Bubly – Blackberry

Maybe blackberry isn’t a real challenge as a flavor—but they got it right. It tastes exactly like blackberry jam on toast—which happens to taste like big, old, ripe blackberries. I guess it’s not the most complicated fruit flavor—even if it is sublime and intense. I’ve got a history with blackberries—I had them in my yard in Oregon (good blackberry place). I never had a BlackBerry phone, but I had a fake one. Judy Bolton’s cat (the star of Judy Bolton books) is named Blackberry. Though I don’t care for the font on their cans, I like the depiction of bubbles, and I really like the color on this one. It’s a deep, deep, metallic purple. I said “deep” twice to try to get across my impression of it—it’s like you can see off into some kind of mystical place on this can. It’s just a color, I guess, but they ought to make more cars this color. No they shouldn’t—they should pass a law against it—ever. Really good flavor. It’s good. But I’ve got to say (nothing against this one), I’m just about through with berry flavored water (straw, blue, cherry, black, mixed, etc.) berry—on the bottom of my want list lately. Though I’m thinking of bringing back the character, Barry Fruitage, somewhere (in the fiction realm).

8.24.23