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.

Clamato beer. Clam juice, tomato juice, and beer.
It's an abomination yet weirdly popular in the US.

Yes to the spa water. I had some in Harrogate, and not only was it absolutely sulphurously vile but it repeated on me (terrible phrase) all the way round Harrogate. They must have thought the Devil was walking amongst them.

It's Boza...a Bulgarian fermented wheat drink.

They had some on the breakfast buffet at the Bulgarian hotel we stayed in last year so we all had a go. Literally the worst thing I have ever put in my mouth. It was most reminiscent of the water that you'd strain off a can of chickpeas but if that water had been left to sit at room temperature for a few days so it went off, and slightly fizzy.

Aftershock shots anyone?! Also, did anyone ever have those Corky's / Sidekick shots? Seemed to be in very sickly strawberry and cream/toffee flavours, etc. Absolutely rank.

@Hairydilemma really was truly rank 🤮🤮

@Figmentofimagination I genuinely had to take how good it was to get my husband and son to drink it. Luckily they fell for it and I'm not ashamed to say that watching the gag was hilarious 😂😂

Boza moving up the vile drink rankings rapidly now that I have seen the Wikipedia entry with photo.

@Iamthewombat no but it's really hard to describe. It's clear and fizzy and basically tastes garbage 🤢

The worst drink in the world (though technically not Christendom) is fermented mare's milk. Tastes every bit as good as it sounds.

Root beer is a close second. Also Dr Pepper.

[quote LolaSparkle]@Figmentofimagination I genuinely had to take how good it was to get my husband and son to drink it. Luckily they fell for it and I'm not ashamed to say that watching the gag was hilarious 😂😂[/quote]
You are my kind of wife/mother

@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 🤣🤣🤣

this - i had blocked this out until now

Jaegermeister or however you spell it. Made the mistake of having a large neat shot once- hangover from hell to say the least

@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.

Ha yes. I came on to say the exact same. This was vile. Also spat out!

I used to work in a pub and someone once ordered a red wine and coke. Apparently it is an actual drink and has a name like a white wine and soda is a spritzer. Thankfully the lady who actually wanted to drink it was not the one at the bar and so did not see my horror! In fact the lady at the bar shared in my horror and when asked which red they'd like responded with "the cheapest you've got, she wants sodding coke in it, it's not like she'll be able to tell the difference!"

I once had a someone behind a bar offer to mix red and white wine for me when I asked if they had rose

And I saw a PP mention absinthe. I've never tried it but at a work party I once saw a 17yr old waitress who had brought a mini bottle of absinthe, enough for exactly 2 shots and she was looking for someone to do a shot with her. Our head chef who was late 20s and always partying and known for being able to drink a lot and for his love of drugs agreed. They each did a shot, she literally skipped away as if she'd just necked water and was completely unaffected. He was left clinging to the bar gasping for breath and eyes watering for a good minute or so. It was hilarious. He lost a lot of cred that night!

I thought this was going to win the thread until I read about the fermented horse milk in a goat skin bag. Even the artichokes and Unicum can’t compete with that.

Yay! I haven't won anything in ages.

Boza does sound vile too though....

@toconclude

Babycham. Which autocorrect tried to render as baby ham. Yeah.

I was allowed to drink Babycham on New Years Eve when I was about 10 and I liked it, (I did say I was only 10!) For the next 40 years my Aunt constantly offered me Babycham and couldn't understand why I didn't want it. Why do they mess with food and drink by adding other things? Baileys is Baileys, it doesn't need salt caramel etc..At the cheese counter I can never understand why lovely cheeses like Lancashire and Wensleydale are ruined with other things, especially, come Christmas, Christmas pudding! Leave stuff alone, people can add their own extra bits.

Jagermeister on its own is disgusting, but if you mix it with peach schnapps and cranberry juice, it makes a surprising good drink.

(I used to work in a college bar. Most of our drinks were disgusting.)

@Lonelycrab

Jaegermeister or however you spell it. Made the mistake of having a large neat shot once- hangover from hell to say the least

Isn't Jaegermeister a hangover cure itself? It was certainly the goto solution when we lived in Germany!

Not tried it personally but my beauticians tipple is Bacardi and diet irn bru. Can’t imagine anything worse !

Oh God. Why did I open this thread with the hangover I have right now......

I tasted the spa waters at Harrogate. Bleurgh!

Belgian endive liqueur (yes, it exists!). Bought a very small bottle, tasted it once then it sat there for months. Managed to get rid of it at a gathering of my husband's family. We stuck it in the freezer then served it when people were already pissed!!!

That’s a shame about butter beer

I had always imagined that butter beer would taste something like melted werthers originals but nice.

Real life obviously can’t create it so il stick to my imagination.

Absinthe though is lovely, I used to have shots of it in a pub years ago but it was set it on fire first. Legally they were only allowed to serve 3 to one person, that sounds odd now but made sense then!

@justsaying
Aftershock! I worked in a bar when they were launching it and they gave us loads of it for free. I was 20, skint and it was free on tap. Even then I couldn't drink it.

OMG butter beer, thank goodness we were warned about it, vile, saw a kid throwing up after the ride at a Universal Studios in Florida.