Category: Coming Soon

Update: We reviewed it! Click here to read our review.

There’s a new Dew, but it won’t be seeing a national rollout until 2016.

Mt Dew Black Label is a Dew with a dark berry flavor, real sugar, herbal bitters, and 83 milligrams of caffeine per 16-ounce can. According to Mtn Dew Kid, the number one source for Mountain Dew news, the beverage is currently being sold at colleges until the end of the year.

With herbal bitters, you might be wondering if there’s alcohol. There’s isn’t any. But there is one ingredient in the beverage that stands out to me — grape juice concentrate. Perhaps this is a classier version of the beloved Mountain Dew Pitch Black?

If you’ve tried it, let us know what you think of it in the comments.

(Image via Pepsico website)

Lay’s Canada recently announced the four 2015 Do Us a Flavour finalists.

Lay’s Wavy Cowboy BBQ Beans was submitted by Brenda Boghean of Calgary. Her flavor was inspired by rodeo food in Western Canada. So get the flavor of beans without the farting of beans.

Lay’s Original Butter Chicken was suggested by Darryl Francispillai of Mississauga, Ontario, and he looked at his South Asian heritage for inspiration. Despite its name, butter chicken is not just butter and chicken. There’s yogurt, spices, and other ingredients. After looking at a number of recipes to find out what butter chicken is, I now have a craving for butter chicken. Thanks, Darryl!

Lay’s Original Montreal Smoked Meat was turned in by Zdravko Gunjevic of Waterloo, Ontario and it was inspired by Quebec and named for that city’s deli favourite. This flavor is Canada’s Reuben.

Lay’s Original PEI Scalloped Potatoes was submitted by Jordan Cairns of Burlington, Ontario. His flavor was inspired by his favourite side dish at family dinners and the spuds’ cultivation in Atlantic Canada. What’s PEI? It stands for Prince Edward Island. Where’s that? I didn’t Google that far.

Voting for these flavors start on August 11. If you’ve tried any of them, share your thoughts about them in the comments.

(Hat tip to Trevor)

Oh Japan! I love you!

On August 10, Frito-Lay Japan will release banana-flavored Cheetos to help promote the release of the Minions movie in Japan. It’s the company’s first attempt at fruit-flavored Cheetos. I know it sounds like a weird flavor, but if you follow Japanese Cheetos like I do, it’s not so much. Pepsi-flavored Cheetos…Japan. Mountain Dew-flavored Cheetos…also Japan.

According to the press release, the crunchy snack not only has banana powder, but also cinnamon and a little salt.

Update: We reviewed them! Click here to read our New York Reuben Potato Chips review. And Click here to read our Southern Biscuits and Gravy Potato Chips review

We covered the Greektown Gyro flavor earlier today. Here are the other three flavors. Thank goodness no cappuccino-like flavor this year! (Image via Impulsive Buy reader John)

Update: We reviewed it! Click here to read our review.

I’m just going to leave this here and let you folks discuss whether this makes a good chip flavor. Also, Lay’s came out with Greek tzatziki chips. If tzatziki is the sauce that’s usually associated with gyros, will these gyro-flavored chips taste like those? (Image via Impulsive Buy reader John.)