{"id":646,"date":"2007-09-26T08:05:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T00:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2007\/09\/26\/just-like-the-picture\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T08:07:31","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T00:07:31","slug":"just-like-the-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2007\/09\/26\/just-like-the-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Just like the picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day, frozen beverage machines were few and far between, and most were in a state of  perennial disrepair. One would expect them to contain an obviously non-frozen mixture of syrup and water and for each tap to be adorned with an &#8220;temporarily out of order&#8221; sign.<\/p>\n<p>Then, out of the blue, <a href=\"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/01\/10\/frozen_coke_at_mcdonald_s\/\">McDonald&#8217;s decided to make Frozen Coke a standard menu item<\/a> at all of their stores in Australia. It seems that service stations (the traditional home of frozen beverages) have stopped dragging their feet and started giving this contemporary cuisine the attention it deserves! The bold claims embedded in their serving suggestion images are now supported by reality. Behold!:<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image645\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/dsc00042.JPG?w=840\" alt=\"dsc00042.JPG\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And to think that a few years ago I thought that frozen beverages were almost a lost cause&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day, frozen beverage machines were few and far between, and most were in a state of perennial disrepair. One would expect them to contain an obviously non-frozen mixture of syrup and water and for each tap to be adorned with an &#8220;temporarily out of order&#8221; sign. Then, out of the blue, McDonald&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2007\/09\/26\/just-like-the-picture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Just like the picture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-aq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}