# Pepsi Blue \[Poll\] **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 19, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604 "2002-08-19T16:16:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/1 "2002-08-19T16:16:10Z")
I found Pepsi Blue at a rest stop on a turnpike. I had it, and was none too impressed with the flavor. I was thinking to myself “This will die in the marketplace.” Does anyone here like it? ---
**Author:** ![Jorel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@Jorel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jorel)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/2 "2002-08-19T16:46:17Z")
I thought it was disgusting. It was less disgusting over ice…not a very ringing endorsement. The Pepsi man gave it to me, so I didn’t pay for it. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/3 "2002-08-19T16:48:17Z")
I have not seen it yet, but I’ve heard of its impending arrival. What exactly is it? A fruit-flavored Pepsi? ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/4 "2002-08-19T17:02:25Z")
It was okay. Not outstanding. Nothing I’d go out of my way for by any means. I doubt it’ll last, although it probably has more staying power than Crystal Pepsi, because it doesn’t actually suck. ---
**Author:** ![WV\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@WV\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WV_Woman)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/5 "2002-08-19T17:16:02Z")
_snaps her fingers_ Hated it! ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/6 "2002-08-19T17:21:43Z")
Pepsi Blue is disgusting. I’d rather drink Vanilla Coke. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/7 "2002-08-19T17:29:40Z")
I have a weird mixed opinion on this stuff. My first sip, I almost spit it out. Then after a few more sips of it, I kind of liked it, but by the end of the 20 oz bottle, I had had enough. I don’t think I wouldn’t buy a 12 pack of it or anything, but maybe a can once in a while. **dantheman** , think slightly carbonated liquid Icee (the blue flavor) from K-mart. Kind of a blue raspberry flavor. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/8 "2002-08-19T17:37:02Z")
It was the most disgusting thing I’ve ever voluntarily put in my mouth. I couldn’t even drink it down to the top of the label. Think of a batch of cotton candy. Now, melt it down and carbonate it, color it blue. yech. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/9 "2002-08-19T17:45:26Z")
Sounds mighty sugary. Weird thing is, why’d they pick blue? Pepsi bottles and cans are already blue, so that makes it that much harder to market the thing. And it sounds like it’s gonna need a lot o’ marketing, too. I mean at least Mountain Dew’s Code Red makes sense, since the Dew bottles are green. Humm… ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/10 "2002-08-19T17:46:30Z")
Does it have any cola flavor at all? If not, why call it Pepsi? At least Vanilla Coke and Cherry Coke are flavors added to cola. Maybe it’s just a brand-recognition thing. ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/11 "2002-08-19T18:12:44Z")
It’s deserving of my most oxymornonic epithet, it’s powerfully lame. It’s not bad in the sense I had to spit it out but it’s utterly without merit. I can’t blame it for being the color of Windex­­[sup]TM[/SUP] since I drink soda the color of anti-freeze but the “Berry” flavor is so nondescript that I won’t be buying it again. ---
**Author:** ![knarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@knarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knarf)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/12 "2002-08-19T19:51:03Z")
Tastes terrible, but it has a pretty good smell to lure you in. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/13 "2002-08-19T20:29:56Z")
I guess I’m the only one who absolutely loves the stuff…if she lets it sit for a day or two in the fridge, opened, but with the cap put mostly back on. At that point, it loses the obnoxious amount of fizzy-ness, but still retains enough fizz to give it a distinct tingle. Thus, it tasts much like reeeeeeaaaaaalllllly good blue raspberry candy, or a cold melted icee. Both of which are extremely yum-some to me. Off the shelf, though…it’s nasty. There’s too much fizz. ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/14 "2002-08-19T20:54:14Z")
Ya know that rasberry blue squishy flavor you get at the better movie theatres? Well mix with 1 for 1 with pepsi. it’s lightly carbinated and tastes like berry cola. And it has enough sugar to kill off a diabetic ward in the hospital. Pepsi: BRING BACK JOSTA YOU CROTCH SNIFFING BEETLE BUGGERING WANKERS! ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/15 "2002-08-19T20:56:30Z")
Tastes like a Pop-Tart. I prefer Crystal Pepsi. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/16 "2002-08-19T21:06:21Z")
It’s just nasty. Robin ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/17 "2002-08-19T21:14:52Z")
It tastes like cola with a faint fake berry flavor in it. It would actually be good if they got rid of the cola part of the equation since I don’t like cola products. I was real hopeful going in but after drinking it I don’t like it. I wouldn’t go so far as to hate it. It just doesn’t have the magic number going for it to make me really like it. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/18 "2002-08-19T23:20:37Z")
hate it. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/19 "2002-08-20T00:13:36Z")
It’s super-nasty. It’s got a sick smell and its just so…syrupy, or super-carbonated or something I cant really describe. I wouldn’t reccomend it to anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604/20 "2002-08-20T00:40:14Z")
I finally got to try it this weekend. It was the first time I’d seen it being sold in my town, so I just had to grab a bottle. Not the biggest mistake of my life, but certainly not the wisest choice, either. I guess if you’re about six or thereabouts, it’s heavenly. If you’re a tad older than that, it’s pretty rank. Too sweet, and unless my taste buds were tripping out, too fizzy. It seemed to be way fizzier than regular Pepsi, or any other carbonated drinks. I’ll take: 1. Vanilla Coke or 2. Mountain Dew Code Red any day. In that order. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-blue-poll/124604.md?page=2)