wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (07/18/85)
My wife (Beverly) likes chocolate Coke -- like cherry Coke, but you use choclate syrup instead of cherry syrup. I find this unique -- I had never heard of it before I saw her do it. Anybody else like this? (I tasted it once and found it yucky, myself.) What other flavorings have people tried in Coke? (Either ones you've tried yourself or known of others trying?) (This does not count the apocryphal "dead mouse in the bottle" flavorings...) Will
woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) (07/18/85)
> What other flavorings have people tried in Coke?
I remember the vanilla Cokes I used to get at the soda fountain when I
was a kid. Just add a dash of vanilla (go easy! If you O.D. on the vanilla
it tastes awful) to a glass of Coke. For some reason, this really only
works with the old Coke. I tried it with Pepsi once but it just wasn't
the same.
--Greg
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CSNET: woods@NCAR ARPA: woods%ncar@CSNET-RELAYpumphrey@ttidcb.UUCP (Larry Pumphrey) (07/18/85)
My favorite flavoring to add to coke is called rum.
root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) (07/18/85)
Re: request for variations on plain coke I had a friend who swore by coke with milk in it. He convinced me to try it. Not that bad, I never was tempted to do it for myself tho, kind of a cola egg cream, why not? I doubt diet varieties would work, the sugar is critical to this one I think. What about those recipes for coke basted ham? I saw this in an otherwise funny '50's cookbook, I think the recipes were serious though. -Barry Shein, Boston University
zben@umd5.UUCP (07/20/85)
In article <415@ttidcb.UUCP> pumphrey@ttidcb.UUCP (Larry Pumphrey) writes: >My favorite flavoring to add to coke is called rum. Open a can of R.C. cola, then pour in some vodka and kahlua. Hey presto! A Decadent Russian! And (should you live amongst the unbenighted troglodytes, where drinking in public is not only frowned upon, but illegal) you can drink one while mowing your lawn, in full view! (This message was brought to you by the digraphs GM and GE, with additional funding from the trigraph IBM...) And the number "200 million". -- Ben Cranston ...{seismo!umcp-cs,ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!zben zben@umd2.ARPA
levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) (07/25/85)
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brad@kontron.UUCP (Brad Yearwood) (07/29/85)
> My wife (Beverly) likes chocolate Coke -- like cherry Coke, but you use > choclate syrup instead of cherry syrup. I find this unique -- I had > never heard of it before I saw her do it. Anybody else like this? (I > tasted it once and found it yucky, myself.) Sure - my local drugstore soda fountain made them, in Houston about 20 years ago. Wonderful! Anybody remember drugstore soda fountains - where you could get real *malts*, not just the insipid McShakes of today?
larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) (08/03/85)
> Sure - my local drugstore soda fountain made them, in Houston about 20 > years ago. Wonderful! Anybody remember drugstore soda fountains - where > you could get real *malts*, not just the insipid McShakes of today? Hell, yes! Those were the days! The soda jerk [ :-) ] would make anything than anyone wanted. I used to like pineapple cokes, and even tried pineapple-chocolate cokes. You could get any flavor milkshake you wanted - even orange and lemon. The soda fountains always had a plethora of syrups to make phosphates. Anyone remember phosphates? [not the detergent variety] Larry Lippman Recognition Research Corp. Clarence, New York UUCP {decvax,dual,rocksanne,rocksvax,watmath}!sunybcs!kitty!larry {rice,shell}!baylor!kitty!larry syr!buf!kitty!larry VOICE 716/741-9185 TELEX {via WUI} 69-71461 answerback: ELGECOMCLR "Have you hugged your cat today?"
oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) (08/05/85)
In article <226@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: > Someone else writes: >> Anybody remember drugstore soda fountains - where >> you could get real *malts*, not just the insipid McShakes of today? > > Hell, yes! Those were the days! The soda jerk [ :-) ] would make >anything than anyone wanted. I used to like pineapple cokes, and even tried >pineapple-chocolate cokes. You could get any flavor milkshake you wanted - >even orange and lemon. The soda fountains always had a plethora of syrups >to make phosphates. Anyone remember phosphates? [not the detergent variety] > Ah, yes, the good old days! Just last week I ambled down the road to the local dairy bar, and had myself a chocolate malted. I usually get the chocolate but sometimes go for the pineapple, cherry, blueberry... whatever I'm in the mood for. Yes, folks, living in the Dairy state has it's good points. As for phosphates, the last one I had was at the downtown drugstore something like 13 years ago. Well, you can't have everything. P.S. Is it true that McDonald's "shakes" are not called milkshakes because of a definite lack of anything resembling a dairy product? (I don't really want to know; it's just something to think about.) -- - joel "vo" plutchak {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster "Take what I say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is all confusion."
larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) (08/07/85)
joel "vo" plutchak writes: > P.S. Is it true that McDonald's "shakes" are not called milkshakes because of > a definite lack of anything resembling a dairy product? (I don't really want > to know; it's just something to think about.) "Seaweed Shakes" would be more like it, since the major constituent of fast-food shakes (besides water) is carrageenan. Carrageenan is a gel-forming polysaccharide extracted from seaweed called Carrageenan or Irish Moss. It's a white/gray powder which is virtually tasteless and odorless, and whose gel- forming abilities are truly amazing. I once demonstrated how to make a McShake at a party by taking 500 ml of water, adding 20 gr of carrageenan powder, 50 ml of milk, along with 20 ml of Hershey's syrup. After mixing in a blender, the finished product was really indistinguishable from the McDonald's product. Needless to say, there is damn little milk required to simulate a milkshake. While McDonald's does not post their ingredients, they generally are posted on chocolate milk containers where carrageenan is the most common thickening agent in use; take a look some time. Another thickening agent commonly used in food products is xanthan gum, which is made from the lips of young xanth's... Larry Lippman Recognition Research Corp. Clarence, New York UUCP {decvax,dual,rocksanne,rocksvax,watmath}!sunybcs!kitty!larry {rice,shell}!baylor!/ syr!buf!/ VOICE 716/741-9185 TELEX {via WUI} 69-71461 answerback: ELGECOMCLR "Have you hugged your cat today?"
jcjeff@ihlpg.UUCP (Richard Jeffreys) (08/10/85)
> P.S. Is it true that McDonald's "shakes" are not called milkshakes because > of a definite lack of anything resembling a dairy product? (I don't really > want to know; it's just something to think about.) > - joel "vo" plutchak > {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster Somebody mentioned this to to me once, the next time I was in McDonalds I looked at the price list above the counter. They are called shakes, but the little red milk symbol was displayed along side. My guess is that there is therefore some milk in them, but it may only be a small amount. -- [ Why pander life's complexities, when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat - The Smiths ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ || From the keys of Richard Jeffreys ( British Citizen Overseas ) || || employed by North American Philips Corporation || || @ AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, Illinois || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ || General disclaimer about anything and everything that I may have typed || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------