Oddly enough, while in Japan, I noticed quite a lot of restaraunts serve "cold tomato". It's basically a sliced tomato, but you get to pay 5 bucks for it.

My advice:

If you have "Satan in your mouth"... DON'T SWALLOW!

@urban_ninjya: Fruits and vegetables are fairly expensive in that area. Tomatoes can cost upto $1 each.

Crazy isnt it..

there's a restaurant in chicago that puts cucumber slices in their free water. i hate cucumbers, but it's surprisingly refreshing.

I'll have a 6 pack of this stuff waiting on me in October when I go back to Japan.

Why Japan? Why not the U.S.? We are savvy enough to try new Cucumber Pepsi too.....Is there a cusomter service number where i can call and complain about why we don't get to try it first?

While in Atlanta one time, we visited the Coke "factory" where they allow visitors to sample Coke products from the world over.

I was amazed that simple cultural differences would account for the varying flavors. BTW, that is a nice way of saying that some of the sodas tasted like goat urine that has spoiled.

Disgusting. I could only drink six "Ice Cucumbers" before I couldn't stand the taste anymore.

I'd like to try this. I like Dr. Brown Cel-Ray Celery Soda and think this could be good.

I never quite understood the general public's desire to consistently knock or violently react to the taste of a whitty new soda flavor; it always seems to be the cool thing to do. However, Iced Cucumber certainly doesn't sound appealing whatsoever.

Then again, I'm not a resident of Japan...to whom this brand is focused upon, so what do I know?

Nothing can top Russia's Ice Cream flavor Pepsi.

I would imagine it's refreshing. I'd try it.

In Peru, you can buy Inca Cola. It's fluorescent yellow and tastes like fizzy bubble gum.

My wife lived in Southeast Asia for a year and came back with a taste for Coke with cucumber in it. That, or evaporated milk. ???

Truthfully, though, to maintain their stock price, Coke and Pepsi both have to keep coming up with new products, even if most people like their original products a great deal better than anything new they could hypothetically produce. Take the new coffee-flavored Coke. I like coffee. I like Coke. The combo is disgusting. There's no way any sane person would buy it in preference to a regular Coke. But Coke will still produce these new things, and Pepsi will too, till Wall Street properly values selling the same great product decade after decade without changing it.

target's brand "archer farms" sells cucumber water and it's pretty crisp tasting. the cucumber makes it taste colder than it is in temperature...kinda interesting. it's sort of like a minty effect only it doesn't taste like toothpaste. it's pretty good!

@Peeved Guy:

"BTW, that is a nice way of saying that some of the sodas tasted like goat urine that has spoiled."

And you know this how?

@JustAGuy2:

I'm not really at liberty to discuss that right now as there is still a high probability of litigation.

I'm not sure this product wouldn't do moderately well here--cucumber has been marketed as a "refreshing" scent and soothing to the skin in body products marketed to women for years. I make soap, and my most popular variety is cucumber soap, made with fresh cucumbers. I'm not saying I'd EAT it, but just that the idea of "cucumber = refreshing" is one to which the consumer has already been acquainted, quite successfully. I'd at least *try* it.

I would think this would actually taste pretty good. The "cucumber slices in water" is actually pretty good. And why Japan and not the U.S.? Probably because of the prevalence of cucumbers in sushi.

I'd think this would be a more "watered-down" flavor compared to most sodas more like flavored water than flavored soda.

I'd drink it.

Oooh. I love cucumbers. This is probably yummers.

Cucumbers are related to melons, no? And melons have a special place in Asian cuisine. Make of that what you will.

In China, Coca Cola sells a sour green apple flavored soda. I miss it, and wish that they sold it here in the US. Oh, and honeydew melon-flavored yogurt.

you know what tastes like satan?

the awful black licorice-flavored coke they have in Italy.

worst thing I've ever tasted in a bottle.

@acambras: More than likely on account of guarana. I know Jasta was a guarana flavored beverage in the US, so you may check to see if there are any other brands that offer the flavor stateside.

I've been to quite a few asian restaurants in the US that serve cucumber and lemongrass water. it's actually really refreshing. and this sounds weird, but one of the most memorably delicious drinks I've had was a cucumber martini with vodka sake. I would try cucumber pepsi.

Why not cucumber soda? I'd give it a try.

I got totally addicted to pink grapefruit soda when I lived in Germany back in the mid-90s. I wonder if they still make that stuff?

