Another factor (one that is a company secret.) is what’s the soda water to syrup ratio. Most restaurants just have a large bottle of soda water that the dispenser mixes with syrup to make the soda and the ratio can be adjusted.
YES! And with chicken nuggets and patties too! I'm vegetarian and have attempted this to prove a point to a lot of friends that the "chicken" at most fast food places has little enough meat that even I could eat it. (Don't get the chicken at Reza's in Italy if you want real meat and not tofu.)
For the USA - McDonald’s should be updated now because the $1.00 was a “limited time” deal that they did for like 5 years. It sure was a long limited time!
and in EU you have calibrated cups. If they sell you 0.5l there has to be 0.5l of drink inside, without ice. Also if you go on the McDonalds webside, in US you only have Large and the calories , in Germany f.e. you have Large 0.5l written as well.
This is why you either get the drink yourself (inside) or in some cases, ask for no ice. Whether the volumes are different, sometimes if you ask for no ice, if they're nice enough they'll fill it up to the top with just soda and you may be getting anextra 4-6 oz of sode as some will put excessive amounts of ice in the larger cups to make up for it. The advantage of in-door dining where you get it yourself though is you can refill as much as you want (at least in the US in many chains, I heard that in other countries, this is not allowed).
Actually, if you order it with no ice, it's company policy to fill the cup to the top. The restaurant doesn't want to deal with angry customers clogging up the drive thru complaining that the employees only filled their cups 3/4 full. Before the drinks became so automated as they are at McDonald's now, we were always told to put half a scoop of ice in small cups, a full scoop in medium, and 2 scoops in large. You would then set the drink cup under the fountain and choose the button for the correct cup size, then the dispense button. To make up for any variable in the amount of ice (light ice or no ice requests), there was a "free flow" button the employee would hold down to finish filling the cup. It was always supposed to be full enough that it would slosh against the lid without much shaking, but not so full that putting a straw in the lid made it leak out.
That makes it difficult to not splash the soda though, and then you end up with sticky soda droplets (which will fly up to even the ceiling due to carbonation and probably some physics effect of rapid thermal change). It makes more sense to have a consistent ice scoop size and then deduct approximate amount for total soda value from a filling logistical standpoint. Either way, you're still getting a highly over-market priced drink. I'm a little surprised the Germans wouldn't consider the mixing density of the soda (you might notice some places have stronger flavor than others, you can tweak the mix concentration), because that's probably more important than just how much ice because that's the difference of watered down vs still nice and strong even after some ice has melted. Technically I think that's suppose to be calibrated by the drink union supplier, but they either don't have a well calibrated tongue or don't have a standard test machine.
@@jakegarrett8109 its wrong. Ice + filling ist automatic Here, you get your 500ml of soda with Like 200ml ice precalculated. Ice after Soda would be dumb
@Henry Ford though it does technically refer to males, “guys” is colloquially used as a gender neutral term referring to people as a whole with no specific target. We can safely assume that Landen is using the term generally, and not referring to exclusively males. So shut up, and stop correcting people. Also guy sounds better than guys and gals, but not as good as lads and lasses (which the term I prefer and grew up with).
2:13 I used to work as a shift manager at a pizzeria, and while we sold large fountain drinks for $1.99 back then, the actual food cost was a mere 10¢. This includes the cost for the paper goods - the single-color 32oz paper cup, plastic lid and straw, as well as the syrup, water, carbon dioxide, and ice. Hence, we managers were given a LOT of leeway to offer drinks to guests on the house while they wait for their take-out orders. Even when someone showed up very early for their pizza, and even said "Sorry I'm here so early, I know I just called it in 5 minutes ago", we would still just practically hand them out free soda, because the now-increased potential for their return business was absolutely worth more to us than a 10¢ soda! 10¢ was our food cost for a single soda, and the majority of that cost actually goes into the paper goods. For comparison, a kid's drink comes in a small 12oz cup, but because it has quite a few different colors on it, it costs a lot more to produce. Therefore, the food cost of a kid's drink was actually 39¢! Which is also why when people asked for just a cup for water, and started instinctively reaching for the kid's cup, we stopped them and instead either offered them an 8oz plastic up, or a 32oz medium cup. Also, for the reasons mentioned above, I absolutely do NOT respect places which do not offer free refills, especially ones which charge more than $2.50, even $3+ for a fountain drink. And even worse is when this happens at a sit-down restaurant which uses reusable cups, because there is NO paper goods cost other than the straw!
More soda AND your drink won't get watered down before you're done with your meal? I've always ordered without ice and can't fathom why so many people still keep it.
In all honesty, the main reason I don't like a lot of ice in my drink is as simple as "I can't handle very cold drinks", which is unfortunate because I live in a tropical country OwO". But hey, more Coke for me.
As someone who worked at Sonic for about a month, we’re told to fill our cups with ice to the halfway point in most, if not all of our sizes, including the Route 44, which is the largest sized drink you can get there
@@ogway1772 I have heard coke zero, and diet coke been used in reference to "diet" versions of normal coke before, but never diet pepsi, which I know has a "diet" version called pepsi max
@@jwharvey56 See that was my question too, we only have Pepsi products so either he settled for Diet Pepsi or a worker smuggled in a 2 liter of Diet Coke in case of a sudden MatPat sighting
@Dawn of a new day and he should have a blind taste test to see if he can tell the difference. Heck he should include some international versions like Mexican Coke, European variants and even Japanese soda.
I started ordering my soft drinks without ice in college a few years ago. Since it's already served cold most places, it really doesn't make a difference, and you get MORE soda for the price. Haven't regretted it since.
Funny you say that... I made that same conclusion years ago... I often asked "why the ice when the drink is already cold?"... It's actually a marketing ploy... More ice, less drink, greater markup on the price... Looking at the McDonald's drinks for example, you get one third glass of ice, and two thirds glass of drink... Hence needing two refills to get the drink at cost... But I'm d you get that same drink with no ice, your getting it now on a 1-1 ratio... You're only paying for the contents, not the void created by the ice...
