I am enraptured. It's got a touch screen interface with pop-top symbols of each flavor of soda. Touch Coca-Cola, for example, and the screen changes to show all the different kinds of Coke: Diet, Cherry, Zero, Classic, etc.Apparently, these machines have up to 100 drink choices by using concentrated flavor cartridges (similar to printer ink cartridges) and carbonated water. How cool is that?
It reminds me of when I was in third grade; we lived in an American hotel for a couple of weeks in Turkey while we waited to move into our apartment. The dining room had a real-life soda jerk fountain against one wall -- the kind where you pumped syrup into a glass and then fizzed it up with the carbonated water gun.
It was also where the ice cream sundaes got made. It was completely self-serve. We spent all our available free time at the soda fountain making up drinks and eating ice cream. Heaven!
Ever since then, I've always had a fondness for real soda fountains. The chance to be a modern soda jerk is just too much to pass up. I'm going back to play with the machine.
Below is my cell phone camera close up:
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You wont feel so bad going to Five Guys afterwards :)
Mmmmmmmmmmm.....bacon.....
We went to Five Guys for the Solemnity of the Annunciation. Cherry Coke was a.ma.zing!
Looks cool, Wynken. Which one did you go to?
Wynken didn't make it, but I went to the one near Costco on Rte 50.
You were in Turkey? When? Where? We were in Izmir from 67-69
Soda fountains are "da bomb!" Back in the 1960s I would walk home from high school with a friend. We stopped at a drugstore on the way and ordered lemon phosphates at the soda fountain for ten cents! Thanks for the picture of that jazzy new machine. And have fun making your drinks. I bet they'll taste great.
RAnn, we lived in Izmir 79-80 and Ankara 72-74.
Doner Kebab is our favorite dish!
I discovered one of those machines right near where I work! I was so sad to go yesterday and find that Coke Zero was the ONLY option out of service. I blogged about it here.
Bonus: You can get seltzer from them, too, by pushing the water button.
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