Now in big size!
Price: 100￥ (c. 74p)
Bought at: Osaka vending machine
Tastes like: ...actually, not bad. Warm, salty, ...
no, really: really, not bad. Flat cream soda. Slightly like an isotonic drink.
Selling points: Happy refresh.
First sold in 1919 (cf Coca Cola, 1886), the name Calpis comes from combining cal from calcium and pis from Sanskrit sarpis (supreme taste). Sarpis is used to described the essense of Buddhist teaching.
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ReplyDeleteI love Calpis... or otherwise known as Cow-piss...
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