Helpful consumer product review: Sobe Green Tea

The person who invented Sobe Green Tea should be dragged out into the street and beaten. Not to within an inch of his life, but enough so that he remembers to never ever do such a thing again. Bad! Bad inventor man!

The same goes for Sobe Oolong Tea.

It was a hot day in sunny California, and I wanted a nice refreshing and cool beverage. I walked into a little grocery, and in the cooler case was an enormous bottle of very refreshing-looking GREEN TEA! Imagine that, here I was, so far from Japan, but with the ultimate refreshment right there. I bought a bottle and walked outside, waiting hardly a second to twist off the cap and tilt my head back. Quenchment, ahoy! Gulp-huh-sugar!!?? There's sugar in green tea??!!! Check again, yes, it's sugar.

I threw the rest into the garbage can that was thoughtfully placed outside for this purpose, and went back into the store. I can't remember my thinking at the time, but when I saw the bottle of Sobe Oolong Tea, I must have been so overcome with the anticipation of drinking oolong tea and clearing out the previous beverage's taste that I didn't stop to consider the possibility that it too was packed with sugar. It was.

I abhor Sobe Green Tea, I loathe Sobe Oolong Tea, and I detest the thinking behind the marketing of these unredeemable beverages.