Pringles Smoky Bacon & Smoky Cheddar

 

Products circa: 2026

Smoky Bacon: An MSG bomb with savory flavors, especially onion.  Interestingly, coffee powder is on the ingredient list.  There is a pleasant smoky flavor that manages to simulate bacon quite well, considering there is no meat product in the ingredients.

Smoky Cheddar: This was an instant pick-up, as Pringles always does with with cheese-related flavors.  In the end, there isn't a ton of smoke in these... probably to avoid disappointing your average normie customer.  But they're still delicious.  The light touch of smoke doesn't quite register as smoke, and instead just makes the cheese flavor more interesting.  Awesome!

Crush Electric Blue Razz

 

Product circa: 2024-2025

A nostalgic throwback... was blue raspberry really that popular in the 1980s?  Anyway...

I'm a big fan of blue raspberry, and it took a lot of effort on my part to find this product.  But in the end... it's not quite what I wanted.  They made this formula decidedly sour, whereas my fickle ass wanted something sweet, in this one instance.  I'm impossible to please.  But this is still a very fun product, and tasty, and one of the few blue raspberry sodas to have ever existed.

Fanta Crimson Sour Cherry

Product circa: spring 2026

A promotion with the 2026 video game Diablo IV.

I'm not a cherry soda fan, really, but the sourness here is perfectly balanced with the sweetness that would otherwise be overpowering.  This shit is good.  If I see any residual 12 packs of this, I'm going to buy one.

Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry

 

Product circa: 2024 and later winter seasons

Sprite's Cranberry version from many years ago was very good, and this product has proved successful enough to return at least one year so far for the winter season.

This stuff is really good, but I'm annoyed that I'm having such a hard time discerning its flavors.  Beyond the cranberry, I can't tell what "spices" exists in this formula.  It's possible that there are traditional baking spices in this, like clove or allspice, and they are simply toned down so much that they're barely recognizable.  But by my tongue, I think it's more likely a bit of ginger and juniper that are added, maybe.  Regardless, this is a real treat, and worth picking up a 12-pack each season.

CinnaGraham Toast Crunch

Product circa: 2026

Obviously a combination between Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Golden Graham cereals, this seems to have great promise.

Maybe I haven't had these sorts of cereals in a while, but this tastes way too... healthy.  "Earthy" and even "woody" are the descriptors I'm getting here.  The cereal uses whole wheat and corn as its primary grain, but the mouth feels it more like whole wheat and oat bran.  I'm getting an overall very fibrous experience, like the product is ultra-high fiber (it's not) and like it could use some processed/bleached wheat to give it a bit more soft body.  It could be a lot sweeter too.  Even the cinnamon feels over-toasted and woody.  Maybe all this earthiness is from the adding of the graham cracker-like cereal, but I'm just getting earth, cinnamon, and not much else.  It's more hardy than hearty.  It's not unlike cinnamon mulch.  It's not horrible, but I think all of this is the result of cereal brands continuing to maximize nutritional value and fiber over sugar.  I'd rather have either of its constituent cereals, I think.

Doritos Ultimate Garlic Parmesan

 

Product circa: July 2026

Part of Doritos' semiquincentennial recognition.  Because garlic and parmigiano cheese are so American?

Anyway, LMAO - these taste shockingly like Doritos Cool Ranch, with perhaps a bit more garlic, and maybe the sour cream is a bit more "aged" to be cheese-like.  But the DNA is still Cool Ranch, through and through.  How disappointing and hilarious.

Oreo Firecracker Pop

 

Product circa: July 2026

While not specifically targeted as a semiquincentennial promotion, it is certainly a seasonal release for Independence Day 2026.

I respect the attempt here.  Three different flavors of creme in a vanilla cookie, and each creme flavor corresponds to the three flavors of a "firecracker pop", more likely known as a rocket pop.  Indeed, all three flavors of creme are completely discernible here, though I would say the lemon is least of all.  The problem is that while not unpleasant, this cookie is just way too busy, in terms of taste.  In addition, per my personal tastes, the 3 cremes make the balance more akin to a Double Stuf, which is not my preference.