Inverted Cane Sugar (29 reviews)
Jones 24c Blueberry Grape
Blueberry grape? Who has heard of such a thing? Blueberry is always paired with pomegranate and these two just shouldn't blend. Jones, the insane Canadians that they are, decided that they can do whatever they want. They put those guys together in one bottle and came up with...wait for it...a strange drink. It smells good and it invites you in. When you drink it, you get some blueberry and some grape juice but there is something else in there, something that I didn't like. I don't want to say bitter but it had a bit of that acai taste to it even though that wasn't an ingredient. I think it's actually the vegetable juice that they use for color that kind of snuck in some flavor. I've had this before with those drinks that are fruit flavored but have a days worth of vegetable intake in them. I'm fine with that, but know that it also delivers this strange aftertaste. If you know this stuff, you will be fine. I am the informer. Snow and I, we are informers.
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- http://www.jonessoda.com
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- Canada
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- Inverted Cane Sugar
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- Mike Literman on 2/5/2013
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Jones Orange & Cream Soda
Would you look at that face? That is the face of a child who just opened her birthday presents and she is not happy with the results. All she wanted was a classic blonde 1972 Fender Telecaster bass and instead what she got was a brand new knock off that looks like a toy. To add insult to injury it was also fretless…ick. Well at least her parents got her a case of orange and cream soda. Orange cream is her favorite soda flavors and only the sweet, sweet flavor of creamsicle soda will right this evil that has been put upon her. What the hell is this? This one is certainly not her parent’s fault. It’s labeled orange and cream, but this doesn’t taste the way she wants it to. Neither the orange, nor the vanilla cream tastes are right, and together they taste nothing like a melted creamsicle. It’s like they took garbage generic orange pop and put in the smallest hint of vanilla that is just not pulling its weight. In fact it tastes more like a generic sweet soda flavor than anything. That’s it. She’s just turned two and this little girl already knows this is the worst birthday that has and will ever exist. She might as well burn the house down.
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- http://www.jonessoda.com
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- Canada
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- Inverted Cane Sugar
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- Soda Pop
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- Jason Draper on 1/19/2013
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Jones Pure Cane Soda Lemon Lime
Lemon Lime: The illegitimate child of sodas. Everyone pretends to love it, but in reality it’s normally the only soda left over after the family get together. I’ve never met a single person in my life that had lemon lime as a go to pop. Sure it mixes well with other drinks, alcoholic for some and for others such as myself it works well with cranberry juice, when out at bars. On it’s own it’s just a bland soda by nature. I mean how can it not when one of its key ingredients is lemon, the most meaningless of all fruit. Lemonade is amazing, but in all other forms I could do without the golden citrus king. I wonder if lime will forever feel cheated in this arrangement. A straight up lime soda aka a Lime Rickey is a thing of beauty. It’s just too bad that on most days it’s held back by its cousin the lime.
Now that I’ve expressed in detail the mediocrity of lemon lime pop, I will say that Jones has made a version that is better than most. It’s no surprise that the reason for it’s spender is that it tastes more of lime than lemon. The use of cane sugar helps a lot as well, but it’s the lime that makes this pop worthwhile. If this is what this flavor of soda always tasted like, I feel like there wouldn’t be anything left in the coolers at the end of the party and that everyone would finally come to accept and truly love this soda made out of wedlock
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- http://www.jonessoda.com
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- Canada
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- Inverted Cane Sugar
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- Soda Pop
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- Jason Draper on 12/11/2012
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Jones Pure Cane Soda Red Apple
Rumor has it that it's been a rough year for apples. It was a blisteringly hot summer and that's not good for any sort of trees, plants, fruits, vegetables, and everything in-between. I assume the orchards aren't just throwing away bushels of lesser quality apples. I hope that there will be an influx of apple goods like apple cider, apple donuts, apple bread, something. I like apples. I like certain apples more than other but I like them all. Apple juice is good but companies as of late have been really nailing that apple flavor and not just apple flavoring things.
This pop is apple. Red apple. Not apple flavored. It says "natural and artificial flavors" but I'm thinking that's a misprint. It's a really good flavor. It's sweet but it's pop. If you've had Jones before they are a little guilty of over sweetening their pop. It's real sugar though so over sweetening with cane sugar versus artificial sweetener, in my opinion, is way more drinkable. I'm just saying they could cut back a bit.
