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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.
Anyone who wants to be taken seriously about talking about chemicals in soda should know the difference between "C02" and CO2...
Why do I feel like singing "One of these things is not like the other" from Seseme Street? Sheesh...
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.
No, they clearly don't. Remember, their marketing people were probably educated in the US, where simple things like grammar and punctuation are not taught because doing so would take time away from having the kids watch commercials on in-class TV.
That is one thing worth pointing out. Another is that if you drink this in your car you risk getting an open container charge--it looks like a beer.
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WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you don't know what you are talking about.This is how bad info gets passed around. If you don't know about the topic, don't make yourself sound like you do. Cuz some slashdotters believe anything they hear.
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