Coca-Cola's Coffee Soda 563
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.
Ä, not A (Score:2, Informative)
Picture of the actual product (Score:5, Informative)
Pepsi Kona (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:How 'bout some real sugar (Score:5, Informative)
But what about the flavour? (Score:2, Informative)
Anyone who wants to see how the caffeine gets from coffee into cola should read the National Geographic article.
Re:Ä, not A (Score:5, Informative)
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!'.
Re:How 'bout some real sugar (Score:5, Informative)
Re:How 'bout some real sugar (Score:5, Informative)
If we got rid of these rediculous tariffs and subsidies sugar would be cheap enough to use in soft drinks in the US.
Re:How 'bout some real sugar (Score:1, Informative)
Re:I remember it too... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Mix fav beverages? (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:How 'bout some real sugar (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Ä, not A (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Mix fav beverages? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Mix fav beverages? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:How 'bout some real sugar (Score:3, Informative)
Re:But what about the flavour? (Score:3, Informative)
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...
Re:How 'bout some real sugar (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Jolt Cola? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Kahlua and fizzy water (Score:3, Informative)
Re:How 'bout some real sugar (Score:3, Informative)
Not according to the label of the bottle I have here:
""Sugar/Clucose-Frucose" Means it could be either. I bet it isn't sugar.
Above link is SATIRE (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Hear Hear! (Score:2, Informative)
already been done (not the pepsi version) (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.manhattanspecial.com/products_pure_esp
Re:Japanese canned coffee (Score:2, Informative)
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
Re:Hear Hear! (Score:3, Informative)
I find the cereals there pretty good, at least from what I remember from supermarket cereals. They also have good juices, what we primarily get is the lemonades and limeades. Actually, most of what I drink at home now is watered-down lemonade or limeade, usually 2/3 water and 1/3 the *ade. So that helps too in reducing calories, but still getting a hint of something tasteful. After drinking this watered-down for a few weeks, the full-strength lemonades feel like drinking battery acid (not that I've done that, mind you).
The primary things I get from TJ's to replace the HFCS items from the supermarket are cereal, juices/drinks, and cookies. Just doing those substitutions for a few months is how I lost some weight. I would also buy their ready-to-go lunches (eg the chinese, mexican, or indian foods), which are about $3, and much cheaper than buying lunch at the cafeteria at school, but not sure if that lunch would have HFCS. But that definitely helps on the budget. And yes, I was just talking yesterday about how some of their cheeses (eg Yarlsburg) is cheaper than the identical brand sold in the supermarket.
One thing to NOTE - many of the bread items at TJ's DO have HFCS, and I was pretty shocked and somewhat let down to see this. Hopefully this doesn't signal a trend that they'll follow with other items. So make sure you read the labels. But that's another common area for HFCS - it's a 'browner' for bread items, so many things like pizza dough can have it for that nice golden-brown color.
If the TJ's are far from you, try buying in bulk, you'll save gas money too. We go about once a week, sometimes once in two weeks, and usually buy many boxes of cereal, many bottles of juice and lemonade, etc. We find their dairy products to also be of good quality and decent price.
But anyway, before sounding too much like a commercial for TJ's, just try to avoid HFCS as much as you can for a few months and see what happens. Before the 'diet' I would drink soda and iced tea with lunch, both with HFCS. I'd drink cranberry juice cocktail or grape juice (supermarket brands WITH HFCS) at home. I'd also nosh on cookies and other sweet snacks with HFCS, etc. Cut that crap out and replace with healthy non-HFCS alternatives and you should hopefully lose some pounds and feel better. But you don't have to go cold-turkey with sweets, just choose carefully what you're putting through your body.
Walking and drinking in Japan (Score:3, Informative)
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 [japantimes.co.jp]
m l [mediatinker.com]
"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
Re:How 'bout some real sugar (Score:4, Informative)
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.
Re:How 'bout some real sugar (Score:4, Informative)
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.)
Re:Coca-Cola kills its workers (Score:3, Informative)
See: www.cokefacts.org [cokefacts.org] and, in particular, this page about Coke in Colombia [cokefacts.org].