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The Jones Soda Halloween Collection!

Okay okay, you can stop e-mailing me, I got them I got them. Exclusive to Target, it's the Jones Soda Halloween Collection, a series of four fine soft drinks ranging from "Caramel Apple" to "Candy Corn," and yeah I've probably got 24 hours to live. Actually, they're nowhere near as offensive as the flavors in last year's Holiday Pack, but it's just more proof that we should always think twice before drinking from cans with pictures of goblins on them. If interested, they're cheap, on borrowed time and are absolutely going to be the cause of many "HAVE YA HEARD ABOUT DEEEEES" conversations this Halloween season. Enjoy, and pretend it's Monday.

Posted by Matt on 09/25/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 106 comments

I’ve been working on a review of the Caramel Apple drink for my site, and it’s hard to pin down an opinion..

If you just take a quick drink, to me, it’s sort of like ginger ale but extra sweet.. however, if you swish it around your mouth like wine you can taste the distinctive flavors a lot more.

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 09/26/2005 12:44 PM

Huzzah to the Matt! He is all powerful! I am SO getting those now. Is the Scary Berry Lemonade different fromt their regular Berry Lemonade? Cause I’ve tried that, and I like it.

And NO ONE realizes that this is Blog #666??? Spooky.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 09/26/2005 2:02 PM

If you work your Googleage you can find a pretty recent blog discussion of the possibility of an actual Gremlins 3, including a quote from Joe Dante (basically saying ‘No dice’).

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 09/26/2005 2:04 PM

I wonder if trying to get this to 666 posts is asking too much?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/26/2005 2:09 PM

I’m never adventurous when it comes to consumables, but I’m pretty enticed now…candy corn grosses me out just as candy, so I think I’ll be avoiding that particular drink. But seeing the scary berry in the glass reminded me of the first time I drank blue Kool-Aid and thought it was the best thing ever.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 09/26/2005 2:19 PM

Jack and a box has a pumpkin pie milkshake, its frigging great! tastes exactly like it. Matter of fact, its better then the pie cause you can slurp it up instead of use a fork haha.

Chestnuts roasted by the80sruled @ 09/26/2005 2:26 PM

It’s kinda weird seein Jones Soda in cans, something.. unholy about it..
Matt, I don’t know if you’re already on top of this but I just saw a badass (using the term loosely) Halloween commercial for Go-Gurt. Go-Gurt seems evil enough, but they’ve got skeletons and pumpkins n shit on the packaging so if you haven’t already it might be something cool to check out for the countdown.

Chestnuts roasted by WonKa @ 09/26/2005 2:36 PM

Speaking of nasty sounding but good tasting drinks, have any of you people just taken a bottle of mouth wash and just guzzled it. After I saw Carrot Top talk about it on space ghost I had to try. I threw up :(

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 09/26/2005 2:58 PM

I love regular strawberry lime…almost tempted to run downstairs and buy a bottle (except the last time I was down there, they only had the crappy flavors like berry lemonade left). Too bad the campus store won’t sell the Halloween flavors, though, I’d love to try caramel apple. (Oh, the woes of lacking transportation.)

Chestnuts roasted by Megan @ 09/26/2005 3:01 PM

I have finally had my mind twisted enough by XE to make my first compulsive purchase. Yes, the Jones soda halloween flavors, along with Matt’s article pursuaded me to buy all four flavors. I will spend tonight tourturing my wife as I beg her to try these ghoulish drinks with me.

Wukong the Target in the big city just North of you (that would be in NW Louisiana) has two huge shelves full of the Jones soda.

Chestnuts roasted by Tigerfan @ 09/26/2005 3:42 PM

"They’re coming to drink it, Barbara!"

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/26/2005 5:58 PM

I forgot to mention this, but I think the Scary Berry Lemonade tastes like the middle of a raspberry Tootsie Pop. You have to envision it at the point where the chocolate is peeking through, but there’s still raspberry candy left so you’re getting an equal taste of both. That’s my opinion anyway.

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 09/26/2005 6:04 PM

Out here in LA I tracked some Candy Corn soda down pretty easily at the local Target. I loved this stuff for about 3 sips, it’s all downhill from there. I can see why the cans are so small. You can only take so much of this stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by D-Roc @ 09/26/2005 6:22 PM

Yeti…bummer, but an honorable sacrifice.

I work at Culver’s and we have pumpkin milkshakes and malts. We actually just use the pumpkin pie mix(the stuff that looks like it came out of Robocop’s ass trap) and just blend it up with custard. And a sprinkle of cinammon on top. We also have cranberry shakes (duh, being in Wisconsin!) and eggnog shakes start in the winter (which means next week in Wisconsin :) )

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 09/26/2005 9:01 PM

Holy Gross Batman! The candy corn stuff is the worst soda i have ever had.

Chestnuts roasted by BetterThanFew @ 09/26/2005 10:05 PM

I know the sodas themselves aren’t worth it, but I knew nothing of Jones Sode before this article and now I have to try them.

On a side know, I hadn’t read that Christmas article from last year until now and wow, you work(ed?) with some attractive ladies, Matt :)

Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 09/27/2005 1:35 AM

Brian,
Jack-in-the-Box made a pumpkin pie shake last year. It’s pretty good. Order a small. Like the Jones Soda, a little goes a long way.

Chestnuts roasted by Bitchick @ 09/27/2005 7:26 AM

Being in the UK, I have to say it’s fascinating to see all the effort fimrs/people go to over Halloween in the US. We just don’t get any of this stuff over here. To be honest, the shops are so full of Christmas stuff there isn’t any room for it..

Chestnuts roasted by DTMS @ 09/27/2005 2:30 PM

I always found it odd that Halloween is so unappreciated in the UK, considering all this stuff began in England and the British Isles.

I hope it’s at least still popular in Ireland.

Chestnuts roasted by Monte @ 09/27/2005 4:10 PM

The soda cans dissapeared years ago here (Perú) coz they were more expensive than bottles (but beer cans still existing). Just imagine Halloween scary soda bottles… I’d like that :D

Chestnuts roasted by Yelinna @ 09/28/2005 12:23 PM

no halloween in england? blasphemy!

funky boo is HI-larious!!

Chestnuts roasted by diamondzdigidul @ 09/28/2005 3:48 PM

The only one I liked is the Berry Lemonade it reminds me of Slush Puppies/Nerds candy.

The rest taste like shit…

Chestnuts roasted by Jackie @ 09/28/2005 10:08 PM

I never really thought much of Jones soda to begin with, and that Thanksgiving set of theirs looked absolutely revolting.

This doesn’t seem much better either. I love soda more than anyone, but that’s just going too far.

Chestnuts roasted by Booth @ 09/28/2005 10:14 PM

I feel like the Strawberry S’lime and the Scary Berry Lemonade are just regular Jones soda flavors year round. I bought a twelve pack each of Strawberry Lime and Berry Lemonade at Target over the summer.

I haven’t tasted the Halloween editions though, so I’m not sure about that. I really liked the Strawberry Lime though.

Chestnuts roasted by Sami @ 09/28/2005 10:48 PM

Question: Now understanding that S’Lime and Berry Lemonade are perennial flavors, does anyone know if they’ve been dyed such weird colors during their "normal" run?

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/29/2005 12:51 PM

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