DailyDirt: Some People Drink Pepsi, Some People Drink Coke...
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There are a lot of different soft drinks targeting nearly every conceivable market. It's almost amazing that potable water is generally free, and there's still a multi-billion dollar industry for non-alcoholic beverages. What are they putting in water that people just can't get enough of? Here are just a few examples.- If you want to make your own do-it-yourself sodas, there are a bunch of home carbonation systems that'll add some CO2 to whatever kind of water you like. Maybe OpenCola will get popular with the kids again. [url]
- A new type of soft drink comes in an aerosol-powered bottle and sprays an orange-flavored foam. If only this were a more popular beverage, there might be a pepper-spraying cop remix for it... [url]
- Ever wonder why people use Kool-Aid as a mixer for all kinds of drugs? Spoilers: It's cheap. It's an easily mixed powder that can be adjusted for taste. It's brightly colored to mask other ingredients. It has no known interactions with medicines. And there's one more reason... [url]
- To discover more food-related links, check out what's floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]
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Filed Under: carbonation, drinks, foam, mixer, soda
Companies: coke, kool-aid, pepsi
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open cola!
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Soda Stream costs $100-$120 for the hardware, plus the cost of flavorings, plus $15 for a CO2 cartridge to power the thing. When the cartridge is empty, you take it in and do a tank exchange for a filled one, paying another $15 for the full one. Given the size of the cartridge, that's more than $1 per ounce of CO2. Granted, it's cheaper than buying 12-packs of cans, but...
Buying a bulk 20lb CO2 tank costs around the same as buying the Soda Stream hardware. You'd spend another $20-$60 on the hoses, valves, nozzles and other hardware. And you'd still need to buy flavored syrup. But it costs around $15-$20 to fill the 20lb cylinder, usually less than $1 a pound. One pound of CO2 is more gas than the entire Soda Stream cartridge can hold.
A little more expensive up front, but MUCH cheaper in the long run. And owning your own bulk CO2 tank means that when Soda Stream inevitably comes out with a new version that lacks backwards compatibility, or simply stops selling their proprietary CO2 cartridges, you can keep on making your own fizzy drinks all you like.
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