# Pepsi Holiday Spice (?!!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 19, 2004, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976 "2004-09-19T11:29:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/41 "2004-11-08T18:30:06Z")
That’s boring… How’s about some [Turkey and Gravy](http://www.jonessoda.com/files/turkey04.html) soda? ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/42 "2004-11-08T18:40:02Z")
I tried it and it’s nasty, imho. It tastes like plastic flavored pepsi with redhots melted in it. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/43 "2004-11-08T19:50:25Z")
I’ll try it, I like ginger and cinnamon. Has anyone tried the berry 7-Up? I’ve mixed 7-Up (and ginger ale and club soda) with fruit juice for awhile, but this stuff is nasty. I think it’s the Splenda. Why did they need to put Splenda in it? Just berries and 7-Up would be fine. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/44 "2004-11-08T20:04:27Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Has anyone tried the berry 7-Up? I’ve mixed 7-Up (and ginger ale and club soda) with fruit juice for awhile, but this stuff is nasty. I think it’s the Splenda. Why did they need to put Splenda in it? Just berries and 7-Up would be fine. That was gag-me-with-a-spoon grody! It tasted like watered-down, carbonated, Robitussin. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/45 "2004-11-08T20:05:08Z")
My friend surprised me with a bottle yesterday. Upon my first sip, I proclaimed that it just tasted like Coke. But it got worse with every successive sip. I tried hard to like it, I really did. It just wasn’t that good, in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/46 "2004-11-08T20:39:44Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#): > > On the other hand, I tried Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper yesterday This is cruel joke designed to send me on a wild goose chase, isn’t it? Now I’m going to have to tear Greensboro apart searching for some of this. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/47 "2004-11-08T20:40:25Z")
A few years ago, for reasons I can’t remember, my dad won 100 two-liter bottles of Josta. It sucked. We tried to give it away. Nobody wanted it, because it sucked. So we pitched it. That is all. Other things that suck: Holiday Spiced Pepsi, Moutain Dew: Pitch Black, Dr Pepper: Red N’ Watery (can’t remember what it’s called but it tastes like Dr Pepper with water in it), Cheerwine, Diet Coke, Diet Coke With (lemon/lime), Diet Pepsi, Diet Pepsi with (lemon/lime), Sprite Remix. Things that don’t suck but I don’t buy them anyway because the originals are better: Mountain Dew: Code Red, Mountain Dew: Live Wire, Vanilla Coke, Wild Cherry Pepsi, Pibb Xtra (you can’t get regular Pibb anymore, so I drink Dr Pepper instead). ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/48 "2004-11-08T20:46:26Z")
- - - The store I work at got in the Pepsi Christmas stuff a couple days ago. As I was leaving today they had uncorked a couple bottles and were sampling. Out of about a dozen people, _everyone_ agreed the stuff tasted horrible. I did not taste it myself, it was all gone by the time I walked up–I just saw people making faces. ~ ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/49 "2004-11-08T21:43:14Z")
> [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > This is cruel joke designed to send me on a wild goose chase, isn’t it? Now I’m going to have to tear Greensboro apart searching for some of this. Their website said it’s supposed to be available nationwide in January. I know they released it in Texas and maybe a few other places within the past few weeks. I saw it for the first time yesterday. It’s very sweet, but it’s true to the Dr Pepper brand. I used to put vanilla and grenadine in Dr Pepper anyway, so I really like this. ---
**Author:** ![modro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@modro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modro)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/50 "2004-11-08T22:16:25Z")
I tried the Holiday Spice Pepsi today, and, well… Frankly the taste strikes me as what one would expect carbonated potpourri to taste like. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/51 "2004-11-08T23:42:06Z")
> [@Roland Orzabal](#): > > A few years ago, for reasons I can’t remember, my dad won 100 two-liter bottles of Josta. It sucked. We tried to give it away. Nobody wanted it, because it sucked. So we pitched it. That is all. You _bastard!_ I love Josta! I’d have taken all of it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/52 "2004-11-10T05:50:08Z")
Cherry-Vanilla Dr Pepper is Texas-only? Ha! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/53 "2004-11-10T06:04:35Z")
No, it’s in Louisiana too. I want to try it, but I’m skeered. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/54 "2004-11-10T07:03:18Z")
Huh… I’ve been seeing commercials for it lately and was surprised to discover I’m actually mildly curious about it despite being the OP. Readng the new posts, it seems I was right though. I doubt I’ll be out shopping any time in the next month or two anyway so it all works out. ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/55 "2004-11-10T09:09:12Z")
I went to the Dr Pepper Web site and they said that the cherry-vanilla flavor is just the first in a line of soda fountain-inspired flavors. And that made me remember the time about ten years ago when I was eating with my grandparents in a diner that had chocolate Coke on the menu. I was too scared to try it, but my grandmother told me that when she was a kid, they used to serve chocolate Coke in soda fountains. So, I wonder how long it’ll be before Coke or Pepsi or someone decides to make a chocolate version. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/56 "2004-11-10T15:05:50Z")
I’ve wondered about chocolate Coke too, how it would work pre-made. When we ordered it at the corner drug store (yep, a real corner drug store), it had to be stirred pretty vigorously, and you didn’t let it sit too long or the chocolate syrup would settle. If they bottle it, they’d probably use a chocolate flavor rather than syrup, and that’d just be icky. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/57 "2004-11-10T16:57:49Z")
I’d be willing to try chocolate Coke or Dr Pepper. I do wonder what kind of flavoring they’d use. Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/58 "2004-11-10T18:17:28Z")
Canfield’s used to (might still, for all I know) make a diet chocolate soda. It was…interesting. The first half can tasted pretty decent, but after a while the aftertaste would build up and kick your ass. Finishing a can was usually a struggle. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/59 "2004-11-10T19:02:00Z")
When I had a chocolate Coke, it was very frothy. You know how when you make a root beer float, there’s a part that’s not really ice cream and not really soda? That’s basically the consistency of the chocolate Coke I had. I liked the texture, and I don’t think it could be replicated in can form. Nevertheless, if they start manufacturing a chocolate Coke, I’ll try it. ---
**Author:** ![GoodGrief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2acd7d/32.png) [@GoodGrief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodGrief)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976/60 "2004-11-10T22:48:38Z")
I tried the Holiday Spice Pepsi today-it didn’t impress me a whole lot. I think it tastes better warm, too. We have the Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper here in Iowa-haven’t tried that yet, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepsi-holiday-spice/264976.md?page=4)