This sounds like it would make a great Egg Cream. Now where do I find a Seltzer? 
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@SessionDrummer are you covering the entire new flavor pack here? Iām filling up my cart and waiting to hear more, hehe.
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Iām doing the entire recently released pack, AND, the Creme de la Creme which I havenāt tested yet.
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Howās that Meringue, Lemony coming along? 
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Did SSA make a plain Meringue?
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@muth if they came out with a meringue, I havenāt seen it. The Meringue Lemony is in the queue.
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Hey @SessionDrummer I was just reading your BCF review of Marshmallow (SSA). You released the Kraken on it and compared it to other strong brands but you left out Marshmallow Vanilla (OOO). You donāt think itās a contender here? 
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They have a Natural Meringue which i assume is their normal
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Thx, I didnāt see it at BCF, though.
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@muth, although I still use OOOās MMV a lot, I never got around to soloāing it. And yes, the SSA MM was that good. 
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Cherry Mascarpone (SSA) 1% (10-29-24) ā While not being 100% sold on the Mara Cherry, this one smelled REALLY good in the bottle. The completely delicious, RED cherry hit me right on the front end. Bright, red, slightly sweet, and dare I say, more Mara, THAN the previously tested Mara cherry. It had a nice tarty finish to it, that 100% helped sell it. Below the delicious cherry it was a little more mysterious. It was a somewhat creamy carrier or undertone. It did present as a mascarpone cream, but it did play second fiddle to the cherry, so it was fairly hard to quantify. Even though it was not a 50/50 split itās effect on the overall tone and flavor was obvious. Some mouthfeel, but not overly so, and I feel like after the third tester, I would have liked a little more of it. The split tasted pretty close to 60% cherry, and 40% mascarpone cream if that helps. After finishing the last tester, for my tastes, I preferred this cherry over the Maraschino Cherry previously tested. A nice combination, and it was very full at 1%, with no off-notes, medicinals, or soaps sometimes found in cherries. Very tasty, great cherry, just needed a little more mascarpone. I decided to leave it at a high 8.0/10.
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Yes last release they made a plain meringue. Itās good, nothing spectacular but better than WF meringue, and comparable to Fa.
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I picked up the Meringue Lemony the other night. I looked for the SSA regular Meringue but it wasnāt at BCF.
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Nomz is where Iāve picked up the last 2 releases. Iām happy I donāt feel pressured to buy new flavors now lol
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Meringue (Lemony Type) (SSA) 1% (11-1-24) ā I actually spent some extra time with this one, as it was kind of a mystery. For some reason, this one tasted somewhat muted throughout my testing. It smelled very meringue-y in the bottle, but when testing it, it was not as pronounced. I struggled to really smell any Lemon in the bottle, and when testing it, I got a very faint Lemon, almost lemon rind on the finish. It tasted very natural, and not like Lemon juice, but literally a very light rind note. At first, I wondered if maybe the two elements were conflicting, but it might just be what it was. At 1% it was probably one of the weaker SSAās Iāve tested. It was present, and possibly increasing it would help out, but I left it at 1% for the duration. The meringue that I did get was good, and similar to FAās, just somewhat underpowered.
No off-notes, and sweetness was surprisingly lower than expected at a few ticks below mid-level. No off-notes, and my biggest complaints would be the lack of saturation. The Lemon element was soo light that at times it was hard to directly taste it, but it was almost as if itās effect on the meringue was the effect SSA was looking for, as opposed to a truly overt lemon note. I do remember in the beginning ot the tests wondering where I would use this flavor. Not terrible, but not outstanding either. Finalizing this one at 6.5/10.
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Well, at least I didnāt pay full price for it. On the other hand, it sounds like it was fine as a regular Meringue just not as concentrated as SSA usually is.
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Iām sure! And Iām sure youāll always appreciate the experience of getting to know all those flavors but thereās nothing like relaxation. You can buy new flavors only when you want to, whew, what a relief 
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Creme de la Creme (SSA) 1% (11-2-24) ā @Mikser had an interesting observation regarding this flavor. Honestly I wasnāt sure what my expectations were, but it tasted different than I had ASSUMED it would. My immediate take-aways were āThis is goodā, and āCould it be used as the primary noteā. Out of the gate I did like it, and it presented as a very good vanilla cream, and very close to a oreo filling kind of cream. Not exactly, not as rich, not as much mouthfeel, but that was pretty close. It had some mouthfeel, and there was an almost powdered sugary-ness to it, that just damn worked.
At 1% it was actually fairly saturated, but still seemed to be a little relaxed. Maybe uppāing it to 1.5%-1.75% might help, but as before, I stuck to my stock 1% testing weight for referencing. No custard, pudding, or dairy cream, but the sugary cookie creme was very unmistakable. With that said, I think Sobucky was wise to call this a Creme, and not a Cream. The Vanilla note swirled around but it seemed similar to a bright, clean, almost French Vanilla-ish type. Clean, accurate, and worked perfectly with the powdered sugar aspect. After 3 full testers, I couldnāt find any off-notes of issues, and I think now, after finishing 3 testers, it might well be able to run the main note in a mix, depending on the other flavors. This may be one of the best Vanilla Cremes I have tried. About the only nit-pick would have been for a little more mouthfeel, but thatās a personal nit-pick. Too good to rail this one down much at all, easily a 9.9/10.
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Huh ?? Educate me please. Creme isnt just a french word for cream 
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