Pepsi Pink – Strawberry and Milk
Move over Pepsi Shiso and Pepsi Cucumber! I have a new quirky Pepsi favorite: the Pepsi Pink with a pink strawberry and milk flavor. Sure I know it’s just sugared water with artificial flavors (at least that’s what the label says), but it’s quite tasty. I think I might have to get a bunch of these. According to the label they expire in April 2012 so you’ll have until then! Another hit by Pepsi Japan.
OMG!! Pinky Pepsi!?!?
I just looove Pepsi Japan’s fun new products!
I really want to try this! ^^
It’s great! You have to come over and try it…!
Yeesh. Looks nasty. But then, I have a genetic level disposition against all drinks featuring a red hue (with the exception of red wine, but that’s only due to the bitter nature of it). Reds, pinks, purples, they’re all evil, and if I saw one in the street I would look the other way.
Haha… is it the red itself? At least you can claim that red wine is burgundy or under the right light, black! (^-^) I’m a sucker for new products…
Had this disposition since before I can remember (as in, I was already like this when I was 2, maybe 3 years old) so not sure what started it, but I would assume it’s the association with sickly sweet flavours and an excess of food colouring, both of which I dislike. Red, pink and purple drinks, even pure grape juice just make me feel ill to look at.
Does that (gasp!) include red gari and beni shoga? Or even worse, yanaka shoga? My favorite!
No, only drinks. I love beni shoga! I think there was a beni shoga Pepsi or something like that once which was also bright red. Knowing that there was no way it could be sickly sweet, I gave it a sip, but it was horrible.
You still up for Sunday afternoon?
Of course! Beni Shoga soft drink? Would have loved to try that! Can’t be worse than the soy sauce cola!
Ha-ha, it’s funny how some folks can be predisposed to certain things for a very specific reason. Note to self, if ever in Coal’s presence do not drink pink/red drinks. I wonder if that includes cranberry juice. That is sort of a mildly sweet but tart drink….
Me on the other hand, I am drawn to it out of curiosity. It’s that lurid not found in nature sort of pink that makes me wonder what it would taste like. I’m sort of weird that way. I’ve found a lot of great things that way, but I’ve also found a lot of really disgusting why on earth did they make that sort of things.
Cranberry juice is most definitely on the avoid list. So’s tomato juice (though that’s more because every kind of vegetable juice is the creation of the devil, though heated up and salted they can make good soup stocks…)
Duly noted. I’ve never been a fan of tomato juice either. It may think it’s a fruit, but I still think it’s a vegetable. I still don’t know what’s in Clamato I just know that I won’t ever drink it, ever. I mean, are there really clams in there, and if so why?
So regular foods, like tomato sauce and stocks can be red, there is nothing diabolical going on with them, right? I’m making mental notes, it’s always good to make notes for such things. I had a friend who could not stand milk. It used to make her physically ill just to see someone drink it. I think once I asked her what she put on her cereal and she just looked at me and said dryly, “I don’t eat cereal.” There was talk of water somewhere in there, but it was a sad conversation and it doesn’t take up too much of my grey matter.
Never heard of Clamato juice, and wish I still had never.
Sauces are fine as they’re food, as are soups. It’s a really fine line. Chilled tomato soup with a splash of yoghurt in it is quite delicious, but put it in a glass and it becomes untouchable. Also, be careful how you eat it – drips of sauce around the mouth are unacceptable. 
Curious about your friend and milk. I do get how she feels, even though milk doesn’t present me with any problems. It’s some kind of subconscious association, but I suspect we both would have been too young to remember what the association is.
Oh, also, drinking with a straw. Some people seem to think that their drink is so important they cannot leave a single drop undrunk, so they keep slurping the straw long after they should making this godawful noise. That’s like fingernails down a blackboard to me, and I really feel like strangling them so they can’t suck any more.
Yeah, I wish I knew nothing of Clamato either. Well, drips of sauce that do not make their proper entry need to be taken care of tout suite. I think it’s really quite distracting, I would spend the rest of the meal just sitting there staring at that droplet till it’s been taken care of.
I think everyone has something that they don’t like, and for some foods are that really strong dislike. I wanted to probe a bit more, but I didn’t want her to be too upset. She seemed to not really know why, it may be because of what it is that upset her. But then she loved beef. She used to eat cheese, and I think eventually she did get over it in a way. School lunches must have been a nightmare for the poor thing.
