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Product Review- Black Cherry Vanilla Coke

I expected this to be an uninspired hybrid of Vanilla Coke and Cherry Coke. However, it has a surprisingly creamy taste that evokes Ye Olde Soda Fountaine, and the vanilla and cherry flavors blend seamlessly without vying for supremacy. Granted this is still Coke (TM)-- churned and bottled in an antiseptic facility where ribbons of corn syrup meander down steely chutes-- but it has charm.

The font used for the "Black Cherry Vanilla" on the label is very Taster's Choice and is clearly intended to brand this beverage as a nostalgic, romantic treat (as opposed to a hip elixer fortified with taurine). They're obviously not marketing this toward the skate ramp crowd. No, this Coke is for longtime colaphiles like myself who would probably try Pepperoni Coke if they dared to formulate it. I give Black Cherry Vanilla Coke a 6 on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 representing warm Sierra Mist, 10 being a chocolate Coke hand-stirred by a myopic old soda jerk named Frank.)

Let's say you had been close, very close, with Black Cherry Vanilla Coke as a teen. Then suddenly--like, now-- Black Cherry Vanilla Coke became visible. Suddenly, your schoolyard chum was appearing in refrigerated grocery cases everywhere. People were swigging it on the streets and deeming it palatable. Maybe it wasn't as popular as, say, a megabrand like Diet Coke, but BCVC had begun to acheive its longtime dream of being a working soda. Perhaps BCVC had a popular blog and maybe it had even written a movie. A movie! Wouldn't you try to contact BCVC through BCVC's MySpace page? Or are you a pussy? Does the way BCVC went about this whole thing make you queasy? Are you afraid that BCVC might go down too easy, is that it? Or am I still not cool enough?

All in all, a quality Coca-Cola product. Kudos to the Georgian overlords.

Posted by Diablo Cody at January 18, 2006 9:30 AM

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