Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Lessons from Life ~ Just Give Me The Real Thing


There is a new coke flavor on the shelves...in Japan. Green tea Coca-Cola is made with green tea extracts and has no calories. The target audience is "health conscious" women in their 20's and 30's. It's being promoted as a health drink.

Just when I thought Vanilla Coke in a can was the worst tasting drink Coke ever produced, here they come with Green Tea Coke. But wait...there's more bad soft drinks out there...in Japan. Pepsi Ice Cucumber has been on the market for just over a year and is doing well.

You can't buy Pepsi Ice Cucumber here in America, thank God. But if you want to try it, just take a Pepsi and pour some pickle juice in it; right? Drinking a Cucumber Pepsi would probably have the same effect on me as downing 16 ounces of Syrup of Epikak.

Maybe Coke and Pepsi are trying to see who can invent the worst tasting soft drink. Who knows. Well, at least the folks in Japan seem to like it. Good for them. Give me a good old regular Coke any day. Forget the diet coke. Forget the no-caffeine coke. Forget all the added flavors. Just give me the real thing.

What's next...Carrot and Basil Coke? God, I hope not.