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May 13th, 2008 by Alex

I don’t usually spend money on new products when I see them on the shelves. But when I get the chance to try them for free that’s a different matter.

“Sickeningly sweet Gatorade” is how I’d describe G2 from Gatorade. If you mixed a regular grape-flavored Gatorade with one of those plastic barrel-shaped jugs of slightly fruit-like sugar water from your childhood (you know, the types with the foil lid that you peeled off), you’d get G2. That slightly sweat-like salty taste you get from regular Gatorade to let you know that you aren’t just drinking sugar water is notably absent.

I saw Mint Crisp M&M’s and thought “ooh, chocolate M&M’s infused with mint” despite seeing “crisp.” Chocolate lovers beware, there isn’t a lot chocolate in these things. There is a lot of mint flavor; if you like Andes mints, you’ll probably like the taste. They’re also bigger than regular M&M’s so you get less of them in a bag.

In both cases I’ll stick with the original.