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Coca-Cola's Coffee Soda
Boost writes "According to a new press release Coca-Cola is about to launch a new beverage called Coca-Cola Blak that adds real coffee to the blend. Carbonated coffee?" I imagine this will be quite different than the cans of hot coffee that makes walking around in Tokyo so delicious. But hey, cans of coffee! I'm in for one at least.
So, this will be their counter to Jolt Cola?
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Appropriate post for someone named Boost I suppose.
Seriously though, I don't know that I want to mix two of my favorite beverages. I like my Coca-Cola (diet original).....and I looooove my coffee, Kona in particular. Sure, I'll give it a go, but I am not so sure I want to mix the two.....
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According to the article, the name is BlÄk, not BlAk.
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> The lightly carbonated, mid-calorie beverage, which is designed to appeal to
> adult consumers, is yet another example how The Coca-Cola Company reaches out to
> new audiences and addresses new beverage occasions.
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It's true what they say, about marketing people having sold their souls.
all these varieties of Coke -- how about one the puts REAL sugar back in the recipe instead of high fructose corn syrup. Jolt used to be this (real sugar and twice the caffeine -- was their slogan).. now jolt is corn syrup too (as of about 5 years ago around here). Oh -- and stop sellting the 8oz glass bottles for $1 each... i can buy 2 liters for that but i prefer the glass container.
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So they're putting coffee flavour in coke.. How.. odd coke tastes vile, why would you want to add a bitter taste to it? "oohh it's like eating coal while sucking on a lemon" comes to mind.
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I found this pic http://www2.coca-cola.com/presscenter/img/imagebra nds/downloads/lg_blak.jpg of the actual bottle.
I remember trying some of this horrible brew.
Then again, this sort of thing is pretty popular in Japan - so maybe its just taste...
In 1996, I was in Philadephia for the summer, and it was a test city for Pepsi's own Coffee Cola: Pepsi Kona. It was actually quite good, and my friends and I liked it. It must not have tested well enough, cuz it never was fully developed. After the Crystal Pepsi fiasco a few years earlier, Pepsi decided not to market new products countrywide, and always start with a few test cities. Hopefully, this coke one will taste as decent as the Pepsi one.
It's funny that billions of dollars are poured into the marketing of something that consists primarily of high-fructose corn syrup and carbonated water. The images portrayed in the ads have nothing at all to do with a sugar/water beverage, but for some reason people spends billions of dollars on it. Anyway, at least they're adding something "real" to the product (presumably real coffee).
Am I the only one who thinks that this sounds absolutely vomit-inducing? Excuse me for not RTFPR (reading the fucking press release), but does anybody who did know if this will in fact be served cold or hot? Either way it sounds like a recipe for some really bad mixed drinks involving rum, vodka and cleaning highly-caffenated vomit off the carpet in the morning.
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How is this new Coke going to differ from Pepsi's attempt at the same flavor five years ago?
It's not the first time. Back in the mid 90's Pepsi did a test market on a similair product that they called Pepsi Kona - Link . I had some family that worked for them at the time and somehow I ened up with 2 six-packs of the stuff.
The tase took a little getting used to, but the caffine kick was amazing. I was working 3rd shift at the time so the energy boost was welcomed. 2 Cans before I went to work and I was wired all night.
I found the caffine buzz to be as good as the same ammount of Jolt but without the sugar shakes to go along with it.
Coke might be able to pull this off, have to wait and see. It's all going to boil down to taste.
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I've always wondered what would happen if you brewed a pot of coffee with caffeinated water.
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How is this any different from a Manhattan Special? Which, incidentally, is f*cking delicious. I certainly hope none of you forgot about Manhattan Special, the old school energy drink.
I'm going to give it a try, at least. I do have to wonder how they will blend the two tastes, though. I mean.... coke is sweet, and coffee is bitter... oh well, if they're confident enough to manufacture the stuff, I'm confident enough to try it.
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It's too bad that the new product will probably contain high fructose corn syrup, lending the typically thick, crappy mouthfeel and taste of all American sodas to the new product.
I really wish big American soda manufacturers would use sugar again. Sugar-based sodas taste so much better.
Oh yeah? Well this once "popular drink explodes on contact with snow! Pretty cool eh?