@@walkout85 People are confused by that ? Where I live we get the cups and go fill them ourselves, most people don't bother with the ice instead we fill the cup to the limit lol
I nearly always ask for no ice when i get drinks. Cuz every drink u get from a soda fountain is already ice cold when it comes out anyways (this does not apply to those iced tea dispensers some places have fwi cuz those are always warm without ice) and i usually finish the drinks before theyd even have a chance to warm up anyways
THERE IS A FANG DRINK CALLED COKE. YOU CANNOT NAME ALL OF THE SOFT DRINKS COKE NOW, CUZ THEN YOU GOTTA RENAME COKE!!!! Wkjdndueglaibdushchrheowyvxjwyxgd
@@SandyDawn17 where I grew up "coke" was just a general term for soda. in fact if you said you want a soda or even worse, a "pop" people would look at you like "where is this weirdo from?".
For this video? 100% You'd be amazed at what you CAN take as a Business expense. Though some things, like haircuts, are difficult to prove as a Business Expense.
“If you’re not getting at least three refills before you leave what are you doing with yourself?” my personal motto is if you don’t feel sick you can’t leave
Matpat's soft drink motto about the refills is essentially my unchangeable restaurant creed. I cannot leave one without feeling unsatisfied with less than 4 refills of soda lol
Matpat never misses a theory.(Not including the forbidden theory of Sans is Ness) P.s Nothing against you matpat. I never took offense just laughed it off #ItsOnlyATheoryChill
@@sekoseko2165 Stop spamming your links an your alt account. Nobody asked for it. That's also why you have so many dislikes. Earn your veiws legit like the rest of us.
To be fair, if you're going by "How many refills does it take to break even." Ice isn't really a factor after the first fill. After that, you're in control of how much ice you want when you fill it at the soda dispenser.
Whenever we’re swarmed (almost always” I shove about 11 or 12 nuggets into a ten piece cuz I don’t wanna rip a lil Kid off but don’t really wanna waste time being exact either
Yeah but the beauty about buying inside instead of drive through is you can control how much ice goes in your cup if you order Iput no ice in mine and i get 30 oz liquid only
@@willsgaming1481 I'll let you in on another wendy's secret. You can get a small drink for free, by saying you want a senior drink. You don't even need to make a purchase. If you are obviously not a senior, some stores might get mad at you if you do it a lot, but typically the person taking your order doesn't care and just wants to get you moving through their line
I’ve watched this theory SEVERAL times and never thought about this story until now: My dad is like MatPat- needs Diet Coke like a fish needs water. Many years ago, he would often go to the local McDonalds and get some work done on his laptop. He would always get the “largest Diet Coke they had” and stay there for HOURS, taking advantage of the free refills. Several months later, we went in to that McDonalds as a family to discover a sign on the drink machine: “Limit ONE free dine in refill per guest per day”. We just looked at my dad, somehow knowing he was the cause of this new policy 😂😂 He never went back to that McDonald’s again.
If he's just typing away on a laptop then they should leave him be. I like comfy laidback community vibes. But that requires minimum diversity. At the very least I expect the non-ethnic locals to give me a peace sign or say "what up brah".
Its because when you get soda its water that's been added to flavor syrup. different fountains use different amounts of syrup to water. Mcdonalds interestingly uses a lot of syrup to water for a better taste, so thats another reason to get a soda there aside from quantity. But even bottled soda and canned soda has been made locally in a bottling plant in your area as its cheaper to ship the syrup and mix it with local water than it is to ship the whole soda. I don't know why bottled and canned soda would taste different however as aluminum cans actually contain a thin plastic lining so both sodas are being stored inside plastic.
They taste different because of a few different factors. 1. Most restaurants use as little syrup as possible to squeeze every cent they can. 2. The kind of container can dramatically affect the taste of the drink(i.e. paper, plastic, metal or glass). 3. Depending on the drink or where it is from, depends on whether it uses Aspartame, Sugar(or cane), or some other sweetener. "Mexican Coke" as it is called in Nevada, is featured in only glass bottles and is ONLY sweetened with Cane Sugar. This means to some people it tastes better than the high fructose varieties(I definitely prefer Mexican Coke).
Also keep in mind a lot of these places have fluid lines that dont get properly cleaned every single night as they should as often as not. Bacteria can build up which changes the flavors as well, there is also what type of line is used as some palces may use a cheaper non food grade line to save money that can leach chemicals into the product being served.
i feel like a lot of people don't know this, but some mcdonalds (such as the one i work at) use soda machines that automatically dispense the soda and ice we don't fill it ourselves
haha this reminds me back before the lockdowns ever existed, I’d always go down to Burger King time to time and there was always that one worker I saw who’d always be there to order my food every time. Every time I’d get a drink, medium, he’d always get the large and pointed out one time it didn’t really matter, idk where he is now but what a guy..
@@user-no7vm8of3s I mean there WAS the Vocal Minority that managed to sway people's minds, because people are idiots. But it IS the reason why Coke never does Blind Taste Tests the way that Pepsi has. An then there's the whole "Any rule for humans will have it's exceptions" "This drug will make you tired. Oh wait except for the people who it makes them wired!"
i don't really go in for diet, but that's not the phrase i'd use between the two. remember the days of the pepsi challenge? at the county fair here a large number of years ago (like 22?) they had that challenge. two non-descript cups, filled with a dark soda. one is pepsi, one is coke. if you can tell the difference, you get a shirt! so, they handed me the first, i drank it, it was good. they handed me the second. i took a mouthful, then spit it out, and said "that's the pepsi." pepsi has this disgusting habit of making it feel like your mouth is covered in granulated sugar. i won a shirt, and ticked off the pepsi guys lol.
many burger king around where i live do they have the soft drink fountain accessible to customers to self-fill, however burger king does not have the fountain drink machine out for self serve in a city as their suburban franchisee stores
Ive always order my drinks from any restaurant with no ice and if i fill it myself as much as possible to maximize drink even at the speedway gas station where a XXL is less than 2$ where as a 20 oz is roughly 25 cent more, yet half the size of a XXL
It’s nice to know you didn’t die from the robot barber at the end of the charity livestream, MatPat! Btw I just got my braces, and I’m binging all the Food Theory videos and it’s making me crave so much fooddd!
