With this.
Posted on 06/13/2007 1:12:42 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan
TOKYO - Japanese are staying cool as a cucumber this summer with "Pepsi Ice Cucumber" — a new soda based on the crisp green gourd.
The soft drink, which hit stores here on Tuesday, doesn't actually have any cucumber in it — but has been artificially flavored to resemble "the refreshing taste of a fresh cucumber," said Aya Takemoto, spokeswoman of Japan's Pepsi distributor, Suntory Ltd.
"We wanted a flavor that makes people think of keeping cool in the summer heat," Takemoto said. "We thought the cucumber was just perfect."
The mint-colored soda is on sale just for the summer and only in Japan, Takemoto said. She said initial sales were brisk, and Suntory aims to sell 200,000 cases over the next three months.
Pepsi trails behind industry leaders Coca Cola (Japan) Company, with about 15 percent of the Japanese cola market, and also faces stiff competition from non-fizzy bottled drinks like green tea and coffee, which are popular here.
Suntory said it sold 20.5 million cases of Pepsi brand drinks in 2006, including its popular Pepsi NEX zero-calorie soda.
ohhhh...you like shopping at the mall ...and sipping cucumber drinks at the hair salon....wait'll I tell the boys down at the club ;-)
I live about 5 miles from Tarpon Springs, FL. We have more Greeks around here than Greece!
My wife and I went to a middle eastern restaurant years ago. We were the only ones there. The waiter came out and told us what we were having. He just plain told us the way it was going to be. Roasted lamb with onions and tomatoes, hummus, all sorts of weird stuff. Every last thing was delicious.
It may be one of those times when ignorance is bliss. ;o)
When we were in Tokyo in 2005, I enjoyed the taste of Porcari Sweat, and the fact that there were vending machines all over town selling it made it easy to always have a cold drink that didn't dehydrate me, when I needed one!
Since when did cucumber become a popular flavor? Hendricks gin is flavored with cucumber, for some bizarre reason.
Whatever.
I’ll bet it was! I’m getting hungry.....Roast lamb, mmmmm....
That brand of ice cream also comes in raw horse meat chunks flavor.
In Guatemala they make a drink out of cucumber. Just like lemonade, but with cucumbers instead. It’s actually pretty good.
You can beat a Mackerel Daiquiri.
With this.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Mmmmmmmmm!.....raw horse meat chunks flavor........
You gotta have something to wash down those seaweed-flavored potato chips.
i remember dr.brown’s celery tonic-it tasted a lot better than it sounds-crisp and refreshing and slightly astringent
when my wife was pregnant the first time she developed a liking for sanwiches made with sardines,mayo,tomato and raisins(!!)-my daughter is in her thirties and totally normal,so i guess no harm done:))
I love cucumbers, so it sound alright to me.
Reminds me of my recent visits to eastern Ukraine. The outdoor markets have the best produce I've ever seen. All of it grown locally and all of it surpassing in quality, appearance and flavor anything that I can find in the grocery stores here.
Hey, my cat would like that. He always likes to drink water from our fish bowl...
There was an excellent aloe and grape drink sold in Japan for a while, although I don’t think the one that I particularly liked is still sold.
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