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Opinion: Cake Flavored Pepsi?

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It’s the holiday season, and what could be better than Thanksgiving and Christmas themed products right? Wrong. It turns out that Pepsi Japan is determined to undo all the hard work done by Cadbury’s and the like. Kotaku reports that Pepsi is launching a cake-flavored beverage in Japan called Pepsi Christmas Cola. Oh, and it’s white.

While we had our doubts about why cake equals Christmas, the kind folks at Food Beast cleared it up for us. Apparently, the soda is based off the Japanese custom of celebrating the Christmas season with a traditional sponge cake that’s covered in whipped cream, and stuffed and garnished with strawberries.

Unfortunately, that still left us with a few pressing questions as to why Pepsi would do a thing like this? Honestly speaking, we’re aware that Japan does come out with some pretty wacky creations (such as cough drop flavored Kit Kat, and no, we’re not playing) but, was there really a need for Pepsi Christmas Cola?

There must be some niche market out there that we’re not aware of, because I don’t think that cake flavored pop is high up on my taste list of priorities.

April sums it up pretty well with that throwing up emoji.

We feel you April, we feel you.

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