At Planter Resource in the flower district, what appealed to him was an actual pot, but it was far from ordinary: he chose a 39-inch lime-green fiberglass one shaped like a giant Coca-Cola glass.
Because on-demand viewers often zap commercials, the networks ramped up product placements, choreographing Paula Abdul's every sip from her red Coca-Cola glass, on "American Idol". In one week last month, Shedd's Country Crock meals were woven into network story lines, with varying degrees of seamlessness, a hundred and forty-two times.
Then, we tasted the Coca-Cola glass.
If you take your Coca-Cola drinking very seriously, you can get yourself a Coca-Cola glass for $19.90, or a set of two for $29.50.
We tasted fountain Coke on ice in the short, stout Chardonnay glass, the slightly more tapered Pinot/Nebbiolo glass and the Coca-Cola glass, in that order.
In one picture, two Coca-Cola glasses stand side by side; one has a crumpled-up pink straw floating inside, the other has a spigot hovering near its center.
Most US TV imports are broadcast with their product placement sequences intact unless, as in the case of American Idol and the Coca-Cola glasses on set, the UK broadcaster fears breaking Ofcom rules.
Simon Cowell used to drink from a Coca-Cola branded glass when he was a judge on American Idol.
The Carmel Drug Store (Ocean Avenue and San Carlos Street; 831-624-3819; www.carmeldrugstore.com) has been selling handmade Swiss combs and grandma colognes and Coca-Cola in glass bottles since 1910.
All this is to say that when we saw the words "Coca-Cola Riedel glass," we had to do a few double-takes.
Put the cola in the glass first or else the cola will all turn to foam.
