La Croix – Strawberry Peach

This is one of La Croix’s newer ones, I think—I can’t keep up. Some new waters are impossible to find, like you have to join a secret club or something. I tried this one last summer—and once again, I’m behind in posting these water reviews—so this doesn’t always make sense, seasonally. It’s a summer offering. Can you think of a more “summer” flavor combination than strawberry and peach? Those are the summery-est of all summer fruits—both being highly seasonal. Sure, you can get them all year, but they can be pretty dismal. But when you get good strawberry in season, or a good peach, like off a tree—there’s nothing better. I think they did a good job with the flavors, here, too—I can taste both the strawberry and the peach—a good balance. They went all out with the can, too—metallic pink with bouncing ripe strawberries and a couple of little pink flowers and some slashes of green and red and overlapping orange and red hearts and then, right in the middle, a peach cut in half, and in the middle, instead of a pit, there’s a strawberry! Does anyone ever do that—I mean, as a fresh fruit presentation? I’ve never seen it, but I might remember that the next time I make summer fruit salad.

No. 137 – 1.18.26