Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Instant Cola vs. The Powerman & the Money-Go-Round, Part One

The café had an abundance of well-varnished wood surfaces, and thus inspired more interesting people. Two of them were sitting towards the back, not far from the drinks. One was, surprisingly, a woman; the other was also a woman, so to speak, but she belonged to the monkey-person family. Put simply, she faced the day 'neath a badly made monkey/ape mask.

On the table before them lay two tall glasses of Coke-A-Chino™.

Before I go on, I would like to ask the assistance of my two readers as to how this drink should be spelt. Should it, for instance, retain the Italian spelling by using "Cino"? Should we change the spelling of "Coke" so as to avoid legal issues?

5 comments:

Hugh said...

As you would say, I like it! As I would say, maybe. Cokacino works, I guess.

Anonymous said...

What the Hell is going here. Cokachino, was an original invention made By Myself and a friend, we based a series of animation and comic books around the name of our creation, we have written a song in a mock comedy band we have,
Who the hell has Either Stolen our idea or decided that they invented it i am fuming with as we spent all of a good years work animating and wrtitting ideas for our Animation "Cokachino"

Anonymous said...

it was originally a drink we made, a mix of cola and coffee but afterwards we liked the name and made several other creations under the same name.

www.manxjugglers.com/cokachino

Hugh said...

Oh dear. It seems we have both, in the company of friends, co-created and named the same drink. I don't know when you created yours (it was probably before us) but we created ours quite a few years ago now. Anyway, our in-joke was that we used Pepsi only, and not Coke. We mixed it with instant coffee and made a frothy nightmare that, frankly, tasted quite awful. In lieu of these developments, I wonder how many people out there have stumbled upon this concoction? The name is a fairly predictable one, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were more. Anyway, I wouldn't flatter yourself by thinking we stole it — believe me, if we had gotten wind of your secret, we wouldn't have bothered stealing it. I mean seriously, the drink is disgusting and the name is lame. It's a nice in-joke between friends, but it's no masterpiece.

Oh well, I guess this is the Enz of an era. Knowing that our creation isn't unique as we had thought, I won't bother mentioning it again — or indeed making it. Well, maybe I'll make it at a party from time to time. So enjoy the drink — you seem to have put it to better use.

Hugh said...

Hmm. Catchy.