- Does Coke really taste better from the tap?
- Let's talk about that.
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Good Mythical Morning.
- There are three kinds of people in the world.
Bottle lovers, can huggers,
and soda fountain tap people.
- Very catchy.
- Now, if you had all three before you
and refills were not a factor, which one would you choose?
Which one would you choose?
- If it was a glass bottle, glass bottle all day, everyday.
- Okay, okay.
I might be a glass bottle, man, but I don't know.
I'm really drawn to the soda fountain tap.
I think it's something to do with-
- A lot of people are.
- Like, the syrup ratio is a little bit better.
I don't know, I'm not a soda scientist.
- It's my wife's favorite.
But listen, we're going to find out
which one is actually the best,
because we're gonna taste them all side by side.
It's time for
Which Soda Pop styles Have That Bomb Carbonation?
Either Way, When We're Done, We'll Have Long Urinations.
- We're gonna be tasting sodas
that come from different soda vessels,
cans, plastic bottles, the tap,
or what we call the fountain.
- Yeah. - In the South,
we don't call it the tap, but-
- Unless it's beer.
- You know what we're talking about.
And we're gonna also try a few glass bottles in the mix,
and then we're gonna be working together
to guess which one is which,
and then also individually choosing our favorites by round.
Each soda vessel guessed correctly counts as one point,
and if we get more than half of these right
by the end of the game,
we're gonna win our very own case of Topo Chico.
- A case of Topo Chico? - A case.
- How many
Topo Chicos is that? - The most fizziest water
known to man. - Almost too fizzy.
Okay, and we're using freshly purchased tap sodas
from McDonald's, because according to Business Insider,
they state McDonald's has their beverage products shipped
in stainless steel containers instead of plastic bags,
which better preserves the ingredients and flavor.
Also, McDonald's claims to have a superior filtration system
in their taps, and they pre-chill the syrup
before it enters the fountain.
Very scientific, very safe.
Safe, also very safe.
I was gonna say fancy, but very safe as well.
- It's safe. It's safe.
- Don't worry, it's safe. - Boiled for safety.
But is fancy and safe tastiest?
Let's find out.
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We begin with the oldest major soft drink manufacturer
in the country, and Dr. Pepper.
Dr. Pepper says it's a signature blend of 23 flavors.
I don't like any of 'em, but that's not the game.
The game is-
- You might like one of the 23.
- Can we decide which is which?
- Maybe it's the way the 23 come together
that you don't like.
Now we got these- - It's a little weak.
- We got, here's the thing.
Here's the thing about fountain.
Let me just say this, okay?
- Yeah.
- The reason I don't particularly like fountain
is I think that it is too inconsistent.
Like, I think that they got to have
like the machine calibrated right,
and sometimes they don't.
- If it gets dirty or something like, yeah.
- I'm not, I don't know if it's gonna get dirty.
- I think the quality control.
And plus-
- And you gotta drink it almost immediately.
I mean, we literally just got these like 20 minutes ago,
but still, I don't know.
- Did you think it tastes good?
Or it's a little tepid.
- I want more, you know?
I want, what I'm saying is I want something else.
- But you're thinking it's the tap.
- Yeah.
That's the bottle.
- It's got more bite to it, I mean.
- That's a plastic bottle.
- You know, maybe we're cheating a little bit
by taking into account the freshness,
or the lack thereof.
You think this is bottle, could be.
I need to taste the third one to decide between.
- And that's a can.
I don't know what, I'm probably completely wrong.
- Well, hold on.
- But just something about it,
it just immediately was like, that's a can.
- I really can't tell the difference.
- I feel like I can taste the can.
- My assumption, because there's no glass bottle here,
is that the can
is gonna have the most carbonation the longest.
I can tell it's dancing up there the most.
- I think we stick with it.
- Okay. - You feel good about this?
- Yeah, we are locked in.
Are we correct?
- [Stevie] Are you going to say what your preferred-
- Oh, you want us to say which one's our favorite?
- [Stevie] Yeah.
- I actually liked the can the best in this situation.
- [Link] Yeah.
- 'Cause that's also a plastic bottle.
- [Stevie] You guys, I don't know if this is an indicator
of how the rest of this game's gonna go
but you got every single one right.
- Yeah.
- Okay, and- - I tasted the can,
I'm telling you.
- But neither one of us said can is our favorite.
- What I was saying was glass bottle
when I said I liked the bottle the best.
The second for me is a can,
and then comes plastic bottle and then comes fountain.
- Oh.
- So, this is consistent, I think.
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All right, now for the soda that sparked the entire debate,
we've got Coke.
