Remember
Coke Blak, the short-lived high-end coffee-infused cola drink put out by Coca-Cola?
No?
Well, I do. I loved the stuff, even at $2.50 a bottle. It was a fantastic combination of Coke with the essence of coffee that had wonderful caramel undertones.
It's been gone from the market for, oh, four or five years now, I suppose.
But if you're absolutely dying for a taste of what it was like - or you just want to have some again - there's an easy way to make a pretty good facsimile of the beverage.
Basically, take a little bit of this:
And add it to this:
You don't need a lot of the Torani coffee syrup to make it work. "A splash". "Half a teaspoon." Basically, experiment. If you taste more coffee than Coke, you've used too much. Unfortunately, with no actual Coke Blak out there to compare with, it's not like this is a precise exercise in reproducing the taste. And the Torani/Coke Zero combo still misses some of the more caramel notes (what …
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Having watched every episode of Survivor thus far (not that I'm proud of it), this episode stood out to me, for numerous reasons, as the most entertaining in the history of the show. So, I was curious if others felt the same way, and decided to search the internets for reviews. Heh... 'pretty lackluster' you say... it takes different strokes to move the world. Yes it does. Different strokes to move the world.