By the way, the r/poppi subreddit has been deleted. Pepsi silencing all dissent. I would say to “pour one out” for Poppi, but I don’t recommend buying these sodas, and I don’t drink soda in general (water remains undefeated).
“I’m all for capitalism”
“I still love my cybertruck”
It gets me every time.
A huge treat related whine about capitalism -> “I’m all for capitalism…”
“I’m all for capitalism”
capitalist does capitalist thing capitalist-ly
“wtf >:(”
“still love the truck, though”
Keep winning by drinking water.
Oh I’m being told my province has sold all the water rights to Nestle. For like no money at all. Fuck.
Buy a carbonation tank and some specialty bottles/pipes/nozzle for under $200. Carbonate all your drinks for cents a gallon. Experiment with your own soda syrup or just drink sparkling water/wine. After the initial investment you just need to refill the tank every six months.
The soda syrup is expensive as fuck (relative to water, smoothies, etc.) basically no matter what unless there’s one people can make themselves. Even getting no-name syrup in bulk from restaurant distributors is barely cost-effective compared to getting 32 packs of soda for 15-17$ from Costco.
I was curious if I could make my own energy drink cheaper than buying and tried pricing the individual components (which doesn’t even factor in the labour you’d need to do to actually get caffeine blended homogenously into it) and no matter how I worked it out I couldn’t get it cheaper than buying some more ready-made product.
The ingredients are too exotic and expensive compared to making your own alcohol or just carbonated water or fruit juice or something.
750 mL of fruit syrup costs around $6. In a 1:8 dilution that’s 6 liters. That doesn’t beat $1 for a 2L of store-brand soda, but it’s still rather cheap.
Now if you really want something fizzy and customized, you get a 1-gallon glass jar of pickles, eat the pickles, save the jar. From there, about ¾ pound of sugar ($0.45), 5 regular black tea bags ($0.30), 2 tablespoonfuls of that fruit syrup ($0.24 but you can skip this), a generous dash of vinegar ($0.05), and a kombucha starter. Brew the tea ($0.01 in electricity), fill the rest up with water, let it sit for a month, and then you have 3.5 L of a fancy, low-sugar, carbonated, probiotic drink that cost you about a dollar in supplies.
The soda syrup is expensive as fuck (relative to water, smoothies, etc.) basically no matter what unless there’s one people can make themselves. Even getting no-name syrup in bulk from restaurant distributors is barely cost-effective compared to getting 32 packs of soda for 15-17$ from Costco.
wtf, does America not have squash/cordial? I get 2 litres of Vimto concentrate for like £3, which makes about 10-20 litres of soda depending on how strong you like it.
Maybe? But I don’t know what the flavour-to-cost ratio (AKA the Flavourtown dilemma) those would have compared to like a cola flavour or something that doesn’t just taste like carbonated juice.
vimto is lush
easily in top 3 squash(es?)
The ingredients are too exotic and expensive compared to making your own alcohol or just carbonated water or fruit juice or something.
Well, they’re not exotic, per se, they’re just used on massive quantities in complex supply chains. It’s all about scale.
Yeah, I should have said zero sugar flavor packets, coffee syrup sweatener, or juice. But the neat thing about owning your own carbonation tank is you can experiment with different options. Your results may vary!
You can make your own syrups, and can make flavors that just don’t exist in a can. I especially like shrubs, syrups that include vinegar.
Just make sure it isn’t a sodastream
I wouldn’t buy soda stream or any other company. You never get enough gas for the price. A DIY CO2 tank is the way to go
Yes, it is too much to ask of a corporation to not turn their product into garbage. Their entire incentive starts and ends at profit. They will do whatever they can to increase profit, and this is hailed as “the efficiency of the private sector”.
Fortunately I never drink soda or any sweet drinks
I’m all for capitalism but does it have to do what capitalism does to the things that I like?
[explains in depth how the inevitable laws of capitalism are resulting in an unhealthier, worse product, to dismay]
I’m all for capitalism,
This is another huey_freeman_sigh.webp moment
he even worked in tech! how can he not be for capitalism, it gave us iphones!
[explains in depth how the inevitable laws of capitalism are resulting in an unhealthier, worse product, to dismay]
I’m all for capitalism, but
I do not, in fact, think this person is all for capitalism.
Edit: I looked at their post history, they seem to be an ex-con gay man whose main political subreddits are r/TheLib and r/JohnOliver where they post trump is hitler/russiagate stuff. They’re a sinophobe. Their main hobbies seem to be pokemon go and sports gambling. They live in North Carolina. They believe real communism has never been tried and wouldn’t work anyway because of human nature. They work in sales and say they make 6 figures. They may, in fact, be all for capitalism 😭
I’m all for Capitalism but why do corporations care about profits so much?
I’ll have to start replying to posts with a blank comment, just for my avi
I don’t think poppi costs $2.50 per can because they’re smoll bean indie soda company. I also don’t think Pepsi bought poppi with the hopes of cutting costs for more people. More like they were impressed that someone was able to dupe people into paying $2.50 for a can of fizzy water with less sugar in it.
I’ve worked in tech for over a decade but was it too much to ask of a giant corporation to not acquire a product and turn it into garbage?
This reads like a bit.
soda has always made me feel sick so i haven’t drank any in years
hardcore soda enthusiasts
Stop
I only drink prestige soda. This is a soda casual who doesn’t know shit about the spice meta.
Let’s see Paul Allen’s sody pop.
oh my god, it even has 7% juice
I know this is a joke, but there are entire branches of science dedicated to developing the spice meta.
Motherfuckers are really out there using gas chromatography to optimise soda flavours.
Motherfuckers are really out there using gas chromatography to optimise soda flavours.
People forget how much science goes into designing and optimizing food products. One look at the dairy industry food products, for instance, and the amount of R&D is actually astronomical
Who controls the spice… controls the economy.
True soda fans only buy from rogue organic chemists.
This is definitely a lib post but I have people who I care about who have been able to reduce their sugar/sweetener intake a lot by switching to Poppi and it sucks to see that they’re turning into basically another diet soda
I consume about 3 cans a day
this is like a smoker “quitting” by switching to those thin cigarettes but still smoking all day. my lungs are saved!
Who drinks soda instead of water? Isn’t it something you drink with a meal? I stopped a long time ago too, but I used to only drink soda while eating
Water sucks and is boring. I want am explosion of flavor in my mouth at all times tbh
tip from a pro water drinker: try putting ice cubes in it. Crazy I know, but its even calorie negative too
Thank you Henry Winkler
We must return to tea my friends
Never left
Unsweetened tea (or any infusion really) is super good. I’d trade soda for tea every single time
Yerba Mate for me
Who drinks soda instead of water?
The majority of people in the American south. Soda or sweet tea.
i drink a glass of diet soda on it’s own sometimes, never really with a meal though
most of them are too carbonated for me so i usually leave it to go a little flat and sip it while i read/watch/play somethingI do that with tea, coffee and drinks based on them
if you have high-quality locally bottled root beer sometimes that’s an on its own thing.
