"Apple & ginger" "Spicy apple"
Why would you try to emulate traditional hot winter drinks in the medium of soda, which is always served cold? That's just a fundamental disconnect right there
It's like five cents of sugar water, it just has to get enough people to be like "I wonder if this is good" to buy it
I mean, Coca-Cola keeps coming out with flavors that they don't even say what they actually are
"Dreams", "Levelling Up", "Future", they're all terrible and I keep getting a bottle to see how terrible because I am a garbage monster who would probably buy a bottle of ginger apple soda
Locally, both Pepsi and Coke have both gone bananas with seemingly endless new sugar-free flavours recently and all of them are terrible
They're not named like perfumes though, just Pepsi Max Ginger or whatever
Out of the literal dozen flavors they've come out with here, only Pepsi Mango has tasted good
And that's mainly because it tastes nothing like Pepsi and more like a fizzy mango tea
Much better than Pepsi's other flavor outings, like marshmallow or salted caramel
What really hurts them is that they only do these flavours for the aspartame versions which already taste weird and bad
I’m happy to inform you that we now have a new AI-generated Coke flavor in stores! Thank St. Friedman for our capitalist overlords’ gifts.
I got one for free, one of the worst sodas i've had and i normally drink that garbage
Locally, both Pepsi and Coke have both gone bananas with seemingly endless new sugar-free flavours recently and all of them are terrible
I've not seen many of those lately, MtnDew seems to be flying off the handle around me. I have a hunch it's in response to supply chain instabilities. They want to avoid ever having all those empty shelves out there losing revenue so they're getting people used to drinking whatever soda-mcrib ingredients the market makes most available to them for cheapest.
Finns have weird priorities that’s for sure. You get free healthcare but one of those soda bottles is probably like €4. Absolutely offensive to my American sensibilities.
Still haven’t found good Mexican/Latin American food in Finland. On more than one occasion I’ve been served crunchy avocados in my food, very unripe. Makes me wonder if they’ve ever eaten a real avocado or even a real taco.
The Asian restaurants tend to be amazing however.
These are from Lidl so it's more like 1,65€ to 2,30€. Protip: stay away from big name brands, that shit will cost you an arm and a leg. Stuff like Pepsi, Coke, Mountain Dew and Sprite is expensive as hell, the same with anything Hartwall, the big Finnish soft drink manufacturer.
Lidl is your friend- their Freeway Cola is legit excellent and on par with Coke and Pepsi. Actually, it's probably just straight-up better than Pepsi now that they have included aspartame even in their non-sugar-free drinks. It's the worst of both worlds!
When it comes to store brand soda, lemon lime is usually a safe bet. Lidl's is good and so is Rainbow's, which is one of the store brands of S-Market and Prisma. I also recommend Rainbow's Festival soda which is a knock-off of Hartwall's Pommac, an apple-y/fruity soda that's marketed as a slightly more upmarket/adult beverage.
Also, remember that you can return most bottles and cans to stores for cash so hold on to those babies! A 1,5 liter bottle is usually worth 40 cents
We gotta import avocados from wherever which probably explains why they're not perfectly ripened. As for authentic Mexican food, we've had Taco Bell for a few years now so I think that's all covered
Still haven’t found good Mexican/Latin American food in Finland
Yeah, let's be honest, you probably never will outside of some South American expat's niche pop-up restaurant in Helsinki.
Also, the one good thing in this succdem hellhole is that non-sugar soda will be cheaper.
