Review: Coca-Cola Creations K-Wave

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May 26

Written By Louise

Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with Coca-Cola in any way; I just like talking about food. I am a member of the Amazon Affiliate program and earn on qualifying purchases.

Coca-Cola is still insisting on its range of zero-sugar mystery flavors, “Creations”. I suppose that’s because of us, the novelty-hungry public, that keeps trying them.

K-Wave is “inspired by K-Pop”, meaning, I assume, that it is supposed to taste the way K-Pop sounds. The Coca-Cola website actually offers the vague description of “fruity fantasy”, which happens to be both an accurate and rather insulting way to describe K-Pop.

Creations previously had a music-inspired collaboration with Spanish singer Rosalia, which was called “Movement” (see my full review here). It wasn’t bad, but wasn’t something I want to drink every day.

Appropriately, I was in Seoul for a trip when I tried K-Wave, so I was optimally primed for tasting. Well, except that the tasting took place my hotel lobby after getting absolutely dumped on by a rainstorm, but whatever.

The can is quite visually pleasing, with a nice bluish-green color complimenting the silver background. Excitedly, I cracked it open and took a very scientific swig.

As it turns out, this shiny vessel is nothing more than the spoon your mom would come at you with when you were sick as a kid and she was desperate to get you to stop annoying her with all your coughing. Yes, dear reader, K-Wave tastes like cough syrup.

That cough syrup.

That truly vile cherry-butthole flavored cough syrup that was the stuff of every kid’s nightmares. I’m going to assume cough syrup technology has improved since the 90s and children are no longer tortured with that stuff, but it does appear to still be sold, so maybe not.

I feel shocked and trolled by Coca-Cola. Someone over there clearly doesn’t like K-Pop.