Review: Jones Soda Halloween Limited Edition Lemon Drop Dead

Whenever the holidays hit, you will all notice that on shelves some food/drink products release new limited edition flavors in honor of the holiday. With Halloween just around the corner I have come across quite a few new limited edition foods and drinks.

Recently I picked up 2 packs of Jones Soda new Limited Edition Halloween flavored soda. One pack being Candy Corn, and the other Lemon Drop Dead.

I absolutely hated the Candy Corn flavor, which I tried first, and seeing how that one was so horrible, I was not expecting Lemon Drop Dead to taste good either.

This was pretty odd too, because nearly every Jones Soda I have come across taste pretty dang good, however the company tends to make the most awful holiday limited edition flavors! Even the limited edition Christmas flavors from last year tasted pretty toxic.

Anyhow, Lemon Drop Dead comes in a 4 pack, and each can is a small half can. The whole look of the can is adorable though, and the packaging is what manages to sell these nasty little suckers year after year.

Lemon Drop Dead in particular has a very cute cartoon mummy drawn on to the can, with the name of the flavor written at the very bottom below the mummy's face. Lemon Drop Dead is made of pure cane sugar like all of Jones Soda.

I popped open the small can and the scent hit me first. The scent that expelled from the can was a very sugary and tangy scent of lemon. The scent though was not a natural lemon scent as it smelled pretty chemically and powdery. Sort of like powdered lemonade.

The color was what I expected, which was a pale, pale off yellow.

Flavor:
 
I sipped the soda and the flavor hit pretty fast. In my opinion it tastes like sour lemonade, with that powdered sugar lemonade flavor. It has an odd aftertaste which tastes like they accidentally poured a slew of splenda into it.

Lemon Drop Dead is not horrible, but it is definitely not something you would be able to finish, or even want to finish. It's one of those flavors that you take a few sips just to try it, and then you end up throwing out the rest. With it's chemical, powdered, sour, fake lemonade flavor though, it's a drink some may not even be able to stomach.

Overall:
 
Lemon Drop dead is not for everyone, but it is a hell of a lot better than Jones' Halloween limited edition Candy Corn flavored soda.

All in all, Lemon Drop dead is near tolerable, but it is far from what I would consider a good beverage.

If you are into weird limited edition flavors though, for $1.50 it's not going to set you back too much greenage. If you still want to try it though, you can pick it up at any local Target down the Halloween isles.