Prediction?
5Coca-cola is currently shipping its “Coke Starlight” special edition beverage, which apparently isn’t as Coke as its name. Evaluations are all over the map about the flavor, and not enthusiastic. (“I won’t buy it again” is a common refrain.) Starlight is scheduled to be available through sometime in August, so I’m figuring that the distributors are going to be sick of looking at those pallets of it along about the second week of October, and it’ll have a better than Coke Zero chance of showing up here shortly afterwards if they don’t dump it to BigLots! instead. (And that might be the smarter move, but there are apparently things even BigLots! doesn’t want, so go figure.)
It behooves us to be prepared for the possibility of its presence here, ideally with comments already edited and polished to razor-sharpness just in case. For my part, I might bum a sip from my daughter in preparation; she bought some, but hasn’t opened it yet.
Who knows? Maybe it’s not weird and vaguely unappetizing. Given their ad copy about it, my expectations are limbo-championship low.
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Strange! I just read that it tastes “kind of like minty cotton candy sprinkled with vanilla” which isn’t promising, but now I do want to taste it.
The article says they’re also coming out with “Coca-Cola Zero Sugar Byte” with “the taste of pixels.”
https://www.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/news/what-does-coca-cola-starlight-taste-like
@Kyeh I really like it! This is the first time I have been drinking soda more than once every couple weeks in a long time. I would describe it as almost very slightly minty, and, if this even makes sense, an ‘earthy’ kind of flavor, in a good way.
@PooltoyWolf Okay, now I’m really curious. If I can find a single can or bottle to buy, I’ll try it.
@Kyeh Walmart sells single bottles in the coolers near the registers.
@PooltoyWolf Hmm, so probably other stores do too - I don’t go to Walmart, partly because they’re not in my town. But I bet the gas stations have it, they always have all the latest weird drinks in the coolers.
@Kyeh Yeah, I believe my local Wawa has it as well.
I think I will just wait for the new “Coke Gaslight” - which will be awful, but bots will flood social media with so many glowing reviews that people will buy it anyway just to fit in.
@rockblossom It will also be the sponsoring beverage at the RNC.
@mike808 Well, it would have to be in a can covered with flags and guns, with “Freedom” added to the name …
I got and drank a 6-pack of minis. I tasted vanilla as well, and I’m not a fan (of vanilla). It definitely doesn’t taste like coke.
It honestly tasted pretty close to Jones Soda’s Thanksgiving Turkey and Gravy flavor. Which was the strangest flavor that seemed to literally be trying to have no recognizable flavor, not even just plain sweetness of sugar water.
/image jones soda turkey and gravy
I hope so. I absolutely love the stuff and am having a hard time finding it.
The mintiness is a feeling, not a flavor. It just kinda finished in a cooling way. The flavor reminds me of coke and graham crackers and cotton candy. Or teddy grahams. Something like that
I’ve read that starlight is coke + vanilla + cream soda.
From an Ars Technica article on the new “Byte” flavor launching tomorrow.
I think the odds of it landing here are low due to the weight to ship. Price will end up too high because of having to subsidize their standard shipping fee with product selling price money.
@Kidsandliz You mean like the weight to ship all that tonnage of Bang drinks?
BTW, the lemon tea is my absolute favorite flavor. Watered down a bit 1) to lower the sweetness, and 2) stretch the savings on cost per fluid ounces consumed even further.
@Kidsandliz Maybe they could bundle it with an overpriced “we can’t show you the logo” cooler, or an overoptimistic Peltier-effect 12V “fridge”. I have little doubt that there’s a warehouse somewhere with thousands of the latter that have been returned…
@Kidsandliz @werehatrack Hopefully, that warehouse isn’t one among the Mercatalyst family.
I’ve had it. It reminds me a bit of vanilla coke. I’d drink it again as a specialty drink