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This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Jones Soda. All opinions are 100% mine.

When IZEA and Jones Soda Co. sent me a free bottle of their Tofurky and Gravy Jones Soda for the Thanksgiving/Christmas season, I admit I was a bit hesitant to try it.

Tofurky and Gravy Soda by Jones Soda Co.

I thought to myself, “if this lives up to its name, it is going to taste like tofurky and gravy, but in liquid form and cold.” Confessing further, the idea of it was not that appealing, and the murky brown color of the soda itself, like a watered down gravy, sort of turned me off. So, it sat on my shelf and then in the fridge for a while. I kept looking at it but telling myself that my stomach wasn’t quite ready for the thought of ingesting something that tastes like meat and gravy.

Finally, my boyfriend saw it and asked if I wanted him to try it. He looked on the back of the bottle and lied to be to give me courage. He informed me that there was caramel inside, leaving out the fact that the caramel was in coloring and coloring only. This gave me a hint of optimism that maybe, just maybe, it was called Tofurky and Gravy, but it really tasted like candy! Like the name was some sort of psych out. You know, only the strong survive and all that.

So into the fridge it went to get cold.

Confident it would taste like candy, I cracked it open and took a very small sip.

It did not taste like caramel or candy. Though it did have a somewhat mild sweet flavor, it definitely tasted like an interesting combination of meat and a salty but subtle gravy. I wanted to take a second sip to get a better idea of the flavor, but I just could not bring myself to. It tasted exactly like I thought it would on first impression: liquid meat and gravy. The tiny taste of sweetness did not mesh well since I don’t typically eat my turkey and gravy with sugar on it, usually salt. Though salt is the second or third ingredient in this particular soda.

No, no, not for me. But I think that everyone needs to try out the soda once in their life. It certainly is an experience to taste something like this… Thanksgiving in a bottle and ice cold with a hint of sugar. When everyone is around the holiday table about to eat dinner, break out a case of this and serve it up for the full holiday experience.

As for me, I am going to turn over the rest to my boyfriend and let him try it. Serve him right for telling me it was going to taste like caramel!

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