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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.
I found this pic http://www2.coca-cola.com/presscenter/img/imagebra nds/downloads/lg_blak.jpg of the actual bottle.
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.
Trying to be different, just like everyone else.
Kosher-for-Passover Coke is made with real sugar.
I guess we can add a category of umlaut after the Heavy-metal umlaut, namely the Silly marketing umlaut. E.g. Häagen-Dazs.
I doubt they'll keep that name for the umlaut-saturated Scandinavian market though, since bläck/blæk/blekk means 'ink' in Swedish/Danish/Norwegian, and 'Blä!" is the Swedish equivalent of 'Yuck!'.
Blue Sky, Whole Foods 365 Brand, and many other sodas sold at "natural" food stores use real cane sugar as well, and they're quite good. Can't buy them from a vending machine in the office though.
If we got rid of these rediculous tariffs and subsidies sugar would be cheap enough to use in soft drinks in the US.
The product is called "Diet Coke", not "Diet Coca-Cola".
Generally, the diet versions use the "Coke" name, while the regular versions use "Coca-Cola". Of course, Coca-Cola Zero uses the full name because it's a diet that tastes like regular! In fact, The Coca-Cola company doesn't consider it part of the "Diet Coke" line, but rather part of the "Coca-Cola" line of products.
If your looking for real sugar come buy your pop in Canada, our Coke still has it.
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Just a warning. If you ever come to Portugal, never ask for a Kona: you would be asking for 'cunt'. Literally.
When any number prefixed with a 0 (zero), without a decimal place, such as 0034, 04 or 02, the zero doesn't hold any meaning
It does if you're a programmer. It means the number is octal (base 8), just like a "0x" prefix means hexadecimal (base 16). Not that it matters for 2, which is the same in decimal, octal, or hex...
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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
Little bit of chemistry info here...
What we generally call "sugar" is named sucrose or dextrose. Sucrose is a disaccharide which means that it's made of two smaller monosaccharides, namely Glucose and Fructose.
One way to reduce the cost of your softdrink or other prepared food is to use something referred to as "Invert Sugar". Here's how you do it:
Take some real sugar, sucrose, and break the bond between the glucose and the fructose, then let them recombine. When you do this, the glucose and fructose actually bond in a different way which makes the substance 1.3 times as sweet as sucrose. It's identical to regular sugar except for that one key bond, and you've instantly cut down the amount you need to add to your product.
So when you read a list of ingredients and it says "Glucose/Fructose", you're likely eating invert sugar.
Incidentally, a natural source of invert sugar is honey.
Parve is actually a very specific meaning within the general meaning of kosher. Parve foods contain no milk, no milk by-product; nor do they contain meat or animal by-products. (Fish is considered parve; poultry is not. Interestingly, while most parve foods may be consumed with meat, fish cannot.) Kosher-marked foods follow the laws of kashrut, but may contain dairy or meat.
Traditionally, the markings are:
K or a circled U - Kosher.
A D by the U/K - Kosher, contains dairy.
Pareve, parve or p or P - Parve, contains no dairy.
Generally speaking, kosher meat isn't packaged, so I'm not aware of any generally accepted marking for a kosher meat. Thinking about it, though, there are kosher hot dogs; they must have some marking on them, but I can't for the life of me think of it.
(A cousin is a shoichet - a kosher slaughterer/butcher.)
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