[Sca-cooks] OOP - Speaking of Coca Cola

[Celia des Archier]

I saw Coca-Cola Blak in my grocery store last week, and being intrigued by
the packaging (Coca-Cola has the best marketers in the world), took a look
at it to see what it was.

To describe it, the label says only "fusion drink", so I turn to the
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

So... sugar, aspartame *and* acesulfame potassium (OMG!  How sweet is this
going to be!?) and coffee enhanced by caffeine? 

While there are only 12 g of carbs/sugars in the bottle (compared to around
30-40 in a bottle of cola), it's also only an 8 oz. bottle (compared to a
12oz. cola)  

And I don't even want to know how much caffeine is in it.  But then
Coca-Cola has a habit of adding caffeine to pretty much anything they can
get away with (again - great marketing... caffeine gives you a "high" and is
mildly addictive, but only in large enough quantities used repeatedly... as
anyone who drinks a lot of caffeine and has had to suffer the 3 day headache
that comes with flushing it from your system ;-) 

So I passed.  I think I'll decline trying this particular Coke product. 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sca-cooks-bounces+celiadesarchier=cox.net at ansteorra.org [mailto:sca-
> cooks-bounces+celiadesarchier=cox.net at ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Stefan
> li Rous
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:00 PM
> To: SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OOP - Speaking of Coca Cola
> 
> Glancing through my digests before I go back to last weekend to start
> reading my unread ones, I saw Johnnae comment:
> ====
> Does it come about from iced coffee? Maybe it's to wake up teen-agers
> for 8am classes?
> I see from their website they are doing these drinks--
> Coca-Cola Announces Plans To Launch Diet Black Cherry Vanilla CokeR And
> Black Cherry Vanilla Coke
> =====
> 
> Bah. Humbug. Before they start throwing all those flavors together,
> they ought to fix what they have.
> Where's my diet Jolt??? All the caffeine you need with none of that
> bad for you sugar!  :-)