Sour Patch Kids are for kids- I mean, it is right in the name! Yet that did not stop Ghost from licensing the brand for a blue raspberry flavor. The can is bright and cheery, very appropriate for the namesake, but please, would somebody think of the children!
The flavor is exceptionally sour, which makes sense with regards to the company crossover, but it does not mean that my palate ever wanted to sip something so egregiously acidic. The problem has less to do with respecting the fruit it impersonates; "blue raspberry" is not something found in nature, so the experience becomes sixteen ounces of liquid candy. A citrus drink would work here, but that is not what we taste. Instead, sips resemble raspberry and blueberry if they were born in a lab rather than from soil. A proper sweetness could have helped, but with only sucralose and ace-k, diet sugars that cowardly bow to the tartness' relentless grasp.
Ghost offers 200 milligrams of caffeine, which is enough for a very respectable three hour long kick. Other ingredients include vitamins, taurine, extracts and others. I wish it contained better taste, but alas, I do not see that listed on the back of the can.
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