La Croix – Pamplemousse

Anyway, my theory is that this particular La Croix flavor was the catalyst for the increased popularity of flavor essence sparking water—though I can’t support that with hard data. Perhaps it’s documented? At any rate, part of the charm was that—unless you were French, or spoke French, or had a dog named Pamplemousse, or knew someone with a dog named Pamplemousse, or knew how to use the internet (in other words, everyone)—you had no idea what that meant—what the fuck was that flavor? But then you tasted it… and sure enough… it was Pamplemousse! So… how’s the flavor add up, now, with all this competition? It’s still one of the best, if you like the flavor of grapefruit—which I really do. Maybe it’s nice, too, in that grapefruit juice isn’t overly sweet like orange juice—so it’s more of a natural conversion, it makes more sense, like lemon and lime and cranberry. For unsweetened, flavor-essenced sparkling water, I mean. Whereas flavors like strawberry and orange are a little weird, at least in your mind. Well, they can make a good water from any flavor, it’s possible. I was just thinking, it’s been a long, long time since I drank any grapefiend juice. Forgot, even, how to spell it. Mostly because, I guess, I stopped drinking fruit juice altogether. I really have. Wait… something just occurred to me! (at the time, that is, that I first composed this review—see below* for an update). I don’t think I’ve yet seen any apple flavored sparkling water! Could that be? How could they have missed apple? Is it because apple needs the sweetness, and when they tried apple flavor without sweetness, it tasted like pumpkin? (I’m just hypothesizin’ here!) There is that really good Mexican apple soda, called Sidral Mundet—it’s the best—partly because it’s not too sweet—but then it is somewhat sweet, of course. (An aside: when I looked up how to spell Sidral, I came across an interesting article about: Why is apple soda so rare? It’s on the Sprecher website (they make an apple soda), so you can look it up. They reference The Botany of Desire, which I just re-read, so right now, I’m a bit appled to the core!) *Okay, at press time (now) I have seen an apple flavored water—at least one—so I’m sure there’s plenty. Not as popular as Pamplemousse, though!

4.30.24