Nixie – Blackberry Raspberry

Maximum Berry—and that’s how it tastes—not bad if you’re in a berry mood. At least they spell “raspberry” correctly, and don’t go in for some fancypants name like Racksberry or Blazberry. I shouldn’t even have brought that up. The can is just about the purpliest thing in my possession—metallic purple background, with huge dark purple and red berries. Though… the blackberry kind of looks like a bunch of grapes. Some metallic green leaves, and the excellent white Nixie logo. Again, the odd thing is that “Blackberry” is in call caps, and “Raspberry” is a bit smaller, in cursive. What does it mean?!? Also, it makes you think about these berries—there is a “black raspberry,” but “black blackberry” would be redundant, and “red blackberry” just plain weird—but maybe only because it doesn’t exist. Or does it? I imagine there are tons of berries that I don’t know about—but am I going to take this opportunity to research berries? I am not. Also, I’m still waiting for a blue raspberry sparking water (in which they color it blue, but somehow use a less than heinous means to color it). And for that matter, how about blueberry (not in conjunction with another flavor)? Just blueberry. Where’s that? Also, where’s my mulberry sparkling water!?! If someone ever pulled off an accurate mulberry flavor in a sparkling water, I might just retire this long venture—assuming nothing would ever top it—it would be all downhill from the mulberry!

No. 145 – 4.16.26