I may disagree because it has always been pop we can both agree that rode island are the true weird ones by calling a water fountain a bubbler... unless your from rode island then you are just wrong
KFC used to have something similar to filling up a chicken bucket with soda. It was a half gallon cup. They had it back in the late 90's and early 2000's. I think that's where my soda addiction began.
Don't need a theory to know ANYTHING can be messed up. I'll order a burger with cheese and ketchup only, and end up with a burger where those two items are the only things missing!
0% complicated. Last week I went to Whataburger and ordered a Honey BBQ chicken strip sandwich. One of the reasons I order that is because I don’t have to order it special at all. When I got home, I found they had given me a plain double cheeseburger.
11:33 My mom is from Hawaii where soft drinks are called “sodas”, my father is from Kansas where they’re called “pop”. That said I am one of the few Americans that use the phrase “soda pop” when referring to soft drinks.
"The problem is the ice-"
Me who never gets ice: HA
@@sekoseko9728 no
OH YEAH UP TOP 🖐
@nintendobound Games no ice id objectively the smarter way and you savor it as long as you want w/o it getting watery
I only get a few cubes of ice when I get a drink. I realized long ago that ice takes up precious volume for my lemonade.
I will debate you until i die JUST USE LIGHT ICE JEES
Everyone: Refills their cup once
Matpat: Refills his cup once, drinks 1/10 of it, then refills again
Your comment is so FUNNY. You made my day. You are an AWESOME person, Chimy The Gamer :)
@@BrotherTheory Is that sarcasm?
@@novastar3990 uhhh i think it is unless they are a VERY optimistic person
Exactly 1/10th too
I’d expect the so to be capital if it was sarcasm. We hope he was being genuine.
I’m pretty sure Diet Coke hasn’t sponsored you yet because they realized “why pay him when he’s already doing enough promoting for us for free”
I never realized that
Good point XD
BIG BRAIN
so true it's sad
O my goodness, I actually wanted to try diet coke because of this videos
Another factor (one that is a company secret.) is what’s the soda water to syrup ratio. Most restaurants just have a large bottle of soda water that the dispenser mixes with syrup to make the soda and the ratio can be adjusted.
McDonald's soda is watered down to basically flavored water.
Except the sprite
“I can write off all this Diet Coke as a business expense.”
This video is the reason MatPat created Food Theory. The rest has all been a ploy.
And game theory is an excuse to right off all the games and game consoles he buys as a business expense
What a coincidence. Ryder did a similar thing in the video he uploaded today. ruclips.net/video/8SMpCbI9U00/видео.html
MatPat: Hold my diet coke. You are an AWESOME person, Jack :)
that’s the real theory
The game was rigged from the start
-Benny , Fallout New Vegas
*up next: Never Order Anything From Anywhere!*
well . . . yeah
Get out
The new Little King Ryan
@XD Gamer literally how can i be a bot lol
Hi
If MatPat told me that I wasn’t real, I would believe him
Same
Thats deep
Same
Same
Same
Well two years later after this video McDonald's does not have large drinks for a buck anymore
😂😂😂
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Noooooooo😢
"If you're not getting at least three refills before you leave the restaurant, then what are you doing with yourself?" -Matpat
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You are BRILLIANT, Asa bee :)
My older brother always gets like 4 or 5 refills
@@sekoseko4439 shut up
True words of wisdom
Ok. But now I need a “What’s the best burger to get for the most amount of meat” video to complete the fast food trifecta.
"So that brings us to our big question of the day... Where IS the beef??" - MatPat next week probably
I would definitely watch that
Probably the new burger of BK in Japan (can't remember the name) which replaces the puns by... Meat
This is just a combo
YES! And with chicken nuggets and patties too! I'm vegetarian and have attempted this to prove a point to a lot of friends that the "chicken" at most fast food places has little enough meat that even I could eat it. (Don't get the chicken at Reza's in Italy if you want real meat and not tofu.)
Mat Pat proceeded to buy a lifetime supply of Diet Coke and mark it all as “business expenses”
@@sekoseko7150 no lol
@@sekoseko7150 this is a bot
11 years and finally
He died three days later due to "pure happiness
@Alicia Dio can’t spell DIEt Pepsi without DIE
For the USA - McDonald’s should be updated now because the $1.00 was a “limited time” deal that they did for like 5 years. It sure was a long limited time!
come up to canada, $1 drinks at mcdonald's is always a summer-only thing, and they do the $1 ice cream cones at the same time.
Yeah but it makes sense as everything else has risen in price. They're still only $1.29 in NC, where he gets all this from
and in EU you have calibrated cups. If they sell you 0.5l there has to be 0.5l of drink inside, without ice. Also if you go on the McDonalds webside, in US you only have Large and the calories , in Germany f.e. you have Large 0.5l written as well.
I don’t remember large McDonald’s soda being a dollar
I'm curious, why would anyone choose to buy a $1 small when there's a $1 large at McDonalds?
[ btw. Wendy's fries are my favorites ]
second reply
Some people are more health conscious, granted they're going to McDonald's, but still
Well, I assume people might not be thirsty enough to drink the entire large.
Can't speak for them though. I would definitely buy the large every time.
Fifth
If they don’t want to drink that much soda
Plot twist: He started the food theory channel just so he could buy all the Diet Coke he would ever need just for soda videos
Well we'd be happy to serve him in our restaurants
Matpat: I've been exposed
but hey thats just a theory a matpat theory aaaand cut
and yeah thats totally true
Food Theory: *exists*
Matpat: “My goals are beyond your understanding”
this isn't a plot twist lol
one burger king cashier be like: "Oh god, what have I done to the company."
one? if you’re talking about the ice thing, he stated that he went to multiple burger kings. around 5
@@username-pr3zx yours was far less funny you should probably try to tweak it a bit or a lot
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@@alaiaomanu6318 BACK TO THE 9TH SHADOW DEMON REALM WITH THAT LINK WHERE YOU CAME FROM.
yeah my guess is its quality control problem rather than company policy. A couple add too much ice and it skews the average.
This is why you either get the drink yourself (inside) or in some cases, ask for no ice. Whether the volumes are different, sometimes if you ask for no ice, if they're nice enough they'll fill it up to the top with just soda and you may be getting anextra 4-6 oz of sode as some will put excessive amounts of ice in the larger cups to make up for it. The advantage of in-door dining where you get it yourself though is you can refill as much as you want (at least in the US in many chains, I heard that in other countries, this is not allowed).
