Pucker Up For This Beloved Fast Food Chain’s Collab With an Iconic Candy
It’s no secret the beverage category is a bit unhinged these days (in a good way). We love the variety of coffee, tea, smoothies, slushies, shakes, energy drinks, flavored waters and dirty sodas popping up in restaurants, convenience stores and on supermarket shelves.
We also love a good collab, especially when it involves one of America’s most beloved fast food chains and an iconic candy brand. And by that we mean Jack in the Box x SOUR PATCH KIDS.
That’s right, you can now pick up three watermelon-flavored beverages that showcase SOUR PATCH KIDS’ trademark sour-then-sweet taste experience. This limited-time menu includes a watermelon shake, watermelon twisted soda and watermelon lemonade. A watermelon slushie has debuted in only a few select locations.
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Jack in the Box describes the watermelon shake as a vanilla shake with SOUR PATCH KIDS watermelon flavor swirled throughout; whereas the twisted soda is classic lemon-lime soda with a generous drizzle of watermelon syrup topped with whipped cream; and for the ultimate ‘pucker-up’ experience, tangy-sweet lemonade is combined with tangy-sweet watermelon flavor.
I can’t imagine a more appropriate collaboration where the best of both the sweet and sour worlds are on full display.
After sipping on the watermelon shake for the first time, one Jack in the Box fan exclaimed “oh, that’s stellar”. Another said, “I’ll probably drink this a lot” after testing out the watermelon lemonade.
A Reddit user noted “I tried the watermelon lemonade today. Really good stuff. Tasted amazing, like watermelon [SOUR PATCH KIDS] melted at the bottom of your drink mixed with lemonade. It tasted like actual sour patch so it hits sour-then-sweet.”
Prices start at $5.19 for the shake, $3.79 for the twisted soda and $3.29 for the lemonade and slushie.
Per a Jack in the Box press release, “The SOUR PATCH KIDS Watermelon beverages are here for a good time, not a long time—so get your hands on them while they last.”
With this kind of creativity in the beverage world, we’ll never go thirsty.
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