Anyone who wants to see how the caffeine gets from coffee into cola should read the National Geographic article.
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Starbucks used to have a coffee soda called Mazagran (I think with Pepsi) many years ago but it seems like only 3 people in the world remember it. I found it once on the web somewhere. There's also smaller companies that make coffe soda already, like Borgnine's. Yes, that's Ernset Borgnine's daughter. I'm not sure if it's still around but there are some other coffee soda's out there.
Here in Germany they carbonate pretty much everything else under the sun. I never thought they would carbonate apple juice, but damn, after trying my first Lift ApfelSchorle, I was hooked. That is damn good stuff, and under a euro to boot(actually cheaper than a lot of cola you buy in a store in the US)
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They seem to never give up.... I've had some fairly good ones (cheery Pepsi/coke, vanilla pepsi/coke) that haven't completely died out, but I've had some rather bad (pepsi lime) and some rather terrible (Pepsi Christmas, with cinnamon and other Xmas flavors in it) beverages. I still don't understand how the christmas pepsi made it out of the lab.... It was like drinking pepsi out of a rusty plugged gutter... Wouldn't even drink it if I was desperate....
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Personally, I prefer my coffee soda straight. Manhattan Special baby.
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This is far from new. I recall about eight or nine years ago, a product called Java Cola (which was actually quite good).
It's actually not bad.
I don't know if you would want ruin it with Coke though.
I don't know if it was being marketed in my area at the time, but I was at a convention in a neighboring city, and saw it in a store as I was buying up practically every other soda they had. (It was that kind of convention.)
Unfortunately, as I was trying to severely restrict my sugar intake at the time, I never actually tasted much of it and can't remember how good or swill-like it was. The terrible, ironic tragedy is that if they'd come out with a diet version at the time, I would have jumped on it, and may even have bought up much more.
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Brought to you, apparently, by the geniuses who marketed New Coke.
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If /. degenerates into run-of-the-mill advertising ... it already is tech advertising ... then it ain't worth it. I've TV for run-of-the-mill advertising.
Well atleast we know how they will sell it.
"a new category of soft drink - an adult product in a carbonated beverage"
but are batteries included?
I might try this once, it sounds like its going to be one of those love/hater relationships though..
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A few years ago, some friends and I tried combining cold coffee with carbonated water from a soft-drink machine.
Because of the taste of the stuff, we christened it "Coffee NT", which stood for "Not Tasty".
Perhaps we were missing the secret ingredient, though. Corn syrup. Lots of corn syrup.
I have been able to buy "cappucino pepsi" from the local supermarket for weeks now. It does taste like shit though.
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I thought Coke had ongoing issues with black? http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/338.html
You think the marketers are bad?
At least they (I mean really, "boost"... just a coincidence eh?) were able to get an "article" posted to slashdot containing a solitary link to the corporate press release along with a one lin blurb about the "new" product. I hope taco got at least a new car out of the deal.
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Awesome ... a soft drink with crema. OMFG.
Do I have to wait until I actually try this soft drink to throw up? Or can I beat the rush and just put a finger down my throat now?
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TFA says that France will be the first market for the beverage, starting in 2006.
So, the Europeans once again get all the cool stuff. They have H & M, they have Renault, Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Skoda, and other cool cars that we can't get here in th U.S...
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How is this new Coke ...
I think that they'd rather that you didn't call it New Coke .
I remember this horrible time for humanity. I personally felt as if aliens had kidnapped my best friend and replaced him with a tasteless plastic replica. It was a lesson on why you should never trust marketers (although the comeback was a hell of a coup).
p.s.: No matter what they say Real Coke ("Classic") still does not taste as good as it did in the late 70's! (Or in the late 80's for that matter, but that's another century and another story. )
Don't worry, it's just a trick so that when it fails, they can market Coca-Cola Classic as "Coca-Cola without Coffee"
Actually, Fowler prefers "different to".
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Whenever I mention it, I get blank stares. Like when I ask for Bitter Lemon...
Mostly random stuff.
I always add Tia Maria to my coke. It gives it a delicious coffee flavour + alchcol. What more do you need?
(note that I only drink coke at home, not at work. My daytime caffienated beverage of choice is Irn Bru - something that you can probably only get here in the UK)
While I agree with your comment in general, in this case it's not an umlaut. The bar over a letter is called a macron.
