Listen, I love beverages. I can’t get enough of them. Is that weird? Sure, I try and make sure that I have mostly water, but I’d be lying if I said that I don’t buy multiple drinks wherever I go. This morning, I went out for breakfast and got an iced coffee, an orange juice and some Vitamin Water Zero. In my fridge right now there’s no less than 6 different things to drink – from three different kinds of diet soda to unsweetened iced tea and seltzer. I mean, I’ve been known to spend half my grocery budget on liquids. I always like to have a choice.
That being said, you can imagine my absolute elation (really, no other word would be appropriate here) when I heard about the launch of Coca-Cola’s new Freestyle machines. First of all, everybody who’s anybody knows that fountain soda is the real deal – it’s got that extra bit of fizziness and just tastes way different than the bottled stuff – but while most dispensers offer only 6 or 7 sodas, the Freestyle offers…(wait for it)…OVER 100!
Whaaaat?
Because I’m trying to watch my girlish figure (LOL), I only drink diet soda. Aspartame isn’t great for you, sure, but we all need to live a little. The point is, the Freestyle offers TONS of soda varieties, including cherry, strawberry, raspberry, grape, peach, orange and vanilla flavours of Sprite, Coke, and Fanta in both diet and non-diet incarnations. Mr Pibb, Barq’s and Vault are also available. Ridiculous!
I know, right?
For a while, Freestyle was only available in California and the western states but now it’s in many more areas and according to the location finder on the website, there are three in NYC, albeit not in locations I’d usually travel to. Is it sad to go on a field trip to try a weird flavour (or ten) of soda? Probably. But oh well!
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FLIPPIN’ WHAT?! FLIPPIN’ AWESOME.
While they’re not present in the North East, Jack in the Box (yes, fast food) has these in every location that I’ve been to in Austin, Texas. I go almost purely for the drinks, for obvious reasons. But it’s completely worth the extra carbonated calories for a well-blended flavored soda, in my opinion.
I love cherry and vanilla in my cola. This is boss!
Oh this is fun
Can you make Swamp Water with it…I’d honestly combine a couple flavours. :p
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I have a ton of these at my local movie theater and I was so happy and told all my friends to go to that movie theater and get a drink. They all think I’m a little crazy, so I’m happy to see that someone shares my appreciation.
This is CRAZY AWESOME! I need to visit California soon! I’d totally like to say I drink only water, psh, who am I kid’n
I first saw one of these in a Taco Time in Issaquah, WA. I was so ridiculously amused but it. BTW Raspberry Coke is not very good!
This machine is the final nail in the coffin for the soda jerk career, that being said how convenient.
I live in Georgia. I might plan a trip to NYC. There’s nothing sad about planning a trip around something this awesome.
i’m the same way!!! fancy drink gals unite. i ran into one of these machines in a wendys outside of ohio (maybe?) on a roadtrip and FLIPPED OUT. and there were about three people tops in the store, including the workers. i had raspberry diet coke and it was weird and good and awesome.
I feel like you would have 2 have a mad sophisticated palate in order to tell the difference between strawberry and raspberry diet coke….
I’m drink obsessed. Lately when I’ve gone out shopping, I’ve noticed I come back with more drinks than clothes or whatever I was buying. But THIS MACHINE LOOKS EXCELLENT.
Totally flipped my ish when I first discovered these! Soda poppin’ excellence.