Just in time for Lent: Bacon Soda

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:11 pm

March 4, 2015 by Deacon Greg Kandra

Actually, this has been around for a few years but it’s suddenly become The Rage, and I’m sure it must have something to do with the penitential season because—are you sitting down?—this flavored soda does not contain meat.

You’re welcome.

I was skeptical but someone who dissected the product wrote:

At first taste I thought it tasted mostly like molasses, but then I looked at the ingredients and saw no molasses on the label, just a lot of sugar, carbonated water, food coloring and the usual red 40, citric acids and sodium benzoate. Does it sound yummy yet?

So not complaining here, but after working with food and ingredients for many years I know enough that for something to carry a flavor it has to have a way to infuse that flavor in to whatever your putting together. Funny enough, no mention of anything bacon on the label, now I didn’t figure on them using real bacon, but I mean not even a a bacon flavor or extract.

So somehow after a few sips of bacon soda the flavor slowly went from a molasses like flavor to a bacon like flavor. Transformers? WTF? I have no idea. It wasn’t the greatest thing that I could have drank, and in the end it did leave a molasses aftertaste.

But wait. There’s more.

The geniuses behind this have some other tantalizing tricks up their sleeve.

Their products include sodas flavored like—are you still sitting down?—Buffalo Wings, Sweet Corn, Coffee, Peanut Butter & Jelly, Pumpkin Pie (!!!), Ranch Dressing, Sweet Tea, Apple Pie, Key Lime Pie, Cherries & Cream, Peaches & Cream and Lemon Meringue.