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.
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Why was it always sticky?
Is that the one where you poop in the box?
Ahh yes, the best thing to do to open it was put on a glove then vent all frustrations for that day into it.
Don't drop them off the top shelf. They do not mop up.
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.
You too broseph, practically a rite of passage
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.
FALCON PUNCH
The only way!
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.
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.
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”.
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.
I prefer a palm strike to a closed fist punch
sometimes i miss punching these
Nothing hits quite like freshly changed syrup and a fully charged CO2 tank
charged CO2 tank
I can still hear the sounds of the CO2 firing.
You know? I probably would have forgotten that sound for the rest of my life if I hadn't read this.
Like when you reload the syrup and need to run the fountain a bunch, or when it's out and just endlessly goes psh psh psh psh psh psh
Did you all get high?
That’s no2, your lungs would get sooooo mad if you did a hit of straight co2…
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.
How much would it be to install a single flavor fountain in-home? And what would be the most expensive parts?
What're your thoughts on SodaStream?
Feel free to ask me any thing, installing and maintaining soda equipment is my life.
What was the worst thing you ever saw? I'm guessing if you maintained them you occasionally were called I to fix things when something went wrong. So what went wrong?
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...
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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
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pfft nothing compared to changing the keg on a wooden real ale rig in a British pub.
Hell yeah. I only changed 1/2 kegs, but there was a time I needed to carry a full one by hand. Never again.
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