Actually, if you order it with no ice, it's company policy to fill the cup to the top. The restaurant doesn't want to deal with angry customers clogging up the drive thru complaining that the employees only filled their cups 3/4 full.
Before the drinks became so automated as they are at McDonald's now, we were always told to put half a scoop of ice in small cups, a full scoop in medium, and 2 scoops in large. You would then set the drink cup under the fountain and choose the button for the correct cup size, then the dispense button. To make up for any variable in the amount of ice (light ice or no ice requests), there was a "free flow" button the employee would hold down to finish filling the cup.
It was always supposed to be full enough that it would slosh against the lid without much shaking, but not so full that putting a straw in the lid made it leak out.
Matt is a versatile man: he cries both for charity and for diet coke
The two things he puts most of his money towards 😅❤️
@Jack Sparrow ???
@Jack Sparrow You must be fun at parties
Diet Coke is trash
#dougiefresh007
never thought this channel might help me on a school project. you are now officially an education channel
Questin? When wasnt he educational like in game theory he teaches so much.
69 likes... nice
Education theory-
Always has been 0:
The theory channels ARE education channels but use games films and food to make it funner
In Germany, Restaurants have to fill up the amount of drink that’s written on the cup first, then add ice. It’s that simple ^^
That makes it difficult to not splash the soda though, and then you end up with sticky soda droplets (which will fly up to even the ceiling due to carbonation and probably some physics effect of rapid thermal change). It makes more sense to have a consistent ice scoop size and then deduct approximate amount for total soda value from a filling logistical standpoint. Either way, you're still getting a highly over-market priced drink.
I'm a little surprised the Germans wouldn't consider the mixing density of the soda (you might notice some places have stronger flavor than others, you can tweak the mix concentration), because that's probably more important than just how much ice because that's the difference of watered down vs still nice and strong even after some ice has melted. Technically I think that's suppose to be calibrated by the drink union supplier, but they either don't have a well calibrated tongue or don't have a standard test machine.
@@jakegarrett8109 its wrong. Ice + filling ist automatic Here, you get your 500ml of soda with Like 200ml ice precalculated. Ice after Soda would be dumb
@@johannesbender7956 this with the famcy machines nowadays the amount is precalculated
In norway you fill it yourself
Cool
“Feel free to run these calculations on your own” me dunking my hand directly into my drink in the drive through at the 5th McDonald’s in my area
"One large coke, no ice"
And just like that, BK is now bankrupt.
Exactly. They refrigerate the pop so I always order with no ice
Omg dat true
Just ask the drive through employes for no ice in a bk large lol then you get 44 oz of soda
Ik i do this all the time XD
@@joshuarmost Sprite, no ice, has always been my favorite
The reason this channel exists is so that at the end, we can say, "Wow, I never knew!" Keep up the good work!
@Henry Ford lmaoo guys can be used gender-neutral
@Henry Ford though it does technically refer to males, “guys” is colloquially used as a gender neutral term referring to people as a whole with no specific target. We can safely assume that Landen is using the term generally, and not referring to exclusively males. So shut up, and stop correcting people.
Also guy sounds better than guys and gals, but not as good as lads and lasses (which the term I prefer and grew up with).
@Henry Ford there, fixed
Ice isn't an inescapable variable since you can ask for pop without it
I kinda suspected this one, to be honest. But I assumed it was a "all Burger King drinks are bad" kinda problem. Never specifically blamed the medium.
Fast Food in MatPat's area are probably like:
"Oh hey it's that food theory guy."
"Yeah, the food theory guy was just here, what did he buy?"
Lol
Um
@@lilyflay3824 yes
@@lilyflay3824 yes
@@lilyflay3824 yes
I honestly love how much work matpat puts into his videos on film theory game theory style theory and food theory!
The same matpat that people refer to FNAF videos? I never knew.
I love how most of this channel is basically the most efficient way to get diabetes.
And bad math
Read the Channel Name bruh
Get used to it
@@thunderstorm7892 it's ok buddy you can have thumbs too
Or obtain "big bones".
@@thunderstorm7892 whoooosh
Starbucks lucked out on being left out on this one, considering all the iced drinks are about half ice.
-A Starbucks Barista
You have to ask for light ice or you get scammed
Bro I never get ice in my iced drinks. I got some ice at home / can put it in the fridge for a bit
Adding ice is a dumb move. Never ask for ice! :)
@@BrotherTheory I know in some places you have to ask for it, but in most of the US, it comes included. You have to specify without
Drink at home. Simples
Mattpatt: “you’ll need to refill 17x to get your money’s worth”
Me: “guess it’s time to say goodbye to my teeth”
Bring a fricking gallon jug
Just use diet soda.
Say "Hello" to the restroom.
For once, Vsco girls are ahead using metal straws.
Are we gonna ignore he misspelled matpat
2:13 I used to work as a shift manager at a pizzeria, and while we sold large fountain drinks for $1.99 back then, the actual food cost was a mere 10¢. This includes the cost for the paper goods - the single-color 32oz paper cup, plastic lid and straw, as well as the syrup, water, carbon dioxide, and ice.
Hence, we managers were given a LOT of leeway to offer drinks to guests on the house while they wait for their take-out orders. Even when someone showed up very early for their pizza, and even said "Sorry I'm here so early, I know I just called it in 5 minutes ago", we would still just practically hand them out free soda, because the now-increased potential for their return business was absolutely worth more to us than a 10¢ soda!
10¢ was our food cost for a single soda, and the majority of that cost actually goes into the paper goods. For comparison, a kid's drink comes in a small 12oz cup, but because it has quite a few different colors on it, it costs a lot more to produce. Therefore, the food cost of a kid's drink was actually 39¢! Which is also why when people asked for just a cup for water, and started instinctively reaching for the kid's cup, we stopped them and instead either offered them an 8oz plastic up, or a 32oz medium cup.
Also, for the reasons mentioned above, I absolutely do NOT respect places which do not offer free refills, especially ones which charge more than $2.50, even $3+ for a fountain drink. And even worse is when this happens at a sit-down restaurant which uses reusable cups, because there is NO paper goods cost other than the straw!