Autumn, apples, cider, hoodies; it's all happening now, for a limited time. Fall is a short season because you take summer for every day but as soon as snow hits, it's mentally winter. That's the frigidly cold truth. I'm not telling lies over here, just truths.
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- http://www.jonessoda.com
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- Canada
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- Inverted Cane Sugar
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- Soda Pop
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- Mike Literman on 10/26/2012
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Jones Pear Tree
Margaret had a problem with her neighbor. Well it really wasn’t her neighbor that was the problem; she was a sweet old lady. Her problem was that there wasn’t a fence between their houses and in her neighbor’s backyard there was an old pear tree. Early in the season it was great. It was a lovely looking tree and the air around it always has a soft smell of pears. As late summer (and ultimately fall) set in is when things turned poor. You see the old lady neighbor didn’t go out much because of her age and all of the pears would fall to the ground where they would begin to rot. The smell was kind of bad, but even though there was a slight scent of decay, the smell of the pears overwhelmed it. The true problem was that the rotting pears attracted armies of bees. You see Margaret had a small British looking boy that she liked to dress up as Charlie Brown to fulfill some sadistic need. When she would bring him out back to play, as soon as she looked way he always bee-lined (all puns intended) towards the tree. She always caught up to him in time, but she knew one day she wouldn’t be fast enough and it would be sting city for her little comic character brought to life.
She knew the neighbor really wasn’t fit to do anything about it so Margaret decided to clean up the pears herself this year before they began to rot. She made some pies, canned a few, but there were still mountains left over. Eventually she decided to try and make some pear soda. Since she didn’t really know what she was doing to she pleased with the way it turned out, even though it tasted a bit off, and not really like pears. She somehow managed to do to her pear soda what sour green apple candy flavoring has been doing to candy for years. It was sweet, yet slightly sour and only vaguely tasting of pears. It wasn’t great, but it was better than expected. She made up a few cases (you seriously can’t believe how many pears this tree produced) and saved them up for the holidays. You see her husband ran a soda company and his name was…wait for the reveal…Thomas Ezekiel Jones. DUM DUM DUM
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- http://www.jonessoda.com
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- Canada
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- Inverted Cane Sugar
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- Soda Pop
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- Jason Draper on 9/14/2012
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Jones Pure Cane Soda Green Apple (Eldritch Blast)
I don’t know if I can properly express Mike’s disappointment in the Jones Dungeons & Dragons line. It crushed the man. He saw an ad that Jones was releasing this line, and he jumped on it. He ordered us the whole series, and spent a pretty penny doing it. In his mind the new flavors were out of this world and from an older time, some would say a simpler time. Others would say it sucked because you were always worried about dragons or orcs attacking you. One thing that no one would argue about was that the beverages back then were way different. The day finally came when the package arrived. Mike opened it up and said some expletive or another. You see the ad listed the flavors as things such as “Sneak Attack,” “Potion of Healing” and “Eldritch Blast.” What it didn’t tell you was that these were just the normal Jones flavors with new wacky names (Cream Soda, Blackberry and Green Apple). Mike was so upset that after we divided the flavors between us it took him nearly six months to review even one, and that was under duress. I feel for him. No one likes disappointment, especially when it comes in the way of sodas you were super stoked on.
What is an Eldritch Blast anyways? I thought it was some sort of creature, as I have no idea what the being on the label is. I Googled it and eldritch just means strange or spooky. I guess that it makes sense as Jones was able to make a green apple soda that actually tastes like pop and not like someone put a handful of Jolly Ranchers in a cup and then microwaved them for two hours. Sure, it’s sweet as hell, but underneath the sugar it actually tastes like a nice sour apple and not just candy. This is the first soda I’ve ever had that has done this properly. I hope that makes up for some of Mike’s sadness. I know it won’t but a man can dream. Actually if I’m dreaming I should probably be dreaming bigger, like say Mike won a contest when he ordered these lies of soda and he’s getting one of those fancy cars that he loves and 25 pachinko machines to annoy his “live in” girlfriend. Now there’s a dream.
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- http://www.jonessoda.com
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- Canada
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- Inverted Cane Sugar
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- Soda Pop
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- Jason Draper on 8/24/2012
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Jones Pure Cane Soda The Orange Cola
Sometimes you find yourself taking a picture of some animal that is either a donkey or a antler-less moose standing in water at dusk. I think it’s safe to say that if you ever find yourself in that position, things are going pretty good for you. Things are also going pretty good for you if you’re sipping on a bottle of this soda.
