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Snapple Iced Tea is made popular by their aggressive product placement marketing techniques in several popular TV series like Crashdown Cafe, Sopranos, and The O.C. I saw the original Snapple iced tea and a new Lime Green Tea one in the 7-Eleven located at Taman Danau Desa.

The Snapple Iced Tea comes in the distinctive large glass bottle with a capacity for 473 ml. It's a rather unusual, odd number, which I found interesting. The Snapple bottles can be easily recognized by the unique large base "Robusto" shape. I bought both of the Snapple Iced Tea bottles for RM 6 each.

Snapple Iced Tea Lemon, the original flavor, tastes remarkably similar to Nestea. The Snapple flavors have different anecdotes on it, depending on the flavor. The Snapple Iced Tea Lemon is meant as a summer drink and appropriately has the text "Not to scale." pointing to the sun logo. It's a nice and refreshing drink for hot days.

The Snapple Lime Green Tea bottle has an arrow pointing to the "GREEN" word on top and the text "Other Limes are Green in Envy". The Lime Green Tea version tastes even better than the original lemon Snapple. It's not as sweet and provides a refreshing lime and green tea aftertaste with no excessive sweet or sour notes.

The most interesting thing about Snapple is that they have Real Facts printed on the top of the bottle caps. It's like a fortune cookie, in a bottle. ;) This one states that "Antarctica is the driest, coldest, windiest and highest continent on earth." I already knew that.

The other one states that "A Camel has 3 eyelids". Hmm...that's new to me! It's educational as well as thirst quenching! ;)

Snapple Lime Green Tea comes highly recommended from me. It's a great drink in the Snapple lineup.

I saw some small coconuts packaged with a plastic soup spoon in the fruits section just now, as I was getting some water for the night. It looked interesting and I thought it's the regular coconuts they sell at food courts with some jelly bits.

The brown fiber colored small coconuts looks like the coconuts from Thailand and the size is comparable to a grapefruit. That's pretty small for a coconut. The Jelly Coconut retails for RM 3.30 for a single coconut and a spoon wrapped in Saran wrap.

I opened it up from the perforation at the temple of the coconut and was surprised to see that the "jelly coconut" seems to have the coconut flesh pre-shredded. The flesh appears to be suspended in the coconut juice (or so I thought).

I looked closer and realized that the entire content of the coconut is made of jelly! There I was, holding it carefully so that it won't spill, but it turns out that the laws of physics (or solid state food, I forgot which :p) would make that impossible.

The coconut jelly is actually made of coconut juice which has been solidified to become jelly. It has all the coconut juice taste, without any of the spill. ;) There are pieces of coconut flesh embedded inside the coconut juice jelly too.

The inside of the coconut is carved with interesting patterns which makes for an entertaining distraction while you're eating, much like the puzzles behind cereals. The jelly coconut (not coconut jelly) is a great concept. It's coconut juice jelly inside a real coconut with coconut flesh inside.

It makes for a great, filling snack!

This is Coca-Cola's low carbohydrate alternative to the ubiquitous line of Coke drinks. Coke C2 claims to have low sodium and half the carbs and calories of a normal (classic) Coke. Cola claims the name C2 stands for 1/2 the carbs, 1/2 the cals and all the taste of regular Coke. It sure looks better, I like Coke C2's colors and design.

The medium carbohydrate Coke C2 seems to be following the trend of low carb products to target people on the Atkins diet. It retails for RM 2.19 each here and Cold Storage has a promotion where you get three for the price of two. It's the outlet in Suria KLCC, I haven't seen Coke C2 elsewhere. It seems to be available in the US only and the ones we get here are imported from the US.

Well, I got it just coz I haven't tried it before and this is my verdict - it tastes just like Diet Coke (Coke Light). That's not a bad decree, coming from me, since I like the taste of Coke Light. I find regular classic Coke to be too sweet and unpleasantly fizzy. Coke C2 is great. I liked it.