April 26th, 2007 / by Kevin
Jarritos Tamarindo
Josh. Like you, I have been searching long and lean for a good tamarind soda. A lot of the tamarind sodas on the market today, they skimp on the tamarind flavor. I’ll just say it. The global tamarind beverage syndicate doesn’t want to hear it, but I will say it. The products they deliver are at best tamarind-esque. My saying this could get us shut down, I don’t know. But the people’s voice will be heard, and the people’s voice is saying Seriously is there even one good tamarind soda, having maximum tamarind flavor, available at a price that is not excessively tariff’d?
OK fine I have no clue what a tamarind is or what it tastes like. But who cares. You think I would ever let the facts stop me from achieving pure enjoyment? I was expecting this to taste like, what, Rutabaga Cola or something, but it was not at all like that. It tasted like sweet tea soda and I liked it.
6 Comments
April 27th, 2007 at 9:07 am
I believe a tamarind is a small prosimian (think primate) similar to a lemur. They are delicious grilled, breaded and deep fried, and apparently, sipped.
April 27th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Is this the same Tamarind used in a lot of Asian cooking? If it is, then it must be a fruit of the tall Tamarind tree.
April 28th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
It is the same tamarind that is used a lot in Mexican sweets (clearly, since the soda being reviewed is a Mexican soft drink).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarind
May 8th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Tim - it’s tamarin. Nice use of a big word, though.
May 10th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Snapped a great pic of the drink.
This flavor is (by far) my favorite drink available from Jarritos.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Yeah, Jarritos Tamarind soda is pretty good. All their products are pretty tasty compared with the HFCS based sodas commonly available in the States.
All of them (except tamarind, strangely) are also so brightly colored you’d think they are radioactive. Very eye-catching.
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