The Weirdest Pepsi Products of All Time

PepsiCo isn’t afraid to get weird—these are a few of our favorite wacky Pepsi products.

Sometimes, you encounter a product that genuinely makes you do a double take. You may be walking past the freezer aisle in the grocery store and spot a ranch-flavored ice cream or spot a jar of ketchup-flavored seasoning in the spice aisle. There’s one brand that consistently puts out some of the strangest items: Pepsi. Here’s a list of some of their most oddball and intriguing products.

Crystal Pepsi

There’s no way you can make a list of strange Pepsi products without honoring their most well-known weird release. Crystal Pepsi launched in 1992 and stopped production in late 1993. The soda was clear, as opposed to the deep caramel color consumers expected to see in cola, and pitched itself as being lighter and less sweet than the average cola. While many customers tried a bottle of Crystal Pepsi, not many were interested in buying it a second time, and the product has held a place of honor in the "pop culture Parthenon" as one of the biggest product flops since then. Pepsi has since been able to cash in on collective nostalgia, re-releasing the soft drink for limited times in 2016, 2018, and 2022.

Pepsi Blue

Picture this: You just saw "Spider-Man" featuring Tobey Maguire for the first time, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake broke up a few months ago, and you and your family sit together and watch the new singing competition show "American Idol" every week. That’s right, folks. It’s 2002, and I would walk “A Thousand Miles” to try Pepsi’s brand-new highlighter blue berry-flavored soda. Pepsi Blue is described as having a cotton candy-meets-berry flavor and had a similarly short-lived initial run compared to Crystal Pepsi. Like Crystal Pepsi, though, it was briefly reintroduced years later.

Pepsi Kona

If you love coffee and soda, this was the product for you. Unfortunately, you may have never even encountered it. Pepsi Kona was developed as a coffee-flavored Pepsi, perfect for the afternoon pick-me-up. It was released to test markets in 1996, but due to poor reception, it never made it to national distribution. It wasn’t all bad news. Pepsi Kona led PepsiCo to develop an international version, the Pepsiccino, in 2004, and in 2019 the company announced Pepsi Café, a coffee-infused beverage. That being said, we’ve yet to see the product hit stores. Perhaps in a few years, we’ll see a new and improved Pepsi-coffee mashup.

Pepsi x Peeps

Was this a seasonal collab we ever expected? No. But do we hate it? Also no. In fact, fans liked it enough that after its limited debut in 2021, it got brought back for spring 2023. The cute, Peeps-themed cans are certainly part of the attraction, as is the sweet taste you expect from a sugar-dusted marshmallow chick or bunny. The only thing missing is the distinctive chew of a perfectly stale Peep.

Colachup

It’s a can of Pepsi; it’s a bottle of ketchup—no, it’s Colachup! This summer, Pepsi decided to fully embrace its history of weird products and debut one of the strangest combinations we’ve seen: Pepsi-infused ketchup. Because hey, why drink a soda when you can eat it too? The catch? If you were hoping for a chance to try the wacky condiment, you may be out of luck. Colachup was developed for and distributed at pop-up shops for a limited number of MLB games on the 4th of July. Perhaps you can try concocting your own version at home.