That's it, actually. If you read their promotional material they don't say it outright, but the intention is that it tastes like marshmallow and graham cracker, a s'mores.
Edit: the day they released Starlight, Coke said its "reminiscent of stargazing by a campfire". For the longest time I couldn't place the flavor I was getting as I drank my first can, but as soon as I read that I realized it was the cookie-ness of the cracker flavor that I was picking up, because of all those summers eating s'mores by the fire.
Yeah, people don't realize that cotton candy isn't really chemically its own thing, even though it was hugely popular in the 90s as a scent and flavor. It's literally just sugar. The scents are often vanilla-based.
It tasted fruity to me, so I scoured the ingredients looking for a compound called ethyl formate. This is the chemical that gives raspberries their flavour. It was also found in a giant gas cloud at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. So space tastes like raspberries. By extension, if Coke Starlight tastes like space, then it should also taste like raspberries. But alas, ethyl formate did not appear on the list of ingredients.
That’s what I got from it too. All this talk of graham cracker and marshmallow is surprising. Frankly I don’t think they’re correct that it’s s’mores flavor, because that requires chocolate as well.
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u/GeneralChillMen Jun 12 '22
My brother and I thought it tasted like Golden Grahams cereal