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Mar 03 2009 6 Comments

Japanese drinks #10: Super hero cider

Despite having super powers and suits that definitely don’t looked designed for daily discharges, super heroes still need some sustenance, and Ultraman it would seem has a soft spot for cider.

ultraman

A drink so dear to his heart — should indeed he have one — that it is now available as Ultra Cider, complete with a can similar to his suit.

ultraman cider

A garment that presumably comes in a plethora of patterns due to beverage behemoth DyDo designing six different cans to collect. All of which unfortunately contain the same contents. As, while ultra cheap at 100 yen a pop, one of Ultraman’s powers mustn’t be his palate, because it’s ultra bloody abominable.

ultraman cider

Like the fizziest liquid known to man combined with the not so subtle assistance of an additive attempt at apple — only worse.

The other five cans can wait.

Categorized: Food and Drink

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  1. Jonathan says

    3/3/2009 at 9:07 pm

    I had high hopes for the taste at the beginning of the article! I think I’d still try it none the less.

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  2. Kesenaitsumi says

    3/3/2009 at 11:40 pm

    wow…Ultraman’s drink.

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  3. Paul says

    3/4/2009 at 8:13 pm

    Ha ha ha! I’m sticking to Tesco Value Bitter.

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  4. phossil says

    3/6/2009 at 11:03 am

    ultraman shrinked to a bottle juice..

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  5. Johnny B says

    6/17/2010 at 9:41 am

    I just got back from Japan 2 ago. I was intrigued when I came across these drinks in one of the vending machines. It actually tastes more like Fanta’s melon soda. [Which we don’t have here in the sates] There’s also two other flavors. One tastes like lemonade and isn’t carbonated. The other tastes like a nasty diet coke. For each flavor, there are 8 different can designs, plus one mystery design. I then come to find out that there is a second series of cans, with 8 more designs for each flavor. I brought back about 20 different cans with me when I returned home.

    Also, unrelated, while I was there, the mountain dew cans were designed for the new metal gear solid game; peace walkers. Kinda cool.

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