- And we got glass bottle in the mix.
- Yeah, we got four things, can, tap,
plastic bottle, and glass bottle.
Start with A.
Can.
- But why do you say that?
- I can taste the can, man.
You taste a little, you taste a little bit of aluminum.
Don't you taste that?
- I think this is plastic bottle.
- [Rhett] I tasted a can in the first challenge.
- We're gonna put it right here in the middle,
'cause we don't know yet.
- Okay.
- Okay, for B.
- Glass bottle.
- Is it sweeter?
- It just tastes like Mama Nell's house, man.
Mama Nell gave me the Coke in the glass bottle.
- Yeah, it's a little fizzier, but there's like-
- You can taste the glass.
- [Link] There's an airier.
- It's in the glass forever.
- I feel strongly this is glass bottle,
so we are in strong agreement.
- Now, this one actually looks lighter.
- Oh, it does?
- You probably can't see this on camera,
but it looks lighter, which I'm just gonna say
this is fountain before I taste it,
just based on the fact that it looks lighter.
- I don't feel like any-
- I feel like I can taste- - The ratio.
- The fact that it was mixed.
You know, they did, just in the recent past,
it was mixed together, and I just don't think that,
I think that they need to make it at the plant
and give it to you in full.
- They can't, that's not how it works, man.
- Plastic bottle.
I just- - Oh no, no.
Hold on now.
- Does that not taste like plastic bottle to you?
- Go, go back to A.
- I'm confused now.
I just, I have to, I have to go with my first instinct.
- I agree with you.
A is plastic bottle,
and what we're just drinking now, D is can,
which was your original instinct.
- Nope, mine was the complete opposite,
but I thought A was can
and D was plastic bottle and B was glass bottle.
- I don't know anymore.
All right, I'll switch it up.
All right, because I think they taste the same.
- [Stevie] You have to pick the one that you like the best.
- Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Glass bottle, which was B.
- Now, see, are you saying
you think you liked the glass bottle the better,
or you like the taste of that one?
- I like the taste of it,
and I think it's glass bottle.
- Were we right?
- [Stevie] Okay, apparently round one was not an indicator
of how the rest of this game was gonna go.
- Dang it!
- [Stevie] Okay, A is plastic bottle,
which you said was can. - So you were right.
You were right.
- That's what I was saying.
- [Stevie] B is the can,
which you said was the glass bottle.
- Oh, we liked the can the best.
- Again. - You liked the can the best.
C is the tap, which you were right about,
'cause you said it was mixed.
- So we were only right about the tap.
- [Stevie] And then D, which you said is the plastic bottle,
is actually the glass bottle. - The glass bottle?
- [Stevie] Yeah, so D is the one that, in your mind,
you thought you liked, but you actually picked the can one.
- You know, cans get colder quicker, too.
We're can men.
- I was tasting all kinds of things that I wasn't tasting,
but what we know is that,
two times in a row, we like canned the best.
- I think we've said that.
- We're can men.
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- All right, I know what you're thinking.
Why has orange Fanta entered the chat?
Well, oddly enough, Fanta is on many major taps,
because it's owned by Coca-Cola.
- Right.
- And the commercials are pretty good.
- Right, yeah. - You wanna do the Fanta?
- I do want to do the Fanta.
- Let's do it.
- They're pushing that Fanta.
That's refreshing.
Don't you feel like
you can taste the syrup? - Sunkist, what?
- I feel like I can taste the syrup
and the carbonation separately, again,
like it just happened in a tap.
- Well, see, now that you're telling me that,
that's all I can think about.
So, I'm agreeing with you, tap, right there off the bat.
Tap that Fanta.
B?
- It's got more bite to it.
- It doesn't taste as good.
I like this Fanta better.
- This is also Fanta.
- I like this Fanta better.
- The way you keep it, I like this Fanta better.
I don't, I like B better.
- This almost tastes like Diet Fanta to me.
It's like, it's dramatically different than that one.
- Really?
- [Link] And I'm just gonna say
it's a plastic bottle for now.
What's your guess?
- It's either a plastic bottle or a can, but I can't tell.
- Okay, and finally.
- Hmm, I actually like this one the best.
- See, if you liked that one the best and you're a can man,
then that tells me that C is a can.
- I don't know.
Now, this one has more bite to it,
and my theory is that the cans have the most bite.
- Something about this ratio, the fountain tap,
which we believe we agree on,
makes this one, my favorite.
I mean, yeah, it's not quite as-
- It tastes like Gatorade to me.
- It's not quite as fizzy, but it's more orangey.
Like the orange becomes the star.
In this, it's a bit foreign.
So, which one is your favorite?
