Wait, where are my glasses? TruBlood. Sorry.
I recently went into Borders at Robina and, like the fangirl I am, scooped up 4 bottles of TruBlood. For those of you who don’t know, that’s the blood orange carbonated drink made by and featured in HBO’s True Blood series. Retails at $9.99 per bottle in Australia ($39.95 for a 4 pack carton, which I totally bought on a whim by the way). Of course, it’s an import from the USA so mark-up was shocking.
I’ve wanted a bottle of TruBlood ever since HBO and Alan Ball announced it. Being an Australian, I expected I would have to wait a while — circa 6 months at least. So I’m going to give you a taste review and ask the question – would I buy it again?
Initial thought at first mouthful: Why did I pay $40 for this again?
Ever had a berocca? It’s got a very distinctive metallic taste. Drinking a TruBlood is like drinking a berocca. Metallic. Or maybe that was the red dye on the bottle coming off around the top. It was a lot sweeter than I was expecting and after drinking a little more, I felt like I needed to stop for fear of needing to call my dentist within the next week. I’m kind of at odds with the taste. I want to like it, but I don’t. I do find it grows on you after a while (Quote Sookie: “I’d prefer cancer”) but not to a YES, THAT WAS AWESOME feeling. That feeling was reserved for the latest episode of True Blood (3×04 ’9 Crimes’).
My overall rating: 6/10 (1 being Jessica’s reaction, 10 being Bill’s. Looks like I’m not a “mainstreamer”)
The packaging is awesome and that’s probably what made up 4 points of the above rating. I therefore find myself with a conundrum. I have 3 bottles of TruBlood left that I want to keep for the bottles alone but I don’t really want to drink the stuff inside. I’ve heard vodka works brilliantly with it so maybe I’ll get drunk on TruBlood. Maybe some lemonade would work with it? I think I’d like it more if the sweetness was cut down.
Would I buy it again? Probably only for the bottles (Hello Halloween refreshments!). I actually have a great idea: walking around Surfers Paradise while sipping on one. I’m weird, but the shock factor would be pretty funny. And not in a Lindsay Lohan sort of way. She’s already shocking.
