The Pepsi Japan’s marketing team is on a roll with .. uh, creative .. limited edition releases of Pepsi. From the same people that brought you Pepsi Cucumber Ice, Pepsi Baobab, Pepsi Shiso, Pepsi Blue Hawaii, and Pepsi Azuki, Pepsi Japan would like to introduce to you Pepsi Mont Blanc. Never ceasing to amaze me, the new product will taste like the popular Mont Blanc dessert, mixing the taste of marron (chestnut) and snow from Mont Blanc.
French for “white mountain”, Mont Blanc pays to tribute to France’s Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the European Union. Scheduled for release October 26, Mont Blanc is also a fitting tribute to the nearing start of winter.
This is a great example of why the Internet is awesome. If it was not for the fine folks at Chow.com, I might never have known about what quite possibly might be the most amazing “soda pop shop” in the world!
Chow.om recently released an insightful and inspirational video featuring John Nese, the proprietor of Galcos Soda Pop Stop. Galco’s Soda Pop Stop in Los Angeles, CA carries over 450 different sodas in glass bottles, old-fashioned candies that people have forgotten about and over 500 different beers from around the world. And everything but the beer is available for purchase online.
In the video, John Nese discusses the history of Galco’s Pop Stop, glass bottles, corn syrup vs. cane sugar, diet sodas, big business, the CRV, and addresses the question: What kind of soda would you make?
“What I would like to see is a rootbeer-cola. There was actually a company about a hundred years ago called ‘Roobeer Cola’ — and it was a cross between a rootbeer and a cola. And I’m just fascinated with that. Or I’d like to see a pineapple-cream. I just think that is would be delicious and I’ve been trying to get someone to make it. So, we’ll see.” — John Nese.
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The kids over at Geekologie always seem to be in the know about new, crazy happenings in the fine beverage industry. Case and point: they recently announce that Jones Soda is planning to release a bacon flavored soda and a pizza flavored soda.
Might sound outlandish, but considering its track record with odd flavors such as “Turkey & Gravy”, “Green Bean Casserole”, and “Tofurky & Gravy”, these flavors really aren’t that extreme. Especially with the recent bacon craze sweeping across just about every industry. Bacon vodka, bacon jelly beans, bacon toothpicks, bacon beers, etc. — you name it, and there is probably a bacon version available. Continue Reading »
I can’t really explain what is going on in this photo, but all I can say is that I want whatever they are drinking. And as far as I can tell, they are chugging Red Bull like its going out of style.
Technically, the event is over. But I guarantee that if Mutineer Chief Energyologist, Jeff Dorenbush, got wind of Red Bull’s Flugtag, he would have been all over this action-packed, super intense, energy drink-enforced “flying” experience. If given the proper preparation time, Jeff probably would have crafted his own wings from back copies of Mutineer Magazine sprinkled with fairy dust and rubbed with Kryptonite… with one hand holding a Red Bull the entire time.
This past Labor Day, Red Bull went all out for its annual “Red Bull Flugtag” in Philadelphia. “Red Bull Flugtag, which means “flying day” in German, is a competition that dares both the brave and the brainy to design, build and pilot homemade flying machines off a 30-foot high ramp in hopes of achieving human-powered flight.” Continue Reading »
Gift cards are great. They show you that the giver took enough time at the checkout line to think of a place that you’d like and lock you into spending a certain amount of money at that establishment. The only problem with the gift card idea is the transmission of funds. You have to carry around another de facto credit card. Don’t get me wrong, I love having a gift card in my wallet if I ever need to open a door, but I already have a Ralph’s card for that.
All you iPhoners out there already have the ability to load up your phone with Starbucks Starbucks giftcards, but recently, the iPhone’s ugly cousin, Blackberry, got the power as well. When someone gives you a gift card, you just enter it into the app and chuck the card in the recycle bin. Next time you order your French Press (seriously, it’s off menu, but go to a store and try it today) all you have to do is quit Facebooking long enough to open the Starbucks app. The barista on register will scan the barcode on your phone and you’re good to go. Technology, FTW! Continue Reading »
The Charleston Tea Plantation, located on Wadmalaw Island in the lowcountry of South Carolina, is the only working tea plantation in the United States. Growing over 320 varieties of the Camellia Sinensis plant (originally brought over from China in the 1700′s), the tea garden produces both black and green teas.
Despite their deliciously libacious start in China, the plants didn’t successfully produce tea here until 1888, when Dr. Charles Shepard founded the Pinehurst Tea Plantation in Summerville, South Carolina. But when Shepard died in 1915, his formerly award-winning tea bushes grew wild. It wasn’t until 1968 that the bushes were transplanted and took hold on a former potato farm on Wadmalaw Island, transforming the land into a place for experimental tea research. In 1987, a third-generation tea taster named William Barclay Hall purchased the land and converted it from a research and development property into a commercial business. The Charleston Tea Plantation was born. Continue Reading »
Earlier today, BAZI International Inc., provider of nutritional foods and beverages designed to help enhance physical health and overall performance, announced the official launch of its primary product, BAZI (pronounced Bah-Zee) — an alternative energy shot containing eight super fruits (jujube, acai, mangosteen, goji, pomegranate, blueberry, raspberry and seabuckthor) and a variety of phytonutrients, antioxidants, vitamins and trace minerals.
“Unlike other energy shots that overload the body with excessive caffeine, sugar, B vitamins, taurine, and other artificial stimulants, BAZI combines nature’s finest ingredients for increased energy and better performance.” — Kevin C. Sherman, BAZI President and CEO. “With BAZI, there’s no crash, no warning label, and no adverse effects to your health. Pure and simple, BAZI is energy and nutrition.” Continue Reading »
Around 5PM yesterday evening, approximately 500 Coca-Cola employees, from six “Teamster Local Unions” across Western Washington, went on strike as a result of the company’s “surveillance and intimidation of its employees” and its “refusal to bargain a contract in good faith.”
Coca-Cola is currently under investigation by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for serious and repeated violations of federal labor law, including “surface bargaining”, surveillance of its employees, and threatening to retaliate against workers for engaging in protected activities. Continue Reading »
