One of BoobNewb’s personal favorites is a little something we like to call Cherry Coke. The great taste of Coca-Cola classic along with the smooth taste of cherry makes for a delicious and refreshing beverage. Unfortunately, it seems that Cherry Coke has been cast aside lately for other beverages that simply aren’t good enough to make the cut.While Cherry Coke was being abused by the mean people over at Coca-Cola, the marketing department got bored and decided to promote other flavours which included the so-called Vanilla Coke and C2, a less sugar-filled version of Coke that included something called Splenda, a substitute for real sugar. This has left Cherry Coke to be an endangered species and we are here to put an end to this problem right here, right now. Cherry Coke has been so badly treated over the years that there have been more sightings of the Chupacabra or the sasquatch then there have been of Cherry Coke.
With Cherry Coke no longer being sold in Canada, we decided to take a trip to the USA to figure out what the heck happened to our beloved Cherry Coke. After an hour car drive and some pretty mean border patrol dudes, we managed to reach a town in up-state New York and decided to scope out the local grocery store in search of the ever elusive Cherry Coke. We made our way up to the soda section and started our search.It seems Coca-Cola has been busy lately manipulating the flavours of its regular Coke with all of these clones like 0 Calorie Coca-Cola or Caffeine Free Coca-Cola. We almost got excited for a moment when we noticed a bottle that said cherry on it but unfortunately it was for Cherry Coke’s evil twin cousin, Wild Cherry Pepsi. Another similar knockoff to Cherry Coke would be Dr. Pepper, which has great taste but is no Cherry Coke. At the end of the line, next to the Mountain Dew , we finally discovered a few bottles of Cherry Coke.
So, the myths weren’t true. It seems that Cherry Coke still exists in the USA. Now it was the time to figure out why the heck Cherry Coke only seems to be sold in the USA and nowhere else in the world. The local grocery store clerk was of no help to us as he was unaware that Cherry Coke was only sold in the USA. It looks like we would need to dig deeper with this mystery and go online for some research.After a bit of research on good old wikipedia, we discovered that Cherry Coke is still available in certain regions of the world like the United Kingdom and Israel. Unfortunately, there is still no word on Canada which seems dumb as we’re neighbours and all and could probably bring the stuff over the border pretty easily. So here’s a shout-out to all the people over at Coca-Cola: PLEASE BRING CHERRY COKE BACK TO CANADA!
UPDATE: It seems that Cherry Coke now goes by the name of Coca-Cola Cherry in the USA after Coca-Cola renamed alot of their products in 2006.
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