Correct! Here's the wikipedia entry for it.
The macron creates a "long" vowel, so the correct pronounciation for the product is "blake".
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meh... you give them too little credit. Not only did they do what you said they did, they did it while making it look like an "Accident" and didn't have to fork out for a car for taco...
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A few weeks ago, while in a slightly drunken state, I came up with the great idea of mixing Yoo-hoo and gin together with a 1:1 ratio. Both are so great seperate that they must be SUPER great together! I imagine that Coca-Cola may soon face the same bitter-sweet failure I did. It seemed like such a good idea at the time...
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So this drink will help your liver and rot your teeth at the same time. Thats a bit weird.
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One thing is that HFCS seems to do is inhibit the 'full' feeling you get after eating, so you can eat more if your food has HFCS. Great news for food companies, not good news for American health.
It is annoying because food with real sugar just tastes much better, and is healthier. In most other countries products like Coca-Cola has cane sugar, but here in the USA all products substitute HFCS. I once emailed Coca-Cola about this a few years ago, they said it's up to local bottlers to decide which sweetener to use. And of course they cut corners and go for the cheap stuff.
Some companies use this to their advantage because ignorant people see CORN instead of SUGAR and think the product is healthier. Ie, Kelloggs Corn Pops used to be called Sugar Pops. By making the change, parents thought Corn sounded much healthier than sugar, so they have no problem giving this cereal to their kids, when it has the same amount of calories, yet uses HFCS instead of cane or beet sugar.
Unfortunately midwestern corn farmers have alot of political power, and politicians, aiming for approval in the early Iowa primaries, are likely to bow down to these farmers in order to get the party nomination. The corn lobby has huge power, both political and economical, and they choose to market HFCS instead of doing something productive such as growing biofuels with the corn instead.
Another thing is that it's more expensive to import and use cane sugar than to process corn into HFCS. I am not certain of this, but I would theorize that one big factor is due to the embargo we put on Cuba after Castro came to power in 1959. Cuba was a huge source of cane sugar (their chief export), so the embargo basically crippled their economy overnight and impeded a huge source of sugar cane into the USA. So corn farmers, along with massive chemical processing to produce the HFCS, filled the void.
Anyway, that is my rant, I hate HFCS, and it's good to see more people becoming aware of it. I really do think that just by substituting cane sugar for HFCS there will be a notable change in America's obesity problem. It probably won't cure the problem, but I think there would be definite effects.
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I'm holding out for the black salt licorice flavored Cola.
It'll be called Coke Blecch.
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Carbonation has a way of making the stomach absorb things faster. This is why champaigne gives a buzz faster than wine, and why a Coke will amp you up more rapidly than orange juice, which has about the same amount of sugar. So carbonation and high caffeination should be a winning combination, buzz-wise. You can imagine, though, how hard users will crash.
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... first getting this damn Aspartam or sugar replaced by Stevia, instead of letting Monsanto bring out fake studies to stay in us and european market? (In Japan you can already buy it!)
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But look at those bottles.
Ingredients: sugar and/or HFCS.
I was disappointed to see this (at my local taqueria).
I guess there's still a chance they're using sugar, but given how much cheaper HFCS is (even without tariffs), I doubt it.
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By the foot icon, I understand the parent post to be in the "funny" category, but where's the humor? And if it isn't funny, how is the article relevant to /.? I'm working on decoding the hidden message. There must be some reason our mod's, in their wisdom, included an article about Coca-Cola mixing some coffee with Coke.
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...because here in Norway, there's a maximum of 150mg/liter of caffeine. This would probably contain a lot more than that... Or?
Come on anyone who is a nerd knows that fake sugar is actually 100's sweeter than anything that mother nature can put out. So much so that they actually have to cut the stuff and they are harmless. One of those weird but true facts.
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Rant time. Get ready to push the "flamebait" button, I don't care. I'm just an AC.
It's always something with you guys. It's a draconianly slippery-slope covered in strawmen arguments. It's wrapped in rootkits and quantum mechanic based perpetual motion machines. Its a neural network of vaporware and uncrackable encryption. Is it global warming? Is it global cooling? Perhaps the changing magnetic fields are resuling in incredible typhoons and unstoppable avarian influenza! You've got fear. You've got uncertainty. You've got doubt. I guess you can't be blamed with all of that on your shoulders.
