Sidetracked: Throwback Soda

As soon as I heard of the throwback sodas (pops for you Midwesterners and coke for you people that are just wrong) I was thrilled. It was not because of the nostalgia or novelty factor, but because this would be the first time I would feel at ease drinking soda in such a long time.

A long time ago I learned the hideous secret behind corn syrup. That is a secret for another time, but it's enough to say that I try to abandoned all corn syrup sweeten products. Soda is one of these products that I avoided like the plague and spoke out against.

So I went looking high and low for these new throwback Pepsi products and still came up empty no matter where I went. I tried gas stations, supermarkets, Walmarts, and vending machines all over the place. I even took my search across state lines, and still I turned up nothing. Then finally this last weekend I stumbled onto a few at a discount store.

Now I am a fan of all those people who go out and try new foods and drinks. Right now my two favorite vloggers have series running about this sorta thing (LordKat.com and CinemaSnob.com)  They are really great and you should go and check them out if you don't already. Heck I had a camera I would do this kinda thing as well.

Now onto the taste of Throwback. Throwback Mountain Dew tasted sour as hell! I should clarify the situation. I was just chewing some of that Trident sugar free gum, the orange kind, just before I cracked the seal and took a swig. There had to be some sort of weird reaction between the sugar and artificial sweetener on my tongue cuz I just couldn’t taste the sugar in the soda. I guess it makes sense considering the sweetener starts off as a sugar base. So about four French fries later the palette was cleansed and I could taste the sugar again. Even then however I could notice a difference. I remembered normal MDtasting a little heavier than this. I heard that this actually tastes more sugary, but that is just obvious.

So tonight I tried the Pepsi Throwback and well it tastes kinda like Diet Pepsi. Once again this probably goes back to that sugar sweetener base. After a few more sips it occurred to me that this wasn't quite like diet Pepsi but something else. It freaking reminds me of Crystal Pepsi!!!! Yes it’s back at least in flavor. As you can already tell I was a huge fan of the stuff and drank ENTIRELY too much when I was kid. I miss it, but you know with the throwback Pepsi it gives me hope that maybe just maybe it can make a comeback as well one day.