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”
It gets me every time.
A huge treat related whine about capitalism -> “I’m all for capitalism…”
soda has always made me feel sick so i haven’t drank any in years
“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 $200. Carbonate all your drinks for cents a gallon. Experiment with your own soda syrup or just drink sparkling water/wine. After the initial investment you just need to refill the tank every six months.
Just make sure it isn’t a sodastream
I wouldn’t buy soda stream or any other company. You never get enough gas for the price. A DIY CO2 tank is the way to go
The soda syrup is expensive as fuck (relative to water, smoothies, etc.) basically no matter what unless there’s one people can make themselves. Even getting no-name syrup in bulk from restaurant distributors is barely cost-effective compared to getting 32 packs of soda for 15-17$ 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.
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”.
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.
[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
[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
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’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.
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.
Who controls the spice… controls the economy.
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
True soda fans only buy from rogue organic chemists.
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!
I stopped drinking sugary shit by getting a sodastream (before I knew it was israeli) and just using it to make bubbly water… stopped my soda purchases instantly and forever pretty much
Making soda water is a generic process that can be done without a soda stream, just saying that out loud for anybody else that might want to save money making soda at home…
Yeah, you can buy adapters for a gas tank to your bottle threads of choice and go at it. Super simple. AliExpress is a gold mine. Too bad gas tanks cost a bit of cash and you need somewhere to store it. And they’re heavy.
ay poppi
Pixar’s Sodas II: The legend of Poppi’s gold let’s fucking goooo
Disney is leaving money on the table not making Sodas a real movie
