 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
Where at in DFW? I'm currently sitting in Sansom Park (i.e. North-West Fort Worth with bad tasting water). Tomorrow I'll be running SR4 in Benbrook.
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Mar 30 2006, 09:58 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,548 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
I don't know if it's such a bad idea. The actual flavor is pennies on the dollar. Presumably the little bubbles of plastic only cost marginally more than the original bottle, since it's just more plastic, neh? In which case the benefit is soda machines only need to stock one type of bottle. That means they have to stock less often and it takes less time to do, and that means we pay less money to the stock boy. In fact, that cost savings of not having to sort or seperately treat the different bottles carries all the way back to the factory. So assuming the cost of the bottle isn't significantly more than it would be otherwise, it could have significant cost savings benefits.
However, I think the tablets is a better idea. You can offer a larger diversity of flavors and actually charge the consumer based on his actual rather than potential use. |
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Mar 30 2006, 10:06 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,651 Joined: 23-September 05 From: Marietta, GA Member No.: 7,773 |
I grew up along the strip of I-35 between San Antonio and Austin, so that supports the regional theory. My wife grew up in this alien culture of northern Atlanta that now surrounds me, and she reports that it was known as a "suicide" here as well. |
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Mar 30 2006, 10:17 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
So maybe it's a "Southern" thing?
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Mar 30 2006, 10:49 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 137 Joined: 21-February 06 From: Lenexa, Kansas (Yes Kansas, we ain't all hicks y'all.) Member No.: 8,291 |
Here in Eastern Kansas we call 'em suicides as well.
What is the base for sodas? Is it just soda water? If so, I could get a bunch of that on the cheap and just reuse the bottle until it was out of flavors. Although that is undoubtably more effort than cheap soda is worth. |
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Mar 31 2006, 01:27 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 135 Joined: 27-February 06 Member No.: 8,313 |
Probably not. If this simplifies the manufacturing and marketing process to the point where, say, Coke can reduce their current list of flavors to one line, the savings would more than make up for the cost of producing extra flavors. The actual fluid inside of a soda bottle is only a tiny part of the price you pay for the soda. |
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