Entries tagged with 'Coke'
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This is my collection of international Coke cans. (What, is that weird?) It's the kind of relic from my childhood that I forget about, now living three thousand miles from the house I grew up in, until I walk into my bedroom and realize—oh, right—one entire wall is lined with cans of Coke. The collection started when I was about nine years old. My family was flying back from the East Coast, and my older brother realized that the soda a flight attendant had brought him had a German label. That familiar Coca-Cola can—but in a different language! Awesome, I said to myself. I bought that can off him for a dollar. (My ever-entrepreneurial brother let me have nothing...
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One involves a contagious yawn in a bizarro animated world inside the vending machine. The other, in a library where a pair of flirts exchange fluids in the form of Coke sketches on their arms. Both weird, but moderately captivating. The videos, after the jump....
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To promote the latest Bond film, The Quantum of Solace (out mid-November in the States), Coca-Cola and Sony Entertainment shook hands on this numerically-convenient special edition Coke Zero Zero 7 bottle. The bottles will roll out next month, but only in the UK. According to the Coca-Cola brand director across the pond, the edginess of the Bond persona matches that of the Coke Zero identity. The core audience is 20-something men who dream of wearing more tuxedos and carrying a license to kill card. [via The Dieline]...
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Seeing your favorite soccer team score a goal while drinking a frosty bottle of Coca-Cola will probably make you want to hug someone. Even if that someone is an aging rock metal musician, or a man with chainsaws-for-arms, or covered in bees. Thus is the power of sports fanaticism paired with a refreshing carbonated beverage. Watch uncomfortable hug after uncomfortable hug, after the jump....
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The UK's Telegraph has a good set of pictures from the record-breaking set of simultaneous explosions of Diet Coke and Mentos in Leuven, Belgium. Or as it's known in Belgium: Coca Cola Light. Several videos of the event have appeared online - the best we could find are after the jump....
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Now, that's true love. Or "advertasting" as the Coca-Cola crew is calling it. Tongue-piercing parlors in Brazil will stab you for free on behalf of the beverage moguls, and conveniently, a cold Zero should mitigate the soreness during the first week's swelling period. Still no signs of a Cherry Coke Zero option. [Via Neatorama]...
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Remember last week's story about Costco selling Mexican Coke? This morning, because we love soda with real sugar—and you, too—an update: alaina: mexican coke sighting at napa wal-martlia: link please!lia: or did you see?alaina: no link, i saw it myself!lia: no photo???alaina: it's a coke bottlealaina: nolia: also i did not think "napa" and "wal-mart" were allowed to be in the same sentencealaina: me neither (Alaina is in Napa attending Taste3, the annual conference sponsored by Robert Mondavi Winery that "aims to push the exploration and marriage of wine, food and art.")...
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If you like the Real Thing better made with real sugar and you happen to live near a Costco, you'll be happy to know that they're selling Mexican Coke: $17.99 for a case of 24 twelve ounce bottles, which comes out to 75c each. How'd Costco manage that, you ask? According to SFist, they've "conformed to CA and U.S. rules, such as CRV (the sort-of deposit you pay for the bottle) and "nutrition" labeling, so everything appears to be nice and legal." Coca-Cola Corporate in Atlanta says there is "no perceptible taste difference" between Mexican Coke made with real sugar and US Coke made with high-fructose corn syrup, but as anyone who's ever had the two can tell you,...
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Why do diet sodas taste like crap? Ed and Alaina both love Diet Coke but I think it's pretty nasty, it's got to be the regular stuff for me, and preferably from a glass bottle or can. Scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign say people like me say we don't like diet sodas because of the chemicals, but the real reason we don't like them is because the high-fructose corn syrup in regular sodas give them a better mouth-feel. I know they've done a study, but still: I call bullshit! Anyone who's ever had a Coke from outside the US or Passover Coke knows that real sugar is where it's at—you get a superior mouth-feel while drinking, and the...
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My favorite beverage review site of all time, Kevin Fanning and Josh Allen's The Knowledge For Thirst, has finally started up again after a painfully long hiatus. I guarantee you've never in your entire life read a beverage face-off quite like the one they just put up of Mexican Coke Vs. Passover Coke. Accept no substitutes....
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