7-Eleven plans to sell hot dog-flavored sparkling water

ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk to Not The Onion@lemmy.world – 358 points – 7-Eleven plans to sell hot dog-flavored sparkling water
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The retailer has teamed up with beverage brand Miracle Seltzer to create a lineup of sparkling waters in four different flavors: lemon lime, green apple, sweet orange and hot dog.

7-Eleven says the hot dog flavor is a twist on one of its most beloved snacks, the Big Bite Hot Dog.

According to a news release, the Big Bite Hot Dog Sparkling Water is a liquified version of the iconic snack – ketchup and mustard flavors included.

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Now do chocolate starfish

I was just thinking "I'd like a pack of chocolate starfish to pair with my hot dog sparkling water"

More details on the availability of this flavor will be revealed on April 1 – but in the meantime, the rest of the 7-Select x Miracle Seltzer lineup including Lemon Lime, Green Apple and Sweet Orange can be found at select 7-Eleven® stores.

I am suspicious.

But if you announce it outside of april 1st, you're the fool then.

Well that's what I am thinking - you can't claim it's an April Fool's Day joke outside of the actual day (and usually the morning). If it's an actual AFD joke then just announce it on the day.

Putting out a product that's offensively bad in a limited run, selling a bunch of it real quick for the novelty value and then discontinuing it is a pretty tried and true strategy. We're here talking about it right now, and a certain percentage of us are gonna hear about it and think "That's so terrible that I have to try it just so I know how terrible it is." If you can accurately gauge the number of people who are willing to buy something bad just to have a novel experience you can make money selling glizzygulps.

I had a bacon flavored soda once. It was one of the most disgusting things I've ever consumed, and I love bacon.

I made bacon flavored vodka for Bloody Marys once. It wasn't bad, but pretty niche.

Fuck me that's gotta fucking taste like fuck, fucking dumb fuck company with dumb fuck ideas fucking making dumb fuck money with this dumb fuck product.

I for one am ecstatic that April fools jokes/pranks seem to be coming back into fashion, the last few years have been practically devoid of anything fun happening around this time of the year.

I never felt this sick in my life, not even after hours of riding rollercoasters. 🤢

So they carbonated the steam water from the hot dog machines and put leftover ketchup and mustard in it? America, racing to the bottom of the food innovation world.

7-11 is owned by a Japanese company, and has stores worldwide. You're free to make whatever you want, though!

So it’s not even proper hot dog flavor, since ketchup doesn’t belong on a hot dog.

I admire the bravery it takes to be so wrong in public like this. You're an inspiration

It shouldn't be on the hot dog but IN the hot dog. Ketchup stuffed hot dogs.

We need to make a solid ketchup tube and replace the ween. Then you get little sprinkle sized weeks to put on top

My most sincere apologies, but WHAT DID YOU SAY?

Not who you're replying to but....I didn't think I liked hot dogs until I ate a Chicago hot dog and realized it was just the ketchup making it slimy and sweet. Ketchup on hotdogs is nasty lol

Sweet?!

So I just had a look into it and apparently American tomato ketchup is one third sugar (corn syrup, obviously...). Ketchup is supposed to be savory, America; why do you do this?

Well, they also invented the hot dog lol

I've had a lot of different ketchups and don't really like any of them. The consistency is too slimy for me

Well, the they also invented the hot dog lol

Germany would like a quiet word with you. There's a reason they're called weiners and frankfurters.

Yeah because a German immigrant invented it after moving to New York lol

I'm not claiming the US invented sausage!

I think it's the same here in Canada as I find most regular ketchup (especially Heinz) sickly sweet. I actually buy a no sugar added variant that's much better to me. It tastes more like tomato-infused vinegar.

Look in the "ethnic" or "imported" food aisles, the HP sauce in the little glass bottles. If you were a kid in the 80s or 90s, you might well have been raised on English HP, not Canadian. They are similar but not the same at all, it took me back right to grade three when i bought the import accidentally. It's all white vinegar and orange juice concentrate in the bullshit canadian version, vs malt vinegar and rye flour and fermented fish paste stuff. Anyways, I don;t know why these companies are happy to change a recipe where everyone in the fucking country has it on their table, and then a few years later, like no one buys it anymore and over time we even forget why it was so popular to begin with.

I…just realized that I don’t know what ketchup is supposed to taste like.

It's almost like heinz now but not. People don't write scientific articles on why heinz ketchup addicts people anymore.

Yeah no i haven't ate ketchup in years, or Coke. Coke in particular I remember when they changed the recipe, spring 2016 i opened a new box of coke and "What the fucking hell?" get on google they had switched western canada off beet sugar to HFCS. Have not bought it since. Canada Dry ginger ale is hit and miss now, if I buy bulk in AB at a Walmart it's usually sickly sweet HFCS but if i buy a 12 pack in Saskatchewan it's sugar

I knew it had to be somebody from Chicago :(

Chicago has an amazing food scene

I have seen what they do to pizzas. I don't need to see anything else.

I don't run a Chicago restaurant so I didn't care enough to convince you but boy are you missing out on a lot of great food

One slice of deep dish is delicious though. Wouldn't want any more than that

Bro it's a quiche

Bro it tastes good

Do you also boycott chicken fried rice because a chicken didn't fry it?

If somebody makes a quiche out of a fried rice, I ain't eating it.

Having a chicken nuggy palate is not something to be proud of lol that sounds like it could be delicious to me

did 7-Eleven steal from Limp Bizkit?!

Chocolate Starfish and Hotdog Flavored Water was one of their later, shitty CDs. Had to clarify bc i figured this was a reach of a reference.

This is obviously an attempt at a viral marketing campaign and lemmy is falling for it.

Falling for what and who is Lemmy? Hot dog flavored water was announced which is not something you hear about every day, obviously people will talk about it.

This is a good remember that "flavored sparkling water" is actual a diet soda.

When I hear "diet soda", I think of drinks that have artificial sweeteners in them. Some flavoured sparking waters (like La Croix and its copycats) are just carbonated water and fruit essence with no sweeteners added.