EPCOT New Club Cool opens Summer 2021 at EPCOT

[CaptainAmerica]

Agreed on the ordinary.

Disney did a nice job with the vending machines in Tokyo and Hong Kong:

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The tiki one looks awesome but those teapots are awful.

 

[Amused to Death]

...those teapots are awful.

Not your cup of tea?

 

[lazyboy97o]

In most of the world i believe they still use cane sugar. You can blame your congressional representative. Sugar tax is classic protectionism.

It’s actually Asa Chandler who we can blame. He thought the idea of bottling Coca-Cola was dumb. Thinking he could make some quick cash he made a deal that looked great for the would-be bottlers thinking they’d quickly be bust. One of the provisions was that The Coca-Cola Company would supply bottlers with sugar at a fixed price. As inflation really started to rise and protections were placed on sugar Coke had to keep going to the bottlers and asking them to agree to a price increase. Tied of this situation the formula in the US was eventually changed to high fructose corn syrup. There was some hope that things would change with The Coca-Cola Company’s acquisition of Coca-Cola Enterprises that brought most bottling in house but it sadly did not happen.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Interestingly, Zach says specifically the only flavor hold-over from the old Club Cool is Beverly.

 

[matt9112]

It’s actually Asa Chandler who we can blame. He thought the idea of bottling Coca-Cola was dumb. Thinking he could make some quick cash he made a deal that looked great for the would-be bottlers thinking they’d quickly be bust. One of the provisions was that The Coca-Cola Company would supply bottlers with sugar at a fixed price. As inflation really started to rise and protections were placed on sugar Coke had to keep going to the bottlers and asking them to agree to a price increase. Tied of this situation the formula in the US was eventually changed to high fructose corn syrup. There was some hope that things would change with The Coca-Cola Company’s acquisition of Coca-Cola Enterprises that brought most bottling in house but it sadly did not happen.

But sugar is insanely cheap.....even with that "deal" its the protectionism tariffs that make sugar cost more than corn syrup. Coupled with incentives actually lowering the cost of the latter. The length at which the government asks tax payers to fund the corn industry over any means neccessary is bewildering.

 

[castlecake2.0]

So epcot to you is a holiday inn and suits lobby?

We can like different things

 

[J4546]

I dont drink soda on a regular basis because I think its gross and really unhealthy but I would def wanna go into CC and try all the different flavors. The sprite Cucumber sounds interesting to me

 

[matt9112]

We can like different things

Sure but holiday inn doesn't charge me 120 bucks just to look at the lobby. Disney world should stand out...period full stop.

 

[castlecake2.0]

Sure but holiday inn doesn't charge me 120 bucks just to look at the lobby. Disney world should stand out...period full stop.

Disney isn’t charging $120 just to access club cool. I like it and you don’t, that’s fine.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Let me have Orange Fanta from the EU and I’ll spend all day in there.

 

[Mac Tonight]

Recently tried The Zach Riddley Special™: equal amounts of every flavor in one cup. Gulp and go!

Tasted like BBQ sauce.

 

[JustInTime]

The new soda flavors are mostly delicious.

 

[Centauri Space Station]

Recently tried The Zach Riddley Special™: equal amounts of every flavor in one cup. Gulp and go!

Tasted like BBQ sauce.

I kinda liked it

 

[Mac Tonight]

I kinda liked it

It wasn't terrible actually, just not what I was expecting. The Beverly mixed with the Sour Plum flavor left a weird aftertaste in my mouth.

 

[WondersOfLife]

So epcot to you is a holiday inn and suits lobby?

I never understood the tough love for Holiday Inn... as someone who consistently travels for a living, it’s always much nicer than its competition (comfort inn, Hampton inn, Baymont Inn, ect.). And they always have the best biscuits and gravy.

Give my boi Holiday some credit.

 

[Centauri Space Station]

Sure but holiday inn doesn't charge me 120 bucks just to look at the lobby. Disney world should stand out...period full stop.

So you prefer a dance club aesthetic from the 90s?

 

[matt9112]

So you prefer a dance club aesthetic from the 90s?

I perfer something that isn't a hotel lobby....they have sanitized store after store. People visit from all over the world to see things they simply cant anywhere else. You could update the aesthetic without making it so....bland....but its really property wide. Disney springs is probably the best example.

 

[MisterPenguin]

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Pandemic over.

 

[Mickeynerd17]

As all things should be.