You guys need to make your minds up. When a certain software giant who owns an incredible share of the market refuses to innovate, you are up in arms. When a certain music industry won't publish artists that are outside of the mainstream, you are up in arms. When a certain movie industry refuses to release anything other than a middle of the road, conservative, white cottony tshirt film, you are up in arms. You want innovation. You want the companies who have lots and lots of cash to try new things. You know they can afford to take the risk, so why don't they?
When one of the two major softdrink producers decide to use some cash to try out new products, you guys complain. I mean, WTF mate! Do you want a stagnant market filled with boring and average items? Or do you want a market with new, sometimes risky products? You damn them if they don't take chances. You damn them if they try to change things up!
I for one am probably not going to try this drink. Whats that? After that entire rant? The least I could do is support the very company I just got done blabbering for!
I'm probaby not going to try this drink because it sounds nasty. Plain and simple. I, however, commend them for at least trying to do something new. FWIW, I'd rather have more choices when my money is involved, not less. Thats the beauty of being me: I like choices. If Microsoft took some risks with their software, if Sony took some risks with its distribution mechanics, or if the MPAA took some risks and published movies that aren't riding solely on a star's name in the credits, then perhaps we'd be able to see some really cool things. Or perhaps it would flop. The only truth is, we would never know unless they tried.
Rant over. Thanks for taking the time to read this (especially if/when this gets reduced to a -1). You had to go out of your way to view posts that wern't already modded up. I salute you.
The best, the original, Manhattan Special.
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Stuff has been around for a long time. Pretty good too, especially if you particularly enjoy the two main ingredients (sugar and espresso). Guaranteed it's already at your specialty grocery store. http://www.sodapopstop.com/products/detail.cfm?lin k=82
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Why dont they cut the marketing crap and give it to me already, I want coffee coke! give it to me NOW! damnit this is London why is France getting it first? Don't they understand how much I want coffee flavoured coke? ive been waiting years for something that gives you the buzz of a good line with the after taste of a good coffee damnit! Seriously the one new fad I actually like the sound of and they dont even want to sell it to me TAKE MY MONEY PLEASE!
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As a waiter sometimes working hours that I would rather not I would get very tired so Ive experimented with coke coffee blends. Its a bit strange but I like it. Its like orange and Creme pops doesnt sound great at frist but you like it anyway. Also Ive seen stuff like this done before. There a product called manhattan soda or something like that its like carbonated coffee. Also chocolate soda and strawberry milk soda.
did it while making it look like an "Accident" and didn't have to fork out for a car for taco...
He doesn't get the car until after the dupe.
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Ok, umm, deja vu? Jolt Cola ( aka. Wet Planet Beverages ) already did this. :)
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Yesterday while shopping, I came accross a new flavor of Pepsi Max (here in France, diet Pepsi is called Pepsi Max): Cappuccino Pepsi Max.
You can find pictures of the bottle here.
It tastes weird, but the smell of coffee is fine. I have only drunk a couple of glasses yet, and I think I like it, but not as much as to drop my standard Pepsi Max bottle.
Didn't pepsi do this about ten years ago? I'm a staunch Coke advocate, myself, but let's give credit where credit is due. :)
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Favorable to popular belief, Coca-Cola did actually contain cocaine at one point which is a highly refined extract of coca leaves and was always far too expensive to use in a mass-market beverage. However, as cocaine is one of numerous alkaloids present in the coca leaf, it was nevertheless present in the drink. Today, the flavoring is still done with kola nuts and the coca leaf; however, the coca leaves used today are "spent" leaves - the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process - however, one cannot extract cocaine out of the leaf at a molecular level; therefore, the drink still contains trace amounts of the stimulant.
Nothing in the world like Manhattan Special.
Real brewed coffee - sugar, not evil evil high-fructose corn syrup.
Yum - I can drink this stuff non-stop.
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Those in the know have been drinking coffee soda in NYC for years. Manhattan Special espresso soda has been around since 1895. Like the other item that you have to really search delis for, Cheez Waffies, it's only in a few places. But it's worth looking for. Used to be only black, but they've just come out with hazelnut, mocha, cappucino, freedom vanilla, and diet and diet decaf expresso flavors. http://www.manhattanspecial.com/products.html
... does it come to Canada!?!?