Jones has so many flavors that I don’t even know about. I had no idea they even made an orange cola until it showed up (with the lemon lime) at our local Big Lots. I was intrigued as the only orange cola I have previously had is Mezzo Mix, and I love the stuff.
The Jones version doesn’t have as much orange as Mezzo Mix, but I’m okay with that. IT tastes like they took their normal cola (which leaves a little to be desired) and added just a bit of orange. You can definitely taste the orange, but the cola is the main force here. I like it. I love it. I want more of it.
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- http://www.jonessoda.com
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- Inverted Cane Sugar
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- Soda Pop
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- Jason Draper on 8/16/2012
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Jones Doctor Jones
I had a lot of little things on my “To-Do” list that involved things I could do, sitting at a computer (color separations for screen printing) or just sitting around (cutting pants into shorts), so I decided to curl up on the couch with Temple of Doom and a nice frosty bottle of Doctor Jones. Now that is a winning pair if I’ve ever heard of one. Speaking of pairing do you think a high quality Dr Pepper knock off would go better with Snake Surprise, Black Beetles, Eyeball Soup or Chilled Monkey Brains? Yeah, you’re probably right, a nice Doctor Jones/Monkey Brain float sounds just wonderful.
Jones really did a great job with this soda. Normally knock offs of this variety have something a little off about them that let’s you know that they didn’t get the recipe quite right. This on the other hand is so similar to Dublin Dr. Pepper that I don’t know if I could taste the difference in a blind taste test. Remember those? Do any companies still do them? If so please get a hold of Mike and I because we would love to participate.
Here’s a little insight into my psyche for you. When I was a pre-teen I was obsessed with Indiana Jones. I bought my mom’s boyfriend a hat like the one Indy wears without even a thought as to whether or not he liked the movies (of course he did, he’s not a communist). I also took a summer archeology class. It wasn’t as exciting as I wanted it to be. I think they should have buried bottles of this soda out in a field and had us go dig them up, carefully as to not break the glass. I would have been more pumped about the class then. I’m more of a field agent instead of a classroom snoozer.
One final thought. Two of my biggest heroes (Indiana Jones and Peter Venkman) are both doctors. I really need to sign up for one of those online fake colleges where you can get real degrees that no one takes seriously. That way I can legally get Dr. Jason Draper put on my license. How sweet would that be? I could also carry around a sweet whip and a proton pack. Even sweeter.
ppppps. It would be criminal if I didn't say this. "No time for love Doctor Jones."
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- Jason Draper on 7/9/2012
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Jones Ginger Bread
Drinking this on July 1st may have been a bit of a mistake. It’s nearly the furthest one can get away from Christmas, and this is certainly a winter/Christmas soda if ever there was one. It smells and tastes like liquid gingerbread cookies. Actually it tastes like the gingerbread equivalent of vanilla extract. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the essence that came in a little glass bottle that was added to cookies to make them taste like gingerbread. It’s a bit much. I did enjoy the taste, but it was so strong that I couldn’t get through half of the bottle, and I ended up sharing the rest with everyone.
On a separate note, do you think they got the picture on the label submitted to them before they had the idea for this flavor? Did the picture inspire the flavor? I’d like to think so.
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- http://www.jonessoda.com
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- Inverted Cane Sugar
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- Jason Draper on 7/2/2012
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Jones Sugar Plum
What's this? It's a plum covered in sugar? Are you telling me that this is a sugarplum? Part of me doesn't know what an actual sugarplum is, but the other part of me thinks that you are trying to pull a fast one on me. I'm drinking this Jones Sugar Plum pop and it's really sweet but doesn't have any taste that I can compare it to. Stop shoving that plum in my face. You're getting sugar everywhere. Eww, really dude? You licked it and then stuck it in sugar? That's gross and I'm that much happier that I didn't touch it. What does this taste like? It’s hard to say: Fruity and sugary and carbonated. Does anyone actually know what a sugarplum tastes like? Do people still eat them? I thought it was only in that Christmas song. This is good but I bet your spitty, sugar covered plum is disgusting. It might not be for you since it's your spit but for others, you might want to do what we used to do with pretzels to get salt to stick with it and just spray it with a spray bottle of water. Stop spitting on fruit!
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- http://www.jonessoda.com
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- Canada
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- Inverted Cane Sugar
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- Soda Pop
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- Reviewed By
- Mike Literman on 5/15/2012
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