...I find it slightly ominous the sell-by date is Halloween.

I am not really sure if I'm going into this unbiased. I do not remember the actual taste. Only that it was vile.

So. Nice, cold Crystal Pepsi. Here goes nothing.

It... smells like Diet Pepsi...

At initially, it does taste mostly of normal Pepsi. Very fizzy-tasting. It doesn't bubble much, but tastes super carbonated.

Oh god. Then comes the aftertaste.

The aftertaste tastes like flat Diet Pepsi. Very syrupy, kinda sour... Little bit... chemically? IDK?

It's drinkable if you do it fast and chase it with water.

Because otherwise your mouth tastes like cough syrup.

that brings back exactly what it tastes like

I truly don't remember it tasting like anything in particular. I could have sworn that I might've liked it, but now I'm thinking probably not.

lol

So, uh. If you like Diet Pepsi, you might like it? IDK??

Yup, tastes like crystal pepsi

No

Diet Pepsi drinkers do not like

As a general rule, i don't like Pepsi products as a whole, so. Nah.

It's that aftertaste

It's fine for the first second or two! But the aftertaste....

...additional pro-tip. Do not drink with honey-roasted peanuts. Those taste profiles do not combine well.

i remember love liking Crystal Pepsi

and was sad whem it was pulled. them again i don't remember what it tasted like

Yeah, I didn't remember either. I must have repressed that memory.

I remember my sister included it on her report of the pH of soft drinks for her science fair project.

Which lead to the problem of no one in the house wanting anything to do with the extra cans.

That's about the taste I remember from that, too. /shudder

I'll bet.

...I'm about a third through the bottle and my teeth are starting to feel weird...

Note to self: brush when you get home

...and now my gut feels weird. Oh gods, I hope I didn't poison myself.

IF I DIE, SOMEONE SUE PEPSI FOR ME.

oh my god

oh my god that's terrible

the things we do for science

I'm not even halfway through the bottle.

stop, for the love of god

be kind to yourself

And my head and throat feel weird now...

I don't think so?

Thanks bro

OH. Guys. So, I let my son try it, mostly just so that one day he can say that he did? Just a taste.

...he said it was "delicious."

lol

I remember it being a big hit because it was sugar free and I briefly had a step mom who was on this massive no sugar kick?

Or was it caffeine...

One of those two things.

...I can say in confidence this has both sugar AND caffeine. Specifically 69 grams of sugar per bottle and 63 milligrams of caffeine.

Or so the label tells me.

hmm...

I just remember having an argument in the store with her about it

( I was a bratty 12/13 yr old and she was trying too hard to be a mom that was not)

The "nutrition" facts.

OH so this is a retro bottle?

like they remade Crystal pepsi?

I have no idea if it's the same formula or not. But yes, it's a rerelease of Crystal Pepsi from the early 90s.

The bottle is new. But they've brought it back for... like, 2 months?

Ah yeah, see I knew it didn't have one of the two lol

Yeah, and I'm not sure I want to know what part of this beverage was genetically engineered.

Whatever it is, pretty sure they weren't doing that back in the 90s.

Yeah... that sounds a little terrifying

I'm guessing... it was the corn...?

Probably.

That was my guess as well

There are only 2 ingredients listed that are living things, and I'm not familiar with any genetic experiments on gum trees.

But just saying the pepsi was genewtically engineered...

IDEFK.

I have nothing against genetically engineered/altered foods btw

I'm guessing they're covering their butts for GMO compliance.

But I tend not to associate peps with being grown

*pepsi

Fun fact: people have been genetically engineering everything we eat since we invented agriculture. So, tbh, I kinda roll my eyes at people freaking out over GMO stuff.

YES

THIS SO MUCH

I am against people making crops that thepeople have to keep buying the seeds year after year

but genetic/organic whatever I just roll my eyes at

Yeah, Monsanto can suck my nonexistent dick for that nonsense.

but as or genetic engineering. chickens

look at chickens

Heck, look at wheat.

Fr example: This Chicken Is Totally Black from Head to Toe. Even the Meat, Bo...

Ancient wheat grains were about 85% smaller than their modern-day counterparts.

But, through crazy breeding experiments, people got the wheat seeds (which is what we eat) to carry six copies of the genetic code instead of one, making the grain bigger to hold all those genes.

So, yes, we've been messing around with our food supply ever since we started cultivating it instead of just grabbing whatever happened to be convenient enough to grab.

...but it's still weird to think of Pepsi as being a GMO item.

Hell, corn is even worse than wheat.

Corn is crazy.

Eating corn is fine, drinking corn is crazy

Corn is in just about everything, seems like.