El Lenguaje Mundial de la Coca Cola
Esta art’iculo es important’isimo para mi, ya que soy amante de la coca cola, en especial la de dieta. (antes TAB, luego Diet Coke y ahora CocaCola light). Como deambuleo por muchas partes raras del planeta, entre ellas el Amazonas colombiano, el Yanshuo en Guilin, CHina, el Nilo en Egypto, los Altos ATLAS en Marruecos o el ... de Argentina siempre busco un lugar para probar la COca COla del Lugar. Y no se asombren, el agua de todos los lugares tiene un sabor y una composicion quimica diferente, y por lo tanto la mezcla que probamos es un poco distinta. Igualmente si es embotellada en PET, en vidrio o en lata, cerrada con tapa plastica o con tapa metalica, o checa (como soliamos decir en mi tierra, Barranquilla) los sabores tambien son ligermante diferentes.
Volviendo al caso del color ROJO y como denomina a esta bebida en todos los lugares del mundo, no importa que idiona lleve escrito, aqui les tengo unos pensamientos propios. La mayor’ia de Europeos miran mal a una persona que pide coca cola con la cena en vez de vino o agua. En ciudades como Popay’an en COlombia es dificil conseguir la coca cola de dieta, aun en fechas de alta estaci’on turistica. En Egypto unicamente tome cocacola durante 15 d’ias ya que mi hija se intoxico con agua de botella adulterada. En el Amazonas existe hace tanto tiempo la coca cola, queya los enfriadores de botella deben ser cambiados por unos de este siglo. En los Altos ATLAS no es muy bien visto que una persona se tome dos coca colas en una cena. En estados unidos una cocacola mediana en los teatros de cine tiene 1 litro de volumen. Y, en Panama, con sus mas de 30 McDonalds que hay para los 3,5 millones de habitantes que somos sirven la mejor cocacola de dieta de dispensador. En Barranquilla, Marrakech y Shanghai, se toma la mejor coca cola light en botella de 650ml con tapa de metal, o checa.
Tengo un paladar que puede catar los vinos mas esquisitos, los ‘higados de ganzo en su grasa mejor preparados en Francia, los jamones 5Jotas en España, los mejores pandebonos de Cali, el mejor arroz con coco en toda Colombia, el pescado mas fresco y recien pescado preparado en sashimi del mundo y la coca cola de dieta. Y aunque algunos frunzan el ceño, les voy a explicar. Ciertas personas tenemos algo que se llama MEMORIA GASTRONOMICA. Estas personas poseemos la capacidad de unirel olor, la textura, el color y el sabor...incluyendo aquellos que tienen UMAMI y mantenerlos en el disco duro del cerebro, muy pero muy bien archivados. Por lo tanto, como muchos conocidos lo saben, puedo saber si la bebida marca, su empaque de procedencia y su edad, especialmente si se ha pasado unos dias de vencimiento.
Alguien me dijo una vez...”tienen que estar muy jodido alguien para poder catar la coca cola de dieta”, pero yo le hice caso omiso al insulto directo, ya que no me da pena en lo absoluto tener unamaravillosa memoria gastronomica, especialmente para la coca cola. Y es que mucha gente no lo sabe, porque es subconsciente, pero apenas vemos el color rojo con la forma y silueta del arte de la coca cola, nuestro cerebro encuentra el sabor que le encaja. Unas personas lo hacen de manera mas minuciosa ya que su memoria gastronomica puede dividir claramente todas las especies, hierbas, aromas, temperaturas y texturas de la comida.
La comida que se encuentra para la venta está allí para que cada uno haga uso de su gracia del LBRE ALBEDRIO. Dios nos ha dado el poder de eligir y de esa misma forma somos responsables por lo que hacemos, y escogemos y de la cantidad que decidimos ingerir.
Coca-Cola around the world
I am lover of the coca-cola, especially of diet coke. (Before TAB, then Diet Coke and now CocaCola light). As I travel through many rarely visited parts of the planet, among them the Colombian Amazon, the Yanshuo in Guilin, China, the Nile in Egypt, the High ATLAS in Morocco, I always seek a place to test the dietCoke of the place. And believe it or not they taste a bit different in many places, the water around the world has a flavor and a chemical composition that varies, and so does the flavor of the soda. Likewise if it is bottled in PET, in glass or canned, closed with plastic or metal caps CHECAS (as we called them home in Barranquilla) the flavors are too, very different.
The RED color of the first Coke bottles and its adds makes the cans or bottles unique and immediately recognizable in all the places of the world. It does not matter what language it is written in. The majority of Europeans look at down at a person that asks for coca-cola with a meal instead of wine or water. In cities like Popayan, southern pacific zone of COLOMBIA it is hard to find diet coca-cola, buth there is always regular coke, even during special holidays when they expect a large influx of tourists. In Egypt I found that the safest drink I could have during the two weeks that I visited was Coca-cola. Water bottles there were often refilled with regular water and after my daughter got very sick from some of these water bottles, all I had was diet coke. In the Amazon you can find many little stores or ´tiendas´ that have their refrigerators painted with the coke logo and are full of them too. In the High ATLAS mountains of Morocco it is not often that people would order one with a meal, so much less two glasses of coke at a single sitting in a restaurant, but you see the signs everywhere and they sell them at all stops. In the United States a medium sized coca-cola at movie theaters has the volume of 1 liter. And, in Panama, with more than 30 McDonalds serving a population of 3.5 million they serve the best diet coke, to my palate. In some parts of the world like Barranquilla, Marrakech and Shanghai, they still serve glass bottles closed with tin caps in 350ml size; my favorite.
I have a palate that enjoys great wines, foie gras, caviar, hams and sodas.The best pandebonos of Cali, the most delicious rice with coconut in Colombia, the best fresh fried fish or one prepared in sashimi. Plus diet coca-cola. And although some people think this is odd, I am going to explain. Some of us have a very good FOOD MEMORY. We possess the capacity to smell, feel the texture, the color and the flavor of ingredients and their mixtures in prepared foods. This includes those that have UMAMI, of the fifth flavor sense as it is called, and to keep them in the hard disk of the brain, very but very well filed. Therefore, when a food changes, even slightly I can tell, and also I can tel why the flavor is off the norm. As many acquaintances know it, I can tell if my diet coke has been standing on hot storage for too long, the kind of packaging it comes from, and its age, especially if has expired for even a few days.
Someone told me once. ..” a person has to be very screwed up to be able to distinguish between sodas", but I paid attention omitted to the direct insult. The fact is that many people don't know it, but the moment we see the red color with the form and silhouette of the coca-cola bottle, our brain finds the flavor and can relate to its taste.
Now more than 10 years have passed
celebrating both dates and it has become somewhat blurred in our mind, which is
the real Mother´s Day and how should we really celebrate each date. One great
thing was that I was getting two gifts each year for the occasion, but it
seemed unfair, then lost some light. Now I am flying out to see two of my girls
for the date and it feels like it is going to be Mother´s Day again, not only
because everyone is celebrating it, the stores send emails, the streets will be
decorated and there will be some party going on around us, but because I feel it
too. I am so excited to be able to celebrate it in a country that keeps our
same Mother´s Day date. I have been online in all the cooking store´s pages and
can´t wait to order my own gift. There is always something I give myself, and
it has always ben some kitchen gadget.
