 | New Products: The Tea-Green Incorruptible |
 jsuperfecta's private war with Cadbury/Schweppes may be winding down, as he's failed to find a reason to hate their new soda.
A Touch of Green
Few pleasures are available to me at the unnamed industrial facility in which I mark time, but the
mid-morning can of soda, and chucking small objects into the garbage bins at distance with
increasingly pin-point accuracy, are two. As Lee Harvey Oswald was seen in the lunchroom
enjoying a Coke just two minutes after the assassination, so am I seen to drink sodas in my
lunchroom while pondering the Kennedy mystery. The similarities end there, though, because while
he defected to Russia in the late '50s, I, if approached, would decline to defect in favour of
operating as a long-term mole, only fleeing when and if the counter-intelligence types began closing
in.
To preserve operational funds, I've taken to bringing in my own soda, as opposed to buying it from
the company's vending machine or from the roving food truck. This new product caught my eye at
the grocery, and its unusual ten-can case and higher-than-other-sodas price sealed the purchase.
And it delivers just what it promises; it tastes like ginger ale mixed with green tea, and that's pretty
good, if a little strange. A touch less sugar and it would really be aces, I think. Ice-cold, it does the
business nicely as a midday pick-me-up. Points to Cadbury/Schweppes for putting out a quality
new soda, when they could just be sitting back and enjoying the benefits of having cornered the
market in tonic water (save for store-brand tonic, which is only for the penurious). Another mixer
they have a monopoly on: Collins Mix, since to my knowledge, only Canada Dry has ever offered
such a product in stores. They don't any longer, though, and more's the pity.
(Control: These product reviews aren't operationally relevant, but writing on trivial matters for the
GC public site seems to be good therapy for overstressed agents. And if you had some rye in your
bar, Superfecta, you could have told us how this swill served as a mixer.)
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Re: The Tea-Green Incorruptible (Score: 1)
by cscott on Thursday, October 09 @ 07:47:53 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.globecord.com | A green tea/ginger ale eh? I might have to mix up one of those myself. A nice review, but you did fail to mention the price and a picture always adds to these reviews
On a more pertinent note, I think you have won your private war! Cadbury Schweppes has demerged [www.cadburyschweppes.com"] forming the spin off companies of Cadbury PLC [www.cadbury.com"] and the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group [www.drpeppersnapplegroup.com]. Globecord was clearly overmatched by the former company, but perhaps we stand a shot at defeating the smaller, and stupidly named, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group. I propose we set up an ideas committee to go over scenarios.
I will finish with a quote [www.drpeppersnapplegroup.com] from the new Dr. Pepper Snapple Group website:
Without the Civil War, there would be no Vernors.
Before the conflict began, James Vernor, a Detroit pharmacist, had concocted a new drink. It was a mix of 19 ingredients, including ginger, vanilla and natural flavorings.
When Vernor was called off to war in 1862, he stored the secret mixture in an oak cask in his pharmacy. After returning from battle four years later, he opened his secret keg and found the drink inside had been transformed by the aging process in the wood. It had taken on a zippy, zesty, gingery flavor. It was like nothing else he had ever tasted.
It was Vernors. |
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