Bubly – Mango

I really like the can! It’s actually a metallic mango color—they got the shade of orange just right. The white “Bubly” logo barely shows up, which is impressive—in fact you can barely make out any of the printing except for a small, darker orange “mango.” The pull-tab is also metallic orange—a quirky choice—so you know you’re dealing with a classy enterprise (though it also says “sup” on the pull-tab, which is dumb—though this is a minor quibble). I was a little surprised that I actually liked this water fine. It does taste like mango, but it doesn’t have any of the a-little-bit off-putting flavor that mango sometimes has (I’m not sure if this is some mango, or if it’s just me not having eaten mangos from childhood). How about it? It’s good! It’s kind of like a mango lassi without the lassi (silly to even say that). Though, maybe, in the flavor department, they actually did work in very, very subtle additional flavors—the bite of yogurt, and whatever spices a lassi might have, like cardamom. Well, however they arrived at it, this is a pretty successful flavored sparkling water.

9.26.24