Black Lemonade

I would link, but their website appears to be noncom. I got a bottle of Black Lemonade with my most recent burst of pop-shopping.

Black Lemonade

Holy CHRIPES is this sour. The sourness is closing in a Magnesium Citrate kind of sour. Screw your face up, cough, and try not to spit it out kind of sour. Whatever's in this stuff vaporizes when it hits your tongue and it's very difficult not to cough the stuff out. Did I mention SOUR? Pretty highly carbonated, and there are some other, mellower flavors underneath the pallor of the high fructose corn syrup, but you'll never taste it under the SOUR. I think this is supposed to be an energy drink, but we'll see, if I can get the whole thing down. I love over-the-top, super-intense flavors, but I'm already starting to get heartburn from whatever's in this. One Burp

Bubble Up - Regular

Bubble Up is Dad's Root Beer's version of a lemon/lime pop. It seems to be positioned to compete against Coke's Sprite.

Bubble Up

The carbonation isn't anywhere near Sprite, while being just enough to add sourness to the lemon/lime flavor. The flavor also has just the palest bitter edge that comes from using flavor oils. Cane sugar gives a mellower sweetness that comes on slower and isn't as slap you in the face. I'd have to say that the citrusy flavor is only about 2/3 that of other lemon/lime pops, but intense enough to taste again with the inevitable burp. I like it! Three Burps

Cricket Diet Cola

Recently in a conversation with a friend we came upon the subject of sweeteners in soft drinks and I mentioned I find a huge difference in taste between high fructose corn syrup and cane sugar. He mentioned a pop available in the Chicago area called Cricket, that their regular was made with cane sugar. Though I was tempted at first to buy the sugared version, I like to start with the diet sodas, since that's what I prefer flavor-wise. It's a cola made with green tea extract as the caffeinating factor.

Cricket Diet Cola

The main flavor that hits me when I drink it is the intense sweetness of the Sucralose, and then the green tea. The green tea flavor is pretty subdued, however, and quickly overtaken by the sour carbonic acid flavor of the slight carbonation. I'll be damned if I can taste the cola at all. I was hoping for stronger flavors. It's mainly just carbonated, sweetened green tea. Glass bottle, twist top. 2 Burps

Available at popsoda.com nationwide