Depressible buttons on drink carton lids
If you're anything like me (and God help you if you are), you'll have wondered why those little buttons on the plastic lids of soft drink cartons, such as you get from McDonalds, are never actually pressed by the fast food operative. I don't remember ever seeing them used.
However, while enjoying a nutritional* dinner at a Burger King "restaurant", I noticed that the "diet" button on one of my friend's drinks had, in fact, been pressed. After recovering from the initial feeling of jealousy that my button had never been pressed, so to speak, I realised it might have something to do with never ordering diet drinks. That said, some fast food chains have a more advanced drink lid configuration which allows for the flavour to be selected as well, and I've also never seen that used.
But apparently I've been living in the dark, and it's quite common in some countries, such as the United States, to have these buttons used on a regular basis. I can only dream.
If you think depressible buttons on plastic lids are boring, then check this out.
*Burger King helpfully provide a colour-coded table listing all the Good Things contained in each burger, so it must be nutritional.
3 comments
May 10, 2007
17:21
Finally, it's up! I'm healthily awaiting a Milkshake button to be depressed in McDonalds, but if I remember right they've only got buttons for the carbonated drinks so not much chance.
There's a broken picture link under the main picture by the way...
May 10, 2007
18:34
Because nobody likes to be depressed... even little plastic buttons. we all just want to be happy.
May 10, 2007
19:58
Thank you, errant HTML removed!
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