Pocari Sweat
Posted by: theradiantmoon on: October 30, 2008
OMGYEARLIESCRAPCRAPCRAPEIGHTORSEVENWHATEVERNUMBERITWASLEFTTOGOSTUDYSTUDYSTUDY!
Okay. Now the yearly stress is out, time for a fun hypothetical situation!
Imagine…you’re walking along one day, tiredly staring at the sky, slowly dragging two feet…one slow step at a time. Burning thirst, raging heat, sweat drips across eyes…
…and sees an energy drink pop out of nowhere! ^^
The name; Pocari Sweat.
The Ingredients; Water, Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Lemon Juice, Salt, Citric Acid, Sodium Chloride, Calcium Lactate, Monosodium Glutamate, Artificial Flavor, Magnesium Carbonate, Ascorbic Acid.
The special things it contains; Magnesium, Sodium, Potassium and Calcium ions.
The thing looks like; Picture down there.
Pocari Sweat
…would you buy it?
I love engrish. Or in this case, Japlish.
Apparently this Pocari Sweat is a popular Japanese soft drink and sport drink, first sold in 1980. It’s typical electrolute-replacing drink, good for replacing salts etcetc. The only thing putting me off was the name.
The story behind this rather-extremely-strange-name;
‘The reference to the bodily fluid resulting from persperation in the name of the beverage tends to have a certain offputting or humourous connotation for native English speakers. However, the name was chosen by the manufacturers originally for the purpose of marketing the product as a sports drink in Japan, where people generally do not mentally translate names appearing in English and are therefore not bothered by the connotation. It was largely derived from the notion of what it is intended to supply to the drinker: all of the nutrients and electrolytes lost when sweating (the first part of the name, Pocari, means “like a cloud floating in the sky” or “a situation in which a cloud is floating in the sky” in Japanese, and has a connotation of lightness, buoyancy, and ease). “Sweat” was apparently intended to suggest diligence and its fruits—the idea intending to connote to the user that Pocari Sweat works to make one feel fresh and relaxed. However, some Japanese apparently drop “Sweat” from the name in common usage.’
Oh. So that’s the explanation. Yeah, I just copied+pasted all that from wiki. Cheapness. XD
The taste; Um. It’s…like…very…interesting. Tastes like orange. Tastes like artificial orange. Tastes like children’s panadol mixed in water. Must be the Monosodium Glutamate in it. I don’t even know what Monosodium Glutamate is, but it sounds pro.
Bottom Line; I’ll stick with normal Powerade. Though it’s better than some energy drinks. *coughVcough*
So…another Hello World post. Sound familiar?
Posted by: theradiantmoon on: September 18, 2008
Yeah…I’m kind of stuck with another blog.
My third one to be exact. I know, that’s kind of depressing..
So my ‘new’ blog will comprise of random, school stuff, more random, stuff about my mundane life, even more random, recounts and legal issues, and maybe just a little more random.
Because this is my first post and I’m lazy, this post is one of those meaningless ones in which people ramble with no specific point to make.
And the sad thing is, by making this post I’m getting rid of the 404 error which previously occupied the spot where this post will now go. Isn’t that so depressing…byebye error 404.
HTTP errors are funny. I need to fill up space.
Rain is an error 403 [forbidden].
This post upstaged an error 404 [Not found i.e lost link]
A random error 409 [conflict]
Too big? Error 413 [Request Entity Too Large]
FAIL! Error 417 [expectation failed]
Tongus was laughing over poor error 418 [I'm a Teapot] . It does kind of have a retarded name..
And because I’m kind of out of errors;
ALL HAIL THE ERROR 422, THE UNPROCESSABLE ENTITY!
The request was well-formed [open and closed <> , an empty element or textually encapsulated] but was unable to be followed due to semantic [communication] errors.
I got all this stuff all off IPT notes, working in a computer shop, the wondrous wikipedia or some other external source.
umyeahbye.
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