I don’t know if this is luck or not, but I managed to find another “Dragon Tea” from Monster, so of course I just HAD to try it. I still really hate the forced Chinese style dragon motif on the cans – I mean, white tea and China? Sure. Dragonfruit though?? That’s a stretch, guys…
And leave it to Monster to bring fucking virgins serving tea to Chinese Emperors into their copy writing. That honestly got the biggest eye roll from me.
All of that said, this actually is the best tasting flavour of the three though. It’s sweet and fruity, and more like a lightly tangy dragon fruit flavoured punch than a tea but at least it doesn’t taste like ass or cigarette ash. There was something a little uncomfortably familiar and not entirely normal tasting about it though, and it certainly took me a while to land on WHAT that thing was but eventually it clicked to me that some aspect of this flavour tasted really heavily like some type of lipstick that I’ve owned in the past. Not BAD, but cosmetic for sure…
Still probably preferable to me over something like a coffee if I’m in an energy pinch but otherwise this is a pass from me.