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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.
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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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.
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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Personally, I prefer my coffee soda straight. Manhattan Special baby.
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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.
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Funny you should mention this.... I am back at college after 10 years and my Macro Economics professor just used this tariff in our last class as en example of bad governmental policy. The whole thing is just assinine.
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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)
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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Stop drinking it for a while (couple of weeks).. I changed to fruit juices and now when I taste coke it tastes vile.. nothing tastes like coke.. it's just.. blergh.. I'm currently sucking on fruit juices instead. Much nicer flavours andI'm not being drugged to enjoy them (flavour enhancers in coke and such).
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Coffee is not a "bitter" flavor, any more than "wine tastes like Thunderbird". It's a perverse generalization.
Coffee's reputation has suffered as a consequence of shallow consumer experience and ill-advised processed coffee products marketed during the last century. And, for that matter, by the crap sold by Starbucks -- a company that can't even succeed at being pretentious (they're only capable, it seems, of duping connoisseurs of instant coffee into thinking their charcoal blends are a step up).
It can only get worse when dubious beverages are critiqued by those holding dubious assumptions.
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.
They are trying all kinds of crazy stuff since the loss of Saskra Root ruined the taste of Coke Classic.
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it's not just tarrifs, brazillian cane sugar is being converted into ethanol, which the vast majority of brazillian drivers use because the cost is so much lower. Brazil wants to export ethanol to the states too, because they'd make as much or more money as they were making exporting sugar before we had rediculous tarrifs. of course big corn doesn't want cheap brazilian ethanol flooding their market. ethanol production has propped up the corn price, which is already at pretty impressive lows, and big corn states like minnesota are planning on going to E20 and more states are mandating the use of E10, so basically the only way to allow brazillian ethanol imports without a tarrif would be to require a nation wide e-10 or better roll out.. not something the corn lobby could easily push through as say a tarrif on ethanol.
Just going to E-10 would shift billions of dollars into local agroculture and away from mid-east oil dependancy, and it's been proven that e-10 has reduced emmisions over straight up gasoline. would be nice if we had a president who would have championed alternative fuels instead of passing billions in oil industry subsidies*...
*= if one counts the iraq war is an oil indiustry subsidy, because it basically is.
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Exactly. One of the things I miss about living in NYC was that it was easy to buy Kosher Coke any time of the year. Pure cane sugar, baby!
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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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Is there documentation that shows that it really is safer than Splenda? A quick check of the FDA website indicates that stevia does not have sufficient toxcicity data to allow for approval for use in the US. The website you linked just advocates that it is safe and the subject of a big coverup - but has no solid data.
In general anytime somebody wants to market a new food additive, the burden of proof is on them to show that it is safe. The fact that it is natrual means nothing - so are nicotine, taxol, and cobra venom - none of which would be suitable as food additives.
Why would sugar sellers be able to suppress stevia, when they apparently were unable to suppress aspartame, sucralose, sacchrin, etc?
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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 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.
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.
So why should I ban the products those poor workers depend on for a living?
Thats like the ban on products of child labour. LET THEM BE PROSTITUTES INSTEAD!
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Nice headline. You do know that Colombia's government is virulently anti-union?
It seems rather insipid to single out Coca-Cola based on its brand recognition. The mining and textile industries have also had workers die at the hands of paramilitary groups. This should come as no surprise: Colombia is one of the most violent countries in the world. You may legitimately argue that American companies should not operate there due to the insidious "official" government and the activities of rebel organizations like FARC and ELN. However, if American companies pull out of Colombia, a lot of money goes with them. Poverty has a way of exacerbating violence.
Perhaps your "movement" will be taken seriously when it ceases resorting to hyperbole. The sad thing is that the real problem of uncontrollable violence in Colombia is being reduced to a crime perpetrated by a beverage company.
But here's hoping not drinking Coca-Cola makes you feel superior to those dastardly talk radio folks!
I don't ordinarly make spelling-nazi posts, but I feel I need to, since here we see two people in one branch of the thread, saying "rediculous" and no one blinking an eye.
It's ridiculous. Deserving or inspiring ridicule. Not "redicule", as there is no such thing. And, no, it can't be "diculous" again.
Oh, and, ObOnTopic: everyone keeps touting cane sugar -- how about beet sugar?
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