Posts Tagged ‘soda’

Pepsi Throwback: Is It Good?

UPDATE: It’s coming back! According to this tweet from Pepsi, Pepsi Throwback — and, I assume, the Mountain Dew Throwback as well — are coming back for another 5-week run, starting August 1st 2010.

If you’ve been reading this blog a while, you might already know my obsession with sugar-sweetened sodas (like Ting). So, last summer, when I heard Pepsi was coming out with a sugar-sweetened version called Pepsi Throwback, I looked for it everywhere. I didn’t find anywhere in NYC, so when we drove to Massachusetts for a wedding, I looked in every gas station mini-mart from New Jersey to the Mass Pike. Once it became fall, I stopped looking and eventually gave up.

Then, last week, a friend posted a photo of a case of Pepsi Throwback she had just bought. According to Pepsi’s site, “[d]ue to all the Throwback tweets, Facebook fan pages, videos, blog posts, pics & pleas, Pepsi Throwback is back” — at least until February 28th.

So… is it good? The Pepsi, definitely. The formula appears to be the same as a HFCS Pepsi (e.g. pretty sweet), so if you’re fond of that, you’ll love this. I sometimes wished I was drinking Coke Throwback instead, but it’s still very good. The Mountain Dew… a bit less great. It’s either sweeter than a regular HFCS Mountain Dew, or it’s less citrus, or both. Still, the sugar really makes all the difference in the world. There’s no filmy mouth feel, no glorky (yes, I say it’s a word) feel in your throat afterward. I’m already looking around my apartment to figure out where I can stash multiple cases of this stuff for the summer.

Tags: mountain dew, no HFCS, pepsi, soda
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Ting!

Several years back, I discussed my love of Ting, a sugar-sweetened Jamaican grapefruit soda. It’s been getting harder to find lately, at least here in Washington Heights.

A couple weeks ago, I stopped in to the Kmart on 34th Street (which is really quite nice, as far as Kmarts go) and while downstairs, looking to grab a bottled water to stop my child from dying of thirst (as she assured me would happen), there it was:

And not just Ting, either… something else:

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Tags: fruit, juice, no HFCS, soda
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Soda-licious

I think I’ve made that soda joke before, but I don’t care… I’m in love.

As you may know, when I cut high fructose corn syrup out of my diet, it meant the end of virtually all soda. But then, last week, on my way to class, I stopped in the bodega between my apartment and the subway, looking to grab a bottle of water. I noticed the cooler was stocked with some unusual stuff — and then, there it was…

Ting!

Imagine, if you can, a Fresca made with real grapefruit juice and sugar.

Then, imagine it’s even better than that and that’s pretty much what Ting tastes like.

It’s soury-sweet, like a really good grapefruit, with a sediment of grapefruit pulp (it’s 6% “real Jamaican grapefruit” juice, according to the label) at the bottom of the bottle, much like an Orangina.

I haven’t tried it yet, but I bet it would be a good mix with a flowery gin, like a Tanqueray, but for now I’m okay with just drinking it straight until it gives me ulcers.

Sweet, fruity ulcers.

Tags: fruit, no HFCS, soda
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