When Carla and I were publishing the long forgotten bOING bOING zine, we bought a bunch of these Mexican sodas called Boing! and brought them to a science fiction convention in Austin. I think it must have been 1991 or 1992. I don't know if I ever actually drank a bottle of the stuff.
Anyway, ADM of Thousand Robots has a page about tasting the soda. He wasn't a big fan.
I tried the Strawberry (Fresa) variety…at room temperature, which is inadvisable. It doesn't taste precisely like anything I've had before. The closest analogue I can come up with is Ruby Red grapefruit juice, but blander and less sour and simultaneouly — at first — less sweet. But then once the aftertaste wallops you with the sugar, you'll feel a bit like you've just strained a shot of thinly flavored water through a cup of sugar right into your mouth. Boing juice doesn't taste like strawberries. Or maybe it just tastes like old strawberries that have been sitting next to a pile of rotten bananas for a few weeks at a Mexican juice factory.
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