"The problem is the ice"
Me who never gets ice: they called me a madman
I never do either. Figured this out like 40 years ago.
Burger king is still the scum, first the king of stream thing and now overpricing their biggest income
I despise ice in drinks so we won
This comment is underrated
Yo same
I've noticed this since I was like 13 this is why I ask for no ice. I am so happy you made this video!
Same, except I was around 9 or 10. My mom still thinks I’m weird for asking for no ice though 😂
@@iimoonytoony7879 BUT IT COMES COLD!? Like without ice
I ask for no ice and no salt on the fries so that they are fresh
@@cosmicnovacat Yea it's still quite cold
me, who noticed this when my mom drank pop while I was in the womb.
"If I wanted to Drink a watered down Diet Coke I would have ordered a Diet Pepsi"
MatPat 2020
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best roast ever imo
ooooooooooohhhh, Dem's fightin' words, Mr "Sans is ness" man.
He is not wrong
@@trevor3233 he is wrong diet pepsi is the nectar of the gods.
Would love to see this now that mcD no longer prices everything at a dollar. They’ve gotten quit expensive in their soft drink price.
They're still all the same price though. At least they are where I live.
Where I live a large is now 2.89.
My area needs longer allows customers to refill themselves.....all the equipment is behind the counter.
“If you’re not getting out at least three free refills before you leave the restaurant, then what are you doing with yourself?”
Good point.
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Well, I can never even finish drinking one cup long after I left the building.
The fact that in my country no fast food gives us refills and the mc soda cost differs from cup to cup is just a sad fact 😞✋
I use a completely different strategy
@@veryhot2382 shut up
Finally, a full-on study that I can show to my friends and family that proves why you always should refill before leaving the store!
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@UCvekyU2oFjq8cLUN3ZUH0NA should we report him for spam?
@@anemu3819 yes please
@@anemu3819 Yes report him, I already have
that's 4 of us reporting them. Nice.
Friends and Family: "Why do you not like a lot of ice in your drink?"
Me: This vid.
Yeah. I usually ask if I can go without ice since I get more soda and it's still just as cold without the ice.
More soda AND your drink won't get watered down before you're done with your meal? I've always ordered without ice and can't fathom why so many people still keep it.
Can I like a comment twice?
For me I just don't care tge temp to much and don't like it to water down so i get no ice buuuuuuuuut this gives more incentive
In all honesty, the main reason I don't like a lot of ice in my drink is as simple as "I can't handle very cold drinks", which is unfortunate because I live in a tropical country OwO". But hey, more Coke for me.
As someone who worked at Sonic for about a month, we’re told to fill our cups with ice to the halfway point in most, if not all of our sizes, including the Route 44, which is the largest sized drink you can get there
“If I wanted a watered down Diet Coke I would of ordered Diet Pepsi”
dang bro shots fired
coke zero, diet coke
pepsi max, diet pepsi??
@@xresinance1290 wait wut?
@@ogway1772 I have heard coke zero, and diet coke been used in reference to "diet" versions of normal coke before, but never diet pepsi, which I know has a "diet" version called pepsi max
I’ll be firing shots back
"Taco bell has the least cost effective soft drinks"
Movie theaters: Hold my Cola
Movie Theaters : Let me introduce myself
My question is how did he get Diet Coke from Taco Bell when they sell Pepsi products
@@jwharvey56 See that was my question too, we only have Pepsi products so either he settled for Diet Pepsi or a worker smuggled in a 2 liter of Diet Coke in case of a sudden MatPat sighting
Idk if it’s just a one off location thing but in my state most of ours offer coke and Pepsi
Exhausted Ostrich might I say, you know what to say.
The biggest life hack is that KFC has a hidden soda size: The bucket.
Please dont tell me I'm botta hold a cashier at gunpoint to get one of these to realize this is fake
A bit of warning if you do that too much KFC will Old Yeller your glutinous minimust.
AHAHAHAAHAAHAHAH THAT GOT ME
@@iamthatoneguy7875 Nah you just go up when you finished bucket and start fillin it up
Lololololololol
I wish there was more fast food optimization videos like this one the fries, the chicken sandwiches, and the pizza
MatPat: Blatantly hinting at how much he likes diet coke
Next video: "I QUIT diet coke"
you were right about that.
@@brandonwiles1735 Duh that video came out before he said this so he obviously seen it
😂 fr
The real food theory: MatPat made this whole channel so he could have Diet Coke be a business expense write off.
True
@Darling Lav your the best person in the world.
And to have two thanks giving turkeys for thanksgiving.
OMG I cant 😂🤣
And turkey
“If I wanted watered down Diet Coke I would’ve ordered Diet Pepsi”
*Good thing there’s so much ice for that 3rd degree burn*
@Dawn of a new day but you can’t spell Diet Pepsi without die as well
*when I order Coke and someone says, "is pepsi ok?" I SAY NO*
When he burned Diet Pepsi I had an audible OOHH SNAP
@Dawn of a new day and he should have a blind taste test to see if he can tell the difference. Heck he should include some international versions like Mexican Coke, European variants and even Japanese soda.
@Dawn of a new day how about diet Pepsi? #Coke
I've always ordered light ice. Especially when you get like a tea at McDs and 80% of the cup is ice then end up finishing the thing in like 12 sips.
"A 1000% markup"
Ps5 Scalpers: finally, a worthy opponent!
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Our battle will be legendary!
MOTHER FLIPPING SCALERS! GO TO H E DOUBLE L! TO IT' BOILER ROOM! I DO NOT BELIVE IN GOD BUT I DO KNOW H E 2X L EXSISTS!
I started ordering my soft drinks without ice in college a few years ago. Since it's already served cold most places, it really doesn't make a difference, and you get MORE soda for the price. Haven't regretted it since.
Funny you say that... I made that same conclusion years ago... I often asked "why the ice when the drink is already cold?"... It's actually a marketing ploy... More ice, less drink, greater markup on the price... Looking at the McDonald's drinks for example, you get one third glass of ice, and two thirds glass of drink... Hence needing two refills to get the drink at cost... But I'm d you get that same drink with no ice, your getting it now on a 1-1 ratio... You're only paying for the contents, not the void created by the ice...
