Okay, I can't even take that one seriously.
Just the fact that there's a soda out in this world called "Hot Lips" allows me to bring that seldom used phrase out of my traditional application (addressing masseuses) and into the actual world. It might be more satisfying than those deep tissue kneads and the happy endings, too.
For a soda with four ingredients, I've never had a more satisfying and flavorful beverage. It does what commercial drinks and LOGO have been striving for for ages- puts the fruit front and center. This wasn't even my favorite of their sodas, but we drank up their others before we even had a chance to photograph them, and the pear looked the most dramatic against tweed.
In order to better facilitate my drinking experience, I decided to conduct a little experiment. I took a plane out West a few weeks ago for the sole purpose of breaking into the Harry and David factory and nabbing a few of their pears, which I then took home and pureed through a sieve a couple of times before achieving the perfect pear juice. That was mixed with some carbonated Voss water I'd had lounging around, and was poured together for comparison with the Hot Lips soda.
While the aforementioned event never happened, the Hot Lips end of the deal couldn't have been closer to the truth. These sodas are pure, and not in a Facebook quiz resulting in 58% purity or a high school "virgin", but genuinely pure. They taste like the fruit they represent. Mired in a society whose latest and greatest culinary births involved blue raspberry and the Blackjack taco, that's a big fucking deal. In the case of the pear, it wasn't cloudy as Food Junk's soda had been, but was still lip-smackingly good and smooth in the mouth. The pear was mellow with a slightly citrine flavor. After drinking, my only two wishes were that the carbonation was a tad higher, going from gentle bubbles to more of a bite, and that the soda came in large 7-11 jugs. My third wish was for a small harem of puppies, but even the charm of Hot Lips can't grant that.I'm saving my last bottle of this like I'd save a 1968 Chateau D'Yquem. I'm probably going to bring it out at my winter gala if I feel the crowd is right, or perhaps get Keepitcoming a half case as an early Christmas gift. These are well worth the cost and fantastic for any soda connoisseur.
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