Stopped by the local Costco today (of course). Picked up a vegas.com gift card ($100 gift card for $80) to go with the two cards I previously bought for the bride. We’re headed to Las Vegas in about 10 days, just the two of us, and we wanted to book tickets to a couple of shows before we went. How unlike me to do something requiring forethought. Anyway, we’re going to see the Blue Man Group and Crazy Horse Paris. Yeah, how cool is my wife?
Anyway, this is about Coke at Costco, not a show that “celebrates the beauty and sensuality of women”. (That post comes later).
Coke is back at Costco, which is old news (always behind the times, I’d written about this little spat here and here). The Coke products are more expensive than equivalent Pepsi products, but not by much. So who won the battle? Who knows, who cares. It was a stupid fight to begin with (though I had to side with Coke). What I found noteworthy is the presence of Mexican Coca-Cola.
"Coke de Mexico" - it's like I'm back in California!
See?
Viva la raza, baby - it's the real thing!
I struck me as odd to find mexican Coke (not to be confused with mexican coke) in Costo. Sure, there’s a decent sized hispanic population around here (Baltimore suburbs) but this is Maryland. I’d be less surprised if I found Coke for sale in mason jars.
The magical Internet came to my rescue. Apparently this is the Coke to drink because it’s sweetened with sugar and not high fructose corn syrup. Double bonus – it comes in glass bottles. You know it’s good if the New York Times wrote about it.
I was excited that Pepsi came out with their “throwback” formulation, also with real sugar…and I don’t like Pepsi (I gave it up after ODing on it in high school…same reason I don’t drink Budweiser, well, that and I’ve developed taste).
Real sugary Coke in glass…well, smack my ass and call me Sally. I’m buying me some of this love in a bottle.
I’ll have to keep it at work so my wife doesn’t find out…I’ve put on a couple (ahem) pounds over the last few months and she’s nagging me about it. She’d probably be happier if I started using coke instead…until she saw my credit card statement.
Wait, do drug dealers even take credit cards?
Crap, I haven’t had cash since my kids started buying school lunches. I guess mexican Coca-Cola it is then.
I know that dealer takes credit cards…
You really can’t beat the Mexican Coke – after traveling and having Coke made with sugar all over the world, the HFCS s**t we have back here just plain sucks.
I’ve also been loading up on the throwback ones out there right now (Pepsi, Mtn Dew, and Dr Pepper) and I’m sold on how much better they are.
I guess I should have paid closer attention to the receipt…Sally.
I found these yesterday at a Costco (Boston suburb) as well. They’re fantastic! Hope they start selling them else where.