Nothing hits quite like freshly changed syrup and a fully charged CO2 tank

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.

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”.

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.

Thank you but somehow not even close to the worst task I’ve had.

This was my second favorite part of my job at Cracker Barrel after tending the fire in the fireplace.

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.

Don't drop them off the top shelf. They do not mop up.

Why was it always sticky?

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.

I have to assume if you’ve handled one of these you’ll be able to answer – how’d it taste?

I am lying in bed trying to have a nap and you made my back hurt shame on you

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.

pfft nothing compared to changing the keg on a wooden real ale rig in a British pub.

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...

I had a bigger problem digging out the syrup I needed from the haphazardly stacked boxes of other syrup

Thanx, they tasted pretty good too. Specially when you don't have enough for lunch.

You too broseph, practically a rite of passage

Ahh yes, the best thing to do to open it was put on a glove then vent all frustrations for that day into it.

that's cooking oil right?

Is that the one where you poop in the box?

I hate people complaining that the coke is out. Go drink Pepsi, it's the same thing. Or better yet drink Diet.