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I'm so new here, I really have enjoyed reading through this site. I'm amazed at the creativity and genius and er.. yes, insanity of some of the things here at the halfbakery. I love it.
Submitted for your approval, distain, or apathetic shrug:
Every week I go to the grocery store and every week
I have to lug back ten to twelve 2 and 3 litre bottles of soda. (yes, i have soda-addicts in this house)... I thought, wouldnt it be great if we had an old fashioned milk-man home delivery service for sodas? I'm sure other families would love to have this item checked off their weekly shopping list, as its bulky heavy and a pain in the you know what to lug in and out of the house.
So, the soda man would have a delivery truck, much like the ones that deliver to commercial stores (and yes, i've called the distribution sites for different soda companies and they ONLY delivery to businesses). So this independent contractor of a sorts would have his own soda truck, and going through a neighborhood would drop off a weekly number of sodas. Just like the old milkman did!
hehe, Po, ok, so I'm only 40, I dont personally remember the milkman, but i yes, i was thinking simularly to the water guys.. Culligan? and thanks!
Seltzer Sisters
http://www.seltzersisters.com/
Delivering within the San Francisco Bay Area since 1983. [jutta, Nov 17 2006]
Peapod
http://www.peapod.com/
Easter US metropolitan areas. [jutta, Nov 17 2006]
Safeway
http://shop.safeway.com/superstore/
Arizona, California, Maryland, Oregon, Virginia, Washington and Washington D.C. [jutta, Nov 17 2006]
Express Dairies (UK)
http://www.expressdairies.co.uk/
These folk will deliver milk and soft drinks to your door [jonthegeologist, Nov 17 2006]
DrSoda
http://store.drsoda.com/
Trucks within Los Angeles, since 1984; also ships to outside of LA area [jutta, Nov 17 2006]
Grocery Gateway
http://www.grocerygateway.com/
Delivery to various locations in Canada... [kdmurray, Nov 18 2006]
Soda Club
http://www.sodaclubusa.com/Default.htm
Or, you could just tote home the CO2 and flavorings and make gallons of the swill for your discriminating fizzy-sugar-water chuggers. [gregor-e, Nov 19 2006]
Anywhere, anytime...
SDI_3a_20Sodapop_20Defense_20Initiative
[normzone, Dec 04 2006]
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sainsbury's only deliver so many gallon of water for the health and safety of their delivery chaps (hernias are not us apparently) but I seem to remember the milkman bringing fizzy drinks at one time. they should bring beer when you think of it... |
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people generally answer in annotations rather than editing the idea. but hey, I will ask my milkman. |
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Broadband... video games... pizza delivery... soda delivery... flushing toilets... I WILL NEVER LEAVE THE HOUSE AGAIN! |
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Re: Seltzer Sisters: yes, but with carbonated drinks (Coca-cola, Pepsi-cola, etc. etc. etc.) |
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Seltzer Sisters is the cool, fun, old-fashioned alternative that has actually put some thought into the systemic aspects of this, similar to what I think attracted you to this idea to begin with. If you just want sodas delivered, any run-of-the mill grocery delivery service will be able to do that. |
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haha MoreCowbell, yea, just get that handy dandy colostomy bag and you can have a Nursing service do drive by poopy removal, and you'll be all set... |
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Re: Peapod... hmmmm.. interesting... i was thinking though of just SPECIALIZING in beverages... but thanks for this link... |
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Aly, you can tell me - is it fizzy drinks you want? |
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I thought the peapod man was interesting... |
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so, do i delete this idea now? i was thinking along the lines of what seltzer sisters do, only with commercial brands of carbonated sodas. So i guess this idea is semi, sorta nearly baked.... |
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yes, yes Po! ;-D Coca-cola, Mountain Dew, Cheerwine, Orange Crush, Dr. Pepper,... like those.. |
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hey, I wouldn't worry till you see the dreaded mfd! :) |
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& waffle on about angles and theories and genetically somethinged or other. just keep quiet and we'll have a beer together and talk about the blokes that aren't attached or something. |
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[Alysonwonderland] Welcome. Sorry. Baked
here in the UK. I shan't mark this idea for
deletion since it's rather debatable that its
prior art status is 'widely known'. |
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and shan't is hardly a word for a moderator |
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excuse me - don't interrupt..(how rude) |
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blow your whistle or something... |
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shalln't? shall not? ooo... *blows whistle* |
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thanks everyone! I'll have one of those beers Po! |
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Aly honey - sometimes we just know when someone *gets* us welcome and enjoy! |
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night night Jon, its late... |
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Nothing wrong with shan't - it just looks wrong. Technically it should be sha'n't but that just borders on the ridiculous. As I mentioned in a recent post (re: fewer), I'm all for pedantry, but sometimes you end up using ugly words just to defend the cause. Much better to use a different word; in this case "won't". |
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Though already baked in some parts of the world, not a bad idea. |
