I have tasted the worst drink in Christendom. Can you top this?

[Iamthewombat]

Category, as Ru Paul would say, is alcoholic drinks aimed at women.

I bought a bottle of Malibu Strawberry Spritz at Morrison’s last week. I like Malibu (don’t judge me) and strawberries and fizzy things.

I opened it last night. Christ, it was awful. Tasted like a weird blend of kids’ medicine and saturated sugar syrup. Not sure how you can make something like this taste un-fruity. And it was virulent pink.

Down the sink it went, even the plughole seemed to be resisting it by vomiting up the pink foam.

I can’t imagine anything worse but maybe you know differently.

YABU = yes, there are worse alcoholic drinks aimed at the ladies and I’m going to give you details.

YANBU = no, nothing sounds worse than Malibu Strawberry Spritz.

@VeggieSausageRoll

Riga Black Balsam

National drink of Latvia. It's a thick, black liquid (like a thick syrup) that is almost 50% abv and some fruit apparently (blackcurrant and cherry I think) but tastes herbaly. It's the kind of thing that your grandmother would produce to cure all ails. It's vile but everywhere in Riga 🤷‍♀️

Ah no, Black Balsam is nice! I need a trip to Riga now to get some.

Worst drink I've tasted wasn't an alcoholic one, but was popcorn soda - it tasted like they had emptied a popcorn machine, filled it with sugar water and shook it around a bit and added some fizz. Just a very sad taste reminiscent of stale popcorn.

They have this beer in Malawi that has fucking lumps in it

Tastes like you threw it up already

When I was 21 and suffering from horrendous pregnancy related sickness a doctor told me to try warm milk and lemonade together
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DO NOT TRY THIS

@Osquito

Another one saying SP Chinotto is vile - tastes like gone-off fruit, and not in a good kombucha way.

I don’t like sweet cocktails so to me most are disgusting, but as a kid I once drank a can of Sweat, some kind of sports drink - guess what it tasted just like?
Lest you think I was asking for it, I had wanted 100 Plus, which is delicious and refreshing, and got given that instead “because it’s the same”. No it fucking wasn’t.

That will have Pocari Sweat. It’s very popular in Japan. I never tried it, the name was too off-putting.

Not drink but pine-flavoured toothpaste in South Korea (no longer available thank goodness!)

Agree with @WooMaWang that makgoelli is a bit odd.

A bottle of coconut water with aloe vera from tesco. Sounded nice but it had big lumpy slimy bits of aloe vera in that I really wasn't expecting, and as soon as the vomit-style mix touched my throat I spat it back out (thankfully I was standing next to the kitchen sink!)

Black Balsam sounds like cavonia cough syrup!

Actually Pocari sweat is ok, tastes between mild sprite and plain dioralyte.

Definitely unicum. It's awful.

I love Campari, Aperol, walnut schnapps, pine cone schnapps etc. You just have to get the category it’s in and drink it at the right time to appreciate it. Will look out for Beverly.

Worst drink I’ve ever seen is sauerkraut juice.

@Marshmallow91

A bottle of coconut water with aloe vera from tesco. Sounded nice but it had big lumpy slimy bits of aloe vera in that I really wasn't expecting, and as soon as the vomit-style mix touched my throat I spat it back out (thankfully I was standing next to the kitchen sink!)

I had the exact same experience. Like drinking sick. Not a bad taste, but the texture

DH's brother is a notorious cheapskate so I should have been on my guard when he told me he'd brought a lovely wine home from his holiday in Spain. When we arrived for dinner he told me I must try it - I held my glass out and he proceeded to bring out of the cupboard one of those gallon-type plastic containers of red liquid, and then tell me how he'd found it in the supermarket and how fabulous it was, and only 8 euro for the lot! It was obviously Spanish cooking wine or similar. I have a strong stomach. I was no stranger to JP Chenet in my student days. But I could not drink this - it tasted of pure piss and vinegar. Down the sink it went, and I resolved never to waste any nice wine on BIL in the future!

@CleverCatty. You've jogged a memory there. At my Student Union that was known as a Snakebite and Black. Hideous stuff.

YABU !!! ... but this isn't an alcoholic drink !! ... I'm doing Sober October and I bought a bottle of McGuigan zero alcohol Shiraz ...... IT WAS THE WORST THING EVER ... Also some shit stuff called "Noughty" .. zero alcohol prosecco .... both revolting and straight down the sink .. there were reviews of the fake prosecco on Amazon and people said it was like champagne ... all I can think is that they have never had champagne or prosecco ... this stuff was like fizzy water with a hint of cat pee

I've remembered when I was working in a bar as a student and a couple of women ordered Baileys and lemonade! I poured it for them and they let me try a bit - it was really nice, like an alcoholic ice cream soda! And I don't like Baileys at all!

Another vote for Butterbeer at Harry Potter Studios. It is disgustingly sweet, you only have to see the half drunk empties littered around.

@Leimarel utterly vile isn't it. No longer made thank God.

DH says Root beer tastes like Germolene smells.

For me it has to be the tap water in Poole. warm and mushy. I actually quite liked the spa water in Bath!

DM once gave us a myrtle flavoured liqueur as a gift from a holiday in the Med somewhere. It smelt vile it looked vile and it tasted even worse. Biggest problem was the bottle was wrapped in cork so when I "accidentally" dropped it it bounced. It certainly cleaned out the drains though when I poured it down the sink....

@Branches1

Here it is

i'm a bit shortsighted. i read that as Unicum sewage

chanjer I was just thinking about chibuku! It is essentially alcoholic porridge, and nothing good can be said about that. I avoided it after a colleague told me in hushed tones not to have too much as it would cause ‘opening of the bowels’

Absolutely hands down Unicum is the worst thing I’ve ever drunk. And I accidentally drank mould once. And my friend’s sick