Coke – Now with Seahorse!
July 30th, 2008 by timbotron
(Chinese medicine image from Wikimedia Commons/Chris 73)
Coca-Cola and The China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences have jointly created “The Coca-Cola Research Center for Chinese Medicine.”
No, this is not a joke.
Their objective: to secretly design a new commercial beverage incorporating Chinese herbal medicine [link].
“[Coke is] looking for exotic herbal ingredients to make a completely new drink and sort of revolutionize the whole soft-drink industry . . .” said Matthew Crabbe, director of Access Asia [link].
(via Media Post – Marketing Daily, via Statesman)
Completely Unrelated Bonus Round:
Some Chinese characters worth knowing:
And for those of you who got bad tattoos:
(Thanks Keewon and Xiao-Yi!)