- This one's different.
- If C is your favorite,
then that's why I'm calling it the can, because-
- I'm gonna say something controversial.
C is my favorite, and I am a can man,
but I think that it's the plastic bottle,
but I don't feel confident enough in that to switch it,
so I think you should probably just keep it where it is.
- We're locked.
- [Stevie] Well, man, he should have switched it.
- Dang it!
- [Stevie] Cup A is the tap, so you were right.
Cup B is the can,
and yeah, it has more of a bite to it,
and cup C is the plastic bottle.
- So something about Fanta-
- But you're a plastic bottle man.
Fanta's throwing us both off.
- No, but I said B had more bite to it,
so I thought it was the can, but with Fanta,
I actually liked a little bit less bite,
and it felt like a C was the perfect drink to me,
but it's from a bottle.
- Right?
- So I guess I'm a bottle and can man.
What can I say?
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Okay, so anybody who knows us
knows that we think all Sprite is good Sprite,
but today we're casting that notion aside.
You ready?
- Hold on, I gotta sneeze.
(Link sneezes)
- Oh, gosh. - Oh, man.
Look what I found. (Rhett laughs)
- Ah, don't open it, that would be cheating.
- I sneezed this out of my nose.
- It comes from anywhere.
You never know what's gonna happen.
Okay, let's taste A.
- Oh, I spilled it.
- I mean, that's good Sprite,
but again, it's Sprite. - It's not great Sprite.
- I almost want to say that's from the fountain,
but I don't think that it is.
I think it's from
a plastic bottle. - Plastic bottle.
Just because-
- We're on the same page there.
- Something's not right with it.
- You think the plastic messed up?
- You know, I get most suspicious of plastic bottles.
- Oh, that's totally different and better.
- Wow.
- Mm-hmm.
That's either a can- - Maybe this is the tap.
- That's either a can or a glass bottle.
- Maybe, I think the tap is most likely to be screwed up.
- Keep it at tap for now.
- And then A is at tap, but B, what we're tasting now,
which is better.
- [Rhett] It's either glass bottle or can.
- We love it, let's put it at can.
- Okay, I just burped a little bit.
- We can squish these around, switch 'em around.
- Oh, that, see, that tastes awful.
That's fountain.
This is what can happen with Sprite.
Sometimes they get the ratio wrong.
I'm telling you,
this has got almost just straight up carbonated water
but very little syrup. - Yeah, there's no flavor.
- Y'all fountain people,
I know y'all love your fountain drinks,
but I'm telling you right now, they get it wrong sometimes.
- All right, so we're putting A goes to plastic bottle.
We still love B.
- We know that C is tap. - C is crazy different.
And then, D?
- Ooh, that is nice.
- That is good.
- Oh, that is so good.
- So, B and D are can and glass bottle.
It's gotta be.
- But which one is which, my friend?
(glasses clink)
- That did nothing.
- D is colder.
I think that's the only difference.
- Do you think that cans keep things colder for longer?
- Can keep things, get things colder quicker.
- And keep things colder for longer?
- I think. - You think, engineering?
- But I don't know.
- Physics, thermodynamics?
- If they can get colder quicker,
then it can probably get warmer quicker than a glass bottle,
but I don't think that's right.
- I think we go with that being can,
so you're saying that D is can, B is glass bottle.
- And I'm asserting myself as a can man,
even though, like, I think that's the big headline
that I'm taking home to my family.
You know, I'd go home every night and I tell my family.
- We're a can family now, just in case you didn't know,
'cause daddy's a can man.
- We're can people.
- [Stevie] Okay, I'm gonna lead with the positive here.
You are both can men,
because D is the can and you both chose it.
- We're can men. - Can men.
- Fanta was an outlier.
- Outlier. - Forget about it.
- Yeah.
- [Stevie] But let's go through the rest.
So, A, which you thought was the plastic bottle,
is actually the glass bottle,
so you thought it tasted weird.
- We've done that twice,
thinking that the plastic bottle is the glass bottle.
What happened to us?
Where we dropped?
- Glass bottle?
- [Stevie] B, that you thought was the glass bottle,
is actually the plastic bottle.
- Yeah, okay.
But we were right about tap again.
- [Stevie] And you were right about tap, C is tap.
- Tap is bad. - Yep.
- Okay, so here's what we discovered.
First of all, just,
I got to let us know,
we got exactly 50% of these right,
which means we do not get Topo Chico.
- Oh!
- Sorry, Link.
- But we're can men. - But it has been confirmed,
we're can men,
and the fountain drinks aren't any good.
Consistently not great.
So you, it's all in your head.
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