Coffee and cigarettes, sold together at last (in Japan)
For people who like to smoke 40 cigarettes with their morning cup of coffee, Japan's AM/PM minimarkets are offering this convenient package.
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For people who like to smoke 40 cigarettes with their morning cup of coffee, Japan's AM/PM minimarkets are offering this convenient package.
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Finally! Somebody who "gets it".
(and much healthier than an egg mcmuffin)
All I want is one cigarette. I'm not a regular smoker, I just get the craving for ONE, once in a long while, I still have a mostly full pack I brought years ago.
So they should totally sell versions where there is just one cigarette with a coffee too. You can buy packs everywhere, you just can't buy a single cigarette.
Japanese drink coffee?
Ah, man. I quit smoking at new year's. That's the last thing I need to see now. Caffeine and nicotine, together at last as they were always meant to be ...
... man, I'm tearing up, here.
@Georgia: "You can buy packs everywhere, you just can't buy a single cigarette."
A lot of places in Mexico and Guatemala, especially the more off-the-beaten-path places, do exactly that. Means they can still supply the poor and under-age without losing on the extra margin to middle-men. Gotta love the free market! ;)
THE BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS.
I was in Japan in 1989 and tasted their extraordinary (to me, at the time) canned coffee. The brands all had wacky American names like Georgia, with a sort of Gone with the Wind iconography. You could buy it hot (hot!) in the can from a vending machine. Which was fabulous as I was in the mountains and freezing. And do you know what it tasted like? Starbucks products that are also canned. The next most exciting Japanese innovation...you can buy Sake hot in a can (I bought a brand called Mets with the NY Mets logo! Really!)
They like their stims in Japan. Work faster, hurry to wait.
David Lynch made a series of 4 ads for Georgia Coffee to run on Japanese TV. They made up a mini-mystery, & used several of the Twin Peaks regulars & locations. (They're included on the recent TP gold box dvd.) Somehow I think Lynch would like this handy combo-pack.
#5 is right. If you want to buy just one cigarette, you need to go to the poorer sections of town. The markup is huge, like 50 cents per cigarette, but most of the little stores will sell them that way, if you don't look like a cop.
/It's illegal
I was stationed in Japan back in the late 80's. Me and my friends were astounded at their vending machines. "What's this?! Iced coffee in a can!? OMG, who would drink coffee in a can! Those crazy Japanese!" Yeah...crazy like a fox! :D
According to the Japanese on the packaging, the can of coffee is a gift product for buying two packages of Marlboros. An incentive to buy more fags. Also, Georgia Coffee isn't such a strange name. It's put out by Coca Cola which is based out of the state of Georgia. I always thought it was a nice name for a can of coffee. My question: is this an official partnering between Phillip Morris and Coca Cola?
#11: I had iced coffee in the States in 1990. I had to interview several times at a state university before I finally got the position, and when I'd commute there I would pick up some iced coffee at an organic grocery as a treat. Now I drink the stuff almost every day.
Amazing. I could go for both right now...
(sung to the tune of "Rock Around The Clock")
It's the AM-PM Mini-Market
You can drive right up in your car and park it
You can shop around the clock tonight
We are open morning, noon and night
You can shop,
You can shop around the clock tonight.
40 cigarettes for one coffee... hmm, seems like they studied the office workers in my local Excelsior Caffe to arrive at that figure. i smell better coming out of a bar at 3AM than i do after lunch in that place.
@ georgia tills "you can buy packs everywhere, you just can't buy a single cigarette."
alot of bodegas in spanish harlem and alphabet city sell "loosies"
where the fuck is the doughnut?!?
@17: Yeah, but loosies are illegal. (technically)
Also, as someone above mentioned, Georgia is not at all a wacky name for coffee. My favorite brand of coffee here in Japan is GOD coffee. Nothing beats drinking God.
Also also, these promo pack things are EVERYWHERE in Japan. They'll package any two related or unrelated objects...if you stay here long enough you'll see two things you like bundled together. Right now there's a special where you buy a Diet Coke and get a free piece of chicken from McDonalds and last time I bought beer I got some tissues. w00t.
I get tissues with my gasoline on Wednesdays. And not crappy ones, either. A big box of Kleenex. Full size. People just hand you pocket tissue on the street. The packages have ads for various things from banks to seedy phone clubs. Japan's pretty good for promos.
Oh, and canned coffee from the vending machine is how I kept my hands warm on the walk from uni to my apartment when I was a poor student with no bicycle. It's pretty great.
Coffee and cigarettes =
Japan sounds like a pretty awesome place. I'd love to try hot canned vending machine coffee.