There’s a turkey & gravy soda and we tried it

TURKEY & GRAVY: Jones Soda, the inventive soda firm from Seattle, has created a turkey and gravy soda. We gave it a strive. (Photograph by Brian Chilson)

In case you’re not within the temper for consuming a giant Thanksgiving meal this 12 months, you may at all times strive ingesting it. And that’s not a intelligent means of claiming it is best to attain for grandpa’s do-it-yourself wine on the massive household get-together. 

Jones Soda, the inventive soda firm from Seattle, has a “particular launch” Turkey and Gravy soda that’s obtainable for a restricted time. 

This taste is likely to be restricted for a purpose. 

I instructed pals and associates about ordering a six-pack of the sodas and nobody appeared to share my curiosity. Just a few mustered a genial angle about it however none had the keenness I had surprisingly discovered within the odd seasonal taste. 

Turkey flavors is likely to be extra common than I had initially realized, although. The opposite day, I attempted my co-worker’s bag of Dealer Joe’s turkey and stuffing seasoned kettle chips they usually have been implausible. They have been chips, in fact, and never a soda. 

The bottles characteristic an image of a big cooked turkey on a plate alongside a ship of gravy. The label on the entrance says the soda incorporates “different pure flavors,” though I don’t know what they’re. And what do they imply by “different”? Are they suggesting turkey and gravy are precise components? I doubt that. A writeup on the again of the bottle describes it as “notorious” and says “even your vegan buddies can partake.” The label says it has zero energy. 

So it’s vegan and it has zero energy. Is that this factor is definitely wholesome? (Kidding, in fact).

I lastly received round to making an attempt it a pair days earlier than Thanksgiving, totally anticipating it to be horrible. Unusually, I didn’t suppose it was. I laughed as I took my first massive drink from the bottle and I discovered it to be a bit candy, with perhaps a number of hints of savory seasonings within the aftertaste. Is that thyme? Oregano? Sage? Perhaps. 

My spouse had a extra visceral response. She took a swig and rapidly made a horrible face of disgust. She summed it up succinctly. 

“That’s disgusting,” she mentioned. “I don’t even know what to let you know it tastes like. Simply, not good.”

I wouldn’t say it was good both nevertheless it’s not practically as dangerous as I believed it could be.  

To my shock, my co-workers gave the drink a strive in my absence. They usually weren’t followers of it. 

One message to me learn “we’re indignant.” One other mentioned “horrible, simply horrible.” A 3rd co-worker refused to strive it for worry of angering his digestive system earlier than an extended Thanksgiving drive. 

I see Jones Soda has a brand new promotion now, permitting prospects to pair their Sugar Cookie soda with a six-pack of the Turkey and Gravy soda. I assume they haven’t offered via all of them but. I’m not stunned.

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