These are also good stress relief. The flap on the front has to be opened to expose the neck of the bag, and you can’t use a blade without risking cutting the bag. So the most common method I’ve seen (and used personally) is to throw a couple of right jabs with a closed fist right at the front of the box.
Punching the box is stress relieving.
This guy knows. I actually don’t know how else you would do it?
Bat Thumb!
Brute force
I prefer a palm strike to a closed fist punch
sometimes i miss punching these
Sometimes I missed while punching these and I hurt my hand.
Nothing hits quite like freshly changed syrup and a fully charged CO2 tank
charged CO2 tank
I can still hear the sounds of the CO2 firing.
You know? I probably would have forgotten that sound for the rest of my life if I hadn’t read this.
Like when you reload the syrup and need to run the fountain a bunch, or when it’s out and just endlessly goes psh psh psh psh psh psh
Did you all get high?
That’s no2, your lungs would get sooooo mad if you did a hit of straight co2…
I feel seen & appreciated 🥹 I’m a 100lb girl and those syrup cartons are heavy as fuck and restaurant work is torture and I wanted to eviscerate everyone all day every day.
I forget exactly how, but at my first job I did manage to rip one of these before, covering the entire floor in Pepsi syrup. One of the assistant managers walked in shortly after, looked at the mess on the floor I was attempting to clean up and said “it’s fine, I needed something to do anyways, go back to cash”.
Don’t drop them off the top shelf. They do not mop up.
One time I had one up on the top shelf and “pop” spraying syrup all over me. I swear I smelled like cherry coke for a week.
I am lying in bed trying to have a nap and you made my back hurt shame on you
FALCON PUNCH
The only way!
Thank you but somehow not even close to the worst task I’ve had.
True, but there is a high corelation between this job task and a whole lotta bullshit.
I have been enlisted in the marines, gotten recalled, worked as a contractor, finished my undergraduate degree and now looking at my PhD. This post just made me 16 again.
Hey, congratulations.
Why was it always sticky?
It’s been over 20 years since I swapped one of these out, and my hands are still sticky. Some things won’t come out with soap… only fire…
It was my dream to throw one of these off the theater roof and watch it go splat. We never did that, but we did do syrup shots.
Pouring out a glass directly from these was the best perk of the job.
For a good ten minutes, I was trying to work out how someone would use such a small box to change out of. “does it fold out into some silly cardboard variation of a Victorian privacy screen…” etc… thoughts until I finally re-read it.
Damn skim reading got me assuming again.
I’m still at that stage, don’t spoil ! it might dawn on me at some point
This was my second favorite part of my job at Cracker Barrel after tending the fire in the fireplace.
Fair, but f**k those toasters, right? They should not get that hot.
I never had that problem because I remembered my training and used appropriate safety measures before cleaning the toaster.
Good. I know someone who got burned because that location put them overhead near other supplies.
I have to assume if you’ve handled one of these you’ll be able to answer – how’d it taste?
Also I seem to remember coke weighs like 30lbs, and diet coke weighs about 20lbs. That sugar really adds to it
That’s actually really interesting.
Like suckling from God’s teat
Kinda like extra sweet bbq sauce. Same stickiness too.