I will definately be one of the first to try this stuff out in my area (small city, ~35,000 people)
Although, Canada has a record of getting new things a year or two after USA. (eg. Cherry Coke, USA got it years before us)
*...crosses arms and begins waiting...*
At least its not spelled Bl@k. In that respect, thank god the dot com era is over.
I think amphetemines in cola is the next logical step, why waste time with this shit? And bring back real sugar for it too, AND PUT IT IN FUCKING GLASS BOTTLES..
I was one of the few who liked Christmas Pepsi, because it was ideally favored for mixing with Captain Morgan, can you say HO HO HO??
Stevie Ray Vaughan used to do the converse: he poured coke in his coffee every morning.
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The Blak logo looks like the old Tab logo. Compare "a" in the Blak logo to the "a" in the Tab logo.
http://home.epix.net/~tjwagner/tab.html
Note that the capital "b" in Blak does not look anything like the "b" in Tab.
My mom was addicted to Tab. When they relaunched the drink with a combination of saccharin and aspartame my mom totally disapproved of it. "You might as well be drinking Diet Coke."
There is no accounting for taste. As for myself, I actually prefer Diet Coke with Lime. And Diet Mountain Dew, while not something I would drink all the time, is a godsend at finals time. Ultra-caffeinated. No carbs. Rock.
Oh yeah, nothing is going to ever beat the Japanese on iced coffee beverages. UCC Coffee has ownage over anything made in the US. I'll try this but I doubt they can beat UCC.
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http://www.manhattanspecial.com/products_pure_espr esso.html
... maybe a regional thing to NYC though.
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Given that it's the schedule jamming time of the year, how about intra-venous caffeine? Gotta be good for productivity, and you could hook up a pump as well. No time wasted swallowing, wouldn't matter how it tastes. Management liked the idea...
Of course we can't forget Canada's delicious Maple Coke, with the thick refreshing taste of maple.
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A strong brand represents one thing. Ask for a Coca-Cola and you know what you're going to get. That's the power of branding. So what's this? A cold (isn't cold coffee a bit yukky?) drink that has a "coffee-like froth when poured"? If it's really a "new category of soft drink" then why on earth are they using the name of an old drink? It's confusing, it weakens the original brand and it's a bad idea.
They might get away with it because people could ask for a "Blak" (with a funny "a"). But why are they putting in a peculiar "a"? I can't think of any American words with a weird "a". How do we pronounce it? Blik? Blaak?
It seems to me this product will fail because of faulty marketing and it will damage the Coca-Cola Company in the long run. What a waste.
I worked for the Starbucks Coffee Company (not in R&D) and I recall a nasty drink they had in testing that was carbonated coffee. It was revolting - maybe Coke will make it happen. I wish I could recall the name they had for it.
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Other carbonated drinks with big boosts are coming onto the market as well. Mountain Dews MDX is one of the first "energy-sodas," (it certainly has a friendly taste than Red Bull, with about the same kick) and more energy sodas are on the way. Beverage companies are trying to further expand their presence in the incredibly fast growing energy drink market by creating this new niche - but analysts are up in the air on how successful they will be riding the line between energy drink and regular sodas. Coke is actually planning to introduce a slew of new products, including a Von Dutch energy soda (after the arguably "popular" fashion brand) which will be produced in conjunction with Rockstar and distributed through Coca-Cola. For all of you Tab lovers, you can expect a "Tab Energy" (also made by Coke) coming soon to a grocery store near you - a diet energy soda in a pink can targeted towards young women. But the real question isn't "will any of these products be successful," it's, "is this article really news for nerds?"
I don't drink Coke or any other soft drinks because of all the corn syrup in it. I think a Coke with actual, real, honest-to-God, sugar in it would sell like crazy. Supposedly, Coke bottlers in other (i.e. non-US) countries actually do make such a product. I've even heard that there is a kosher Coke sold at Jewish holiday time that has real sugar, but I've not seen it in Florida where I live.
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Now that's what I call blaksploitation!
Pepsi Kona was the original idea for this. It was text marketed. The stuff tasted like absolute crap (right up there with Crystal Clear Pepsi). I liked the idea of coffee flavored cola, but I didn't know anyone that could actually drink the stuff. Let's hope Coke does a better job.
