Japan's Ice Cucumber Pepsi - Taste Report

Ice Cucumber Pepsi hit stores today. Picked a bottle up and tried it.

At first, it tastes like Crystal Pepsi back in the day- despite the pale green coloring, its got that clear, cola-but-not-cola feel, as if the drink's body's been ripped out. Actually not too bad, if like me you find coke and pepsi a little too strong and oversweet.

And then the aftertaste tastes like...cucumber. The taste of cucumber isn't very strong, so it doesn't overwhelm the drink or ruin it totally. But the question remains -why? After a while it was a bit gross. I only finished about half and may or may not drink the rest later.

The weird thing is when I looked at the ingredients it basically said 0% Juice/Natural Flavor, so apparently there isn't even really cucumber in it. I'm not sure if that's a relief or if it just makes it even grosser.