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Confession: I have a minor addiction to Code Red (the Mt. Dew product). In any store in Michigan, I can walk in and get it. Here? Utterly freaking ridiculous. When I first moved here, I had to hit 3 different grocery stores to find it in 12-pack (Walmart didn't start carrying it here til spring 09, now they are never out of stock and my life is so much easier). I've already eliminated the stores that never carry it- Target, CVS, certain gas stations. Some places have stopped for who knows what reason- the Shell on Guadalupe, for example. Everywhere else? Total guessing game. Sometimes 7-11 has it, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes Valero has it, sometimes it doesn't. To make things more complicated, some 7-11s carry it and some don't, same with Valero. 7-11 on MLK almost always has it, but the 7-11 5 blocks south never does. WTF??

I did not have this much trouble finding Code Red when I lived in Germany for god's sake. (You think I'm kidding? There was a candy store on the street just north of C&A that sold imported Pepsi products. 1,60 a can, so I allotted myself only one per month and drank cherry coke the rest of the time. This candy store was also the only place in Freiburg you could get root beer. Trufax.)

In short, coca-cola needs to make a similar tasting product. Coke products are so much easier to come by around here.