I've gone ahead and tried the Coke "Blak".
I found the sigle bottle marked at $1.49 at my local D&W with a $0.40 coupon attached, so I caved.
It is not two great tastes that go great together. I love Coca-Cola. I enjoy one from time to time. I like the Cherry-Coke, and if you put syrup into coke you can make some great flavor combinations. Vanilla, Strawberry, Stranilla! Some people like a chocolate coke (tried it, didn't like it)
I do think the Coke company has messed up the flavors after Cherry. The Lemon-pledge Coke was abysmal. The Vanilla Coke was good for the first two-liter, then it started tasting like caopectate. I tried the black-cherry-vanilla sample in the grocery store. It's just plain wrong. The Lime is actually better in the diet than in the regular, but it still doesn't hold a candle to actually squeezing limes into Coke.
Putting coffee flavoring into Coke was not a good idea. +1 on the packaging though.
A side note -
Ingredients:
Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, caramel color, natural flavors, coffee extract, phosphoric acid, potassium sorbate and potassium benzoate (to protect taste), caffeine, aspartame, acesulfame potassium
Seriously?
High fructose corn syrup AND aspartame?
What's the point of that?
maybe it's just me...
June 30, 2006
June 27, 2006
Dispense-a-lid
I love going to the movies. I love getting some popcorn and a soda. I do not love trying to grab a single lid off of the ubiquitous stack of lids found in every movie theater and gas station near the soda fountain.
Some theaters hand you a cup and a lid - then you go off to get your drink. The latest theater near my house had a stroke of genius with their dispense-a-lid.
I don't know if it's really called that, but that's the name I've given it.
GENIUS!! Pure and unadulterated GENIUS!
They still give you the cup at the concession stand, for security purposes. Then all you do is toddle up to the dispense-a-lid, and follow the instructions. Pull down on the handle and there it is! Only one lid. Pick it up, and put it on your cup. GENIUS!
I can't wait to see this take over the world.
Maybe it's just me...
Some theaters hand you a cup and a lid - then you go off to get your drink. The latest theater near my house had a stroke of genius with their dispense-a-lid.
I don't know if it's really called that, but that's the name I've given it.
GENIUS!! Pure and unadulterated GENIUS!
They still give you the cup at the concession stand, for security purposes. Then all you do is toddle up to the dispense-a-lid, and follow the instructions. Pull down on the handle and there it is! Only one lid. Pick it up, and put it on your cup. GENIUS!
I can't wait to see this take over the world.
Maybe it's just me...
Bacado
If you have to go to an early morning meeting, and I often do, it's really nice when you get breakfast.
The Bacado at The Morning Star combines a number of great tastes that I would never have thought of on my own. Bcp told me it was his favorite. My waiter also said it was his favorite. How could I say no?
I'm not that crazy about Avocado on it's own. The saltiness of the bacon and the spice of the cilantro and onion creates a fantastic balance.
On a side note, later in the day I had a cheeseburger with bacon. Bacon, twice in one day? Oh sweet monkey!
... maybe it's just me
The Bacado at The Morning Star combines a number of great tastes that I would never have thought of on my own. Bcp told me it was his favorite. My waiter also said it was his favorite. How could I say no?
I'm not that crazy about Avocado on it's own. The saltiness of the bacon and the spice of the cilantro and onion creates a fantastic balance.
On a side note, later in the day I had a cheeseburger with bacon. Bacon, twice in one day? Oh sweet monkey!
... maybe it's just me
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