[paraphrasing Grampa Simpson]I used to drink Coke®, but then they changed what “Coke®” was. Now what I drink isn’t Coke®, and what is “Coke®” seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you![/paraphrasing Grampa Simpson]
Actually, this is a very interesting question. Coke is a very important symbol of Americana (not that important, but around as important as other foodstuffs such as burgers and hot dogs). Although, if you think about it, before Dr. Pembleton invented the famous softdrink on May 8, 1886, there was no Coca-Cola. Who knows? Perhaps if the last Coca-Cola was consumed, people would go back to drinking what people were drinking B.C. (before Coke), if it still existed.
Honestly, if there were just one last Coke on Earth, I might be willing to fight to the death for it. I’ve recently rediscovered how much I truly love the stuff and buy it in quantity now. About the only thing that could tear me away from my beloved Coke is milk, particularly chocolate milk. And orange Gatorade is a close second to Coke for me.
My girlfriend’s getting mighty sick of this. Every time I’m around her and I’m drinking Coke, I start in with something like this: “Sweet, sweet Coca-cola! God, I love it. It’s like God descended from Heaven and created the perfect drink.” Of course, I refer to chocolate milk as the nectar of the gods, so both statements are called into question, but hey… nobody said I had to be consistent.
I think Redboss’s is most likely (probably because it was the idea that first popped into my mind.) I have no doubt that Coca-Cola will disappear for all things must end given enough time, but it won’t happen in my lifetime.
But something tells me that the last Coke will be served with the last Big Mac…
A dealer at the Cadilac/Olds dealer told my friend that they are doing away with the name “Oldsmobile”…
Appearently, it just doesn’t sit well with today’s “forever young” car buyer…
But Coke, now…
I don’t know if I’d wanna live in a world without Coke…Coke is so much more than a soft drink…Its an ice cold can of America, served around the world, drank by even our enemies…
You can have my Coke when you pry it from my cold, dead hands…Or I finish it…
Way back when, there was a game called Mechforce for the Amiga, it was basically a computerized version of FASA’s battletech done in a wargame style rather than the first person style you see today. The game allowed multiple players, and was basically the tabletop game computerized. Anyways, one of the missions/scenarios of the game was for one team to safely get its precious cargo from one end of the map to the other, guarded by 45-100 ton mechs (Think a battalion of tanks)…the cargo? The universes last bottle of Pepsi / Coke (Depends on scenario chosen) which is the dowry for a very important marriage between two ruling houses.
So, we now know…the last bottle of coke will exist sometime in the 30th century and will be so precious it is considered a kings ransom and will be guarded fanatically by entire armys.
I have become a bit addicted to the Cola recently. And it is NOT the caffine, despite popular belief. I can drink decaf coke just as easily as regular, so I am not worried about that kind of dependency. Recently though, I have tried working at least one bottled water or so into my diet, per day. I know all you health nuts cringe when I say that I can go through a 12 pack of coke, in one day, simple, but I am working on it a bit. And yes, I realize that one bottle of water per day is not nearly enough, but it is better than my previous habbits, so I am a bit happy about that. If coke ceased production, I would have to live off of Voodoo Rain, another beverage that has found it’s way into my cupo holder more and more recently.
Have you ever tasted Moxie? A few years ago, a friend of mine visited Maine and came back with a case of it. I tried a bottle, but couldn’t drink more than half of it. All the advertising in the world couldn’t save that icky stuff.
Going off onto another tangent, are we talking the last bottle of Coke or the last can?
Sure. In fact, I’ve got a sixpack in my fridge right now. I’ll grant you it’s an acquired taste. But if you can drink and enjoy coffee, Moxie’s no challenge.
well, since Coke contains gum arabic, and the world’s gum arabic supply is brought to you courtesy of only one Sudanese company, owned by none other than “U. bin Laden”, it might not be too long now…at least according to Fox news :rolleyes: of course, there’s no synthetic substitute for gum arabic. Just ask any watercolour artist.
paah! They’ll get the last Coke when they can pry it from my cold dead fingers.
BTW, slight digression…what is “Jolt”, and is it any good?
Jolt is a cola beverage with “all the sugar and twice the caffeine.” It hit big when I was in junior high (mid-80s). I think Mountain Dew has surpassed in in the caffeine-junkie market but its still somewhat popular with college kids and others who need to stay up late.
It does? Wouldn’t that make it…uh…gummy? Let’s see…Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup and/or sucrose, caramel color, phosphoric acid, natural flavors, caffeine. No gum arabic that I can see. I think that Fox News may be blowing smoke up certain orifaces.
Naah, it’s only a little amount put in as a suspension agent. no gumminess there. If everything that was in there was listed on the can, would it be a secret formula for long? I think it could slot right there under natural flavours, easy.
That I knew already (see eg http://www.time.com/time/europe/af/magazine/0,9868,131061,00.html for Time’s take on it). It was the bit about him cornering the market that got my rolleyes smiley. No fears, the Time article seems to suggest that cola companies have enough stockpiled to see us through the lean times.
Hello, thanks for the info, since Jolt is unavailable here, looks like it’s the MD for me.