Same! The machine keeps it cool. It's also where they STORE the ice. so... yeah. I also (pre-pandemic) never did drive-thru
@@therayven3147 Agreed about the marketing ploy and it works. I've ordered drinks without ice for most of my life and always get confused looks.
@@walkout85 People are confused by that ? Where I live we get the cups and go fill them ourselves, most people don't bother with the ice instead we fill the cup to the limit lol
@@BxPanda7 drive through exists and people use it
Can we just take a minute to appreciate the intro? I could rewatch it a million times and still notice something new.
I am the 70th like on this comment.Behold my evil deeds
𝕎𝕖𝕣𝕖? 𝕀 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕟𝕥 𝕨𝕒𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕚𝕥 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕞𝕡𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕝𝕪 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕥𝕖𝕝𝕝 𝕞𝕖?
@@danielpierre4684 Wow. Just wow. That sounds like something I’d do.
I am at 170th like
Same, even after watching it tons of times, I only just noticed that there is a bendy shop right next to the McDonald's
I nearly always ask for no ice when i get drinks. Cuz every drink u get from a soda fountain is already ice cold when it comes out anyways (this does not apply to those iced tea dispensers some places have fwi cuz those are always warm without ice) and i usually finish the drinks before theyd even have a chance to warm up anyways
Food Theory: Soda or pop?
Half of the south: It's all coke.
"I really want a coke?"
"Sure, what kind?"
"Dr Pepper."
When people say coke where I am, it means coke. The specific drink made by the Coca-Cola company.
THERE IS A FANG DRINK CALLED COKE. YOU CANNOT NAME ALL OF THE SOFT DRINKS COKE NOW, CUZ THEN YOU GOTTA RENAME COKE!!!! Wkjdndueglaibdushchrheowyvxjwyxgd
Same coke where I live specifically means coca cola
@@SandyDawn17 where I grew up "coke" was just a general term for soda. in fact if you said you want a soda or even worse, a "pop" people would look at you like "where is this weirdo from?".
"if I wanted a watered-down diet coke I would've bought a diet Pepsi"
Pepsi: I was murdered
Oof. It's true though.
@@sekoseko7150 Stop spamming this
They got rickety rickety recked 😏
Body reported
They're both water! Beat only by Bud Light.
Me who doesn’t drink soda: “this is valuable information”
what is soda?
Lol same I don't drink soda anymorrr
Idk what this soda thing is but you should try some pop
@@PH90IFY what is this "Pop"??
@@pearbear3281 bubbly syrup water
The way Mat feels about diet coke is the same to me about many cherri soda. ITS JUST SO GOOOD
YESSSSSS
no it just tastes like a watered down version
@@Death2Gaming well i still like cherry soda
MatPat: writes off Diet Coke as a business expense
The IRS: uhh...
Ohhhh..............
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Hilarious joke, Milo. You made my day. You are THE BEST :)
For this video? 100%
You'd be amazed at what you CAN take as a Business expense.
Though some things, like haircuts, are difficult to prove as a Business Expense.
@@sekoseko5539 F-in BOT
“If you’re not getting at least three refills before you leave what are you doing with yourself?” my personal motto is if you don’t feel sick you can’t leave
That’s hilarious
Oh so your saying that I have to live in Wendy's because I'm not sick
drink til you cant
Drnk and eat untill you puke
Awsome life motto
Employee: sees matpat immediately separating the ice from the soda
*chuckles* "We're in danger..."
@@sekoseko9889 Uh... What?
@@packediceisthebestminecraf9007 it’s a bot, report for spam please
i agree with your username
@@packediceisthebestminecraf9007 I also agree with your username. I have a path that is something like 2K blocks long in the underworld.
@@patrickwilliams7496 Finally! Thank you!
Matpat's soft drink motto about the refills is essentially my unchangeable restaurant creed. I cannot leave one without feeling unsatisfied with less than 4 refills of soda lol
he solved the danm theory in the intro. AND STILL MADE A 12 MIN LONG VIDEO *this man is special*
IKR! It’s kind of like explaining your answer on a math question...
@@rhysadams7740 lol yeah it always require extra info
@@patelproductions9075 It's over-analyzing.
Imagine him being a teacher
@@yizao9289 He would be an excellent teacher!
“If I wanted a watered down Diet Coke I would’ve ordered Diet Pepsi”
*bruh*
he's not wrong
Matpat never misses a theory.(Not including the forbidden theory of Sans is Ness)
P.s Nothing against you matpat. I never took offense just laughed it off #ItsOnlyATheoryChill
This heart my soul as a bepsi boi but despite that I still giggled... I'm so conflicted
Shots fired.
MC DONALDS FOR LIFE!!!!!!!
Burger King sucks............
@@mateoplaysgaming742 Mc Donald's is pretty good but tbh Burger King nuggets are amazing
Me: rarely eats fast food
Food theory: burger kings cups are the same
Me: HmMm SoUnDS InteREstInG
@@sekoseko2165 thanks for the help. I've been needing this for a while :)
@@sekoseko2165 Stop spamming your links an your alt account. Nobody asked for it. That's also why you have so many dislikes. Earn your veiws legit like the rest of us.
Lol
Same
To be fair, if you're going by "How many refills does it take to break even." Ice isn't really a factor after the first fill. After that, you're in control of how much ice you want when you fill it at the soda dispenser.
As a McDonald’s employee these results make me very happy lol
I know that half of the soda I’m getting is just water 🙂
Just wait until he does McDonald’s
Hey dude stop forgetting MY COOKIE
Free food plz
Whenever we’re swarmed (almost always” I shove about 11 or 12 nuggets into a ten piece cuz I don’t wanna rip a lil
Kid off but don’t really wanna waste time being exact either
Wendy's employee here, we have different buttons for each size drinks, and we add ice to fill the cups.
As a Wendy’s employee, this is true lol
Yeah but the beauty about buying inside instead of drive through is you can control how much ice goes in your cup if you order Iput no ice in mine and i get 30 oz liquid only
@@willsgaming1481 I'll let you in on another wendy's secret. You can get a small drink for free, by saying you want a senior drink. You don't even need to make a purchase. If you are obviously not a senior, some stores might get mad at you if you do it a lot, but typically the person taking your order doesn't care and just wants to get you moving through their line
Taco Bell employee here, we have an ice button for each size, which we use before putting in any soda.
