Child-proof bottle of morning crap

It didn't take me long to get curious about what other beverages are out there for my morning consumption. While at Walgreens this morning, I happened to notice another line of drinks in the refrigerated section on sale. These were not energy drinks, but caffeinated little cold lattes. "Why not?" I thought to myself. I picked up a vanilla chai latte, which sounds delicious, doesn't it? I LOVE chai lattes and often make them for myself and my husband at home. Why not give this little cold bottle a go?

The drink is made by Deerfield Trading Company and I honestly don't even know if they have a website. I couldn't find it when I was searching, although I really didn't look very long since the internet is being sketchy and seems to get to choose which web sites I look at. The bottle is 11oz compared to the 16 oz I get with my cherry berry. Thank goodness the bottle wasn't any bigger. The only reason I drank all of it even in its small size was because I didn't want to waste my money. I've had chai made with powder that tastes better. My initial reaction to the first taste was "BLECH!" This is after I spent a good 3 minutes trying to even open the thing! First you have to tear away the plastic on the outside. The once you unscrew the lid, there is a hard plastic coating OVER TOP of the aluminum seal! I had to get my scissors out and stab at it. On two different occasions, little pieces of plastic shot up and hit me in the face. Maybe I was having a blonde moment, but I honestly did not see any other way of doing it. There wasn't a tab hanging over to pull the piece under it back or anything. I could have opened 20 Tylenol bottles before I could have gotten into this dag-on bottle.

Like I've already mentioned, once the bottle was completely free and ready to drink from, nothing good resulted. I don't really know how to describe it except for NOT GOOD. I would not recommend that anyone get any flavor of this line of drinks. It almost tasted gritty but yet somehow slimey at the same time. And the aftertaste is no picnic either. Thank goodness I had still purchased a cherry berry as well. This latte may have 6g of protein within it but I'd rather eat eggs and turkey bacon. I really tried to give this beverage the benefit of the doubt, but it just couldn't deliver anything worth drinking. Walgreens, I think you need to stop claiming this as an exclusive because no one should drink it!