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Cucumber-flavored soda sold in Japan
AP Yahoo ^ | Wed Jun 13, 7:47 AM ET

Posted on 06/13/2007 1:12:42 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan

TOKYO - Japanese are staying cool as a cucumber this summer with "Pepsi Ice Cucumber" — a new soda based on the crisp green gourd.

The soft drink, which hit stores here on Tuesday, doesn't actually have any cucumber in it — but has been artificially flavored to resemble "the refreshing taste of a fresh cucumber," said Aya Takemoto, spokeswoman of Japan's Pepsi distributor, Suntory Ltd.

"We wanted a flavor that makes people think of keeping cool in the summer heat," Takemoto said. "We thought the cucumber was just perfect."

The mint-colored soda is on sale just for the summer and only in Japan, Takemoto said. She said initial sales were brisk, and Suntory aims to sell 200,000 cases over the next three months.

Pepsi trails behind industry leaders Coca Cola (Japan) Company, with about 15 percent of the Japanese cola market, and also faces stiff competition from non-fizzy bottled drinks like green tea and coffee, which are popular here.

Suntory said it sold 20.5 million cases of Pepsi brand drinks in 2006, including its popular Pepsi NEX zero-calorie soda.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: artificial; cucumbers; japaneserfriggnweird; pepsi; soda; yuck
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To: The_Reader_David
my wife’s salon for a couple of years was in a mall I liked shopping at. . .

ohhhh...you like shopping at the mall ...and sipping cucumber drinks at the hair salon....wait'll I tell the boys down at the club ;-)

61 posted on 06/13/2007 2:21:19 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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To: Verloona Ti

I live about 5 miles from Tarpon Springs, FL. We have more Greeks around here than Greece!

My wife and I went to a middle eastern restaurant years ago. We were the only ones there. The waiter came out and told us what we were having. He just plain told us the way it was going to be. Roasted lamb with onions and tomatoes, hummus, all sorts of weird stuff. Every last thing was delicious.


62 posted on 06/13/2007 2:23:14 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (THOMPSON NEEDS TO CLARIFY HIS POSITION ON THE SPP BEFORE I SUPPORT HIM.)
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To: Vigilanteman
damn, it worked! I still don't know what was in it.

It may be one of those times when ignorance is bliss. ;o)

When we were in Tokyo in 2005, I enjoyed the taste of Porcari Sweat, and the fact that there were vending machines all over town selling it made it easy to always have a cold drink that didn't dehydrate me, when I needed one!

63 posted on 06/13/2007 2:24:31 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: ElkGroveDan

Since when did cucumber become a popular flavor? Hendricks gin is flavored with cucumber, for some bizarre reason.

Whatever.


64 posted on 06/13/2007 2:28:17 PM PDT by Vision ("Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him." Jeremiah 17:7)
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To: ovrtaxt

I’ll bet it was! I’m getting hungry.....Roast lamb, mmmmm....


65 posted on 06/13/2007 2:32:52 PM PDT by Verloona Ti (Jesus says, Forgive your brother 70x7 times. Mo says, Kill your brother if he leaves islam.)
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To: angkor

That brand of ice cream also comes in raw horse meat chunks flavor.


66 posted on 06/13/2007 2:35:47 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: ElkGroveDan

In Guatemala they make a drink out of cucumber. Just like lemonade, but with cucumbers instead. It’s actually pretty good.


67 posted on 06/13/2007 2:37:01 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: ElkGroveDan
Mix that with some crabmeat and avocado flavored drink, then soak it all into seaweed-wrapped rice and dunk into soy sauce... yum?
68 posted on 06/13/2007 2:42:53 PM PDT by non-anonymous
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To: ElkGroveDan

You can beat a Mackerel Daiquiri.


69 posted on 06/13/2007 2:44:43 PM PDT by manic4organic (Send a care package through USO today.)
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To: Larry Lucido; angkor
... where does it all end?

With this.


70 posted on 06/13/2007 3:03:11 PM PDT by uglybiker (relaxing in a luxuriant cloud of quality, aromatic, pre-owned tobacco essence)
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To: ElkGroveDan
ohhhh...you like shopping at the mall ...and sipping cucumber drinks at the hair salon....wait'll I tell the boys down at the club ;-)

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

71 posted on 06/13/2007 3:07:56 PM PDT by darkangel82 (Socialism is NOT an American value.)
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To: ViLaLuz

Mmmmmmmmm!.....raw horse meat chunks flavor........

72 posted on 06/13/2007 3:10:44 PM PDT by uglybiker (relaxing in a luxuriant cloud of quality, aromatic, pre-owned tobacco essence)
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To: dighton

You gotta have something to wash down those seaweed-flavored potato chips.

73 posted on 06/13/2007 3:12:52 PM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: ElkGroveDan

i remember dr.brown’s celery tonic-it tasted a lot better than it sounds-crisp and refreshing and slightly astringent


74 posted on 06/13/2007 3:14:45 PM PDT by steamroller
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To: clamper1797

when my wife was pregnant the first time she developed a liking for sanwiches made with sardines,mayo,tomato and raisins(!!)-my daughter is in her thirties and totally normal,so i guess no harm done:))


75 posted on 06/13/2007 3:17:43 PM PDT by steamroller
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To: ElkGroveDan

I love cucumbers, so it sound alright to me.


76 posted on 06/13/2007 3:17:52 PM PDT by Vicki (Washington State where anyone can vote .... illegals, non-residents or anyone just passing through)
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To: CheyennePress
I was in Romania recently, and their cucumbers are amazing. Frankly, the kick the daylights out of the ones we have here.

Reminds me of my recent visits to eastern Ukraine. The outdoor markets have the best produce I've ever seen. All of it grown locally and all of it surpassing in quality, appearance and flavor anything that I can find in the grocery stores here.

77 posted on 06/13/2007 3:48:24 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68
Yes, and slightly down wind of Chernobyl. A couple more bushels full of Ukraine produce and your too can have body parts that glow in the dark....
78 posted on 06/13/2007 4:11:48 PM PDT by Anti-Hillary (Anyone but Hitlery)
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To: ElkGroveDan
trout-flavored coffee.

Hey, my cat would like that. He always likes to drink water from our fish bowl...

79 posted on 06/13/2007 4:34:39 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: ElkGroveDan

There was an excellent aloe and grape drink sold in Japan for a while, although I don’t think the one that I particularly liked is still sold.


80 posted on 06/13/2007 6:09:14 PM PDT by snowsislander
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