Hello everyone, this is...
...Review!
Well, hello, ladies and gentlemen and everyone watching,
this is the unnamed drink series.
A series upon which there is no name for.
So that's why the pause was there because there's no name,
and you can just, you know, name this...
...series of reviews. Whatever you want to name it honestly.
Or you could just pretend that the fast foods finally getting to me,
and this is it.
But in the end, this is just a series where I review drinks of all shapes, sizes...
...consistencies, flavors, and everything in between.
And we have a new one for you that I wanted to try out.
Now this is a new release—was a semi new release.
It's actually been out for a little while.
But it's a semi new release from the good old Taco Bell.
And Taco Bell, I think as we all know,
they try to branch out.
They try to do a little bit of everything.
Where there are some instances,
upon which they of course have their...
...southwestern influenced cuisine.
I don't really want to call it Mexican food 'cause it's very Americanized but...
You know, southwestern influenced.
They have their Nacho Fries. I got that.
They got some good stuff.
Then they got drinks.
and on occasion I'll try one of them.
You know, I always like the Baja Blast from Taco Bell.
They do a great job with it.
But they had a new drink that's been out for a little bit.
Some folks have been requesting it.
So I'm kind of tending to your request and we're getting it taken care of.
This is their Watermelon Freeze.
And looking at it on their website right here.
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All right, we got that out of the way. Now onto the drink.
Watermelon Freeze from Taco Bell.
I've been getting a number of quests for this one,
and I finally caved into the peer pressure once again.
And this is what we've got.
Now I did want to review like a summer esque beverage.
Because I was looking around. I was trying to do some shopping the other day, you know.
It's kind of surprising to see so many stores that are already doing back-to-school sales,
and already like, you know, October Halloween stuff.
I thought to myself, it's only... it's not even August yet. It's late July.
I thought to myself, I think it's just a little early to be already branching into...
...into the fall like that.
I mean summer is a wonderful season,
and I I want to review something that's more seasonal.
Watermelon Freeze. What is it?
It's watermelon-flavored, but the big thing... and I'll show it to you in a minute.
It's like a watermelon-flavored slush apparently, you know, slushy drink.
But the biggest thing...
As the website so dramatically states.
It says and I quote verbatim.
"We know what you're thinking."
They do. They know everything.
"If there's one downside to eating watermelon,
it's those pesky seeds."
"The Watermelon Freeze has seeds asterisk.
Yes. Let's get that out there.
But they're candy seeds.
So you can...
...Eat them and then in parentheses and you'll be glad you did and parentheses.
Also, you don't have to worry about one of those seeds sprouting and growing a huge melon in your stomach."
Well...
I don't know. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
I mean, I know... you know the watermelons.
Even if they're not incredibly expensive,
I know that the watermelons can be a pain to kind of...
...transport and carry.
You're able to just kind of produce your own organically.
I don't necessarily consider that a bad thing.
I don't think that's a downside that really needs to be touted very much or anyway.
Enough with my blabbering. This is what it looks like.
This is the regular sized one.
It comes in regular and large.
The regular was two dollars thirty nine cents.
They give you the big sippy cup straw right there,
but this is what it looks like. You can see it.
Good view of it.
And those are not actual watermelon seeds.
That's actually candy right there.
Could see it's a nice hot day today.
There's a good view of the freeze... Hopefully the freeze drink.
Well, maybe you're gonna move the little top just so you can really just gaze into it.
Yeah, you could see it there anyway.
But I think everyone kind of likes looking at the little seeds that are in there.
That's the big selling point. So anyway.
It's a pretty basic, you know, plain drink.
I'm just gonna take a bunch of sips.
Let you know what it tastes like and that'll be that.
The first I'm gonna try to drink it and then I'm gonna specifically be trying to...
...try those seeds.
You know, the faux seeds, you know what I mean.
So anyway, it's the Watermelon Freeze from Taco Bell, going in.
That sound that you just heard was all my teeth disintegrating.
We'll take one more sip for the heck of it.
I got the straw...
Watch. Let's see. I got the straw right there at the bottom.
