My review of shiso flavor pepsi!

[themadscientist]

For fans of my prior reviews of the screwball summer Pepsi blends over here in the land of the rising hentai anime, my latest test of new Shiso flavor Pepsi! This is a seasonal flavor so I wanted to get a review in while it's on the shelves.

First some background on the crazy s*** Pepsi Japan bottles in short runs, my past reviews.

Ice Cucumber....zerothread?id=258856

Blue Hawaii....zerothread?id=347615

This time around, we will be consuming Shiso flavor. Now, what is shiso? I didn't know either so I looked it up.Shiso, is the Japanese name for the perilla or beefsteak plant.

http://shizuokagourmet.wordpre...eaves/

The only place I had ever seen one of these leaves was in sashimi and sushi where the leaves are used to separate the individual pieces.



I never knew you could eat them, and no way did I ever expect to drink them. Pepsi, though, continues to push the beverage envelope, not sure why. I take a look at the bottle, well shaped, good color contrast. The mystery liquid has a nice cylume light stick color to it. I wonder if it glows in the dark? The potential is, hell I don't know what to expect; it's a soda flavored after a friggin leaf!



Enough presentation let's crack this sumb**** open and see what the story is! I pop it open and give it a sniff, hmmm, interesting. It smells like mint and cinnamon mixed together. I could easily see some sort of hot tea smelling like this, but a cold carbonated soda?

I remain undeterred. I am here to bring the straight scoop to my peoples and I will suffer if I have to! I hope I won't but here goes....

Umm, er, wow, this is a hard one. Let me begin at what the f*** is this taste!? After the fizz relaxes you actually start to taste it, I think I regret that a little. Unlike some of the other flavors this one tastes very similar to the way it smells. It starts with a mint beginning, like a cheap candy dish mint in your proctologist's office waiting room. The cheap fake mint kick somehow makes a surprisingly smooth transition into a cinnamon-tinged mint finish. I'm impressed by this but it still tastes like hot a**.

I am intrigued by the way it alters its character when I burp it back up. It has a slight honey undertone, but that might be caused by some transmorgification going on down there as my spaghetti dinner and the swill I just dumped on it try to coexist in the same space.

The last drink is the same consistency as the first, for better or worst. All in all, it was bad, pretty bad, but not the worst. Would I seek out another bottle with plans to actually consume it, for refreshment, uh no.

Pepsi wierds me out again.

[HashiriyaS14]

I heard this was awful, glad to finally have confirmation, lol. I liked the cucumber one though. This thread gives me an idea that I will have to email you about later.

[Jesda]

The bottle is pretty.

[simmode1]

I'm impressed by this but it still tastes like hot a**.

I lol'd so hard!

[Koshin]

^^^^lol!!!!

[MastaYu]

[daconkiftador]

nice review!

[NSR_s30]

Eww.

[Otto.]

The color is great. You don't seem too impressed with any of the special Pepsi flavors (or anything for that matter :P) but to me they do look promising.

[PEZi]

crazy azns...

[Beancooker]

Great review, but it lacks the humor of this:

All in all the experience was not as bad as say, having my testicles removed with a pair of BBQ tongs but still more intolerable than slamming a bottle of SimpleGreen. I don't think Pepsi has the nuts to try and sell this demon sweat stateside but if you want a similar experience to blaspheme your tastebuds try licking a citronella candle then take a shot of club soda and finish by spraying Endust in your mouth. Be sure to think about the southern sea though, or Elvis.

[themadscientist]

This new one is not the travesty that that concoction was. My tongue was ready to sue.

[Koshin]

email me one of those when you get a chance TMS...I just found some JDM hard candy in the Gloria when I was cleaning it out...I didnt eat it though, I only found one piece...Im gonna save it for car shows

[themadscientist]

email you a soda?

[drksolest]

email me one of those when you get a chance TMS...

email you a soda?

I like your funky flavored pepsi reviews... I think it would be fun to try these as well (even if they do taste like )

MOAR FLAVURZ PLEEZ!

[sean@z1]

Shiso as in cucumber flavor?

[DrifterXRPS13]

shiso sowwy!!

[numbnuts240]

Shiso as in cucumber flavor?

Now, what is shiso? I didn't know either so I looked it up.Shiso, is the Japanese name for the perilla or beefsteak plant.

[sean@z1]

I remember Kapa Shiso which is a cucumber roll :P

[RCG_Savage]

Hmmm after looking up prices on ebay it seems it would cost $11-15 per bottle to get it shipped over to the US.

[sean@z1]

yeah and it would be flat by the time it left us customs

[flohtingPoint]

Shisno Pepsi?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN3MyxLw29o

[notslow]

Another good whacky Pepsi review. I love reading these TMS
Modified by notslow at 6:12 PM 7/7/2009

[Koshin]

email you a soda?

sure...what the problem??

I can haz moar flavors?

I enjoy these articles as well....