To Point B

I started to think about the fad drinks I’ve been sucked into over the past 23 years of product consuming. Since the day that I realized that my favourite flavour was a synthetic blend of chemicals (Blue Raspberry) I’ve been on the lookout for a real new flavour. Those highschool years were very confusing times. I would dare say that the energy drink came of age while I was at the peak age of impulse spending. I still remember what I said when the Gypsy asked me what Snapple fire tasted like, and I replied, “like thorns” but still I drank it. Until they discontinued the Snapple elements, I drank it. There was of course also the SoBe plague, there must’ve been something addictive in that stuff. I still don’t know how I paid $3 for chocolate milk that contained no chocolate… or milk!
I remember my all time favourite fad flavour, went by the name Pepsi Blue. I drank that stuff till my lips were purple. Holiday Spice Pepsi, actually pretty good, the 99 cent price tag made it all the better. Code Red Mountain Dew, I didn’t really like it, but I drank it anyways. Mr. Pibb, Dr Pepper’s only true competition in the totally awesome non root beer category. Yoohoo, more non chocolatey non milky simulated beverage product. Vitamin Water, my advice is RUN! Except for the pomegranate blueberry, Tasting like the blue part of blue fish candies. Finally – Coke Plus, in which I reach my point. Or at least A point, since the beginning of time (apparently) man has been searching for a supplement for milk, which comes in a carbonated sugar water beverage with simulated cola bean flavour. This I think could be the epitome of Carbonated Beverages, it truly has all the positive properties of milk. Which is downright scary. But the battle couldn’t end here, trapped between $4 energy drinks and simulated cola milk lay a true niche, one that will be filled for the first time since, what, The 50’s?

Now now now, the word has come down through the wire that Red Bull is currently producing a cola, to be released sometime in the near future. This cola will contain all natural extracts from both the kola bean, and the coca leaf (the raw material for the manufacture of cocaine) Coke claims to use a decocaineized extract. But Redbull’s website claims all natural. No real word yet on this. But Redbull and Cola, sure Redbull may have legal drugs in their drinks. But Canada was the only country producing a drink with balls!