Sparkling canned coffee

Since there are a lot of vending machines in Japan, automatically there’s a wide variety of canned drinks. For sodas, of course Coke and Pepsi are popular, then Mistuya cider and CC Lemon (Funny ad) are next. Schweppes is very hard to find in Japan. Talking about fruit juices, this is natchan for Japanese. This isn’t Tropicana, is it? They don't have canned juice, right? While exercising, isotonic drink is nice to drink, but my American friend says some isotonic drinks have strange names. I knew Pocali Sweat has a strange name, but what about Post water? When I eat a lunch box [bento], green tea or oolong tea is good. Actually, recently because of a health trend, I hear the sale of green tea is rising every year.

But I wonder the most popular canned drink would be cold coffee (In Japan, it is called "ice coffee". I heard cold coffee is weird for foreign people, do you think so too? Here is the popular canned coffee ranking (JP). The date was the sales of canned coffee in convenient store during a week last year.

No1 Boss Rainbow Mountain (Suntry): Tommy Lee Jones appears in their TV ads. The setting is he is an Alien and does research about the earth. Version 1 : Japanese guys talk "I heard some alien came to the earth and do research here, he looks like Tommy Lee Jones! ha ha ha" and left the Yoshinoya. Then Tommy Lee Jones quotes "People in this planet seem not to be so smart, but at least the Sunset is beautiful". Version 2 : he starts to work in a factory, he quotes "People in this planet seem to be　workaholic, and they love to be "tired".

No2 Fire Only One (Kirin): Please check the TV-CM part. There are bear and big versions. The guy is Takashi Sorimachi who is the husband of Nanako Matsushima. I love this most in the TV ads of Namacha.

No.3 Georgia Grande and No.4 Georgia Emerald Mountain blend are products of Coca cola Japan. They release a lot of canned coffee of the Georgia brand. But I can't recommend any, because usually canned coffee is too sweet. Not only Georgia, but also Boss, Fire, and all other canned coffees are too sweet and have high calories.!!

So I don't drink at all? When I drink canned coffee, I choose black with no sugar. No.5 is Black No Sugar (UCC). But I must say canned coffee lovers like its sweetness. I can say it would be correct to say Japanese canned coffee is not real coffee, it’s a coffee taste sweet drink with milk.(Yeah! now I realized. Except for black coffee, milk is in every canned coffee.)

Anyway Nestle Japan released Sparkling coffee. I have not tried yet. Some said it's not so bad. Hmm I have no idea what it will taste like. Do you want to try it?

Comments

[Josh]

I think these guys: http://www.cannedcoffee.com have some info on the 'ole cans of coffee.

[suzanne]

Yay Mitsuya cider! daisuki dessssssu!

[rc]

"there's nothing wrong with cold coffee. its awesome. specially in the summers." =)

I believe you. I'll have to give it a try sometime.

[kei]

there's nothing wrong with cold coffee. its awesome. specially in the summers. i remember when i was little, cold coffee was the only kind of coffee that my mother would let me drink in the summer.

"post water" .. haha, that's funny.

^_^

[abraxis]

I'll try it! What's not to like?

Coffee...GOOD!
Fizzy...GOOD!

Put them together! GOOD!

[rc]

"Anyway Nestle Japan released Sparkling coffee. I have not tried yet. Some said it's not so bad. Hmm I have no idea what it will be. You want to try it?"

Oh No! That is so wrong. But I do love (unsweetened) Iced Tea (with a lemon wedge), which, perhaps, may get a similar reaction from someone from Japan. Of course, I live in North Carolina, so I WOULD say that.

[Cath]

I LOVE the drinks in Japan cos they're usually very delicious. Mm... I think I would really want to visit Japan again. Maybe in June.

[Jenn]

We have "frappuchino" which is like a coffee milkshake, or like cold coffee blended with shaved ice. But when I went to Japan I loved cold coffee drinks, and I still buy "gogo no koucha" when I can find it here in America!