I think my thing is people who have a runny nose and refuse to take care of it. When I was in college, many moons ago, there was always someone with allergies or a cold who would not blow their nose and that was all you would hear during the test. It was so distracting I could not focus. I do feel bad if someone is ill, but maybe stay home or take some medication or blow your nose. I guess they just gave up and thought that runny nose was their only option.
I love vegetable juices! Goya and apple, yummy! (^-^)
I love apple juice. Goya juice? That sound interesting. I was trying to google it, but I came up with the brand Goya.
Run a goya and two apples through a juicer. It’s super healthy and green. But some people hate the bitterness of the goya. (^-^)
Haha… well, most of the stuff you find in the convenience stores are at least enjoyable on some level. (^-^)
I was trying to think of what I wouldn’t try. I’m not coming up with anything. Maybe I’d be hesitant to try the wasabi flavor, but I think curiosity would win over as long as I wouldn’t be forced to drink the whole thing.
I love the Japanese convenience stores, they have the neatest things. I love that I can get an onigiri and a melon soda there. It seems healthier than the hamburger (but the smell is not as enticing). Gosh, I’m getting munchy thinking about it.
Onigiri has evolved so much these last few years… It’s like a gourmet meal right now! For 168 yen you get the most amazing onigiri at any convenience store…!
Sigh, that sounds yummy. The ones here are a bit plain, but that’s fine by me. I should learn how to make them really. I could start my own onigiri stand…I wonder how that would go….
You’d probably do great! It’s so easy to make them. The only problem would be getting customers who aren’t used to the idea of eating something without dressing or sauce! But I guess you could sell mayo-onigiri?
I once got electrocuted demonstrating an onigiri hands training device. I never really enjoyed them since.
Haha… that sounds like a terrible way to die! Lucky you got out alive.
I think as long as it tastes good LA folks will give it a go. I think the fact that you can eat it on the go makes it really appealing to people. It’s a little like a healthier burger.
Oh good lord Coal, if I were electrocuted by some device that would scare me enough to cringe every time I see a rice ball. I wouldn’t be able to enjoy it either. I can relate, I have a hard time eating corn nuts ever since I was a kid and I was sick and had a bad experience with them.
Haha, don’t worry, it was a real electrocution. It was for a comedy video:
(About 2 minutes in)
Hahaha… I actually saw that when it came out! I had no idea you were in it. Well, I had no idea you were you back then. Lovely hairstyle. You Sir, age like fine wine!
Make that “wasn’t”…
Oh that was hysterical. There was an infomercial right in the middle of that skit, you my friend really sold it!!! It sort of reminded me of the Cornballer from Arrested Development.
Hehe, thanks! That was actually an outtake—the little reassuring flourish with the eyebrows is me resetting my smily face between takes. Meantime the taller of the two actors is stood behind the camera making electrocution noises.
A lot of fun.
Being involved in it at all was quite by accident and lady luck smiling on me. I found the video for “Sushi” on a friend’s DVD and thought my parents and a few friends that didn’t speak the language that well would love it, so I translated it, laid down a subtitle track, and put it up on the web. Next think I know, it’s got millions of views, and my mailbox is full of emails from friends telling me I should watch this brilliant video, and one mail from the production company that made it… I was genuinely concerned I was going to get sued over it, and the thought had crossed their mind, but they’d come to their senses seeing that I’d opened up a worldwide audience for their brand of comedy, so they asked if I could help localise a new batch of Japanese Tradition films they had in the works.
I happened to be in the studio the day they filmed Onigiri so I got the part.
How did we get here from pink Pepsi?!
Hahaha… never knew you were behind it, mister Viral Marketing Video Guru! (^O^) That is one thing I love about Japanese production companies, they are so open to their fan’s adaptations!
According to a Japanese American journalist, it was one of the original virals. She documented the chronology here:
http://longtailworld.blogspot.com/2006/01/documentary-on-japanese-sushi.html
and here:
http://longtailworld.blogspot.com/2006/07/rudd-crunch-working-with-teevee.html
I get a lot of this “right place right time” stuff happening for some reason…
Interesting stuff! Thanks for the links!
I think I got the munchies and started to think about onigiri..mmm….I’m easily distracted by food….
I don’t like pink, and it sounds strange.. o.O I would try it anyway
Strawberry and milk, what is not to like? haha… (^-^)
Hi, did you guys know that Pepsipink.com is already owned by a company called Prospeedo, I guess they have had that domain name for over 8 years, wow! and to think it took that long to make this crazy drink? who is Prospeedo?
I had no idea! (^-^;)