Vio is Coca-Cola's new "It" thing. It consists of carbonated milk with some fruit and probably a lot of sugar - it sells for $2.50 a bottle. A Coke copywriter described the drink — which comes in four fruit flavors, including peach-berry and mango — as "like a birthday party for a polar bear."

Will you drink it?



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No, I have no interest in the beverage.

...and anyway, I think a polar bear would much rather have a nice meal of seal blubber on it's birthday.

For me, it would be a toss-up between the Vio or the blubber.

I sense a potential addiction.
Well.
If anything can get me off 96 cans a month, then yeah..

I would rather suck it from the udder and then find out it's not an udder, and that Bessie's name is actually Jake.

'Cuz that ain't milk, either.

it looks good. i really like the idea of coke and milk mixed together. however, i dont drink coke very often except on rare occasions.

as an aside, i love milk. milk is like...just perfect.

I'm lactose intolerant.

I can't drink milk. I develop a catatonia like unresponsiveness akin to a petit mal seizure, vomit, or both one after the other. I'm not actually sure what it is in the milk I'm allergic to or otherwise can't tolerate.

Milkplus? The future has arrived.

carbonated milk

sounds nasty

It's our job now to come up with an adult beverage that is Vio based..and field test it, of course.

Hmm, what shall we mix it with?

Yoo Hoo? It's carbonated chocolate milk.

Yoo Hoo? It's carbonated chocolate milk.

i dont drink it...

Yoo Hoo? It's carbonated chocolate milk.

Since when is YooHoo carbonated?

i hear that and I think the sound effect sodas make when you first open them.. and all the bubbles!!!!

i hear that and I think the sound effect sodas make when you first open them.. and all the bubbles!!!!

yes, i'm thinking in a smoothy.....with vodka..or baily's and irish whiskey. That may get a few mls down.

Since always.

Never. You SHAKE YooHoo before you drink it. It has never been carbonated!

Maybe I'm thinking of something else. I swear I had carbonated chocolate milk once.

yes, i'm thinking in a smoothy.....with vodka..or baily's and irish whiskey. That may get a few mls down.

mmmm.....we need a sciparty!

Maybe I'm thinking of something else. I swear I had carbonated chocolate milk once.

There is Chocolate Cow. It's a chocolate soda. Not sure it actually has any dairy in it, though.

Does it have any booze in it?

if not....I'll pass.

I'm lactose intolerant.
I've also become lactose intolerant - which is actually normal (mammals are not meant to drink milk post-weening - so why continue to make the enzymes to break down milk sugar?).

In Asia carbonated milk is relatively common. But, I have no interest in drinking Vio. It sounds disgusting to me for some reason.

A little side story. I stopped a fresh produce market and bought a bunch of cheap pineapples and apples. Put them through a juicer (yeah, it does remove the fiber but meh...). It tasted great. So, the next day I was pouring a glass for this girl who was over and she was all worried because it was slightly oxidized and the color had changed a bit. She'd rather drink 10 day old juice from a bottle that had all these preservatives and "looked" like the "right" color then fresh juice!?!? Well, I told her it was perfectly fine and so she drank it and said yum anyway.

But, THAT sort of is what got me to thinking about what we think it normal and what we choose to drink.

I've also become lactose intolerant - which is actually normal (mammals are not meant to drink milk post-weening - so why continue to make the enzymes to break down milk sugar?).


tell that to my 3yo who loves milk... lol! I can go with out it.. gimmie oj, koolaide, water, and tea anyways..
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oh!! 1cup dry full leaf spinach, 1cup blueberrys, 1 banana, maybe a few strawberrys, and a cup or 2 of oj, blend till blended.. lool!!!

now that is really yummy! can't taste spinage, and you get your extra veggie for the day and yummy fruit!

it looks good. i really like the idea of coke and milk mixed together. however, i dont drink coke very often except on rare occasions.It's not "Coke" because it's not cola. If there was caffeine in it, believe me, it would be advertised in giant letters.

I wouldn't be surprised if this stuff tastes just like an ice cream float or soda that's been allowed to melt. How prosaic!
I'm lactose intolerant.Me too. Have been since I was about 30. It took a while to figure out what was causing all the gas. I can dance around it: cheese, yogurt, cream, etc. are okay as long as I don't overdo it. I can eat cereal by mixing one part heavy cream with three parts water and pretending it's milk. It's actually pretty tasty that way.

Hmm, what shall we mix it with?Southern Comfort goes with everything.
I've also become lactose intolerant - which is actually normal (mammals are not meant to drink milk post-weening - so why continue to make the enzymes to break down milk sugar?).The Neolithic European population invented dairy farming so most people of European ancestry have the mutation that carries that enzyme into adulthood. I have too much Slavic and Semitic DNA.
I stopped a fresh produce market and bought a bunch of cheap pineapples and apples. Put them through a juicer (yeah, it does remove the fiber but meh...).People who go to the trouble of eating like you do almost invariably get plenty of fiber in the rest of their diet so don't worry about it. You probably eat lots of fresh fruits and veggies too. Besides, fruit juice is loaded with vitamins and minerals and other good stuff like antioxidants.
She'd rather drink 10 day old juice from a bottle that had all these preservatives and "looked" like the "right" color than fresh juice . . . . THAT sort of is what got me to thinking about what we think it normal and what we choose to drink.People in the food industry have whole notebooks full of anecdotes like that. I remember in the 1960s when a quantum improvement was made in the manufacturing and packaging of potato chips. They were finally able to build a potato chip that could sit in a bag on a shelf for weeks, and then sit in an open bag on the table in your TV room for several days, without going rancid.

Customers complained that they didn't taste right, and without realizing why, they were tracking down the brands from the factories without the updated equipment. The industry had to invent "artificial rancid flavor."

I'm not a chip fan but I eat one every few years and I notice that they've managed to wean Americans off of that rancid taste. I still don't understand why people like 'em. Maybe that's another enzyme I'm missing.;)

i don't drink milk due to taste, i wonder if they'll make carbonated soy drinks? i'd describe them as "like a birthday party that sucks". soy milk sucks in anything but its pure form. Also, i'm glad vio don't taste like human birthday parties, mine taste like bourbon and ash. for my gf, they tasted like more alcohol, a lot more ash, and blood, after she fell on her face.