Do you remember as a kid taking your cup to those self-serve drink kiosks at fast-food restaurants and mixing all the sodas together?? I think we used to call them “suicides” or something. We would mix like six drinks together and we thought it tasted amazing…or maybe we thought we were so unbelievably cool and that totally trumped the taste factor…

In any case, with Coca-Cola’s new “Freestyle” machine we can now enjoy those same childhood mix-ups on a more sophisticated level. The Coke Freestyle is a sleek, touch screen soda dispenser that allows you to mix over 100 different drinks (sodas, juices, waters, teas, everything!) including some drinks that haven’t even been sold in the US before! The machines are currently being tested in “quick-serve” restaurants in California and Atlanta and hopefully will be in cities near us by early next year. I can’t wait.

Here’s a video of a borderline creepy guy showing how the machine works. He’s kind of awkward and talks a lot, but you NEED to see machine for yourself and he does explain all the features.

Read it about it and watch another video at food2.com

Read the Coca-Cola Press Release