And Here I Thought I Was a Pepper, Too

In the post few months, the major soft drink makers have com out with a bevy of new flavors.  First was Coke.  It came out with a blueberry-açai flavored version of Diet Coke.  I usually don't drink Coke, but since I love blueberries, I tried it.  Didn't really like it, and I am not sure if it was the flavoring or the Coke part.  (They also came out with a strawberry-guava flavor as well, but I didn't want to try that one.). Coke quickly followed that up with an orange-vanilla variety across all of their regular lines.  This time, I almost liked it.  I was always somewhat partial to that flavor combination, but I didn't like it enough to have it again.  Next, while walking through the store one day, I found berry flavored Pepsi, along with lime and mango varieties.  What sets Pepsi off from the new Coke products is the inclusion of actual fruit juice into the mix.  Unlike the Coke experiments, I actually got a case of the Pepsi berry, only because of the inclusion of blueberry juice.  Well, it does have a berry flavor, raspberry.  It is especially prominent when I take my first sips, but the blueberry comes out more as you drink it.  I am not sure if I would get another case.  I first heard about both the Coke and Pepsi drinks though the news.  This past weekend, while shopping, I though I saw a bottle of Dr. Pepper with a purple/dark bluish label in a dispenser.  I didn't get a close look at it, for I was running behind schedule, so I didn't check to see what was going on.  I thought it might have just been a special promotion or a trick of the colored light upon it.  Yet, something still irked me.  I checked online as soon as I got home.  The official Dr. Pepper site didn't list anything, but I did find something when I did a search.  It turns out that there is a special limited-edition flavor tied to the new Spider-Man movie.  It is called dark berry.  It is a mix of blackberry, black cherry, and black currant flavors.  I love the first two, but I am not sure I have ever tried the third.  (It is supposedly a favorite in Europe.) I have yet to find any more of it, but I can't wait to try it.  I would never have ever thought to search for it, if it wasn't for that unusual label.  I don't even think that is that actual label they will be using.  Strange enough, the movie has a tie in with Doritos, which is part of the large Pepsi corporation, so I don't see why they chose Dr. Pepper as a tie-in for a new drink.  This is the first new flavor from Dr. Pepper since the limited edition vanilla float from a few years ago.  I tried it a few times the summer it was out.  I would even mix it with some cans of regular cherry Dr. Pepper to get a hint of my all-time favorite cherry vanilla Dr. Pepper back.  Still being made, but not sold locally.  The easiest way for me to get that flavor is to go to a Dairy Queen and mix it straight from their soda dispenser.  It's not the same, but it's close.  I'm somewhat apprehensive about this new flavor.  I know I will get it, but I'm not sure how I will like it, especially with these other new flavors about.  Now, all I have to do is find it again.  Be the Pepper!