Hey if you don't mind answering a question, what do you do when someone orders no ice?
"I can write off diet coke as a business expense" this is the real reason you made Food Theory, Mat, we know
Why’d you have to expose him like that 😂😂
IKR and some where inside I wish that could be me too.
@@numberoneappgames I dont like diet coke at all
@@thoticcusprime9309 well any kind of soda then even Hi-C.
Would love an updated list
"If I wanted a watered down diet coke I would have ordered a diet Pepsi okay?"
SHOTS FIREEDDD
Yes the shots did get fired lol
Too bad it's not true.
Pepsi > Coke but on diet its a fucking different story
Here’s another hot take:
Anything “diet” tastes watered down.
Tbh, pepsi does taste a bit more sweeter and watered down than coke (in all variants)
I’ve watched this theory SEVERAL times and never thought about this story until now:
My dad is like MatPat- needs Diet Coke like a fish needs water. Many years ago, he would often go to the local McDonalds and get some work done on his laptop. He would always get the “largest Diet Coke they had” and stay there for HOURS, taking advantage of the free refills. Several months later, we went in to that McDonalds as a family to discover a sign on the drink machine: “Limit ONE free dine in refill per guest per day”. We just looked at my dad, somehow knowing he was the cause of this new policy 😂😂 He never went back to that McDonald’s again.
Lmao 😂
😭😭😭
Who's gonna stop him if he takes more then one refill the underpaid employees?
If he's just typing away on a laptop then they should leave him be. I like comfy laidback community vibes. But that requires minimum diversity. At the very least I expect the non-ethnic locals to give me a peace sign or say "what up brah".
wow...
How about a “theory” about why fountain soda, bottle soda and can soda all taste different.
Its because when you get soda its water that's been added to flavor syrup. different fountains use different amounts of syrup to water. Mcdonalds interestingly uses a lot of syrup to water for a better taste, so thats another reason to get a soda there aside from quantity.
But even bottled soda and canned soda has been made locally in a bottling plant in your area as its cheaper to ship the syrup and mix it with local water than it is to ship the whole soda. I don't know why bottled and canned soda would taste different however as aluminum cans actually contain a thin plastic lining so both sodas are being stored inside plastic.
They taste different because of a few different factors. 1. Most restaurants use as little syrup as possible to squeeze every cent they can. 2. The kind of container can dramatically affect the taste of the drink(i.e. paper, plastic, metal or glass).
3. Depending on the drink or where it is from, depends on whether it uses Aspartame, Sugar(or cane), or some other sweetener.
"Mexican Coke" as it is called in Nevada, is featured in only glass bottles and is ONLY sweetened with Cane Sugar. This means to some people it tastes better than the high fructose varieties(I definitely prefer Mexican Coke).
If you drink fountain soda from the straw then it's cause drinking liquid from a straw mask the taste.
Yes please
Also keep in mind a lot of these places have fluid lines that dont get properly cleaned every single night as they should as often as not. Bacteria can build up which changes the flavors as well, there is also what type of line is used as some palces may use a cheaper non food grade line to save money that can leach chemicals into the product being served.
i feel like a lot of people don't know this, but some mcdonalds (such as the one i work at) use soda machines that automatically dispense the soda and ice
we don't fill it ourselves
haha this reminds me back before the lockdowns ever existed, I’d always go down to Burger King time to time and there was always that one worker I saw who’d always be there to order my food every time. Every time I’d get a drink, medium, he’d always get the large and pointed out one time it didn’t really matter, idk where he is now but what a guy..
Nice story.
The man we didn't deserve...
But the man we needed
He must have watched this and time travelled
"if I wanted a watered-down diet coke I would have ordered a diet Pepsi"
*Pepsi wants to know your location*
Now kids, this is why you keep location off.
Pepsi: and I took that personally :)
Wasn't it MattPatt who proved that people liked Normal Pepsi over Normal Coke?
@@TheAyanamiRei apart from me, i still like the normal coke.
@@user-no7vm8of3s I mean there WAS the Vocal Minority that managed to sway people's minds, because people are idiots.
But it IS the reason why Coke never does Blind Taste Tests the way that Pepsi has.
An then there's the whole "Any rule for humans will have it's exceptions"
"This drug will make you tired. Oh wait except for the people who it makes them wired!"
I'm a lazy person, but at the same time a science nerd and I enjoy this stuff so much. This is why food theory is my fav
No u
No u (2)
No u (3)
Food theory is my fav bc its food lmao
True
Don't ever buy a soda at Subway. They charge $2.49 for a 20 ounce drink. McDonalds only charges $1.29.
“If I wanted a watered-down Diet Coke, I would have ordered a Diet Pepsi.”
This is why I trust MatPat.
Diet pepsi is actually a thing?
@@Nomolun_Vr YES
coke is my favorite pop but Pepsi is still good
@Takeda takahashi Agreed
i don't really go in for diet, but that's not the phrase i'd use between the two.
remember the days of the pepsi challenge? at the county fair here a large number of years ago (like 22?) they had that challenge. two non-descript cups, filled with a dark soda. one is pepsi, one is coke. if you can tell the difference, you get a shirt! so, they handed me the first, i drank it, it was good. they handed me the second. i took a mouthful, then spit it out, and said "that's the pepsi." pepsi has this disgusting habit of making it feel like your mouth is covered in granulated sugar. i won a shirt, and ticked off the pepsi guys lol.
"Want a coke?"
"Sure. What kind do you have?"
"Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper."
Southern USA, eh?
@@klebdapleb3928 you be from canada eh? if you are you may have some pop and crisps.
@@kilofetus R U from Canada or U.K.
'Cause i is from d Caribbean
I'm from Ohio and I feel that so hard
@@klebdapleb3928 You're right. Louisiana.
Tiktok about soda: goes viral
MatPat: Hold my Diet Coke
Literally
@@lazygirl3873 oop
Very original comment -_-
many burger king around where i live do they have the soft drink fountain accessible to customers to self-fill, however burger king does not have the fountain drink machine out for self serve in a city as their suburban franchisee stores
You know you’re officially an adult when you make jokes about things being tax deductible
Plot twist: Matpat created this channel just to get massive amounts of diet coke, so he can write them off as expense repots.
