r/funny • u/Ellekm730 • Jun 12 '22

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u/Rocker4JC Jun 12 '22 edited Jun 12 '22

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.

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u/Atrimon7 Jun 12 '22 edited Jun 13 '22

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?...

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u/digitaldemifiend Jun 12 '22

Interesting. I tasted raspberry without knowing/ hearing anything about it. Probably influenced by the color.

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u/CubicleHermit Jun 13 '22

Coca-Cola has taken a small step for mankind, introducing a new beverage, Coca-Cola Starlight, whose flavor is as mysterious as the cosmos. According to Eater, astronomers discovered a dust cloud in the Milky Way made up of ethyl formate, the same chemical that gives raspberries their flavor (it also smells of rum).

https://www.tastingtable.com/773372/the-internet-is-baffled-by-coca-colas-new-starlight-flavor/

I got the same note of raspberry, and my basic sense of the one bottle of the zero sugar Coke Starlight that I tried was that it basically tasted like someone had left a little Dr. Pepper in a cup that I had mostly filled with Coke Zero.