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.

@TeddyIsaHe

The worst drink in the world is San Pellegrino chinotto. Jesus wept, it’s vile. I had a huge gulp in the car on a v hot day and expected it to be a refreshing delight. Had to spit it out the window lest I puked it up in the footwell. Eurgh.

Haha my DH loves this stuff. They used to sell it at our local Italian restaurant but they stopped because he was the only person who ever ordered it. He was very disappointed.

Ginger beer.

Butterbeer at the Harry Potter studios in Watford. Absolutely rank. Even the kids wouldn't drink it.

The butterbeer ice cream is lovely though

It was far worse than Flares 'champagne' for example.

Is that the sort of stuff that bars optimistically call ‘bubbly’? Usually Pomagne-adjacent?

Iron Bru is awful now that it has artificial sweeteners.
Whiskey tastes like petrol.

Co-op's white chocolate and hazelnut liqueur (sp?)

Not only does it taste awful going down, but it burns like drain cleaner coming up.
Fortunately they haven't sold it for the better part of 20 years....

Can it be worse than the flesh-meltingly-hideous Brennivin in Iceland, often served as a follow-up to putrefied shark? 🤮

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 🤷‍♀️

@LolaSparkle

Not an alcoholic drink, but in Epcot at Disney World there used to be a Coca Cola place called Club Cool where you could try different soft drinks from around the world and there was this one called Beverley (can't remember the country it was from)! I swear it was the most disgusting thing I've ever drank! It was like necking pure TCP 🤢🤢 had fun tricking my hubs and son in to drinking it though 🤣🤣🤣

I came here to mention Beverly! It's Italian.

Found a picture

I just looked up Kinnie on Mr Google.

Christ on a cracker! Who thinks of these things? Apparently it was designed to ‘taste different to the cola drinks proliferating on the market’. In other words, they made the opposite to what people wanted.

National drink of Latvia. It's a thick, black liquid

I wonder if it is a by-product of that bloody Siberian black soap that burns your face?

@TheDoctorDances

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinnie

This is one of the worst things I’ve ever tasted. Like herbal Fanta.

I wondered if anyone was going to say Kinnie! I loved it. DH thought it was vile. I had 2 a day when we were on holiday in Malta.

@Iamthewombat

National drink of Latvia. It's a thick, black liquid

I wonder if it is a by-product of that bloody Siberian black soap that burns your face?

I'm not familiar with that but it could easily be a by product of crude oil refinement 🤢

I once tried some Jam Doughnut beer at a beer festival. Yes, I know, my own fault, but I didn't really want to drink any more so I indulged my morbid curiosity.

I think the worst water I've sampled was at a spa, probably the pump room in Bath - again no surprise there, sulphurous warm water. I don't doubt its curative properties, it'd motivate you to get over what ailed you.

Pink gin is pretty rank too.

I've just looked up that Chinnotto. Sounds right up my street so I will have to keep an eye out for that

Cynar - an artichoke liqueur my sister brought back from Turkey. We were impoverished students but couldn't get it over our throats. Even my mum's husband, who is an achoholic, struggled. I think making an alcholic drink from artichokes is doomed to be undrinkable.

I think the worst water I've sampled was at a spa, probably the pump room in Bath - again no surprise there, sulphurous warm water

That's another one I enjoyed! I suspect Beverley might be something I'd like too. Good tips! 😁

@VeggieSausageRoll Ahh now, the trick is to have a second shot of Riga Balsm - it's infinitely better the more of it you drink!!

Malibu reminds me of a terrifying incident at Villefranche Sur Mer train station.

The track comes out of a rocky tunnel.

Was waiting there with DS, and a woman on the opposite platform was

pissed, weaving about with a bottle of Malibu.

She proceeded to climb on the track, and sat down on it.

I was shouting ''''MADAME! MADADAME! NON! NON!'' but she was so rat arsed she didn't notice.

I wasn't sure what to do...No one else was about...That strange 'Siesta time' that the French have in the South.

I imagined a TGV coming out of the tunnel, and didn't want to see the result.

More shouting from me, and ready to press DS's face to my leg so he wouldn't see anything and merciful God, she moved and climbed up onto the platform.

Our train came, and we got on it.

Malibu just reminds me of this event. Before that, I quite liked the taste.

@Witchend

I remember when Red Bull was being launched. I was a student and they kept sending reps to student things to give it away. By the second or third time I encountered them pretty much every student was refusing them as they'd tried them and said it was so bad it couldn't even be used as a mixer. They couldn't even give it away to students! Couldn't believe it when they actually stated selling it and people then started drinking it.

Tesco value cola has to be up there too.

I was organising a big student event around the time that they were launching 'Monster' energy drink and they gave us quite a bit of money to distribute free cans of Monster at the event. When it arrived we were incredulous - who the hell was ever going to want a pint of disgusting tasting energy drink - and it was actually a massive pain as the event ended up littered with cans that people had taken because they were free, taken one sip from and then abandoned and so it was loads of work for the bar staff to keep them cleared away. I wondered who on earth had thought a massive energy drink was a good idea, and confidently felt that this terrible product wouldn't last the year...

However, that's not my vote for worst drink ever, which is either Riga Balsam or Unicum. The time as students that we used red wine as a mixer for vodka was also memorably terrible but that was our own fault rather than a flawed product.

The worst thing I have ever tried is Gammel Dansk. I wouldn't recommend it.

It sounds similar to other things mentioned in here. Bitter herbally disgustingness in a bottle.

[quote ShopTattsyrup]@VeggieSausageRoll Ahh now, the trick is to have a second shot of Riga Balsm - it's infinitely better the more of it you drink!! [/quote]
I think the fact I don't actually drink (and haven't done for about 15 years) probably meant it was a bit of a non starter to be fair!

@happymummy12345

I love Malibu but I'm struggling to imagine coconut and strawberry being a nice mix tbf.

Like Strawberry Concorde with coconut?

I miss Concorde, although I'm still not sure how they ever got to call it 'wine'