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.

Has anyone said Génépi yet? My ex bought me back a bottle from a skiing trip, it was luminous green and had a bit of crystallised tree in it. Like drinking mouthwash

I used to like Concorde. The peach one was my favourite. However, my stomach is turning recalling all of these bright coloured, vile tasting 90s alcohol offerings. I think I tried the lot!

Used to enjoy the odd Red Witch when I was much younger. Drank it at a party for old times sake about 10 years ago. Must have had about 3. Puked it back up for days.

Can I just say, that these vivid descriptions of how revolting such things taste have me howling more than the "cringeworthy moments" thread.

I have experienced a few of the drinks mentioned (and agree with the general concensus, plus apparently too much butterbeer can give you the raging shits), but by far the weirdest thing I had to pretend to drink out of courtesy was a very teeny tiny cup of tea which appeared to have been made with condensed goats milk.

I love kinnie and chinotto! Send your horror drinks my way!

My undrinkable was chocolate port from M&S about a decade ago. Unbelievably vile.

Apologies, omitted the obligatory descriptor. Tasted like heavily sugared plastic and feet.

I remember Watneys Red Barrel.

Chocolate flavoured alcoholic drink from weatherspoons one year

Tasted like liquid vomit

@Needanewnamenow

i once had a michelada which was clamato juice with a beer top. that's clams, tomato juice and a sort of dark lager mexican beer

I came on to share a story about this.

I was on a US road trip with my then (now ex) partner. As context he hates anything remotely fish related, doesn't eat any seafood at all.

He'd been driving all day when we stop to get a room at a motel in some backwater. He's desperate for a lager so we nip to the 7/11 (it's just before 11pm).

They have a surprisingly large selection which he peruses and decides on what seems to be some kind of local thing - it's made my Budweiser but has pictures of limes and stuff on the front. This leads him to conjure up the image of it being a deliciously fruity and refreshing lager based drink.

We get back to the motel...he rests on the bed and is really looking forward to his drink after a long day. Opens it, takes a really huge gulp...

Next thing he's running to the loo where he promptly retches several times over the basin.

I'm left like wondering what on Earth is going on.

So I pick up the can and take a closer look...

It is lager ✅
It does have limes in ✅
It was also mixed with clamato which is some local 'delicacy' of clam broth and tomatoes 🤢

Cue me laughing hysterically as he was running around retching and washing his mouth out with tap water

Worst bit was the 7/11 had then closed so he couldn't even get anything else.

Ha ha, that sounds disgusting, but I hate sweet drinks anyway, as well as alcoholic drinks that taste soft. I’m sure it has competition for worst drink aimed at the ladeez.

@Mrsjayy

Black Balsam sounds like cavonia cough syrup!

That's what it tastes like! A very concentrated version.

I've tasted quite a few "waters" over the years, including Bath, but the worst one was definitely Llandrindod Wells, notes of long aged seagull eggs, and an aftertaste of old rubber hot water bottles.
My favourite is Spa Reine.

I'm partial to bitter drinks, especially as aperitifs, when they wake up your taste buds as they are meant to do.
Suze is a bit sweet for me, I prefer Salers, both made from gentian root. Alcohol free Sanbitter Rosso tastes similar to Campari, which I love, Aperol is too sweet and bland for me.
I've just bought a bottle of Cynar to try, as it sounded intriguing, but I've not tasted it yet!

I haven't really tried any particularly weird drinks, but personally Vimto, Limoncello and Advocaat are high on my list of things I'd never want anywhere near my mouth again. I don't think it's mere coincidence that Vimto is an anagram of vomit.

Alcohol: Amaretto. I didn't realise it was almond-based when I tried it, and I hate almonds. Also Strawberry and Cream flavour shots. After a few hours it makes your breath like 3 months old milk thats been left behind a radiator.

Non-alcoholic: one I bought today, a bottle of Strawberry and Watermelon fizzy water. Tasted like someone had liquefied lollipops from my childhood, absolutely rank.

@lazylinguist

I haven't really tried any particularly weird drinks, but personally Vimto, Limoncello and Advocaat are high on my list of things I'd never want anywhere near my mouth again. I don't think it's mere coincidence that Vimto is an anagram of vomit.

Ha! I love Vimto and am drinking it now.

*Chocolate flavoured alcoholic drink from weatherspoons one year

Tasted like liquid vomit envy* I always thought chocolate and hazelnut yogurts smelt of sick.

*Amaretto. I didn't realise it was almond-based when I tried it, and I hate almonds.,

Ah Amaretto is about the only very sweet drink that I actually like, because Iove the taste of almonds!

Chinotto is lovely!!!!! Barefoot do a "jammy red" which was hideous and went straight down the sink.

Mrsjayy

Black Balsam sounds like cavonia cough syrup!

That's what it tastes like! A very concentrated version.

Mm mediciney

*@satsuma2 I used to have a friend who's favourite drink was Malibu and milk

The worst drink was pear wine. My sister brought it in the 90s and it was something like 3 litres for £2,50.
Yep the price reveled how vile it was. Tasted like sweet vinegar and something else equally vile.

Riga Black Balsam

A few others have said this and was my immediate thought! It is DISGUSTING.

A group of us went to east Latvia on a county exchange visit, wined and dined. Everywhere we went we were offered balsam as an aperitif and had to drink it so not to appear rude. It was grim.

The vodka was epic though 😎

@EveryDayIsADuvetDay

weird Schweppes mixer that was a bit pink and fizzy Schweppes Russchian maybe?

@EveryDayIsADuvetDay you genius that’s exactly what it was!

Wonder if you can still get it?

I've got a bottle of Unicum in the cupboard from a holiday in Budapest. It tastes like bottled old man's piss.

Well, mine isn't aimed at ladies, so you're not being unreasonable on that count. But smoky bacon beer was, hands down, the most disgusting alcoholic beverage i have ever tried. I couldn't even swallow it. It was an assault on my senses. I could taste it in my nose! Had to run to the sink and spit it out, and pour the rest of the bottle away. Utterly utterly rank!

It tastes like bottled old man's piss

Interesting, as it sounds like being slightly different to that...