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For atleast 20 years this type of beverage has been around. When I was in my late teens I dated a spanish girl who's family first introduced me to "malta" (sp) a Goya Product. It's found in the international section of the grocery store. It's coffee flavored soda - carbonated coffee flavor beverage. This is nothign new. Personally I think it horrible - though I don't not care for coffee all that much either. To each their own. I'm sure that it will take off with a mianstream company such as Coke marketing it - seems as though they are attempting to compete with things like RedBull, Nitro2Go and others.
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This stuff's been around since 1941: http://www.bibicaffe.com/
Very tasty and a nice caffeine hit too.
Why not just drink real coffee? I mean something like ristretto. Yum yum.
Might as well call it Cola Plaque if it has sugar.
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In norwegian "Calpis" sounds more like cold-piss than anything else - I'd like to see them market that!
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Partly, I just want to see the Pop VS. Soda VS. Soft Drink etc. fight, but also I wanted to chime in that there's already a soda that uses green tea: Cricket Cola. They, apparently, are hiding on the intarweb and don't believe in having a company web page, so I turn you here.
Yeah, yeah...I know that we're supposed to pronouce this "Black"...but doesn't the line over the "a" in "Blak" make you think "Blake"?
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That movie is hilarious, and the post is spot on. All Soda's used to taste way better when they used real sugar (i.e. Dr. Pepper). The original poster was commenting on that fact, and the reply was funny and the hidden meaning from the reference (assuming you are not so dim as to have missed the reference) is that the reason they don't use sugar anymore, is because they are more in to profit than the passion of making good tasting drinks.
Lighten up, and study literature some--you might learn to appreciate things like this more.
I'd rather have a nice Manhattan Special
Why not fork?
might one say that coca-cola is using a hot coffee mod? don't tell jack thompson...
When will the madness end? Though, I have to say, Coca-Cola ZERO is actually not bad tasting at all. It's the best out of all of the zero/low calorie soda choices out there as far as flavor goes, IMO. And, did you know, Pepsi ONE has almost twice the caffeine as a normal Pepsi? Normal pepsi = 34ML per can whereas Pepsi ONE has about 55.
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Come down here too! We have more cafes per head of population than anywhere on earth! (I think... I heard it somewhere anyway and now can't find anything to back that up!)... in any case we have a lot of choices for coffee, of every variety... and let me tell you, after working in the States for a while, I appreciate good coffee even more... man, the majority of coffee in America is truly disgusting... when Starbucks starts tasting good, you know you've got a problem! :P
Yeah Trudy's here in Austin serves up Kona coffee. Good stuff. Mmmm... Migas.....
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That sounds like a tasty idea. Regular coke sucks, but cherry and vanilla coke ruled. I'm sure coffee coke will do fine (unless it's gross as shit).
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I live in Ontario and I've NEVER heard of maple coke before! Where can I get some?!
Meh.
at one time, i inadvertantly filled a cup that i was using for coffee with iced soda, and the taste was suprisingly good. there was just enough coffee left in the cup to give it a really good flavor. i suggest at least giving this beverage a try if you ever get the chance.
Jolt already did this it was a green can the size of a RedBull and it was called Jolt Expresso, and it was coffee (or perhaps expresso) mixed with cola, one hell of a buzz, but it tasted like crap.
I imagine this will be quite different than the cans of hot coffee
Different than?!
No, really, where'd you go to school?
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Their website press release states it is called ZU, not Blak Press Relase HERE
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I've actually TRIED Coke mixed with Coffee before, and I have to say it's actually pretty good! There was only a half a cup of coffee left in the pot at work and plenty of coke lying around, so I filled up the rest of my coffee cup with coke fully expecting it to taste like four kinds of ass. To my surprise it was actually quite tasty, the coke balanced out the bitter coffee in a very interesting way! I think I'll do it again tonight!
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Guess we at least lucked out in the taste department. Also shows that farmers should all be rounded up and shot. EU, US and Japan, farmers are a tiny minority yet seem to control national politics. Weird.
