I was at the grocery store on Monday night with my 17-month old and saw what I thought was lemon-flavored Pepsi in a fridge by the self checkout. It had a yellow label and what appeared to be a lemon on the front.

Upon further inspection, however, this was a limited-edition Peeps-flavored Pepsi. Yes, Peeps, as in the cavity-generating marshmallow candy you eat at Easter. One bottle of this stuff has 69 grams of sugar (nice), which amounts to 138% of the recommended daily value:

I didn’t buy it because I was wrangling a toddler and trying to get home to cook dinner, but my wife then called me a “fool” and told me to try it, so I went back out later that night and bought two bottles for a review.

The result is that Peeps-flavored Pepsi takes like liquid cotton candy. I could not necessarily taste Peeps in the drink, it just gave me the impression that someone had stuffed cotton candy or maybe pink jelly beans in the bottle before filling it with Pepsi. It wasn’t horrible, but it was obviously very sweet, so it’s one of those things where you probably could not even finish the whole bottle anyway. A good comparison may be a Berliner Weisse or sour beer, or even a gluten-free cider. In small amounts, drinks like this aren’t bad, and the flavors are unique and interesting, but you’re not sitting there pounding any of those drinks on a Friday night, because they’re too far on either end of the sweet/sour spectrum.

In conclusion, I’d say go ahead and try the Peeps-flavored Pepsi. We’ll call it “Peepsi.” It’s not gonna kill you, unless you drink all of it, then you might develop Type 2 Diabetes. Smart packaging here would include a complimentary insulin shot, taped to the side of the bottle like it’s your kid’s Juicy Juice carton.