is a regular series where we try the latest off-beat food and beverage offerings.
It might appear to our readers that we harbor a strong dislike for Lay’s chips and we need to state that this is not the case. If it seems like this series is becoming a repeated berating of this global potato chip brand, it’s only because of the seemingly endless horror show of novel ‘Asian’ flavors.
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The 2021 springtime desecration is a cherry-blossom fermented rice flavor. The packaging depicts a lightly fermented rice dessert, often served warm with tapioca pearls and goji berries. The cherry blossom flavoring is the same as the cherry blossom pink lychee sparkling soda flavor, released in the spring of 2020. When we open the bag, the acrid cloud of noxious floral perfume is shocking. It smells like a crime scene at a pay-by-the-hour hotel. Last year’s sparkling soda’ element was manifested by some acidic compound that burns and tingles the roof of your mouth. As unpleasant as that was, the 2021 rendition is all the more sickly sweet.