When we were in Houston, I scored some specialty sodas at a supermarket in The Woodlands. My favorite was Fentiman’s Curiosity Cola. Lo and behold, when we were at World Market a couple of weeks ago, they had a whole display of the stuff, including a bunch of flavors that weren’t available in Houston. World Market is one of those stores that I think has a direct tap into my brain and buys things directly for me. It can get dangerous.
They had 4 flavors – Ginger Beer, Shandy, Dandelion and Burdock, and the Curiosity Cola.
Fentiman's sodas
The first one I tried was the Shandy, which was just essentially a non-alcoholic beer. I’m not much of a beer drinker, so this one wasn’t my favorite. The next one I tried was the Dandelion and Burdock flavor. This one was actually not too bad, although it took a little getting used to. It had kind of a black licorice / fennel flavor that I really liked and was not overly sweet. The ginger beer tasted like GINGER. That was all it had going on. I honestly couldn’t finish it, which was disappointing since I had high hopes for that one. I fondly remembered having quite a bit of ginger beer when I was on the church trip to Bermuda in high school, but either I have a bad memory or this was much, much different. The Curiosity Cola definitely wins out as one of my favorite colas, and I would recommend staying far away from the Shandy and Ginger Beer flavor, but give the Dandelion one a try if you want something a little different.
