Six Flags extends deal with Coke for ten years

Bottle Caps rule.

I still have a major sweet tooth so maybe that explains why I still liked Pepsi over Coke when I was drinking soft drinks. Now I just drink water. Drinking either Pepsi or Coke (or any soft drink) on occasion now tastes like drinking syrup. I am not a fan of Aquafina bottled water so I guess I should welcome a switch to Coke and Dasani.

Yesterday at GAdv, I hit the Coke Freestyle store. I got Cherry Powerade Zero, which I don't think is even available retail..definitely not in this area. One of my companions got Raspberry Coke..again, not available retail. She said it was really good. As a diabetic who doesn't like Diet Coke and generally prefers not to drink soda at parks, this place is a Godsend for me...to say nothing of the fact I only pay $.99 with my big cup.

A local restaurant has a Coke Freestyle machine. You can do all kinds of variations on the traditional flavors of all of the stuff they make. The fountain actually has a touch screen to choose what you want, starting with the base product and then enabling certain extra flavors. I tried Coke Orange. It was... different. My wife had Barq's Vanilla, and it was quite good.

^Jeff, the wife made a root-beer float. I think she won that round, LOL...

I believe there is a freestyle machine at Kings Island this year. I could be wrong though. I saw my first one on a visit to the Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier earlier this year. Seeing as how I'm a Dew guy, I prefer Pepsi by default.

When it comes to fountain cola, I can drink either coke or Pepsi. When you get into the bottled, i definitely prefer Pepsi. I'm not sure why, but the bottled coke products seem too acidic to me. I too have a sweet tooth. I don't bitter things either. Coffee, certain beers. That probably has something to do with it too. I'm not sure why it doesn't bother me out of the fountain as much.

I wasn't the biggest fan of surge. But, at least it was a Dew alternative when Coke is the only option. Shame they don't make it anymore.

Regardless of which way they go, people will be upset, and others will be thrilled. I won't care too much either way. But, like I said, if I had to pick, I'd pick Pepsi so I could "Do the Dew"

MMMMM... I can eat a whole box of Bottle Caps when I am in the mood to, Mike! YUM!

To be clear, the Freestyle fountain was not for the customers to play with, it's for the servers.

Firehouse subs has a freestyle machine...and you use it yourself. Love the touchscreen mixing.

All the Burger Kings around here have self serve Freestyle machines. They're pretty awesome even though I'm not a fan of Coke products in general. (See: Diet Mountain Dew comment above.)

What I really like is, as a diet soft drink drinker, I am not stuck with just one or two selections. What I REALLY hate is when there are two diet drinks, and they're diet Coke and Coke Zero. Great. Two colas. Thanks for the variety.

Anywho, I had a strawberry Sprite Zero and it was okay, but nowhere near as good as the Coke Zero with a shot of watermelon that they have at Sonic.

LostKause said:

MMMMM... I can eat a whole box of Bottle Caps when i am in the mood to, Mike! YUM!

Bottle Caps are my preferred writing candy. Writers burn a surprising amount of glucose in their brains during the writing process, which naturally has to be replenished in order to maintain creative focus.

That's my story, at least.

I like Bottle Caps, but I boycott them until they make Cola and Root Beer flavors more distinguishable.

I'm starting an online petition if anyone's interested.

Also, one to bring back Tart-N-Tinys.

I remember taking the "Pepsi Challenge" two or three decades ago, where Pepsi came to malls and other public areas to give taste tests to the general public between Pepsi and Coke. The Pepsi was served ice cold, the Coke was much warmer. Is it any surprise that Pepsi won bragging rights to winning the "Pepsi Challenge"?

From what I have heard, the window of opportunity is open for Coke to come to all Cedar Fair parks. I hope it happens, I especially like Coke Zero.

The freestyle machine at Galveston is for customer use. I assume the one I only heard about at KI was the same.

Fountain drinks are much better than bottles. I prefer Pepsi out of the fountain but deffently coke out of the bottle. I'd go with Pepsi out of cans too. I'm not sure why fountains, bottles and cans make drinks taste different but there's deffently a different.

I prefer Coke out of a fountain. The Coke at Kings Island is better than the Coke at any restaurant, for some reason. I think they have a higher concentration of syrup.

Coke is best out of a glass bottle. Really, any cola is.

Agree. Around here the only way you can get that is that a lot the grocery stores sell "Mexican" Coke. It's bottled in Tijuana, and it's made with cane sugar, not high fructose corn syrup. The formula is slightly different, but it's closer to what it was before the "new coke" fiasco.

One of the chains has bottled Coke here, from Twinsburg, Ohio.

You can get both Pepsi Throwback & Mountain Dew Throwback (made with real sugar) around here