{"id":469,"date":"2009-09-10T18:49:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T23:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2009\/09\/freestyle_coke_fountain\/"},"modified":"2009-09-10T18:49:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T23:49:47","slug":"freestyle_coke_fountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2009\/09\/freestyle_coke_fountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Freestyle Coke Fountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, like all Thursdays, we went to lunch at Firehouse Subs. But unlike all previous Thursdays, today they had a new coke fountain installed. I had <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/homefinder\/content\/business\/coke\/stories\/2009\/03\/03\/coke_fountain_future.html\">heard about these before<\/A>, but had not actually seen one. This soda fountain can deliver over 100 different beverages. I was hoping it would be like the World of Coke&#8217;s room where they have flavors from around the world, but really a lot of the combinations seem to come from mixing pretty standard flavors. So you can get Coke, but you can also get lime Coke, vanilla Coke, cherry Coke, orange Coke, and raspberry Coke. I got an orange coke and you could see it running orange, so it is probably just mixing Coke and Fanta Orange.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"freestyle1.jpg\" src=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/2009\/freestyle1.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"243\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are a number of flavors of Fanta (including Peach which is supposed to be pretty good) and Sprite, but also Vault and Powerade in addition to Dasani flavored water. I don&#8217;t even want most of this stuff. There are also a number of different Zero flavors, so I had a Pibb Zero first which tasted kind of flat to me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"freestyle2.jpg\" src=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/2009\/freestyle2.jpg\" width=\"347\" height=\"243\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You use a touchscreen which has the basic flavors. When you click one of those you go to a screen of flavors based on that first choice. I didn&#8217;t want to spend too long checking everything out because there were people in line behind me, so I couldn&#8217;t play around with it much. Two people I ate with tried raspberry Cokes and agreed that it wasn&#8217;t very good. The orange Coke was okay, I thought, but I could have probably made one at their old fountain too.<\/p>\n<p>The downside is the machine also makes ice and Firehouse used to have really good ice (the little crushed ice pellets) and now it is just regular ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, like all Thursdays, we went to lunch at Firehouse Subs. But unlike all previous Thursdays, today they had a new coke fountain installed. I had heard about these before, but had not actually seen one. This soda fountain can deliver over 100 different beverages. I was hoping it would be like the World of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2009\/09\/freestyle_coke_fountain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Freestyle Coke Fountain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}