my friend Rob Base got some of these for me several years ago for my birthday or some such holiday. i tried em at the time and was amused by them but did not think to review them. then i just never saw them in stores myself when i did decide i should do so, they are a form of a root beer beverage after all. finally i was ordering some soda from popsoda.com for my dad and dad-in-law and noticed they sold them so i threw in a box for myself. in the intervening decade or so, they had redesigned the packaging, as is to be expected in that time. i think before it was not even in a box.
the concept is kinda of interesting. it is a tablet, you get eight in a box, which, must like Alka Seltzer, when plop plopped in water causes it to fizz fizz. strangely though it does not fizz nearly as much as Alka Seltzer or Airborne even. once it is all dissolved, there is no carbonation remaining. by the time i had entered all of the ingredients (did you check that crazy list out?! scary!!) it had fully dissolved and just sat there in my carefully measured 6 oz of water.
it tastes like a watery, ok diet root beer. i wish they had made this fully sugared but i suppose sugar takes up more room than weird sweet non caloric chemicals so that may not have worked in a dissolving tablet. sugar also is harder to dissolve in cold water. so it tastes funny, gives you that aftertaste. i shall use less water next time, maybe that will resolve the watery issue. it should. it does vaguely taste like root beer and is not awful besides the artificial sweetener thing happening.
i suppose if you are backpacking or going to jail or doing something else where you absolutely have to have something that tastes sort of like root beer but you have very limited space or need to smuggle it in or whatever, this may be for you. or it may entertain small children who don’t care too much how stuff taste as long as it is presented in an entertaining fashion or environment (ie Chucky Cheese).
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| Type: | Root Beer | Comes In: | tablet |
| Available: | online, everywhere | Obtained in: | mailorder from popsoda |
| Head: | None | Sweetener: | sucralose/splenda |
| Caffeine: | No | ||
| Website: | http://www.fizzies.com | ||
Ingredients: citric acid, sorbitol, sodium bicarbonate, natural and artificial flavors, potassium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate, sodium benzoate, polythylene glycol, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, FD&C yellow #5 lake, FD&C yello #6 lake, FD&C red #40 lake, FD&C Blue #1 lake, docusate sodium
I grew up on Fizzies in the early ’60s and loved them (except, ironically, the root beer flavor), although I have no doubt that I’d find them completely unpalatable now. They used to be sweetened with sodium cyclamate, which tasted a lot better than the current crop of low-to-no-calorie sweeteners. Our standard of kiddie-machismo was determined by contests to determine who could keep a Fizzie in his (it usually involved, with the exception of me, boys) mouth the longest without spitting it out. 🙂
I found some of these in a local store, Not very good. And in case anyone is wondering/cares, hubba bubba bubble gum is now doing an A and W flavored root beer bubble gum. The gums not very good either. I gave this a 45