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I sha'n't try to top po & co on the other discussion thread; that'd just be silly. :P |
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It is *shan't* according to both Webster's and American Heritage dictionaries. [JTG] had it right from the start, as is the usual case. |
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you have to admit though that it *looks* ugly. |
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Baked ! Where I live the "lemonade man"
comes around all the housing estates in a
lorry delivering bottles of what the
Americans call soda to peoples' doors. |
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What xenzag says, only it was the "pop man", rather than the lemonade man. |
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When I lived in Mexico, we had a soda delivery person, 12 bottles each of 3 flavors. When you put the bottles out on the stoop, the soda man would come and leave a full compliment at your door. |
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We are also the only place in the world to
have "brown lemonade" which was a
particular favourite of mine as a child. |
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bone. explaination: Soft drinks = too
much sugar. |
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I would then bun an idea that supports
a tax on all soft drinks according to the
amount of sugar in excess of a standard
proportion to liquid. |
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More buns for more taxes on damaging
chemicals
found in foods used as preservatives
and for whatever else reason. |
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Even more buns for taxing the selling of
soft drinks to under-age users (under
12? or so?). And extra extra buns for
totally banning sugar-loaded soft
drinks in schools, and also a tax on
vending machines selling to sugar
users. |
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Bones to solutions that remove the need
for a person to even step out of his
property to get his sugar fix. |
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Who said anything about sugar, [twitch]? By itself, soda or seltzer is sugar-free, and there are plenty of other sugar-free carbonated beverages readily available, too. One need not have a sugar jones to appreciate this service. |
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//its bulky heavy and a pain in the you know what to lug in and out of the house// |
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why would you lug it out of the house? This truely baffles me. Even if there was a Soda-man, would he also be responsible for the unnecessary lugging-out of unconsumed soda. Is he your personal soda carrier? If you had a picnic on the beach, would he carry the soda there for you while you deal with the hamper? |
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Sorry, I know you're new, just giving you a hard time. |
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[twitch] did santa claus never bring you anything good when you were growing up?
why the hostility?
if you dont like the product or service, you wouldnt have to subscribe. buns for free enterprise!!!
bones for world crusaders who think they can run other people's lives for them. :P |
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[shinobi] hahahah i was thinking of lugging <INTO> the house, but lugging <OUT OF> the store.. my bad. |
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I can take as well as I give ;-D |
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//buns for free enterprise!!! bones for
world crusaders who think they can run
other people's lives for them. :P// |
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True: Buns for free enterprise!!! |
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you mean, bones for people who think
they can ruin other people's lives for us. |
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yeah maybe you can get soda water
without the sugar, but should I have to
mention the health hazards of
carbinated water as well? |
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Correct for anybody that guessed that I
didn't grow up with soda. |
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Can we poll here: who here drinks non-
sugar soda? |
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Does this mean [Alysonwonderland]
believes that the people who work to
regulate cigarettes are bad world
crusaders? |
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Lung cancer versus obesity-related
health problems: which kills more?
which costs more? |
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[twitch], no i mean RUN, as in: control.
I dont know any cases where second hand belches have damaged anyone else, although my you may think so after being in the room when my husband lets one go.
personal responsiblity, personal freedom. use both wisely, i say.
and yes, i drink diet sodas (sugarless fizzy drinks) |
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i know what you meant
[Alysonwonderland], i was just being
sarcastic. I have myself some of the fizzy
stuff once in a while but when I have to
clear trees it just slows me down. |
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Did they first restrict cigarettes because of
first-hand smoke issues or second-hand
issues? Anybody know? |
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Just hire a pool boy and send him to the store to buy soda. |
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[+] for the loveliest new screen name to grace this site in a while |
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Even though I use the Peapod supermarket delivery service or I will make a special trip out to the mega membership warehouse to buy beverages only I would still get a contract with the soda man. Figuring that I consume a certain amount of soda every week, I would love to come home from work and be pleasantly surprised with a 2-liter bottle of coke on my doorstep. |
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