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Pepsi Blue.....
Aug. 6th, 2002 08:15 pmOk, I just had to try this "Pepsi Blue" stuff that they had on sale at the local grocery store. PepsiCo has been trying to add to their set of standard flavors for the past several years, and most of them have bombed. Anyone remember Crystal Pepsi? Or Pepsi Free? Mountain Dew Code Red and Pepsi Twist seemed to have succeeded by lasting more than six months, making them the exception. Sierra Mist picks up where Slice left off last year. (After all these years, I still miss Teem!)
And so I tried a bottle, with dinner (a hot dog and beans). It's sweet. It's fizzy. But it only has a hint of a berry taste I'd recognize. It kind of reminds me of the "Romulan ale" or "Smurf Juice" I've had at some of the science fiction conventions I've been to over the years. It might be good over crushed ice (like a blue snow cone), or as a mixer with Zima. And my tongue is probably very blue right now. But by itself, it's pretty blah. If I want a berry-flavored drink, I'll go for some Kool-Aid or Aunt Rosie's Loganberry drink (which I can only get in western New York). After a few months, after the novelty wears off, I expect to find a few cases at Big Lots or in the Thorstein Veblen Memorial Dustbin of History, real cheap.
Speaking of soda pop...whatever happened to Citra? I can't find it anymore. After two years of marketing and heavy advertising (remember "No thirst is safe"?), Coca-Cola pulled the plug on this caffeine-free citrus-flavored drink. And I still can't get Orange Crush anywhere in Dayton!
And so I tried a bottle, with dinner (a hot dog and beans). It's sweet. It's fizzy. But it only has a hint of a berry taste I'd recognize. It kind of reminds me of the "Romulan ale" or "Smurf Juice" I've had at some of the science fiction conventions I've been to over the years. It might be good over crushed ice (like a blue snow cone), or as a mixer with Zima. And my tongue is probably very blue right now. But by itself, it's pretty blah. If I want a berry-flavored drink, I'll go for some Kool-Aid or Aunt Rosie's Loganberry drink (which I can only get in western New York). After a few months, after the novelty wears off, I expect to find a few cases at Big Lots or in the Thorstein Veblen Memorial Dustbin of History, real cheap.
Speaking of soda pop...whatever happened to Citra? I can't find it anymore. After two years of marketing and heavy advertising (remember "No thirst is safe"?), Coca-Cola pulled the plug on this caffeine-free citrus-flavored drink. And I still can't get Orange Crush anywhere in Dayton!
