• @kibiz0r@midwest.social
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    -110 months ago

    I support banning customer refills, but that’s cuz they’re gross.

    If you just spent the past 30 minutes applying your germs to a cup, the last thing I want you to do is go back up the soda machine and splash that shit all over the nozzles.

    • XIIIesq
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      610 months ago

      You sound paranoid. You’d have to try really hard to infect a nozzle that way. Any door handle you come across is going to be so much more filthy.

  • @cdf12345@lemm.ee
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    1010 months ago

    Couldn’t you just say “10 refills included in the price of the beverage”.

  • @Fades@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Gotta enshrine laws to protect the capitalists!

    They say its about unhealthy food and drink, but why are drink refills considers a health issue to the point of requiring law? Plenty offer more than just unhealthy soda and trash like that.

    Health Secretary Eluned Morgan has launched a consultation to restrict “promotions of food products high in fat, sugar and salt”.

    Article specifically calls out some names:

    It includes a proposal to prohibit retailers from offering free drink refills, which many high street restaurants including Nando’s and Five Guys offer.

    Taking Five Guys for example they offer coca cola freestyle:

    https://www.fiveguys.com/menu/Drinks

    https://www.coca-colafreestyle.com/choices/?filter1=all drinks

    Which offers options such as minute maid lemonaid, vitamin water, etc. with non-sugar options. This law would punish those same drinks in the name of health.

      • Chozo
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        1610 months ago

        That’s not really a solution at all. You don’t order a soda with your lunch because you think “I’m so dehydrated”, you order a soda because you think “This will taste nice”. People are allowed to want flavor.

        • @b34k@lemmy.world
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          -2210 months ago

          Flavor comes from my steak and my bacon Brussels sprouts, not my beverage.

          And actually sodas don’t “taste nice”. Go keto for a few months and break that sugar addiction. The next time you try a soda you’ll realize they’re all sickeningly sweet and not fit for human consumption.

            • @b34k@lemmy.world
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              19 months ago

              I can always cure and smoke my own pork belly, should the govt decide I can’t get it at a store…. Just like someone can take sugar and other garbage and put it into their water should they so desire.

          • xep
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            -510 months ago

            I’m sorry you’re getting downvoted for speaking the truth. It’s frightening how much sugar is in our diet.

          • @SlowRoastedMadness@lemmy.world
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            710 months ago

            Uh-huh, but that’s ignoring the sugar-free options the other user said. I like flavored drinks with my food, i drink enough water throughout the rest of the day.

      • @Steve@startrek.website
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        010 months ago

        Also, water is not free. It’s normally provided at no cost to the consumer in a restaurant, but it isn’t free.

    • @brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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      210 months ago

      coca cola freestyle

      The nice expensive machines standard fast food places are removing in the US. Too many freeloaders?