The story of a Coke can

The story of a Coke can

Why do you drink Coke?

For Vietnamese, we drink Coke when sitting at banquets and drinking parties. That way of using it violates the refreshment principle that applies to green tea or iced tea. Even "quenching thirst" itself is an operation that's off-purpose (or at least narrower than) what the Western folks designed it for. Quenching thirst means you only drink it when… thirsty.

The English term for this kind of drink is refreshment drink. I first encountered the term playing World of Warcraft. In the game I played Mage (loving magic from childhood turned me into a programmer), and Mages have a supreme duty of using magic to create bread (restoring HP) and water (restoring MP) to gift to the world. The spell is called Conjure Refreshment (https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Conjure_Refreshment). Naturally English speakers also use it in the sense of "to make new."

Why "make new"?

Modern indoor athletes all have a Cryo chamber used for super-fast recovery therapy. The reason it speeds things up is that when the brain hits extreme cold, it concentrates blood in the chest to protect the vital internal organs, which accelerates recovery. I've never stepped inside one, but you can feel it when you get doused with cold water or eat ice cream fast enough to trigger a brain freeze — you notice how your body reacts and what you get out of it.

You can't always have ice cream, and even when you can, you shouldn't have too much.

The cold, sugar-free Coke can, on the other hand, is a potent weapon for achieving 0.001% of a Cryo Chamber anytime you want.

Pouring a bucket of cold water over the brain 🥶.