Small World: Coca-Cola

Friends, family, and colleagues,

In this series "small world", I will attempt to bridge the massive cultural and geographic divide readers see in the "culture shock" series with facets that can be used to relate to one another. I will post similarities we share that can be used to show that even a world away, some things are still familiar to us.

On Saturday, we went to the Nanjing Museum. Some of the students missed breakfast, so we stopped at the supermarket to grab a bit to eat. One of them bought me a coke. It was a welcome sight!

The bottle has the trademark Coca-Cola signature sketched into the plastic. The characteristic red label was written almost completely in Chinese. The bottle itself was a bit taller than the typical US bottle. The volume was comparable to the US at 600ml (20.29 fl oz). The flavor was very similar, though the sugar content seemed to be a bit lower than in the US, which is typical of most things found in China. I wasn't able to read the calorie content, since the energy was measured in KiloJoules (KJ) instead of calories.

Mason