Perhaps...🤔
where is the twist?
@@theotherguy4456 yea, he said that *in the video*
Hey that was my theory, a matpat theory
What twist?
Props to Mat and his wife for uploading frequently, with good quality and easy to follow videos, despite being busy parents and holding events
wife not girlfriend but I get what you're saying
@@_ls547 thank you
Ive always order my drinks from any restaurant with no ice and if i fill it myself as much as possible to maximize drink even at the speedway gas station where a XXL is less than 2$ where as a 20 oz is roughly 25 cent more, yet half the size of a XXL
“Thats how i bankrupted a Pizza Hut”
-Homer Simpson
Hi
“WHERE IS IT GOING????”
Yeah when you think about it, you would have to drink 1000s large sodas to bankrupt a franchise
“If I wanted a watered-down Diet Coke, I would have ordered a Diet Pepsi.”
- MatPat 2020
Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave.
That is shaaaade-
I find diet pepsi to have a bolder flavor and fuller mouthfeel. Diet coke tastes like acid and carbonation
Greatest diss of all time
i-i was reading the comments while watching the video and he started to say this as soon as i started reading it.. im scared.
It’s nice to know you didn’t die from the robot barber at the end of the charity livestream, MatPat!
Btw I just got my braces, and I’m binging all the Food Theory videos and it’s making me crave so much fooddd!
YES BAHAH
I mean they recorded that before the stream so you never know
You'll make it through but just be prepared for power bands those are worse than the first day
Agreed got my braces 4 weeks ago
Steaks are high so food must die
never order a medium at Wendy’s unless u want a Home Depot bucket full
What I’ve learned from this channel: never buy a medium anything and kool aid man is going to swallow the universe
WOW.............
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Me too
@@johnmichael8462 stfu bot
I’ve gotten an infinitely small amount of clout! 1 sec just gotta let it go to my head immediately
@@donkeyface4452 and how did that end up
"Its always been soda and it will always remain soda"
*laughs in fizzy*
Ohhhh.........
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I may disagree because it has always been pop we can both agree that rode island are the true weird ones by calling a water fountain a bubbler... unless your from rode island then you are just wrong
@@nojo9308 Calling soda "pop" is like calling apples "reds"
Fizzy is the true correct answer, British bois unite!
@@Skeptix1 i call them reds got a problem bub
Seeing matpat finally get to theorize using Diet Coke after 7 years was incredibly satisfying.
I agree
I was questioning if it was MatPat
Maka order din sunod nya, thanks for sharing video godbless
**honestly**
4:01 in the uk, the large is that size
should I pe happy or sad? i don't even know anymore
Food theory: the ice is screwing you over for you money
Anyone with common sense: asks for no ice
WOW...........
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I don't like cold soda that often. (I call it pop when it's cold or a small drink. Don't judge.)
@@thegamingillustrator What is this... Pop your speaking of?
@@thegamingillustrator no
i will NOT drink my soda without ice and that's that
This is what it’s like in Louisiana:
“Yes, I’d like a Coke please.”
“What kind?”
“Dr. Pepper.”
Yup. Tennessee here. 😅
doesnt that take up time? why don’t you just say what you want?
This is what its like in alabama
Me: *orders extra fries at mcdonalds*
Me: wow an extra fry just for me!
Same here in Texas
that's what it's like in new mexico
*Thousands of people fighting over if its Pop or Soda
Me, an Intellectual: Nectar of the gods
@Stefmiester true thats so funny
@Dawn of a new day I love cherry coke
all of this, just to be destroyed by one request when making an order. "can I get my soda without ice?"
Mat: *fills up kfc chicken bucket with diet coke*
Manager: -_-
*"How may chicken buckets can you refill with diet coke at KFC before gettin kicked out"*
😂😂
@@mihcci ooh good video idea let’s pitch it to him 😂
KFC used to have something similar to filling up a chicken bucket with soda. It was a half gallon cup. They had it back in the late 90's and early 2000's. I think that's where my soda addiction began.
Diet coke and a strong desire for food,
You must be a THEORIST
Matt: “and to all of you in the comment section who say pop, you have my full support”
Me: “what about bubbly syrup juice?”
Ohhhh................
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Ya know... I think everyone is okay with that.
As long as it's not pop
fizzy juice?
I thought it was fizzy flavored liquid
"Taco bell's lineup of drinks earned it last place"
they dont need a lineup when they have baja blast
ouch. great vid tho anyway
50/50 Baja and regular is my jam. Also, you know, the whole food menu (except you, cheesy rollup)
Yeah, Baja Blast is the absolute best
Shiiii and don’t forget about the pink lemonade
Agreed. Now if they could only get some dang dr.pepper it would truly be the best.
Nice pfp
im all ready subbed my guy
Food Theory: How increasingly complicated can your drive through order get before you get a wrong order?
if it's at mcDonald's, it'll always be screwed up
Don't need a theory to know ANYTHING can be messed up. I'll order a burger with cheese and ketchup only, and end up with a burger where those two items are the only things missing!
That would be an interesting one... especially if was a competition style video like this one.
0% complicated. Last week I went to Whataburger and ordered a Honey BBQ chicken strip sandwich. One of the reasons I order that is because I don’t have to order it special at all.
When I got home, I found they had given me a plain double cheeseburger.
If it's bk, a burger with no tomato. Every time my dad orders a burger from BK it has tomatoes, every time. He always asks for no tomato.
"If I wanted to drink a watered down diet coke I'd order a diet Pepsi"
*_Ouch_*
Yeah, that burn. Oof.
Omg I read this the second he said it like it was so on point😂😂
Coke is king
yeah matb\pat just DESTROYED that
No amount of pepsi will douse that burn
everyone: childhood gets destroyed when they watch film theory
me: childhood gets destroyed when I watch food theory :'(
So, the burger king medium was your childhood? I feel ya, was sad that taco bell was last in the total tally.
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11:33 My mom is from Hawaii where soft drinks are called “sodas”, my father is from Kansas where they’re called “pop”. That said I am one of the few Americans that use the phrase “soda pop” when referring to soft drinks.