Automatic beverage machines are everywhere in Japan. In every machine, can be found two very popular drinks - Calpis and Pocari Sweat. Yes, I know what tastes those names conjure. Forget the names when you're drinking them and you'll be OK. Calpis does come from a cow so your first guess is sort of close. Calpis tastes like a watered down, sweetened milk product - or at least that's my best guess. Pocari Sweat is not sweat in a bottle. It seems to be an electrolyte drink for when you sweat.
If those two beverages do not appeal to you, there's the ubiquitous drink of the world, Coca Cola. I have even found some machines that carry Dr. Pepper, that favorite soft drink of Texans. The Dr. Pepper can has some very wild manga on it though. One looks like a giant monster eyeball. The other is a very curvaceous animae space woman. Nothing at all like the dull Dr. Pepper cans back home.
These machines are giving Starbucks a run for the money. You can find all sorts of cold and hot, coffee and tea in these machines. The hot drinks have a red bar under the label and the cold drinks have a blue bar. There are just about as many choices as a coffee shop for all you espresso lovers. One of the most popular is called Georgia Coffee. Do coffee beans grow in Georgia? Has global warming changed Georgia into the tropics while I've been in Japan? My best guess is that it's made by Coca Cola in Georgia? Another brand is Boss Coffee. The spokesman of Boss coffee is the American film star, Tommy Lee Jones. He is the Coffee Boss. I think it must be his drivers license picture that is all over these machines. Either that or he has not had his morning cup of Boss coffee yet. I love Tommy Lee Jones. He looks so real.
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