Coca-Cola Starlight

 

Product circa: Current as of this posting

Coke that tastes like space?  Whatever.

Silly marketing aside, it's great to see that Coke has made a "Creations" line that seems to have various ephemeral versions planned!

Anyway, the color of this stuff is more drastic than its flavor.  It took me quite a few cans before I found myself having any opinion.  At first I would have said that a cotton candy flavor was added to the original formula.  But after some hard thinking, I'm pretty sure that I also taste a strange nuttiness as well.

Have you ever been in a shopping mall and smelled the sugar-roasted nut kiosk?  Capture that essence and combine it with Coca-cola, and this is what you have.  But it's so close to the original that the result is a wash.

Coca-Cola Starlight:- Great

Original Coca-Cola(for comparison):- Great

Milky Way Salted Caramel

 

Product circa: 2021

Another salted caramel!

This is very similar to the Twix product that is previous to this post.

Much like the Twix, the caramel here has a saltier formula than the original and, also like the Twix, there are crystals of salt in the product which you'll occasionally detect.

In the end, this isn't more remarkable than the original product.

Milky Way Salted Caramel:- Great

Original Milky Way(for comparison):- Great

Twix Salted Caramel

 Not much to say here.  This is basically a saltier version of the original.  And it's just as good!

There's even large crunchy crystals of salt in it, but oddly... not located in the caramel, but in the chocolate instead.

Twix Salted Caramel:- Great

Original Twix(for comparison):- Great

Mt Dew Gingerbread Snap'd

Coming off the holidays, Pepsico released this gem for the season.  You really have to respect how wacky Dew can get sometimes.

If your first thought was "how the hell are they going to make a citrus drink taste like spiced cookies?", join the club.

In practice, they didn't do a bad job.  I think they calmed down the "Dew" flavor for the base, and then they've seemed to have added brown sugar and ginger.  That's mostly it.  It combines with the Dew just fine.  As I've been drinking this, there's a voice in my head saying that they probably added some spice too.  If I strain hard, I can maybe pick out allspice as well.

Anyway, it's tasty enough, and a laudable experiment, but it's not just as good as the original.  But it can't go unsaid that this is one of the most beautiful can designs I've ever seen.

Mt Dew Gingerbread Snap'd:- Good

Original Mt Dew(for comparison):- Great