Bubly – Blueberry Pomegranate

I like the can a lot—it’s a very dark metallic purple—the look I admire on some college football team helmets—I don’t know why. A car that color would be refreshing! When did they stop painting cars actual colors? The lower-case, minimal font logo is in white, and there are well-placed, varying sized “bubbles” that are—what color is that? Maybe the brown side of maroon. Brown seems weird, but it totally works. The water is a bit floral. Some fruit waters just taste too floral to me, too perfumy. It kind of tastes like you’re making out with an old lady right before church. It’s another case of flavor overkill, perhaps. The can says: “blueberry pomegranate flavor with other natural flavors”—as if the first two didn’t border on one too many. What other flavors could there be, here, represented? Let me take another drink and speculate. I’m tasting a little banana in there, and some tutti-frutti, bubblegum, a little blue moon, maybe, and some Froot Loops milk, some Pop Rocks, little wax soda bottles with colored liquid, and a slice of rainbow, a dose of free love, a whiff of Dean Martin, a blush of Heatwave, a whisper of Dazzledent Gum, the lingering memory of Stay-Put Lipstick. I like the can a lot.

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