Talk:Coca-Cola BlāK

message: I'm too afraid to drink that.
Actually if the Pepsi version of this soda is anything to go by, it doesnt taste too bad. Tastes a bit like extra caramel added to the drink with a coffee like aftertaste. Jennytablina 10:33, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heart Attack In A Bottle 

message: Can we get an image of the French can as well?--DannyBoy7783 02:13, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: Ingredients on the us bottle i just bought: carbonated water, hfcs, carmel color, natural flavors, coffe extract, phosphoric acid, potassium sorbate and ppotassium benzoate, caffeine, aspartame, acesulfame-k. And it doesn't taste like dairy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.181.29.106 (talk • contribs) 
* Thanks. I'll remove that section since there's no citation. -- MisterHand 21:53, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I see no dairy 

message: I've noticed that the official spelling of the drink tends to capitalize the "K", as in Coca-Cola BlāK.  Didn't know if that was something to consider for this entry.  Coke seems to interchange it, using lower-case in their press releases, but in more marketing/advertising focused copy, the "K" is upper-cased.  Tannerman 22:10, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe the proper spelling is Coca-Cola YuK.  I wonder if the French version is any better. The capital K may be because of the Acesulfame potassium. Шизомби 16:14, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Actually, take a look at the image of the bottle. I'm betting that the K is capitalized simply so that all the text in BlāK is of uniform height. The end of a lowercase k would ruin the perfect rectangle shape the letters otherwise fill. 205.250.60.128 00:22, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That may be.  Short of reportage on this point, I guess we can't add anything to the article about it because we simply don't know. Though I wonder if the fact that the K is capitalized should be mentioned in the text, for those whose browsers don't display the picture? Шизомби 00:37, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling of name 

message: Nice refreshing apolitical article.  No Coke-bashing.  Straight-up factual.  Encyclopedic even.  Thank you.  Morton devonshire 12:49, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Excellent article

message: I'm looking at a US bottle right now, and it appears that the name over here is BlãK, not BlāK.  youngamerican (talk) 17:10, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think we should try to surmise pronunciation from accent marks clearly created for marketing purposes. I've heard the ads on the radio, and Coke pronounces it like the word "black" -- we don't use many accent marks in American English, so we tend to discount such things, unless of course they're borrowed from our Friends the French.  Cheers.  Morton devonshire 19:39, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

text: No accent mark is a universal phonetic device, you need to identify the source language and that language's usage of the mark. Otherwise, it has as much meaning as rock dots. The best option would probably be to put up an OGG file of the word being pronounced so someone can do an IPA transcription. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.12.107.52 (talk) 00:04, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  US name 

message: Umm... how many milligrams of Caffiene does this have? very curious since it is in the same row as the energy drinks at my local stores, yet there is no mention on the packaging or warning about drinking 20 in a row.
65.29.40.220 15:57, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just found the nutrition content for Coke Blak at http://www2.coca-cola.com/mail/goodanswer/soft_drink_nutrition.pdf and put it on this page. (Also, new topics on the talk page go on the bottom of the page, so I moved this section.) Philbert2.71828 06:40, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some numbers? 

message: Any mention of whether you should drink this room-temperature or chilled? --Mark Neelstin (Dark Mark) 20:06, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Chilled: it was sold in a branded refrigerator where I bought it.  GChriss 19:17, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Warm or Cold 

message: Maybe it should be mentioned if the product is best consumed from a glass, bottle or another form of liquid container and/or dispenser.  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.65.28.243 (talk • contribs) 17:35, 25 May 2006  (UTC).
:I would think this question to be philosophical, much the same as beer.  GChriss 19:17, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glass or Bottle 

message: Incidentally, anyone actually tried it? I've had one of the French ones, and found it indescribably bad. As a big fan of coffee, coffee-flavoured milk, and coke, you'd think it would be ideal for me. But no - something about the blend of coke and coffee in the one drink is just a bad, bad idea. Stevage 19:15, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've tried the US version.  Coke is good.  Coffee is good.  The two together is not, IMO.  
CardinalFangZERO 03:41, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I was in TO when they had the Dundas Square promotion. There were cans strewn everywhere around for about a block in each direction. I lifted a few open cans on top of a newsstand and every can was abandoned nearly full. I ditched my sample can also. There was no way I could finish that nasty drink. --124.168.167.207 (talk) 05:49, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The taste... 

