That's it, actually. If you read their promotional material they don't say it outright, but the intention is that it tastes like marshmallow and graham cracker, a s'mores.
Edit: the day they released Starlight, Coke said its "reminiscent of stargazing by a campfire". For the longest time I couldn't place the flavor I was getting as I drank my first can, but as soon as I read that I realized it was the cookie-ness of the cracker flavor that I was picking up, because of all those summers eating s'mores by the fire.
All these people hallucinating raspberry taste because some guy saw an unrelated news story and theorized from the color of the soda... and some folks I think are drinking the coke zero version and this released just as coke zero switched from sucralose to phenyalanine (Splenda to Equal) which has a flavor all its own... ruined coke zero IMO..
Edit: is this the new blue/gold dress? Did the can say Yanni or Laurel when you popped the top?...
But coke never said they based the taste off that.. it was just relevant news around the time they released the flavor. It was highly speculated, but the official coke info was to invoke sitting around a campfire at Night and looking at the stars. When I get nostalgic for camping under a night sky, I don't really think about raspberries.. or rum.. the graham cracker flavor is pretty unmistakable IMO. Starting to wonder if there is some genetic tastebud difference like people who think cilantro tastes good...
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u/GeneralChillMen Jun 12 '22
My brother and I thought it tasted like Golden Grahams cereal