Warheads were big when I was a kid. They were one of the few sour candies that were actually painful to eat. The individually wrapped candies came in variety of flavors, each with its own distinct colored wrapper. Green was apple, pink was watermelon, blue was blue raspberry, yellow was lemon, and burgandy-black was black cherry. The black cherry was by far the most sour, most painful, most craziest thing you could eat to satisfy a dare. Just looking at the candy now makes my mouth pucker. They still sell this candy but it just doesn't hit the same anymore. They taste the same but I've gotten older and am not as interested in impressing my friends with how much pain I can inflict on myself by throwing a fuckload of sour candy in my mouth. It still is a fun party trick, in spite of this.

Today, I have in my hands a present-day take on the black cherry I remember so vividly, a collaboration between Ghost Energy and Warheads, an energy drink with 200mg of caffeine branded Sour Black Cherry. Ghost has done two other Warheads collaborations, Sour Watermelon and Sour Green Apple. Black Cherry is the most recent addition to the Warheads lineup.

It immediately makes my mouth pucker and makes it feel like my mouth is being dissolved and corroded. It's stupid sour. On the aftertaste it tastes like artificial cherries, up front it's just pure sour. By far it's the most sour Ghost I've had, and trust me, they're all pretty sour. Not for the faint of heart, and arguably the least refreshing one. It confuses me how they seem to want to maintain themselves as a preworkout energy drink yet all their flavors are super sour so not very refreshing.