What I call Faux Seed City.
Right there, so I'll be able to try them out very directly soon.
What does it taste like?
The first thing that I was thinking of
because I was just, you know, I had my doubts but it looked similar anyway,
so I was not leaving this out of the picture.
The...
What do they call it?
The bubble tea, you know, that's a East Asian.
You know, it's it's pretty popular though,
and I was kind of thinking about that because I know it looked a little similar.
Especially it has a little, you know, seeds where they are in there.
I was thinking I wonder if they're trying to go for like... any sort of...
...trying to mimic that in any way shape or form, but they weren't.
So even though it may look similar in some ways,
it is not, you know, there's no similarity in regards to taste.
Rather what you can expect from the Watermelon Freeze.
It's not an incredibly...
...complex drink by any any means.
It's nowhere, you know, it's not like it has this meandering...
...path of twists and turns.
And you know, it starts leading me on that it's gonna be blueberry flavor.
And that all of a sudden of watermelon flavor just comes in as this extreme aftertaste something like that.
It's a standard slush. So, you know, it's like a nice...
...cool refreshing...
...slush drink.
Yeah.
Really cool, refreshing, great on a hot day.
You know, that little icy...
...particulate matter is...
It's always great.
I mean, you know how slush drinks are.
Especially on a warm day during the heat of the summer like right now.
It'll do great to cool you off.
It's very sweet. It's a very very sugary sugary drink in every regard.
Extremely sugary.
It does taste like watermelon,
but like watermelon with a ton of sugar on it.
It's a very very sweet watermelon as what the flavor for this is going to be.
So don't really expect like a...
...a very...
You know, just like a very...
...potent, watery...
...watermelon like you just may get at your local grocery store or farmers market or whatever.
Expect this to be more of like almost a desert type beverage.
In so much that it's just... it has so much sweetness.
It's like watermelon with some sugar and then some more sugar on top of that.
So just keep that in mind that while it is nice and cool and it'll you know, cool you off and it's refreshing,
it bears and extremely noticeable sweetness along with the watermelon taste.
Ok?
Now with that's said, the only other thing to talk about with this one because again,
there's not too much to say otherwise, is the seeds.
Now I tried a few of them.
But I'm gonna try a few more right now just to get that whole full flavor and then we'll conclude things.
Ah don't tell me they're not even coming through the straw.
Well this is the way it goes I tell you that.
Here I am trying to get the seeds yet.
None of them are even going into the straw.
We're good.
Well, that was annoying but whatever.
I did try two seeds earlier though, so I can tell you what they taste like.
It's really weird that it's kind of having... well, trouble sucking the seeds up.
So alright keep that in mind then with this...
With this slush it might be a little harder than you'd initially think to...
...be able to consume the little seeds.
But from the two that I did try earlier,
just keep in mind that these seeds are extremely hard.
You're not actually going to break your teeth at least I'd imagine you wouldn't.
But they're very, you know, they're very hard.
You got a really crunch and bite down on them to be able to kind of break them up.
They do not taste like anything and in particular.
They make them look like the watermelon seeds.
They're decorative hard candies i.e.
sugar-coated sugar.
And that's all that they are. They bear no...
...watermelon flavor nor do they taste like any watermelon seeds or any seeds for that matter.
it's just a very very sweet sugary drink.
A little bit of watermelon flavor,
and sugary candies that just tastes like more sugar.
I think that's all that needs to be said for this drink.
It is $2.39. Overall though it's enjoyable.
It's like... as I said, like a desert type of beverage.
If you like sweet stuff, you'll like this.
You like watermelon,
just keep in mind that it's gonna be very sweet,
again, if you like sweet sugary stuff,
you won't have a problem with this.
So that said considering the price and considering what is in this drink and everything in between,
out of 10 this is going to get a 7 out of 10. 7.0 flat out of 10.
Yeah, just keep in mind really sweet and those seeds they're not real seeds.
And they could be a little hard maybe to suck up with the straw.
So just keep that in mind.
That's all that I have for you.
Thank you for watching. I'm your host, TheReportOfTheWeek.
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