Comments on Weird Soda Review: Pocari Sweat Ion Water

I just had to try this, which was unfortunately af...

2012-01-06T13:43:15.216-08:00

I just had to try this, which was unfortunately after I read your review.

I kinda like it. Citrusy smell. And yes, I can taste the saltiness, but upon first drink, not bad. After a couple of minutes, the saltiness became more apparent.

Tasted like an uncarbonated Squirt soda... with a salty aftertaste.

i bought this and a bottle of calpis (aka calpico ...

2010-03-22T15:09:54.573-07:00

i bought this and a bottle of calpis (aka calpico in the 'states) at the same time. i ate onigiri with nori wrapped around, and was drinking pocari sweat at the same time. bad experience, as everytime i drank the drink later, i tasted effing seaweed. gross. i tried it a year later and it only reminded me of that, so i can't enjoy it.

on the other hand, calpis is nectar from heaven and oh so delicious

I like this stuff. My parents are from Taiwan orig...

2010-02-10T07:50:12.094-08:00

I like this stuff. My parents are from Taiwan originally, and its sold widely there. The flavor of Pocari Sweat (which is a sports drink) is the traditional sports drinks flavor of China, Japan, Taiwan....so pretty much any Asian sports drink you buy that isn't specifically labelled a flavor will taste like Pocari Sweat does. The prevalent brand in Taiwan in this flavor is Super Supau. I've always equated the flavor to grapefruit(ey) citrus. Many Asians will actually add some water to the drink to water it down a little so there's less salt.

Pocari Sweat is good stuff! We cycle in Singapore...

2009-11-10T22:09:41.229-08:00

Pocari Sweat is good stuff! We cycle in Singapore and sweat buckets. 100 plus is more widely available here, but kind of gassy. We do drink it but often have salty soups and water and lime juice instead. When we cycle in Indonesia and Malaysia we buy Pocari Sweat and when you're dehydrated hot and thirsty, it tastes terrific.

The fact that the folks who make Pocari make IV so...

2009-10-14T07:32:25.570-07:00

The fact that the folks who make Pocari make IV solutions makes perfect, if twisted, sense; the stuff doesn't taste all that different from an isotonic sugar drip. The antipsychotic...well, if any of that is in there, it's probably to counter the horror produced when you think of poor Pocari. Or maybe they've had to genetically modify him to produce his own antipsychotics just to survive, so they just harvest them from him too.

Please don't sue me, Otsuka.

And Cameron--there's a certain Lovecraftian poetry feel in that quote from their website. I'll bet if it could be spoken in a rural New England accent ("More'n half the body's made fraoum goo, an' we kin call it body flaouid...") it would fit right in with the Dunwich Horror.

Actually, now that I think of it, I did hav...

2009-10-13T15:47:11.270-07:00

Actually, now that I think of it, I did have this while I was tooling around Korea. I didn't care for it. Tasted too much like salt water lite for me.

The other soda that was ubiquitious in Asia were those vitamin C drinks, which are tiny and outrageously expensive but damn tasty. There were a lot of brands, but they came in little six or eight ounce bottles.

You know how there are fake tears for eye irritati...

2009-10-13T13:45:19.217-07:00

You know how there are fake tears for eye irritation?

From Pocari's incredibly awesome website:

Around 60% of the human body is made up of liquid.
The liquid that we have in the body is called body fluid.
The body of a normal 70kg adult holds about 42 litres of body fluid.
So you may even say that human beings are made of fluid.

So this is what Dr Strangelove was all about.

Oh, and I'll add that this is mega-popular in ...

2009-10-13T13:09:31.854-07:00

Oh, and I'll add that this is mega-popular in Asia, as ubiquitous as coke is in America. I remember seeing it positively everywhere.

You will be happy to know, however, that you can s...

2009-10-13T13:05:07.109-07:00

You will be happy to know, however, that you can still compete in Japanese athletics without running afoul of their anti-doping laws.

You will perhaps be less happy to know that the full name of the company involved is "Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd." and that their primary business is making intravenous solutions and the anti-psychotic drug Abilify, used in the treatment of schizophrenia.

You're welcome.