Trust the Americans to come up with weird soda flavours!!!
Beverage firm offers pea-flavored soda
Tue Nov 21, 8:34 AM ET
SEATTLE (Reuters) - After introducing the world to new soda flavors
like fish taco and salmon, Seattle specialty beverage maker Jones
Soda Co. is offering a new flavor: Green pea.
Green pea, along with other unusual sodas such as turkey and gravy,
dinner roll, sweet potato and antacid flavor, will be part of the
company's $10 to $15 "holiday pack" of bottled drinks available
nationwide.
Peter van Stolk, chief executive of Jones Soda, said on Monday the
collection of strange-flavored sodas usually sells out quickly,
even though he can not stomach the drinks. Past flavors included
broccoli casserole, corn on the cob and Brussel sprout.
"Why people buy it is beyond me. I can't drink a bottle of this
stuff," said van Stolk.
Jones Soda, which sells traditional sodas alongside more exotic
flavors like fufu berry and green apple, first introduced the
holiday soda pack in 2003, gaining notoriety for its turkey and
gravy flavor soda.
"We have the market share leader in turkey-flavored beverages,"
said van Stolk. "We know we can't compete with Coke or Pepsi by
playing their game, but we know they're not going to come out with
a turkey flavor or antacid flavor."
Asked if there were any flavors that were off limits, van Stolk
said he put his foot down when it came to curried chicken
flavor.
"Fish taco was just nasty and we tried curried chicken. That was
just wrong," he said.
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