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Saturday, 19 July 2008
Name that flavor
It Stinks!

After eating lunch at a local deli, Karen and I browsed their shelves to see what strange new gourmet foods they had. Among the many delicacies were $7 chocolate bars with various nontraditional flavors (curry, wasabi, bacon...) and a soft drink called Julmust.

I'm a sucker for strange beverages, so I bought a bottle. I couldn't place the flavor, but I commented that it reminded me strongly of some kind of candy I'd had when camping in Rhode Island as a child.

"So it tastes like acrimony?" Karen asked. She'd heard the tales.

I think the "natural and nature-identical flavors" reminded me of the sugary colored liquid contained in wax bottles. But looking up Julmust on Wikipedia, maybe it was the hop and malt extracts, which I guess didn't taste much like beer because of all the sugar.

Faintly carbonated; sweet but not overpoweringly so, with a faint bitter aftertaste and hints of acetone in the bouquet.

Overall score:

4 out of 5 Moxies

Posted by godfrey (link)
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Comments
And you passed up the bacon-flavored chocolate?
Posted by Lisa on 19 Jul 2008 17:02
That chocolate was $7 a bar!!
Posted by Mrs. Godfrey on 19 Jul 2008 18:49
Just make your own chocolate dipped bacon. It is actually kind of good. But not as good as candied bacon. MMMMmmmmmm.
Posted by Anonymous Coward on 19 Jul 2008 20:09
My dear departed Aunt Bessie kept her fridge stocked with Moxie when I was a kid. (I'm old.) It always looked so fun but the taste was pure disappointment to my eight year old self.
Posted by gracie on 25 Jul 2008 21:16
I started drinking Moxie in high school.I'd picked up a couple of two-liter bottles of it for a D&D game, not knowing what it was. The consensus at the game was that nasty was what it was. One and a half bottles sat in my fridge for about two months.

Until I got thirsty, and it was a choice between water or Moxie. So I choked some down. And the more I drank, the less I minded the taste.

Soon, I started buying it for D&D games. Because it meant nobody else would drink my soda. And I actually ended up taking a perverse pleasure out of the taste.
Posted by Godfrey on 25 Jul 2008 21:41