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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8643304" data-attributes="member: 18">I dunno, ask whoever makes McDonalds pancakes nowadays though re: low quality items with good quality control though, they must have some idea given they're doing it!One interesting thing re: de facto lack of quality control is soda in the UK. Because we're a weird dumb little country (soz but we are), on the edge of the EU, and we have a lot of shops run by people with connections to supply chains outside the UK, we often get stuff that's branded say Pepsi or Coke, but that tastes significantly different to the UK-made stuff you'll get in big stores. Like my local store is run by Turkish people, and a lot of the cola in there is from Turkey or other countries around/near the Black Sea. My previous corner store was run by people from Pakistan, and we got a different selection of actual origins for the cola. So if you go in a corner store and buy a Coke, say, here in the UK, you're rolling the dice on exactly what it tastes like. Honestly the Turkish full-sugar Pepsi is significantly more pleasant than normal full-sugar UK Pepsi, but the zero-sugar version (which I now must drink if I want cola, having become OLD and no longer wishing to also be fat) is much better with the official UK version.I don't know why anyone needed to know that. But it's different from most of the US I think, where the cola was pretty damn consistent. Even though if we're talking full-sugar RC Cola was just straight-up better than Coke or Pepsi in the US. I hear it has largely died out though <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8643304, member: 18"] I dunno, ask whoever makes McDonalds pancakes nowadays though re: low quality items with good quality control though, they must have some idea given they're doing it! One interesting thing re: de facto lack of quality control is soda in the UK. Because we're a weird dumb little country (soz but we are), on the edge of the EU, and we have a lot of shops run by people with connections to supply chains outside the UK, we often get stuff that's branded say Pepsi or Coke, but that tastes significantly different to the UK-made stuff you'll get in big stores. Like my local store is run by Turkish people, and a lot of the cola in there is from Turkey or other countries around/near the Black Sea. My previous corner store was run by people from Pakistan, and we got a different selection of actual origins for the cola. So if you go in a corner store and buy a Coke, say, here in the UK, you're rolling the dice on exactly what it tastes like. Honestly the Turkish full-sugar Pepsi is significantly more pleasant than normal full-sugar UK Pepsi, but the zero-sugar version (which I now must drink if I want cola, having become OLD and no longer wishing to also be fat) is much better with the official UK version. I don't know why anyone needed to know that. But it's different from most of the US I think, where the cola was pretty damn consistent. Even though if we're talking full-sugar RC Cola was just straight-up better than Coke or Pepsi in the US. I hear it has largely died out though :( [/QUOTE]

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