Shack Attack

Shack, Interrupted

This blog will be on temporary, maybe permanent hiatus, while I'm in Japan. You can read about my year in Japan at dshack.net.

For the Dre fan / road cyclist subset

dznuts bag balm. From Hugger Industries' Flickr stream via Bike Hugger.

Odd Japanese Coke Found in the Company Fridge

I moseyed into the Six Apart kitchen Friday afternoon to grab a soda, and this caught my eye:

 Being both a Japanophile and lover of soda, this can (bottle?) was calling me. It's got the approximate  shape and capacity of an aluminum can, except that it has a screw-top, which is way nifty. I'm not particularly excited about its ability to keep <12oz of soda fizzy for an extended period of time, since I down a can pretty fast, but it seems genius for an under-the-radar flask (or for drinking soda near a computer; the small opening and screw-top seem like a good spill deterrent).

Aaah....tasty! It's diet coke, but for some reason they mix aspartame and sucralose as sweeteners, rather than use one or the other. The flavor was fairly indistinguishable from American coke, though I think the small, round opening changes its character a little, and makes the carbonation a little more pronounced.

(Props to Beau for the soda and the iphone pictures)