Cucumber is usually a "refreshing" vegetable in asian cultures.

Makes sense that the Japanese would market something like this.

@TWinter: I don't know if Ruby Red Squirt still exists, but if it does, that's a red grapefruit soda stateside.

I had the exact same reaction with Diet Dr. Pepper.

I had to spit out the soda at the Dr. Pepper taste test promotion booth. NASTY.

I dont think anyone commented this yet, but I got tired of looking. At one of the TED conference videos that are posted online (TED.com) One of the speakers spoke about how coca cola in Japan releases a new product every 3 weeks in order to find something that strikes a chord with people, I would assume the same is truel for Pepsi. Go to Ted.com and look for a conference video about sliced bread, its on iTunes too, quite intriguing.

These soda companies would make more money if they offered some of these international flavors here in the states. But sadly, they've been focusing too much time and effort on developing foul tasting "energy drinks".

@ironchef:

I always find it odd on how people react to diet drinks. IMO The diet Dr. Pepper is the soft drink thats has tastes the most similar to the original. Considering Im diabetic and only drink diet sodas thats not saying much :)

@Crazytree

Thanks for that memory. I had a liter of that awful bile from a gas station in Italy. I thought it was grape. Not so much.

Cucumber is now a pretty common ingredient in martinis and other mixed drinks in hip (i.e., wildly expensive) bars.

Me, I'd take a Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray any day.

Though I'm not familiar with the use of cucumbers and mint in Japan, I have had that flavor combination before. If you go to any good middle-eastern restaurant you can get fresh-made cucumber and mint yogurt. Very tasty. Note that real yogurt is generally runny. Come to think of it, I could see this tasting quite familiar if it's not *too* sweet.

Did the guy mean "satin" (smooth, velvety) or "Satan" (smokey is I guess the most charitable interpretation)?

I'd LOVE to see a Satan-inspired drink in the US, though. If only to really upset the Christian whack-jobs. I'd buy even if it DID taste like stale goat piss (better than fresh, pungent goat piss?!)

@AnnieGetYourFun: Jones soda has a sour apple flavor...kind of interesting, but not sure I'd go for it as a regular drink.

I think the cucumber has to be better than the tropical fruit flavored one we have here this summer...I'm not even a LITTLE interested in trying it.

reg

@trai_dep: I totally agree with making a "Satan-inspired drink." It would be great watching all the extreme christians totally lose it.

The only downside to thise would be TONS of said christians writing into consumerist about how horrible the company is. Remember Starbucks Lady (
"How dare they put anit-God quotes on their cups. I am sooo not drinking there EVER again!")? Blah.

I like Cucumbers, but hate Pepsi.

@AnnieGetYourFun:

In China, Coca Cola sells a sour green apple flavored soda. I miss it, and wish that they sold it here in the US.

Annie, there is a company in Seattle called Jones Soda that sells a very good green apple soda. I don't know where you are, or if Jones distributes their product to your area, but I just thought you would like to know.

@acambras: Inca Cola is badass!

If it actually tasted like cucumber, and not like Satant, I bet it would rock.

@Coder4Life:
But yet the US can import Chinese tomatoes for cheaper than they can be grown in the US.

You know, Ice Cucumber Pepsi sounds pretty good right now... I wonder if it is possible to import it and if it is, how much it'll cost...

@urban_ninjya: You should have tried it. They're not regular tomatoes. I had one at a restaurant in Roppongi and it was the best tomato I ever had in my life.

@gavinsfingers: I've been to lots of restaurants that do this. It is indeed very refreshing.

@AnnieGetYourFun:
Some a brand of Mexican Soda (not Jarritos) makes Green Apple Soda. I found it last week. I did not have the courage to try it as I hate apple soda in general. I think the brand is Mundial or something like that.

I've tasted other cucumber flavored drinks, and they are delicious. I'd totally drink this. If I drank soda anyway.

@acambras: "In Peru, you can buy Inca Cola."

Peru? Heck, we've got it in the vending machine where I work. (Which is in New Jersey, btw.)

QUESTION:!!

Why does it have a label in English?

@forrester: I agree. I try to drink diet sodas as little as possible because I don't really like the taste but I have been known to down a few for the caffeine when no other soda was available. I've noticed that the Diet Dr. Pepper actually tastes almost exactly like the regular stuff. Diet Pepsi on the other hand - I have a hard time choking that down.

I still find it hilarious though that ironchef spit out the Diet at the taste test promotion. I think I would like to see that.