Coca Cola

The new health drink...

[akmac]

Thought this [www2.coca-cola.com] was kind of funny...

[Neo541]

They're talking about sports drinks there, such as Powerade I believe.

[DrDoc]

Speaking of Coca Cola ...
Sweden is the only country in the world where Coke's sales drop during December.

[en.wikipedia.org...] ;)

[vik_c]

Coca Cola sales in India have been dropping, Christmas or not, after a controversy few years ago erupted over traces of pesticide found in it.

[DrDoc]

Well, I wasn't talking about the normal ups and downs that a company can experience. But the fact that they completely crash during the holiday months, only to be back to normal again right afterwards -- despite heavy advertising and trying all sorts of sneaky methods (like creating their own Julmust).

[shigamoto]

Ah the good ol "julmust" :P It's pretty hard to compete against traditions.

As for the article that this topic is refering to I would suspect it's powerade they are talking about. It's a pretty lucratvie market since people are becomming such health and workout addicts these days.

And drinking the regular Coca Cola is almost as dangerous as jumping off a cliff according to some. Personally I think the artificial sweeteners are much more dangerous than sugar, so I continue to drink Coca Cola as I always have done :P

[inbound]

Whilst we're on the subject of regional Coca Cola oddities:

I'm proud (in a way) to say that Scotland is the only 'westernised' country that has brand of soft drink that outsells Coke - IRN BRU (yes that is the spelling - pronounced Iron Brew).

I'm pretty sure that we must recycle/re-use more glass than any other nation too, due entirely to the refundable glass bottles that IRN BRU tastes best out of.

[Essex_boy]

IRN BRU - That stuff is truly disgusting, no wonder the Romans built Hadrians wall if thats all you have to offer as a nation.

[lgn1]

Stop beating up Scotland. Scotland gave us Curling, Golf, and proved that a man can feel perfectly secure wearing a dress :)

[bcolflesh]

Coca Cola sales in India have been dropping

Maybe you're thinking of the actual cans branded Coca-Cola, but Coke owns Limca, Thums Up, Maaza and others. They've completely dominated the Indian market since the early nineties and there's no end in site...

[vik_c]

Maybe you're thinking of the actual cans branded Coca-Cola...

Yes, I was talking about the black, cold, sweet liquid called Coca Cola..All these other brands run on their own steam. Most were cash cows for Parle, the co. that owned them, even before they were sold to The Coca Cola company for a ridiculously low $60m.

[Visit Thailand]

I used to drink Coke but have not had one or a Pepsi for many years now. The only fizzy man made drink I consume now is beer.

Considering some people use Coke to clean old coins I hate to think what it does to the stomach.

[lawman]

Considering some people use Coke to clean old coins I hate to think what it does to the stomach.

Lots of things can clean a coin, and some are even comsumeable - vinegar for instance.

Oh, and how about that stuff you have in your stomach? No, not that. I'm talking about hydrochloric acid. I bet that'd make short work of a dirty coin. :)

[ronin]

Indeed. I remember reading recently that gastric acid is so corrosive that the stomach itself has to create a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it starts digesting itself!

inbound> Isn't IRN BRU made from girders?

[Essex_boy]

Scotland gave us Curling, Golf, and proved that a man can feel perfectly secure wearing a dress - just the reasons TOO beat Scotland

[inbound]

Scotland GAVE the world Television, Economics, Anaesthesia, Antiseptics, Pennicillin, Pneumatic Tyres, The cure for Scurvey, The decimal point, Geoscience, Dolly the sheep, Hypodermic syringes, Golf, Kelvin temperature scale, Logarithms, Macadamised roads, Microwave ovens, Radar, refrigerators, Quinine (malaria cure), the steam engine, The Thermos, The Telephone (O.K. he was in canada when he invented it but he was educated in Scotland), Whisky and Iron Bridges.

Unfortunately the whole world seems to be doing a good job of SELLING some of these things back to us.

[lawman]

So I guess that means that a Chevrolet Corvette is a French sports car.

[Visit Thailand]

Lots of things can clean a coin, and some are even comsumeable - vinegar for instance.

True but one does not tend to drink vinegar!

[lawman]

Of course I was trying to make a point. I guess I'll just ask a point blank question:

Do you know of any valid scientific studies that show that consuming Coca Cola in any quantity has any detrimental effect on the stomach?

BTW look what I found out about a substance in wine [en.wikipedia.org]. Very interesting that section about Tartaric acid in wine. Also interesting that "When cream of tartar is added to water, a suspension results which serves to clean coins very well."

You don't drink wine do you?

[Visit Thailand]

I do not drink any man made carbonated drinks (except beer) for health reasons.

I am more than happy with water. Reasons are they (I believe) are bad for your health, bad for your bone density, make you fat, and help to rot the teeth, among other things.

[Lilliabeth]

Scotland GAVE the world Television, Economics, Anaesthesia, Antiseptics, Pennicillin, Pneumatic Tyres, The cure for Scurvey, The decimal point, Geoscience, Dolly the sheep, Hypodermic syringes, Golf, Kelvin temperature scale, Logarithms, Macadamised roads, Microwave ovens, Radar, refrigerators, Quinine (malaria cure), the steam engine, The Thermos, The Telephone (O.K. he was in canada when he invented it but he was educated in Scotland), Whisky and Iron Bridges.

Unfortunately the whole world seems to be doing a good job of SELLING some of these things back to us.

That surprises me on a couple of fronts. First, I am surprised to hear that none of the people involved in any of those undertakings ever received money for their work. Second, I would have thought they were works by individuals or teams, but did not know they were sponsored by a nation.

[ronin]

That depends on whether you define "a nation" as the governmental administration, or the people.

[Lilliabeth]

That depends on whether you define "a nation" as the governmental administration, or the people.

I'll rephrase:

That surprises me on a couple of fronts. First, I am surprised to hear that none of the people involved in any of those undertakings ever received money for their work. Second, I would have thought they were works by individuals or teams, but did not know they were sponsored by either the governmental administration of a nation or the people of a nation.

[inbound]

I used the word 'gave' in a less than literal way. Certainly some of the people involved did well out of their inventions but I phrased it in such a way to pass comment on the turnaround in the fortunes of Scotland.

Scotland's not the centre of innovation that it used to be, sadly we have a country that is suffering a drawn-out death apart from a couple of flourishing cities.

[tomda]

Have a Meca Cola!
As bad as the Coke :)

but Coke owns Limca, Thums Up, Maaza and others.

Same here, in East Africa, Coke owns most of soda market with a large number of other names trademarked Coca Cola.

But where I live, the most surprising is the fact that :
1/ You can be in the middle of nowhere, but litterally nowhere, and find a small Coca-cola kiosk selling soda with few locals drinking warm coca under the shadow of an acacia tree. Coke is found everywhere and is largely available.
2/ Coke is much cheaper than mineral water.