First two new flavors I've seen since becoming a Gatorade addict: The lemonade seemed all wrong at first and indescribably so, the beverage equivalent of having your stereo cranked up too high when you turn it on so that there's a moment of deafening noise while you instinctively lunge for the volume knob. Once that went away, it tasted sweeter than normal Gatorade (though it has the same amount of sugar), with a strange aftertaste that I started to crave in the way that I gather some people like the aftertaste of diet soda or enjoy eating lip balm. I'm guessing the aftertaste and the bizarre first sip have the same root cause, whatever it is. Not perfect, but I would drink a gallon of this before a drop of Minute Maid Lemonade with its weird chemical burn.
The raspberry lemonade... this must be the first time a Gatorade flavor's name has aroused my suspicion not by being vague ("Riptide Rush") but by being too specific-- everybody knows it's called "pink lemonade". Unfortunately, I wasn't suspicious enough to actually pass it up. The only commercial soft drink I've had bitterer than this was a British chinotto soda which, a friend helpfully explained, they couldn't sell in America due to its foulness (my paraphrase). Gatorade flavors usually come in threes, so I looked on the internet to see if my corner store had missed out on one, but gatorade.com has no mention of lemonade in any form, leading me to wonder whether I've been poisoned by a maker of bootleg energy drinks. Eurgh.