Nothing hits quite like freshly changed syrup and a fully charged CO2 tank
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2026
326 points (100.0% liked)
196
19257 readers
634 users here now
Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.
Rule: You must post before you leave.
Other rules
Behavior rules:
- No bigotry (transphobia, racism, etc…)
- No genocide denial
- No support for authoritarian behaviour (incl. Tankies)
- No namecalling
- Accounts from lemmygrad.ml, threads.net, or hexbear.net are held to higher standards
- Other things seen as cleary bad
Posting rules:
- No AI generated content (DALL-E etc…)
- No advertisements
- No gore / violence
- Mutual aid posts are not allowed
NSFW: NSFW content is permitted but it must be tagged and have content warnings. Anything that doesn't adhere to this will be removed. Content warnings should be added like: [penis], [explicit description of sex]. Non-sexualized breasts of any gender are not considered inappropriate and therefore do not need to be blurred/tagged.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us on our matrix channel or email.
Other 196's:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
These are also good stress relief. The flap on the front has to be opened to expose the neck of the bag, and you can't use a blade without risking cutting the bag. So the most common method I've seen (and used personally) is to throw a couple of right jabs with a closed fist right at the front of the box.
Punching the box is stress relieving.
This guy knows. I actually don't know how else you would do it?
Bat Thumb!
Brute force
I prefer a palm strike to a closed fist punch
load more comments
(1 replies)
I forget exactly how, but at my first job I did manage to rip one of these before, covering the entire floor in Pepsi syrup. One of the assistant managers walked in shortly after, looked at the mess on the floor I was attempting to clean up and said “it’s fine, I needed something to do anyways, go back to cash”.
Non American here... What am I looking at?
Edit: thanks for explaining. Its not an american thing like I thought in the first place ^^
BIB - Bag in a Box
Standard format for soda and juice sryurps around the world. Dispensed via a fountain or a bargun.
Feel free to ask me any thing, installing and maintaining soda equipment is my life.
Just don't ask me anything about freestyle machines, cause I don't know jack about those monstrosities.
installing and maintaining soda equipment is my life.
That is the first time that somebody made soda equipment sounds interesting and I am ready to dive into a new rabbithole while I cannot sleep 😆
What are "freestyle machines"?
I expected that response, see the fern video.
My reason for the dislike is it feels more like diagnosing a computer than a soda fountain. I enjoy old analog equipment. However the soda drinker side of me loves using them when they are working well.
Free-style is Coke's brand of pick-your-flavor touchscreen hell.
you asked the one thing they told you not to...
How much would it be to install a single flavor fountain in-home? And what would be the most expensive parts?
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(3 replies)
Don't have to be American afaik. That's a box of soda/pop sodapop syrup. You open it up, and connect it to the hoses that connect to the fountain. Can lick tho cap before you toss it too, usually a bit of extra syrup in them. :3
Aaaah OK, no i KNOW that we have these syrup containers in Europe, but never saw one in my life for real. Always thought those where like giant plastic bottles
Ahh didn't see the Coca Cola logo at first, I thought it was the ketchup boxes you hook up to the pump at the self service station.
Here's Heinz Ketchup/mustard keystone bags:
As a bonus, here's a used bag from a batch that probably should have been recalled due to a packager malfunction:
load more comments
(3 replies)
It's soda syrup. Fast food places buy these and CO2 dispensers to make soda that most Americans drink.
Soda fountains/soda machines dispense the beverages from a large bag of syrup (maybe the straight beverage itself if they are non-carbonated) that is usually like 3 gallons which mixes with CO2. So the Coca-Cola in the image is hooked up to a tube that funnels the syrup into the machine and mixes with the CO2 to create the beverage you want.
It is mixed with CO2 and lots of water. usually about 5:1, so this BIB makes 30 gallons of soda.
I feel seen & appreciated 🥹 I'm a 100lb girl and those syrup cartons are heavy as fuck and restaurant work is torture and I wanted to eviscerate everyone all day every day.
Thank you but somehow not even close to the worst task I’ve had.
True, but there is a high corelation between this job task and a whole lotta bullshit.
This was my second favorite part of my job at Cracker Barrel after tending the fire in the fireplace.
load more comments
(3 replies)
It was my dream to throw one of these off the theater roof and watch it go splat. We never did that, but we did do syrup shots.
Pouring out a glass directly from these was the best perk of the job.
Don't drop them off the top shelf. They do not mop up.
Why was it always sticky?
I have been enlisted in the marines, gotten recalled, worked as a contractor, finished my undergraduate degree and now looking at my PhD. This post just made me 16 again.
Hey, congratulations.
pfft nothing compared to changing the keg on a wooden real ale rig in a British pub.
load more comments
(1 replies)
I have to assume if you’ve handled one of these you’ll be able to answer – how’d it taste?
Also I seem to remember coke weighs like 30lbs, and diet coke weighs about 20lbs. That sugar really adds to it
That's actually really interesting.
Like suckling from God's teat
Kinda like extra sweet bbq sauce. Same stickiness too.
It's been over 20 years since I swapped one of these out, and my hands are still sticky. Some things won't come out with soap... only fire...
For a good ten minutes, I was trying to work out how someone would use such a small box to change out of. "does it fold out into some silly cardboard variation of a Victorian privacy screen..." etc.. thoughts until I finally re-read it.
Damn skim reading got me assuming again.
load more comments
(1 replies)
I am lying in bed trying to have a nap and you made my back hurt shame on you
I had a bigger problem digging out the syrup I needed from the haphazardly stacked boxes of other syrup
You gotta keep 'em organized!
For a few years, I kept them on a shelf at head height. That was a mistake that I let go on too long.
load more comments
(2 replies)
view more: next ›