message: Does anyone know if there's any plans for releasing in Britain or anywhere else? I bought some on holiday in France and Liked it... Crabsoneyes 18:05, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Global? 

message: anyone have info on the market response to this? i am guessing this goes to a quick dramatic failure, personally. i was amazed at the tackiness of the ad campaign. --dan 22:56, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  response? 

message: Is the pronunciation black (as Blak suggests) or blake (as Blāk suggests)?
:if anything "Blāk" to me suggests , but presumably it's meant to be //. --Krsont 12:02, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The use of a macron indicates a long vowel, thus it rhymes with "lake" and "shake".  If I'm wrong and Coca Cola is misusing the diacritic, there needs to be a notation made in the article since it will be a source of confusion.  -Rolypolyman 22:05, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Black or Blake

message: I know this is discussed in a couple of other talk topics, but I think it needs its own heading.
I don't think the title of this Wikipedia entry should be spelled with any accent marks. Especially not one that clearly controverts the labeling on the bottle. That's not a long vowel symbol. If anything, it's a breve accent over the A, which would make it sound just like the A in, well, "black." --Skidoo 16:30, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we're using the accent mark because the logo on the French Coke Blak can does have what appears to be an accent mark over the A. Coke Blak was introduced in France a few months before the US, so the accent mark seemed to make sense at the time. Then the American version came out, which has something that looks to me more like the Coca-Cola wavy line that has appeared on other cans, rather than an accent mark. Personally, I think it would make a little more sense to name the page Coca-Cola Blak, because I think that's how Coca-Cola refers to the drink in its press releases. I think it's ok either way though. I take the lack of response from other editors when people bring this up from time to time as meaning that most people aren't terribly interested in whether the page name has an accent or not. If someone wants to go to the effort, I would be ok with removing the accent from the page name. Philbert2.71828 18:51, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accent Mark 

message: Does anybody know when Blak's supposed to be discontinued? A part of the article said it would be pulled near the beginning of '07, but that has since been deleted... Ludawest 10:14, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discontinuation? 

message: Does anyone know. I haven't found it anywhere. I'm in Houston, TX. If anyone knows, please let me know. Thanks. Active 69.148.49.43 00:06, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Where can I buy it in the US?

message: This article, while not excessively bashing the drink, just seems a bit too positive. While there apparently is a minority that enjoys it, I've yet to meet anyone who could even stand the taste. The reception section basically reads like this "Blak is great. There are people who don't believe this, but they're just silly and can't appreciate it."--209.243.31.233 03:02, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Too Positive

message: Several times this article misspelled "Flavor" as "Flavour". I went ahead and corrected it. GodsTeam —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.215.157.32 (talk) 08:17, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As opposed to the fascist amerispelling???  DarwinsTeam 65.69.81.2 21:40, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fairly sure en.Wikipedia is supposed to use international spelling, especially as this is in reference to a French drink (I'm fairly sure they use UK  spelling for English words). So, flavour is correct.
WP uses both spellings. Since Coca Cola is an American company, the Amer spelling should probably be used. Millancad 06:24, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Edited out socialist eurospelling

message: does any1 besides me find this kinda tastes lke kahula?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.167.130.183 (talk) 22:45, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tastes lke...Kahula 

message: Considering that there is a line above the A, would not that imply that the pronunciation is that of Blake? 76.126.15.78 (talk) 17:14, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: Prominent journalist Anderson Cooper tried Coke Blāk live on air with Kelly Ripa and spit the product out. [5] 
76.126.15.78 (talk) 17:20, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this necessary?

message: Since the drink started in France, shouldn't all other versions be compared to that instead of the American version?
>The U.S. version of Coca-Cola BlāK is sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, aspartame and acesulfame potassium. The French and Canadian versions of Coca-Cola BlāK replace the high fructose corn syrup with sugar.
Shouldn't it more be
"The French and Canadian versions of Coca-Cola BlāK are sweetened with sugar, while the U.S. version replaces the sugar with high fructose corn syrup, aspartame and acesulfame potassium."
>Coca-Cola BlāK launched in the United States[1] on April 3, 2006.
shouldn't the French date be listed?130.220.79.98 (talk) 03:22, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article compares different versions when it started in France 

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