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March 28, 2005
Canned Drinks
Tokyo, Japan - International Mathematical Olympiad
In our spare time, the Canadian Team enjoyed varieties of canned drinks. In Japan, the vending machines don’t serve Crush or 7UP, they serve Royal Milk Tea, Aloe with White Grape and Pocari Sweat. They still have coke though, which is good. If you thought the names are strange, the drinks are stranger too. You have to be cautious, sometimes you can find stuff floating inside!
In Japan, they have a lack of aluminum. So, they build their cans out of stainless steel. Not only the mass is bigger, but the size is bigger too - 355 ml coke cans are actually hard to find. What you get are elongated 500 ml ones (evidently the Japanese like to drink a lot). And you don’t get “Original Taste”, you get “No reason!”
The day after the closing ceremony (our flight departed a day later), we went to this “fast food” place. Normally, people order through person. However, here - we ordered through a vending machine. At least the delivery wasn’t automated. Can’t help but think, these people really are strange.
Posted by Oleg Ivrii at March 28, 2005 01:18 PM
Comments
At least you get English on your drink cans. That's not true in Korea, where everything is identified by a bunch of illegible characters. The cans are considerably smaller and slimmer too.
Posted by: Tout at March 29, 2005 06:31 PM
Don't get me started on the fanta and foot-long beer bottles. (I saw a neatly stacked pyramid of height 4 in our team leader's room)
Posted by: Richard Peng at March 30, 2005 05:36 PM
Guarana and any kind of ice coffee in Japan are really good. Guarana = the equivalent of Bawls, but a lot better.
Posted by: Ren at April 23, 2005 06:16 PM