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It Ain't the Pop Shoppe, Kids.
Jun. 16th, 2009 12:24 pmSo this week over at MGK.com he posted his regular (hey, this is four weeks now; that's regular) "Things I Liked This Week And Things I Didn't piece.
In it, he mentions this:
Anyway, yesterday while shopping I picked up a bottle of the diet passionfruit pop. Very tasty. I strongly suspect the Lychee pop was made for cocktails.
And, as an interjection, I love the sound of the word passionfruit as spoken by someone with an Afrikaaner accent. I have no idea why. The pronounciation of the first syllable alone just makes me giggle.
Anyway: PC pops.
The post reminded me of a dark day for the PC brand. Back then, when the president was Dave Nicholl, they introduced a black cherry flavour of pop, which is delicious and probably explains why my belt size went up over the '90s.
They then introduced a variety called Chocolate Black Cherry, which combined PC Black Cherry with the taste of chocolate. It was sampled by a Global reporter visiting the PC Test kitchen, whose response was, well, what you'd expect from the description. To summarize: He d'int like it.
Now, this was on a Global tv program. It probably could have blown over if they'd ignored it. But Dave was apparently an easy man to anger. So Dave made that clip into part of his promotional plan. The commercials included the Global reporter gagging on his beverage, and daring consumers to try it themselves.
So, yeah, I tried it. And, oh lord, was it a betrayal of the prinicples of Black Cherry pop. Feh. It in fact sat in the fridge I shared with my roommates until they made me toss it out. And I hate tossing out food. It's been ingrained in me as one of the great sins. Even really, really bad food that is mostly sugar and carbonated water.
So, yeah, MGK, there's a lab of people whose sole purpose in life is brainstorming and creating pop flavours. Sometime it works. Sometime... it does not.
In it, he mentions this:
- President’s Choice makes passionfruit (and diet passionfruit) pop now? I sometimes think there is a little room at President’s Choice headquarters where there’s this one guy whose sole job is coming up with new flavors of pop. (I mean, it would explain the lychee soda they introduced last year.) But the passionfruit is easily their best entry since blackcurrant a couple of years ago (and why did they discontinue blackcurrant)?
Anyway, yesterday while shopping I picked up a bottle of the diet passionfruit pop. Very tasty. I strongly suspect the Lychee pop was made for cocktails.
And, as an interjection, I love the sound of the word passionfruit as spoken by someone with an Afrikaaner accent. I have no idea why. The pronounciation of the first syllable alone just makes me giggle.
Anyway: PC pops.
The post reminded me of a dark day for the PC brand. Back then, when the president was Dave Nicholl, they introduced a black cherry flavour of pop, which is delicious and probably explains why my belt size went up over the '90s.
They then introduced a variety called Chocolate Black Cherry, which combined PC Black Cherry with the taste of chocolate. It was sampled by a Global reporter visiting the PC Test kitchen, whose response was, well, what you'd expect from the description. To summarize: He d'int like it.
Now, this was on a Global tv program. It probably could have blown over if they'd ignored it. But Dave was apparently an easy man to anger. So Dave made that clip into part of his promotional plan. The commercials included the Global reporter gagging on his beverage, and daring consumers to try it themselves.
So, yeah, I tried it. And, oh lord, was it a betrayal of the prinicples of Black Cherry pop. Feh. It in fact sat in the fridge I shared with my roommates until they made me toss it out. And I hate tossing out food. It's been ingrained in me as one of the great sins. Even really, really bad food that is mostly sugar and carbonated water.
So, yeah, MGK, there's a lab of people whose sole purpose in life is brainstorming and creating pop flavours. Sometime it works. Sometime... it does not.
