SONIC ’S NEW SLUSH WON’T PUT YOU IN A PICKLE
There are two things to consider about Sonic’s new Pickle Juice Slush before you avow to never suck this salty, green ice into your mouth.
1. Relax, this doesn’t taste like pickle juice.
2. Ignore the photo accompanying this story. You will not be served pickle slush in a sweaty glass. Rather, the good folks at Sonic will hand you a Styrofoam cup containing the nuclear-greencolored ice. So this transference is less like re-creating a jar of pickles and more like assimilating one of those plastic bags that suspends a pickle in brine and looks like it’s constantly on the verge of exploding.
And that’s not a bad thing. Because as tonguecurdling as it is to imagine a slush the same color as ectoplasm and that tastes like a Vlassic, this drink is rather refreshing. Seriously. That’s primarily because it doesn’t taste like the bottom of a jar of pickles.
It actually tastes like like lemon-lime Gatorade, which is to say it’s more like a lime-flavored drink given a splash of pickle juice. You’ll get that pickle taste at the start of your sip before lime takes over. And there’s a lingering aftertaste that mimics dill pickle potato chips, but this isn’t the flavor suicide so many people on social media predicted. Most of your time consuming this drink will be spent thinking that it tastes so much like Gatorade’s flagship flavor you wonder how they’re getting away with this. The rest of the time you’ll be agonizing over the inevitable brain freeze, because it’s really easy to drink..
And, really, that’s the best thing you can say about a curious food entity that’s more bizarre than beguiling — that you want more and more of it. Which is kind of a bummer, since it’s only available for a “short time,” whatever that means.