Mello Yello Citrus Flavored Soda

About a decade ago my friends and I had a tradition of doing a scavenger hunt every Halloween. A friend who had moved out of town would make up a list of about 25 things we needed to get/do that were all fairly ridiculous. Thirsty Mike participated the one year and he can vouch for how much fun it was. The list changed yearly with things on it like: take a picture of yourself nipple deep in Lake Erie (you can't comprehend how cold that is), steal a table pager from a specific restaurant, break into a pet cemetery and find the name of the gorilla buried there, video tape two teammates dumping a gallon of milk down each others pants, have two team members kiss with tongue (yeah my mom walked in on me kissing Jerid “The Hammer”…€¦awkward), drink BBQ sauce out of a condom and various other dumb things. One thing that was on the list every year was to get a single can of Mello Yello. You see these were the times when Mellow Yello was scarce. Coke had replaced it with Surge and that had gone the way of the Dodo. No one ever got points for that one. My team went so far as to drive to Canada (okay it's only 15 minutes away) because someone said a store up there had it. They were wrong.

Since I haven't been in Buffalo for Halloween since 2005, and my mother was the “Mistress of Ceremonies” the hunt was called off. Every year no matter where I end up being I always wish I were back in Buffalo doing dumb things with my friends. I found this can of Mello Yello a few weeks ago, and I knew I had to save it for today. That's right, my team would have won if the game were still on.

I can't even remember the last time I had a taste of this soda. I can tell you that it doesn't taste like I remember it at all. In my mind it was just Coke's version of Mountain Dew and that's not it at all. It tastes like orange and lime sodas were mixed together. You know what that's what citrus soda should be, screw lemon. Who needs lemon-lime soda when you can have orange-lime? I mean this isn't mind blowing or anything, but I do enjoy it. Of course I also have that stupid song stuck in my head as well, “I'm just mad about Saffron…€¦”