Pepsi Shiso

I pride myself with being pretty relaxed when it comes to food and drink. I am not picky at all and the advantage of this is that I can eat and drink pretty much anything (this comes in handy in a foreign country). I was at the convenient store today however and saw a new green looking Pepsi called "Pepsi Shiso". Intrigued, I bought it as well as a breakfast sandwich (salmon, letuce, bread, and cheese).


There aren't a lot of drinks that I can only take one sip of and not finish. It tasted like grass and cough syrup. It was the worst tasting devil's nectar that has ever touched my tastebuds.


This is one of them. It is saying a lot. I could not finish it and immediately gave it away to a friend. Not to my surprise, most of my foreigner friends shared my anguish.

I bought two of them so I could take a picture of it and post it on facebook/here. Later I learned that Shiso is actually a plant. In any case I did not care for it all. I thought I would share it here just to show some of the different drinks they have in Japan.