> Convenience.
>
> It matters more with the soda- nearly all the 20oz. bottles sold in grocery stores are already cold, making them immediately drinkable. Warm soda is *icky.*
>

Only if all the carbon dioxyde is gone. Warm Coke tastes very nice if it's still fizzy. It has to be really warm, though. If it's lukewarm, it tastes stupid. Coke has to be either cold or almost-hot.

> Consider that most people are buying this stuff for their lunch at work or something, and it makes much more sense.
>

I do buy my Coke for during work (which naturally is school, for me), and I buy as much of it as I can. If I don't finish it before I get home, I can drink the rest while making or eating dinner or something. It's not cold enough? I have a way of dealing with that; it's called a refrigerator. I admit that most people who drink soda/pop/lemonade/whateveryoucallit keep a supply of it at home anyway, but you can never have enough of something. Actually, you can, but that's rare, and almost only happens when it's something nobody likes. Or if you won 120 cans of Coke in a game, like my brother did a few years ago. They lasted quite a while.

> ~mina "I didn't say that made it a *smart* thing" moon

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