Free Tea?
 

This is from CocaCola's website.

Coca-Cola News

Can someone please explain how it works?

Thank you

Here's how it works:

Coca Cola Japan is giving away a bottle of its new tea to 100,000 people on a first-come-first-served basis.

To get one, you need to copy that bar code into your cellphone on that website, which I'm sure will also be all over Japan in the printed media. This will be your free coupon.

Then you go to your nearest Coke vending machine that accepts payment thru cellphone and hold up your cellphone to it. The vending machine will recognize the coupon and give you your free tea.

Coca-Cola makes tea? o.O

Wow...

I was saying to myself "wow, you can pay a vending machine with your cell phone in Japan?" and here you are saying "Coca-Cola makes tea?"

:rolleyes:

Why not? You'd be a fool if you ran a beverage company in Japan and didn't make tea. Dontcha think? Whatever sells, you produce. :)

Wow! Do they have a certain flavor that only coca-cola makes?

A lot of companies produce canned and bottled teas in Japan and there's fierce competition among them. They are constantly trying to create "new" flavors by combining different brands of teas and/or roasting the tea leaves in new ways. Coca Cola is no exception. It introduces a new flavor almost twice a year but very few products last a year in reality. So you can say that Coca Cola has a flavor that only Coca Cola makes, but then again you can say the same about any other beverage company.

Pics of two top-selling lines of tea by Coca Cola. (It produces 7-8 lines in total.)

wow thats a big bottle O.O
what flavors are them? regular?

Yeah, the size variety itself should prove how much tea we drink over here.

As for the flavors, the top one is a mixure of several different teas and several different herbs. It tastes what we call "easy to drink", meaning it's gotta a very mild flavor. Young people seem to like it.

The bottom one is straight green tea. You wil probably find it bitter if you aren't used to drinking Japanese tea.
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Just in case you didn't know...

Coca Cola Japan produces tons of canned coffees as well and I think you will like its brand name.

lol georgia...lol but anyway i went to a anime convention b4 and they had chocolate tea...or something like that. have you tried that?

Chocolate tea? Never seen it in Japan. That's hardly a household name here.

i think that is what its called but im not sure. i will check next time i go to one.

Actually I wouldn't be surprised if there was a chocolate tea. Japanese companies occasionally do play "games" as marketing/advertising tactics. A couple of years ago, Pepsi introducued "Cucumber Pepsi". It succeeded in having consumers talk about it and uttering the name "Pepsi" a lot for a few weeks. Pepsi knew from the beginning that Cucumber Pepsi wouldn't sell much. (Because it tasted horrible!) It HAD TO be "cucumber" rather than "pineaplle" or "grapefruit" to have that desired impact. The Japanese consumers know how to play along with these business strategies.

It was only the North Americans living in Japan back then who made a fuss about Cucumber Pepsi and created many Youtube videos on the subject. ;)

lol so does pepsi and/or coca-cola over there have different flavors? like here we have coca-cola black cherry.

I never liked the idea of tea being sold canned or bottled.

I'm guessing this is ice tea, right?

is it green tea or erm.. Tea Tea? (lack of better words)

Edit: its brown in the bottle - stupid question..

My Sensei says that Ice Coffee is also big in Japan? Don't have that over here either.

Is the cucumber pepsi still about, Nagoyankee? I'd love to try it, just for laughs!

It's both iced and warm tea. You can buy both from vending machines and convenience stores. The bigger bottles are only available cold (or at room temperature).

We have been talking about green tea in this thread but Cola Cola and other companies also make canned and bottled English tea. When you roast green tea leaves in certain ways, the tea comes in brown.

Iced Coffee is huge here. As you know, we like doing things according to the season. The summer is hotter and more humid here than in your country, so cold drinks are in order.

And, no, Cucumber Pepsi isn't produced anymore. That was the plan. Pepsi knew it wasn't gonna be popular. The yukkier, the better. It got us to talk about the company.

Ahh I see. I wonder what the next crazy invention will be? Mango Coffee? :p Aloe Vera Milk?

I can't imagine iced coffee tasting too good.. I remember my mother once force feeding me cold, black coffee to force me to throw up when I'd drunk too much alcohol at my 16th birthday (you have to be 18 to drink in England) and I missed most of my party due to lack of consiousness :p

Good times :D

Right, something along those lines. It wil be something no one has ever thought about.

You will be hooked on the iced coffee here, believe me. It's not the same thing as hot coffee that's gotten cold.

LOL awesome ad, thanks for that :)

I imagined coca-cola tea to be in the red and white colours, but they make drinks like Lilt too, under different brand names. D'ya think their tea will still be on sale by the time I'm in Japan this time next year?

Yeah, sure. There's the whole series of those commercials on Youtube.

And I KNOW there will be Coca Cola teas when you come here. This is a tea-drinking nation and Coke isn't about to withdraw from its lucrative tea market.

This got a guilty laugh out of me, I was thinking the latter as well.

I love a good iced coffee, Nippy's is my favourite. Kenpachi I've got strawberries and cream, chocolate and pawpaw specialty teas in the pantry to name a few. Planning on trying the caramel tea next. Me and the local Tea Leaf suppliers have a good thing going.
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Another thing we have in common ;)

Wheres the best place to get a decent brew in your town?

ice coffee is big in america too i love it! they sell them at Mcdonalds and at coffee shops like starbucks.

Yeah, I loved the Japanese iced coffees! They were cheap and good tasting. I'd buy cartons of it. I can't understand why they don't have it here in the US, because the various fast food restaurants are all selling iced coffee now, and you can buy Starbucks iced coffee, but those are all incredibly expensive. 1 small can is more expensive than a full carton of Japanese iced coffee. I would think the Japanese would see what a potentially lucrative market the US is for good, cheap iced coffee...

iced coffee tastes funky XD but that might be because i hate coffee...i tried it hopin it might be a little different than hot coffee...nope, same flavor just iced form XD