Melon soda
May 5, 2007 | 7:48 pm
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Most traditional coffee shops serve "melon float," melon soda with vanilla ice cream floating in it.
Actually, my favorite melon beverage is "melon juice," sold mostly in basements of department stores at a counter with a row of blenders. It's kind of like an Orange Julius, only made with honeydew melon. You can also get strawberry and other fruits blended up with whatever milky substance that is.
Japanese beverage vending machines hold endless fascination as soft drink varieties come and go. Aside from the endless variety of coffee beverages and the growing number of tea beverages, I have seen apple soda, mango soda, cardamom soda, and plum wine soda--once each.
Actually, my favorite melon beverage is "melon juice," sold mostly in basements of department stores at a counter with a row of blenders. It's kind of like an Orange Julius, only made with honeydew melon. You can also get strawberry and other fruits blended up with whatever milky substance that is.
Japanese beverage vending machines hold endless fascination as soft drink varieties come and go. Aside from the endless variety of coffee beverages and the growing number of tea beverages, I have seen apple soda, mango soda, cardamom soda, and plum wine soda--once each.
May 7, 2007 | 8:01 am
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This link may help explain why there are so many versions of Fanta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-10zjT4OLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-10zjT4OLE
May 11, 2007 | 11:20 am
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Japanese beverage vending machines hold endless fascination as soft drink varieties come and go. Aside from the endless variety of coffee beverages and the growing number of tea beverages, I have seen apple soda, mango soda, cardamom soda, and plum wine soda--once each.
May 11, 2007 | 12:26 pm
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Apple tea soda is the one I wish I could find. The one time I've been to Japan, I ended up the trip with a couple days at Tokyo Disney Resort, and really enjoyed this particular drink there. Figured I live in southern California, there are tons of Japanese markets here--will be no problem to find it back home. No dice--if anyone's heard of it, they're sure it's not exported. Ah, well...
According to this website Liptons make it and it was available last November: http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/yorchie/diary/?ctgy=2 - the guy was stocking up as he said it was already disappearing from stores then.
The same flavour drink can be released by different companies during different years. Was it Liptons you had?
Non sparkling apple tea is a pretty common drink - so you should eventually find one kind or another.
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May 11, 2007 | 12:36 pm
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MrLapLap said he's had it a couple of times, once a least was from one of those vending machines that sell you a cup of drink with ice in it.
According to this website Liptons make it and it was available last November: http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/yorchie/diary/?ctgy=2 - the guy was stocking up as he said it was already disappearing from stores then.
The same flavour drink can be released by different companies during different years. Was it Liptons you had?
According to this website Liptons make it and it was available last November: http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/yorchie/diary/?ctgy=2 - the guy was stocking up as he said it was already disappearing from stores then.
The same flavour drink can be released by different companies during different years. Was it Liptons you had?
May 11, 2007 | 1:08 pm
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It was Kirin, and admittedly this was back in 2003, so who knows what might have happened since then. I hadn't really thought about it, or done any research, in a few years--this thread reminded me of it. I may have to poke around the net a bit this weekend and see if I can find any new info.
We have a virtual shrine for long departed drinks in this forum, you might like to pay your own respects...
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...72#post7574772
May 11, 2007 | 9:31 pm
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I could swear I've seen the Lipton apple version in Lawson's & AM/PM in the past few months. Comes in the pourable cardboard container. Lipton Peach tea seems to be in the cycle now & it's pretty good.
May 11, 2007 | 10:20 pm
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I remember some kind of apple tea with bubbles (from one of my student trips to Japan - back in the late '80s). Not a bad drink, but I've never noticed it since, I would guess that one maker or another gives it a go every so often.
May 11, 2007 | 10:40 pm
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The stuff in cartons is not sparkling though ....
I remember some kind of apple tea with bubbles (from one of my student trips to Japan - back in the late '80s). Not a bad drink, but I've never noticed it since, I would guess that one maker or another gives it a go every so often.
I remember some kind of apple tea with bubbles (from one of my student trips to Japan - back in the late '80s). Not a bad drink, but I've never noticed it since, I would guess that one maker or another gives it a go every so often.
May 12, 2007 | 12:48 am
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I don't think so.
IIRC it had an all kanji name - which was something along the lines of: iron|chef|red|tea|apple|taste|carbonated. (I might be wrong about the iron chef bit - but I distinctly recall "iron" in there somewhere).
The only place I ever saw it was in vending machines at Shinjuku station.
BTW - I notice that there are now vending machines at Akihabara station which sell bread-in-a-can. This is a realization of one of my very favourite home-made oyaji gags. (Q: What do you call a machine that sells bread? A: A jidou-pan-baiki).
IIRC it had an all kanji name - which was something along the lines of: iron|chef|red|tea|apple|taste|carbonated. (I might be wrong about the iron chef bit - but I distinctly recall "iron" in there somewhere).
The only place I ever saw it was in vending machines at Shinjuku station.
BTW - I notice that there are now vending machines at Akihabara station which sell bread-in-a-can. This is a realization of one of my very favourite home-made oyaji gags. (Q: What do you call a machine that sells bread? A: A jidou-pan-baiki).
May 30, 2007 | 6:03 pm
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Not sure if it's the drink or the advert that has legendary status.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko888qUIiYs
Suru means to finely grate (pulp) something - like you do with ginger/wasabi/daikon. Suta is the past tense so it means something that's been finely grated/pulped. I'll leave you to figure out what the other word means
There were a whole series of these adverts. Kerching! (Who said 'it don't come easy'?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko888qUIiYs
Suru means to finely grate (pulp) something - like you do with ginger/wasabi/daikon. Suta is the past tense so it means something that's been finely grated/pulped. I'll leave you to figure out what the other word means
There were a whole series of these adverts. Kerching! (Who said 'it don't come easy'?)
