I first got introduced to Bubly through the lime flavour. It wasn’t the first flavour I tried. That was a completely different flavour altogether. No. Lime was the first one I saw someone else drink. That person told me it wasn’t that good. They said that there wasn’t enough flavour in it to make it anything more than sparkling water. But, you see, that’s kind of what I was looking for. I wasn’t looking for a replacement for the flavour of pop. I was looking for a replacement for the carbonation that it gave me. Bubly might have been what I was looking for.
It was still a while before I got into it. That’s another story for another day, however. This day, I’m here to talk about lime. I’m here to talk about the flavour of Bubly that comes in the plain green can. When you think of Bubly and all the commercials featuring Michael Bublé, Lime is one of the cans that comes to mind. What better place to start with my journey through the flavours than with this classic. Let’s crack open a can and get drinking.
Obviously, this isn’t my first time drinking lime Bubly. In the now two or three years that I’ve been drinking Bubly, I’ve had lime many times. It’s not my favourite flavour. It’s not even in my top three. It might crack the top five, but I won’t know until I go through all the flavours in this journey. Or, at least, all the flavours available to me. Then I’ll know. Let’s just say that this isn’t a first impression.
The thing about the lime flavour is that it’s actually stronger than I was told by other people. If you chug your way through it, yeah, you’re not going to taste it that much. That’s the same for anything, really. If I were to take a milkshake and slurp gulp slurp gulp it without letting it sit for a moment, I’d be missing out on some of the flavour, too. The lime Bubly is very much a sit and let fill your mouth kind of flavour. It doesn’t hit immediately. The more it sits in your mouth, though, the more it tastes like you’re licking the peel of a lime. It ends up being spot on.
When I popped open the can, like any can of Bubly, the smell was there. I’d say at this early point in my Bubly writing journey that a lot of the Bubly flavour comes from the smell. The carbonation bubbles pop and release a lot of that flavour right up your nose as you take a sip. If you didn’t look at the can before opening it, it will always be apparent what flavour it is when you open it. You’ll be able to smell it immediately and the smell is spot on. Especially with the lime.
I only have one issue with the lime, which is how quickly the taste dissipates. It’s true that if you leave it in your mouth longer, kind of like a wine tasting, you’re going to get more flavour out of it. But when you’re drinking it, each mouthful has less and less taste. The first mouthful will have the most taste and everything after it will have a diminishing return. Maybe that’s why I was told there wasn’t enough flavour. It’s not a lasting flavour, in this case. In this single can.
On a level of Michael Bublé songs, I would put lime Bubly on par with Bublé’s cover of You’ve Got a Friend in Me from his 2013 album To Be Loved. You go into it with familiarity, and you enjoy it for what it is. Yet, by the end, you can’t help feeling like the novelty wore away and you just want to listen to the Randy Newman version that was in your head when it started. It’s completely passable, it just doesn’t live up to the excitement that the first taste gave you.
So far, my ranking of Bubly flavours is lime at the top, because only lime has been written about.
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