If you've been following our adventures into "iconic American junk/snack food collabs" lately you know we've taken the dive into the Coke and Oreo combo. In Part I, we, or I, since everyone else at Culture Combine apparently disagrees, found ourselves mightily displeased with Coke flavored Oreos, from the sickeningly sweet Coke syrup they injected into my precious Oreo chocolate to the adulteration of the "Stuf" with popping candy, and a weird aftertaste to boot.
So by the time I actually got a chance to snap up a few Oreo flavored Coke Zero Sugars, I was less than enthused to crack them open. I assumed the two just somehow didn't actually blend as well as I'd thought they would given my recollection of eating Oreos and washing it down with a Coke in my childhood.
Well, I'm batting a thousand, because, even though I'm more a Diet Coke stan than a Coke Zero Sugar stan, turns out, Oreo flavored Coke Zero Sugar was NOT a miss for me.
I'm going to point out again that I'm a traditionalist when it comes to things like the literal number one cookie in the entire world, and well, Coca Cola, which has more or less dominated the entire planet for as long as I can remember. So I'm a hard sell on weird-ass flavor trips for novelty's sake, though I'm trying to live a little more and just bite the bullet. Or the cookie. For better or worse.
Expecting the worst, I took a sniff of the Oreo flavored Coke Zero Sugar. Not bad. Not offensive in any way, really, though it didn't immediately give me Oreo vibes either, the way that the Coke flavored Oreos bludgeoned you with the classic Coke syrup smell. I wondered if it'd taste like anything at all.
And it does, actually. Oreo flavored Coke Zero Sugar tastes pleasantly altered, with a sort of...creamy vanilla taste. In other words, if I had to describe it, I'd say it's Stuf forward. I didn't notice a lot of Oreo's iconic chocolate flavor. We had guests over when I tried this out, and all of us agreed that in the end, Oreo flavored Coke Zero Sugar turns out to taste a whole lot like Vanilla Coke. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it might not be exactly what they were going for. Still, all three of us finished our bottles, and I'd honestly grab another one.
As someone who lacks a sweet tooth and often finds super sweet things rather unappealing, I even feel like the fact that so far, this collab's only featured Coke Zero Sugar (with rumored plans to release a Coca Cola OG version towards the holidays) works to its advantage, allowing the smooth vanilla to marry with a not-too-cloying Coke Zero Sugar to make a very...sedate but pleasant beverage. Again, I'm not sure if that's the idea, or what you're looking for in something like this, but I'd reach for it again.
So, to round out our little Oreo/Coke adventure, here's the scores: My predictions were completely off, and I thought I'd hate the drink and love the cookie. Coke/Oreo is 50/50 with me, and here at Culture Combine as a whole, I'm in the minority for detesting the Coke Oreo.
See what you think of this abomination/delight yourself and leave a note in the comments.
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