@Trai_Dep:

I'm posting pretty late on this, and I'm sure no one will read it, but my boyfriend and I have always thought it would be kind of great to have a Jesus inspired energy drink called "Blood of Christ." You would market it with its complimentary product, an energy bar called "Body of Christ."

I don't know, but I don't think it would go over well with Christians, either.

@philosobrat: I believe the brand is Cidral Mundet or something like that. Pretty tasty sodas. I prefer the apple soda.

Funny, my thought excatly was "this sounds really good, like that awesome lemongrass martini I once had in Ann Arbor".

Sign me up!

I also recall going to EPCOT at Disney, where there is/was a Coke 'store' of sorts, which had various products from around the world. One was a watermelon soda from China that was extremely tasty.

though it probably tastes more like satan than cucumber.

See, she *loves* Pepsi. To the point that she thinks any alteration to the drink is close to being a sacrilege. So the look of utter horror on her face when I showed her this article was beyond priceless!

I assume that was spicy coke. since I already tried some hot coke, when cooking some chicken wings, its NASTY. the wings tasted good though.

@lizybee: Inca Kola is so good, isn't it! Kinda like bubble gum but not really. What do you think it tastes like? I liked it so much that during my recent visit to Peru I purchased two t-shirts with the logo on them.

@ ivieso: They also have a "Cold" Pepsi as well - although it's called Fire and Ice. [www.flickr.com]

As for cucumber pepsi, a few of my friends here (yes, I live in Japan) have tried it and they have all said that it's nasty.

I still find it hilarious though that ironchef spit out the Diet at the taste test promotion. I think I would like to see that.

Why does it have a label in English?

Peru? Heck, we've got it in the vending machine where I work. (Which is in New Jersey, btw.)

In China, Coca Cola sells a sour green apple flavored soda. I miss it, and wish that they sold it here in the US.

Annie, there is a company in Seattle called Jones Soda that sells a very good green apple soda. I don't know where you are, or if Jones distributes their product to your area, but I just thought you would like to know.

The only downside to thise would be TONS of said christians writing into consumerist about how horrible the company is. Remember Starbucks Lady (
"How dare they put anit-God quotes on their cups. I am sooo not drinking there EVER again!")? Blah.

I think the cucumber has to be better than the tropical fruit flavored one we have here this summer...I'm not even a LITTLE interested in trying it.

reg

I'd LOVE to see a Satan-inspired drink in the US, though. If only to really upset the Christian whack-jobs. I'd buy even if it DID taste like stale goat piss (better than fresh, pungent goat piss?!)

Me, I'd take a Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray any day.

Thanks for that memory. I had a liter of that awful bile from a gas station in Italy. I thought it was grape. Not so much.

I always find it odd on how people react to diet drinks. IMO The diet Dr. Pepper is the soft drink thats has tastes the most similar to the original. Considering Im diabetic and only drink diet sodas thats not saying much :)

I had to spit out the soda at the Dr. Pepper taste test promotion booth. NASTY.

Makes sense that the Japanese would market something like this.

I got totally addicted to pink grapefruit soda when I lived in Germany back in the mid-90s. I wonder if they still make that stuff?

the awful black licorice-flavored coke they have in Italy.

worst thing I've ever tasted in a bottle.

Cucumbers are related to melons, no? And melons have a special place in Asian cuisine. Make of that what you will.

In China, Coca Cola sells a sour green apple flavored soda. I miss it, and wish that they sold it here in the US. Oh, and honeydew melon-flavored yogurt.

I'd think this would be a more "watered-down" flavor compared to most sodas more like flavored water than flavored soda.

I'm not really at liberty to discuss that right now as there is still a high probability of litigation.

"BTW, that is a nice way of saying that some of the sodas tasted like goat urine that has spoiled."

And you know this how?

Truthfully, though, to maintain their stock price, Coke and Pepsi both have to keep coming up with new products, even if most people like their original products a great deal better than anything new they could hypothetically produce. Take the new coffee-flavored Coke. I like coffee. I like Coke. The combo is disgusting. There's no way any sane person would buy it in preference to a regular Coke. But Coke will still produce these new things, and Pepsi will too, till Wall Street properly values selling the same great product decade after decade without changing it.

In Peru, you can buy Inca Cola. It's fluorescent yellow and tastes like fizzy bubble gum.

Then again, I'm not a resident of Japan...to whom this brand is focused upon, so what do I know?

I was amazed that simple cultural differences would account for the varying flavors. BTW, that is a nice way of saying that some of the sodas tasted like goat urine that has spoiled.

Crazy isnt it..

If you have "Satan in your mouth"... DON'T SWALLOW!