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Especially if the drink contains milk it can severely upset dutch stomachs as it is extremely long lasting milk you get in cheap containers that most people just can't drink. "Fresh" milk vs the kind that you can keep outside the fridge for months (mostly because no bugger will drink it).
Of course I can't read the japanese or chinese ingredients so it is always a discovery. As for coffee in a can. Well it just confirms that japanese are weird.
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I "heat" them by putting them in boiling water for a time but that is just at home. How the hell do you heat a can in a vending machine? For obvious reasons you can't microwave it and getting it warm by induction takes a long time wich would mean the cans are constantly hot wich doesn't sound like it does much for the taste. Ever tried coffee that has been in a hot pot over the weekend? It will wake you up.
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Hiya,
Slightly offtopic, but - why is it that in 'Western' countries, coffee-in-a-can is virtually nonexistant? I'm a great fan of that - and the Hot & Cold vending machines they had in Japan - and don't see why it wouldn't be popular in Australia/UK/USA etc.
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If you're in Dublin, TX, they make Dr Pepper with sugar there. I can't believe people can drink those corn syrup drinks, they are nasty. So nasty, that I drink diet, or just add sugar to my tea (being in the South and all, iced tea is de rigeur).
I consider the great high fructose corn syrup debacle proof that capitalism is broken--or maybe just that American consumers are merely a bunch of indiscriminate yahoos. The latter argument is too easily proven (NASCAR and American "pilsner" beers, case closed).
I saw Coca-Cola Blech on MSNBC like a week ago. Guess /. isn't too quick on the uptake with meatspace things that don't involve any cyberspace issues at all.
btw, Countdown with Keith Olberman is the best news show, period.
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...try a Manhattan Special, if they still make it. Good stuff!
I think think you mean glucose/fructose.
The ironic thing about this is, is that Coca-Cola was originally marketed to convert people with coffee addiction.
A White Russian with cola?
Oh, you mean a Vodka paralyzer?
It's not like this was a new drink invented yesterday!
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Reminds me of a Coffee Drink I used to get in Pacific Breach, CA. It was a coffee shop (I think it's still there) they used to have. Take a 16 oz. glass put in two shots of espresso, ice, and the rest Coke/Pepsi. It was called a Cold Blue. It would definitely wake you up and keep you up. Only 1 drink was enough. I had had two at least once and lets say I had a horrible case of the shakes!!
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In college, I ended up doing a little drink mixing (non-alcoholic drinks only to my current chagrin). Let me save you some trouble.
Coffee + soda (Coke or Mountain Dew). Terrible idea. Kill it now.
Juice + soda (Coke or Mountain Dew). With small amounts of juice, can be very good. I actually repeated grape Kool-Aid + Mountain Dew several times (different from Pitch Black, but that gets you started). Stay away from limes and lemons. Maraschino cherry juice in Mountain Dew predicted Code Red accurately.
Chocolate syrup + black coffee. There's a reason they usually put loads of cream in coffe when adding chocolate.
Chocolate syrup + soda. Terrible idea. The syrup doesn't mix well, and when it does, the flavors in your mouth are horrid.
In short, there's a reason sodas have been made with fruit juices (imitation and real) for 100 years, and not coffee or other substances.
Also, Oreos (at least the generic equivalent where you get 4x the cookies for half the price) go very well with Mountain Dew, possibly better than the historical milk.
i've heard poms come over to australia and call hot water with a little milk and sugar (no tea) ... wait for it.. english tea.. harharhar
i'll bet the marketing mavens at CocaCola are thrilled right now...
as well as some folks at an ad agency in Miami who (to their credit) seemingly can do anything.
soulless or otherwise, you would be amazed.
I doubt that most of the white, western professionals who read Slashdot will care much about this, some probably will like Coke more than ever considering the kind of talk so many listen to on talk radio and Fox News, but a few will, and I am posting this to inform those few. Working class people tend to be more sympathetic to these things.
Maybe you're talking about Coke from Holland available at this store in Scottsdale, AZ?
People are commenting about "ungodly amounts of caffeine," but believe it or not, Coke doesn't contain all that much: http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/caffeine/caffeine_ info1.shtml
In terms of caffeine content, a cup of coffee is equivalent to 3 or 4 cokes.
Two cups of coffee really isn't all that much, so... this drink should be just fine in the caffeine department.
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I want them to put the coca back!
