Posted on 10/18/2018 8:30:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If you’ve ever gone out of your way to get to a McDonald’s just to satisfy a craving for their tongue-tingling Coca-Cola, you know how special the fast food giant’s soda is.
The Coca-Cola from McDonald’s manages to taste crisper, sharper, even fresher than the same drink from other fast-food restaurants. It’s almost as if they make the Coke taste better so you’ll come in for a “medium Coke, please” and decide, “sure, I’ll take a medium fry.” (Who among us hasn’t?)
Truth is, the Coke from McDonald’s isn’t magic. They just use really smart storage tactics and clever drink-mixing strategies to make their Coca-Cola refreshments stand out among the many purveyors of pop.
Here, a step-by-step guide to understanding why McDonald’s Coke is so special:
Special Storage
McDonald’s and Coca-Cola have had a unique relationship since Ray Kroc had the dream to expand the little hamburger joint into a fast-food goliath. He asked Coca-Cola to join him on the adventure, and they agreed. The two have been inseparable since.
It’s no wonder then that Coca-Cola has helped McDonald’s devise special storage techniques that make their soda so distinct (techniques that no one else uses, mind you).
While most restaurants have their soda syrup delivered to them in plastic bags, McDonald’s Coca-Cola syrup is stored in stainless steel tanks. This preserves the syrup’s flavor and protects it from temperature, light, and air, all things that can degrade the flavor quickly. The stuff in the bags doesn’t stand a chance.
Consistent Water Filtration
McDonald’s operates almost 37,000 restaurants across the globe, and at each one, you can guarantee the Cokes will be almost identical....
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
“there’s bound to be “additions””
A certain amount of bug pieces, etc., are allowed in food products.
I agree. I used to love a good old Big Mac. Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun and all that. Now the cheese is NEVER melted! I have actually brought them back to the counter and asked if they would "nuke" it for me. Most times they refuse, even when I promise to sign a waiver!
Do they come pre—fried? There has to be a reason why, when you make fries from fresh potatoes at home, yours get soft when cold; but McDonalds get hard as wood when cold. You could hurt someone with one of the sharp ones.
I know McDonald’s Coke tastes different, but I don’t always see it as better.
My pop preference is Mountain Dew. There is a definite hierarchy of flavors.
Fountain>can>plastic bottle>glass bottle
Of course, the don’t make glass bottles anymore but there was a significant difference.
I agree. MCD stock has been very good for me. I have also noticed a decided uptick in employee behavior/attitude. Smiles, “thank you”, “have a great day” and this is at widely scattered McDonalds—from California to the Midwest to the East Coast. Almost as if corporate has been paying attention to Chick-Fil-A’s success.
The last A&W we went to was in Paso Robles CA.
That was years ago. Papa Burger with Fries.
“the fries cooked in beef tallow and cottonseed oil”
Oh, yeah ... I remember them. Just melted in your mouth, and so delicious!
McDonalds is running a Haloween Game right now.
The Game piece comes on the Medium Cup, not the Large.
I already Won a Shake! Just what I need. LOL
I can definitely taste the difference between old style soda fountains and the current ones.
There was a distinctive fizz with a crisper taste to the older ones. I’m assuming that the plastic bags and plastic mixer parts that have all come into play over the years have had an impact on that ... making it taste different across the board.
Even McDs doesn’t have the same robust fizziness it used to have, though it is closer than the rest.
Both my daughters have worked at the local McDs part time over the past few years while they are home from school, etc. The turnover for employees is amazingly high. They have to hire almost double what they need because of the huge number of no-shows, no-calls they end up with.
They are routinely calling the girls offering extra time/ shifts, because they know they will get a decent amount of effort out of them.
There are a few of the older workers who are steady, but barely enough to make up a good core. This is in a fairly nice suburban area.
End result is they will take who they can get to keep the operation at least running. I think their inability to hire is THE major driver behind the recent installation of the self order kiosks.
Nonsense. McDonald’s Coke is the WORST. Barely drinkable unless there’s a lot of ice.
The flavor is much better when you add 2 shots of Gosling’s.
Also, many of the newer stores were smaller and didn't have space to keep all those empties around, I found it to be a PITA and I had a very large store.
I will be happy to concede on the tanks, being out of it for twenty years, but the rest of the article is horsecrap and that includes their silly reason for the use of tanks.
It’s just that they use the common, high fructose corn-syrup version of Coke. It leaves a sour aftertaste and is horrible for your health.
Those of use who grew up on original Coke made with real cane sugar hunt for it where it can be found. Real sugar Coke is kosher; you can often buy it in our large grocery chains around Passover time. Also,some Hispanic bodegas sell it because it is bottled in Mexico.
No HFCsyrup Coke can beat that flavor of real cane sugar.
For all the reasons you cite, I’m convinced New Coke was a head-fake to cleanse the palette from the memory and the stocks from the warehouses of The Real Thing.
If the switch in formula had been straight from sugar to HFCS, customers would never have borne it. New Coke was no improvement nor substitute (despite the hype and campaign that surrounded it) and “return” to “Classic” tasted _close enough_ to The Real Thing that no one objected to the sugar to HFCS bait-and-switch.
That had not occurred to me, but it sounds right.
A few other people upthread also mentioned getting Mexican cane sugar coke at Mexican restaurants. Excellent!
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