Coke to introduce carbonated milk drink

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/drinks/article6727700.ece

The drink contains skimmed milk mixed with sparking water, flavoured with fruit and sweetened with cane sugar.

Scientists have developed the drink at the firm’s laboratories in Atlanta, Georgia, ensuring it will not curdle in its 8oz aluminium bottle.

Going under the name Vio, Coca-Cola has begun test-marketing the carbonated drink at natural food stores and delis in New York It sells for about £1.50 a bottle, no chilling required. One of Coke’s copywriters claims it tastes “like a birthday party for a polar bear”.

It comes in four “natural” flavours — peach mango, berry, citrus and tropical colada — and could even be marketed as a healthy nutritional drink. But it has 26g of sugar a bottle, on a par with other non-diet Coca-Cola products, and 1.5g of fat.

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The drink is part of a wider Coke initiative called Project Life to develop milk-based products. If it is a success in the United States it could be launched globally.

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a lot like this Coke product will taste. Feh!

Like 7up which, IIRC, went "natural" at about the same time they replaced sugar with High Fructose Corn Syrup...

:puke:

That way, our kids will learn to dislike milk unless it's artificially sweetened.
Another triumph for Big Carbohydrates.
(I'm sorry. I just happen to love milk the way it is. Preferably skimmed. )

http://www.peertrainer.com/DFcaloriecounterB.aspx?id=70

12-13 grams per serving.

about the same carb content as a cup of green beans (8-10)

...which means its chock full of chemicals and additives with names you can't even pronounce.

people who are dumb enough to drink this shit are like unwitting guinea pigs in a lab experiment whether they know it or not.

sounds dangerous..all that bubbling, snapping, Crackling & popping :)

I see more gallon jugs of "chocolate" milk in shopping carts here in Minnesota than regular milk.

If it's not sweet I can't get it down. Makes me gag.

:puke:

No thank you.

Even in the most metropolitan of cities, it's still inconvenient to get currency exchanged to buy goods priced in pounds sterling.

no thanks. Don't need osteoporosis, and just reading how much sugar is in a bottle is making me have a hypoglycemic reaction. Hope my local health food store never stocks it.

and water-- no sodas, including diet sodas. I've learned to make the most wonderful green, white, and fruit/flower enhanced iced black tea from premium loose teas. And, I make one iced latte (or hot in winter time) using premium expresso, high quality organic milk, and the best cinnamon on top I can find. Never even miss the sugar, much less the high fructose corn syrup crap in everything else. Coke can keep that new crap.

Now to work more on the exercise front....;)

from John's Drive-In out in Montauk. His Pumpkin and also Peanut Butter/Chocolate ice cream is to die for.

Ingredients:

Classic chocolate flavor: Water, dairy whey, high fructose corn syrup and/or sugar, non-fat milk, corn syrup solids, cocoa (processed with potassium carbonate), soybean oil (partially hydrogenated), sodium caseinate (protein source), salt, tricalcium phosphate, dipotassium phosphate, xanthum gum, guar gum, mono-and diglycerides, vanillin (an artificial flavor), soy lechitin, calcium ascorbate (vitamin C), natural flavor, vitamin A palmiate, niacinamide

Like all good progressives, new things confuse and enrage me.

Maybe this stuff will have a similar taste. I think Vio is a terrible name though.

I remember Yoo Hoo was a carbonated chocolate milk but it also came in strawberry and banana. I haven't bought anything like that in years. Do they still make Yoo Hoo?

Classic chocolate flavor: Water, dairy whey, high fructose corn syrup and/or sugar, non-fat milk, corn syrup solids, cocoa (processed with potassium carbonate), soybean oil (partially hydrogenated), sodium caseinate (protein source), salt, tricalcium phosphate, dipotassium phosphate, xanthum gum, guar gum, mono-and diglycerides, vanillin (an artificial flavor), soy lechitin, calcium ascorbate (vitamin C), natural flavor, vitamin A palmiate, niacinamide

and as much as I was tempted to try making it, I didn't. (figured it was a weaker form of rootbeer float)

You description is very apt.

blech

this is just vomit-worthy

My SIL tried to get me to sample some orange soda in milk one time.


Nope...sorry.


bubbles and milk

:puke:

and just a little at that.

this concoction by coke sounds like that redheaded step child of an egg cream soda.

Whose first alcoholic drink was vodka and milk, because it was "almost like food" (which, in her fundamentalist background-addled mind made it less of a sin)

(Moloko = Russian for milk)

Who knows what ingredients will really be in it? See you at the Korova Milk Bar.:scared:

:hi:

I drink Pepsi products now. They're more friendly to humanity.

Or, vice-versa.

:shudder:

Remember New Coke?