A documentation and review of limited time, special edition, or otherwise hard-to-find noms.
Product circa: 2017
A small amount of potent strawberry flavoring between the peanut and the chocolate. It’s way better than I expected. Very flavorful and very different tasting from the original. But I can’t help but think that strawberries and peanuts just don’t go together.
Product circa: 2022
Jesus, that’s a mouthful. This was part of Coke's Creations line of artsy interpretations.
Billed as a strawberry and watermelon Coke, I can detect no watermelon. So I guess it's a strawberry Coke. It's fine, nothing impressive.
As for the zero sugar version, the overall flavor and experience suffers greatly... but oddly, I can detect the watermelon in the diet version. Go figure.
Product circa: 2023
As suspected by the packages design, these Cheetos combine the classic Flamin’ Hot seasoning with the seasoning from Doritos Spicy Sweet Chili.
And by the way, I encourage you to try Doritos Spicy Sweet Chili while ignoring the marketing. Smell and taste the product and discern its flavor unbiased, and I think you’ll find that it tastes like umami more than anything. Like a soy-based potsticker dipping sauce. I think they should have named the chips something else. But I digress.
Like I said above, these taste exactly that the two products above combined. Not bad. An odd combination, but not bad.
Product circa: 2016 and intermittently after
One of the shining examples on how junk food is made to taste like complex cuisine, and cheeseburgers are often the subject of these successes. Individually, your tongue with detect distinct flavors of charred beef, cheese, onion, mustard, and pickle. Add to this a very salty delivery, and it's one of the best potato chips (if you can call it that) that I've ever tasted.
Product circa: 2022
Erroneously called “Hot Cheetos Mountain Dew” by some, this obviously has no cheese flavoring in it. In what seemed like a cross-branding blitz of “Flamin’ Hot” products in 2022, Dew wasn’t left out.
There’s extra lime flavor added in to this, but no additional tartness, as some Dews have done in recent years. This ends up being a sweet limey mix, not unlike Baja Blast. There is a spicy kick on the swallow, which Dew has also done before. This is VERY tasty, I might buy this more often, if I had the opportunity.
Product circa: 2017
Oddly designed, this is a vanilla cookie with a blob of jelly inside the creme filling. I believe the jelly is flavored with raspberry. Anyway, these things are as delicious as they are novel. Bravo!
Product circa: spring 2023
With this insane crossover, Pepsi proves why it's the unmatched with its crazy flavored colas.
This tastes like the old Pepsi Vanilla, but with an added flavor that tastes exactly like the kind of marshmallows you'd find in a cereal. It's not quite as tasty as the original Pepsi Vanilla, unfortunately. However, I have no idea how they have captured the flavor of cereal marshmallows and applied it to a beverage. Thankfully, in the years since I first tried this product, I have also tasted that flavor elsewhere in other snacks. I'm glad to see it's being used more.
