Globecord - New Sprite Ice Declared Colossal Catastrophe

Recently, I had the good fortune to try the latest addition to Coca-Cola's soft drink line-up: the brand new Sprite Ice. From time to time, we here at GlobeCord like to review the latest snack foods on the market. This lets you, our readers, know whether the new products are appetizing and have substance, like MacGyver portrayer Richard Dean Anderson, or are dirty and unappealing, like skanky Pamela Anderson. Well readers, while drinking Sprite Ice won't give you hepatitis, it will leave a bad taste in your mouth all the same.

A few days ago, on my way to work, I stopped into the local convenience store to purchase my regular pack of gum. To my surprise, the nice lady behind the counter told me that there was a promotion where with my Excel: Polar Ice, I would receive a sample can of new Sprite Ice. Smiling at my good fortune, I continued on to the lab resisting the temptation to crack open the cute little half-can of Sprite Ice. I placed it in the fridge, and thought fondly all morning of how sweet the mint-flavoured Sprite would taste with my lunch. I had high hopes; I thoroughly enjoy the latest trendy beverage making the rounds, the Cuban master-drink, the Mojito. Made with rum and mint syrup, the Mojito is a refreshing cousin to the perennial horseman's favourite, the Mint Julep. It seemed logical to assume that Sprite Ice could be a cheaper, less alcoholic version of the Mojito. How wrong I was.

Sitting down at lunch I took the first bite of my Chili Chicken with Snow Peas (a specialty of Yueh Tung). I reached for the chilled can of Sprite Ice, and with little trepidation opened it and took a swig. I was immediately assailed by a chemical taste not unlike the artificially sweet taste of one of the foulest drinks in existence, Diet Sprite (which was overlooked from a previous list of diet soft drinks). I gulped more, not believing my taste buds. If you thought real hard about it, you could actually taste some mint-like flavour, but pleasurable it was not. It was like drinking a concoction a 6 year old would make: one part medicine, two parts toothpaste. I wouldn't even describe the drink as leaving me refreshed, only with a slightly numb mouth/throat.

So fellow soft drink enthusiasts, if you want to taste an enormous error in judgement, act fast and get yourself a can. It's too bad that Sprite Ice didn't make the grade. I am not going to far out on a limb to suggest this product will not be on the market by the end of the year, but I have a feeling that no children are gonna be crying when this puppy is put to sleep.