• Diplomjodler
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    389 months ago

    Ironically enough, that emperor would probably have thought it’s mana from heaven, if he ever got to try Sprite.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      99 months ago

      Big enough to obey your thirst. Did you not read the post title?

  • Deebster
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    189 months ago

    I honestly don’t know if he meant that as a joke or an advert.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      9 months ago

      Only if it’s an advert to loot museums or trade in illegal antiquities to Obey Your Thirst™ at McDonald’s™.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah kinda weird he specifically mentioned a McDonald’s ™Sprite™.Maybe its just because a big fast food chain most people know sounds more relateble.

      • @[email protected]
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        39 months ago

        McDonald’s(and others) used to sell promo glasses that might have looked like this. My LOTR goblets I think were from Burger King.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          We have the wonderfully hideous Taco Bell Star Trek III glasses. When they get broken, they get replaced. I will never not have hideous Taco Bell Star Trek III glasses.

          (Not a picture of mine.)

  • @[email protected]
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    109 months ago

    Unknown Armies is a tabletop RPG that has a school of magic predicated on a. Being drunk all the time and b. Drinking out of really cool cups.

    Post reminded me of that. Good game (though I only know 2nd edition)

    • @[email protected]
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      99 months ago

      Don’t give money to Big Cup. Get some stone mason and jewelers tools, an emerald the size of a human heart, and DIY that cup. Save yourself at least a few bucks.

  • M137
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    219 months ago

    I don’t know why but the feeling that pops up in my head is basically “what it feels like to be 7 years old and you have no idea about what this weird glass is but the sprite is the only thing that matters”.

  • Noxy
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    229 months ago

    What the hell is “mcdonalds sprite”? Is that any different from regular sprite?

    • @[email protected]
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      99 months ago

      I don’t know if this is true but I’ve read that, in their fountain sodas, McDonald’s uses like 15% more flavoring syrup than what’s recommended, so the sodas taste extra good

      • Resol van Lemmy
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        19 months ago

        I thought it was due to bigger than usual straws, but I’m actually willing to bet it’s both.

    • @[email protected]
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      169 months ago

      McDonald’s has some incredibly rigorous requirements and processes to ensure consistent qualities in their Sprite. I have no interest in propping up a giant harmful corporation, but their Sprite really is different.

      Random video discussing this: https://youtu.be/ATEMvaOcWWc

      The Food Theorist and many others have made videos discussing it as well. A few months ago I saw a particular one explaining the McDonald’s process at length, but unfortunately I cannot remember enough details to find the same one again.

      Side note: in typing this comment and trying to find relevant videos, I had to type “Sprite” an unreasonable number of times, and not once did my phone’s keyboard get it right.

      • Noxy
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        59 months ago

        Huh! I had no idea. Thanks for the info and video link!

      • @[email protected]
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        79 months ago

        One night, I went to a McDonald’s expecting the fabled Sprite I’ve had before, and I guess their dispenser ran out the syrup. What I got was basically just soda water, and it low-key ruined my night because we got it via drive thru and I didn’t take a sip until we got home 🥲

        • @[email protected]
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          29 months ago

          This is the quintessential McDonald’s experience. Every time I give in to that random pang of nostalgia, I know I’m in for some kind of disappointment. It might be a broken ice cream machine, an item that’s just out that day or been removed from the menu permanently, or something as mundane as having my order screwed up. In that, ironically, it rarely disappoints.

          That’ll be $28.73 at the second window.

  • @[email protected]
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    79 months ago

    Fuuuuck McDonalds, bunch of god damn sociopaths pushing their addictive and unhealthy food on children.

    Seriously fuck McDonalds.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      39 months ago

      Honestly, that’s true of all fast food places. They employ food scientists and psychologists to addict as many people as possible to their products. And once you’re hooked, it’s hard as fuck to get away. “I don’t go to Burger King anymore, but man I miss Whoppers” is the sort of thing I’ve heard more than once.

    • @[email protected]
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      39 months ago

      Agreed. At least fast food is so overpriced now that it’s really easy to avoid going out at all nowadays!

  • @[email protected]
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    79 months ago

    No thanks. I’ve been trying to purge all of my emerald tableware. Need to lower the emerald levels in my blood.

  • @[email protected]
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    639 months ago

    please refer to him by his full title:

    Al-Sultan al-'Azam wal Khaqan al-Mukarram, Khushru-i-Giti Panah Abu’l-Fath Nur ud-din Muhammad Jahangir Padshah