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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.
Spew, vomit, hurl, etc.
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.
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.
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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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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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.
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Personally, I prefer my coffee soda straight. Manhattan Special baby.
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i don't remember if i saw it or not back then, but according to this link, there seems to have been a Diet Pepsi Kona (look at the picture shown).
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.
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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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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)
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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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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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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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Myself, I am not a programer, and I didn't want to spout off on something that I wasn't qualified to comment on.
That said, thanks for the extra info!
Good thing we don't have to spell things in octal using chemical suffuxes, or i'd never get those people to learn anything, hah!
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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.
They are trying all kinds of crazy stuff since the loss of Saskra Root ruined the taste of Coke Classic.
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A white russian with coke is actually pretty good. Kalua, Milk, Vodka and Coke.
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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 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.
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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A white russian with coke is actually pretty good.
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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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OK, most of it taste rather nasty hot (especially UCC), but some are good cold, with Gergia being better than msot and Georgia's Mountain Blend being actually quite tasty. Years ago at a coffee machine in the countryside of Kagoshima-Ken, near a bridge where I was fishing, I had a Dydo flavor called Almond Cappucino (IIRC; was definitely almond something, but this a long time ago); thereafter, I checked every Dydo machine I encountered all over the country, but never again saw it anywhere. That was also my last time in Kagoshima, so perhaps it's a local flavor. If so, it must be very local, because I never saw it in Fukuoka(-shi), which I later traveled to several times.
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OK, so this must be at least borderline OT, but I hope someone will at least find it interesting. Too bad there's not a +1 Natsukashii mod
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"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