Has anyone else noticed the very hush hush Coca Cola price rise? I’ve noticed that they’re removing their 2 litre bottles and replacing them with 1.75 litre bottles instead. Keeping the same price so in effect we’re getting a 12.5% price increase. On top of this, they have also been busy getting rid of the 500ml bottles and replacing them with 375ml bottles that are about the same price. Weirder still, they’re advertising these new bottle sizes like it’s a good thing? Pepsi are now a lot more cheaper than coke so I doubt I’ll be getting much coca cola going forward (diet brands included).
It's also happening here too but with a twist: Coke sold in the normal, traditional size glass bottle is actually cheaper per fluid ounce than a one litre bottle from the supermarket. But yes, the 2 litre bottles have disappeared, certainly in Davao (where there is a huge bottling plant) and they used to cost a little more than 2 one litre bottles. As for taste, I think Coke from a glass bottle tastes much nicer than from plastic or can. But soda fountain Coke tastes worst of all.
From memory there were a lot of 1.5 litre bottles in SM last time I looked and the ones that we bought from the sari-sari would often be mixed size as well, I noticed but the rest of the family didn't. Prices oddly are almost equivalent to UK prices now i.e. our supermarket lowest price specials equals the standard shelf price of the same product over there.
Spirits are fairly cheap in the Philippines. Use a higher ratio of vodka, and add an extra ice cube. The reduced sugar can only be good for your waistline.
Well you're right (at least regarding me and my waist) I have a crap waistline but it's not because of Coke, sugar or diet version, or Irn Bru which is actually my main daily tipple (diet version), it's largely beer and a penchant for chocolate. Spirits I don't do at all and never will, hence not an option here or in the Philippines. As an aside, nobody these days at least no westerner with a sedentary job needs high calorie drinks, if you are a builder on a Philippine building site and like carbonated liquid then full sugar drinks would not be the worst thing in the world, you are going to need fluid and you are also going to need cheap quickly available energy although I dare say Coke and sugar are probably not the cheapest forms you could get it in. Anyway back to fat arsed westerners like me, the main alternative is sugar free liquids using Aspartame as the sweetener like most modern diet drinks, the main trouble with these is that they are implicated in encouraging calorie replacement i.e. your body knows something is not right and you end up overeating, there is no doubt they have next to no energy value but it is a double edged sword if (as they are accused) they alter your brain chemistry and make you eat more.
I am pretty sure Dom would not dream of mixing anything with Coca Cola, have a look around the forum and try to figure out what he does for a living , I've only met him once but I am am pretty sure he is an expert in his field I would be delighted to receive any guidance he had to offer
I wondered about this as well. in the malls etc here in olongapo the bottles are all 1.5l. We have no diet drinks in the house, haven't for years due to the chemicals that are used in them actually being worse for you than in regular pop. Still as long as I can get san mig in 330ml "dumpy" and 1l bottles I'm fine.
My only experience of buying coke in the UK was from a street seller in Cebu opposite Mactan Mall. The seller opened the bottle, poured the contents into a plastic bag and gave me the plastic bag with a straw!
You mean in the Phils yeah the standard is to decant the content of the bottle, the vendor has to pay for the bottle so they make sure they get returned, street seller or sari-sari it's usually the same, with beer bottles they just charge you extra for the deposit.
Yeah, its pretty much standard in the Far East to get your drink in a plastic bag, I've had soup in a bag too, like taking a goldfish home from a fair
I only ever got to visit The Philippines once, so not a lot experience of Asia at all! Indeed, The Philippines is the only Asian country I have ever visited and I doubt that I will ever be going there again.