>I imagine this will be quite different than the cans of hot coffee that makes walking around in Tokyo so delicious. But hey, cans of coffee! I'm in for one at least.
You've got to be kidding... The canned coffee sold in vending machines in Japan is the worst of the worst. The sugared stuff is basically diabetes in a can, and the black stuff tastes like battery acid.
Coffee People used to sell this lightly carbonated coffee soda. This was back a number of years ago before the Gloria Jean's / Coffee Plantation / whatever thing. It was pretty sweet and pretty strong, and GOOD. It had a head like a dark porter. It was based on their high-caffeine coffee blend.
I'm sure someone here will remember it and fill in the details. I used to bring a six back from Hillsborough whenever I visited Randal.
I it's not new and I doubt it will taste better than this stuff from these guys. http://www.manhattanspecial.com/products_pure_espr esso.html
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How many of you have ever tried Cocaccinos? As far as I know, one of my older brothers came up with it independently, but there must be others out there. You mix about half a glass of coke with a small amount (half a teaspoon or less) of instant coffee. It froths up like hell, and then tastes like coffee - mixed with coke! Or vice versa, depending on how much coffee you put in. First-time makers tend to put in too much coffee.
in new york (or brooklyn in particular) we have "manhattan special"; the label calls it "espresso coffee soda". it's actually pretty good.
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That's what it's all about. Brilliant!
Not very good. My roommate thought it deserved a danger post-it note.
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I saw this press release and it sure sounds like Coca-Cola is trying to one-up a favorite of mine, BibiCaffe (http://bibicaffe.com/). I'll certainly try it once it's available. Bibi is a bit sweet for regular consumption, but it sure hits the spot and combines well with milk or alchohol... =)
When did you go to Tokyo?
"It used to be that you wouldn't dream of drinking while walking down the street [in Japan]. " - http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5 ?fl20040320cz.htm
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"Walking and eating [in Japan] is taboo, though you will see local people doing it from time to time, especially in tourist destinations. Still, expect to be glared at or clucked at if you eat (or drink) while perambulating. Ice cream might be an exception, but everything else, including canned drinks should be consumed while standing next to the place where you bought them or sitting on a nearby park bench." - http://www.mediatinker.com/hellotokyo/survival.ht
I'll be having kidney failure earlier than expected...
I bet that in the near future (it really depends on how strong the CocaCola Company is) someone will find out that mixing coffee with, say, carbon bioxide would lead to some mistyerious and tragic disease, just like decaffeinated coffee.
What about a cup of the plain old coffee, made with real coffee powder and boiling water?
What about the plain old stuff in reasonable amounts?
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Does anyone remember Coke Clear? Flop?
Anyone else reminded of Maxx Barry's novel _Syrup_? (Recommended.)
Nice publicity,
I hope Coca-Cola will give back some money for this publicity
How are all these topics not 'OFF-TOPIC'? Just because they're slashdot liberals?
I liked it when it was called Pepsi Kona. It was out in test markets like Philadelphia back in 1996-1997. They felt there was no market for it even though many people I knew enjoyed it. Maybe Coke's product will be just as good, I would drink it again.
I remember a few years ago that there was a coffee soda on the supermarket shelves which got the taste factor right but maybe needed help in the marketing department.
It wasn't a cola blend at all but literally a coffee soda. And the part that nobody believes when I mention this is the branding: Ernest Borgnine coffee sode! It had a picture of Ernest Borgnine and a retro-style label.
Also reminds me of the Carlsberg beer cola that was served canned in Europe.
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One of my favorite college memories was driving from Athens, GA to Augusta, GA to buy cases (and cases) of Budwine directly from Southern Beverage Packers.
Anyway. the whole purpose of this particular post is to miss Budwine. Again.
In Texas, anyway, there is still one Dr. Pepper bottling plant that uses real sugar, the plant in Dublin. You can get it here in Austin at any of the Rudy's BBQ restaurants and select other locations. Check the bottle (Dublin still uses glass as well). It'll have the bottled in Dublin, Tx and "pure cane sugar" in the ingredients. They also have one of the largest glass recycling systems, buying back their own bottles and washing through a thorough sterilization process before re-bottling. That bottle you're drinking out of has served possibly hundreds of other sugar-cane soda lovers.
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