While I agree that the concept of celery flavored soda (which I have shuddered over in a few other threads) sounds horrible, I have never tried it.
That being the case, the all time worst is Beverly. Disparaged so eloquently in many previous posts, I will try to pile on. The best way to describe the taste is if you can imagine what smoke would taste like if it was converted to liquid form. And I’m not talking happy smoke. This is smoke from a campfire made of rotten, soggy tree stumps infested with termites and ants that bite repeatedly.
Add to that a little kick of Vick’s Vaporub and an aftertaste that can only be removed with the help of a belt sander and you have Beverly.
Honestly, I would rather use my tongue to clean off a goat’s genitals than try that stuff again.
Okay, I see that this thread has covered Irn Bru and <shudder> Diet Irn Bru. The same company makes a dark drink called D&B that is even more shuddersome.
However…
There is a drink available in the convenience store across the road from my place that would make Irn Bru run into a hole and hide: Cocta. It’s from Belgrade. I tried it on the advice of a girl who noticed that I was puzzling over the bottle. Yipe! It was hideously over-sweet, vaguely-fruit-flavoured, half-flat, and tasted like someone had bottled that artificial raspberry “fragrance” that they clean washrooms with. I’m not sure that they use real water to make it.
I’d say this’ll be fighting it out with that celery-flavoured drink for first place.
Oh yeah, Orbitz is up there too–it has the added impact of its disturbing look and feel.
I’ll have to test Moxie, spruce beer, and Beverly. Possibly they’re available here… if not, another trip to Montreal and New England is in order.
So I openned this thread thinking I’d say pepsi blue, or Diet coke, with lemon and maybe disparage ginger beer and “mountain mist” (the lame-o Dew knockoff) a little bit for good measure.
But I had completely blotted CEL-RAY from my mind. My mom loves the stuff, for some ungodly reason. (Perhaps her drinking it during pregnancy explains a lot about me.) But it is the most foul of foulness. It’s everything you might think it is. I’m trying to come-up with one of those cute analogies for the taste that involve farm animals, bodily fluids, and/or petroleum products. But I’m forced to admit that the most nausiating description is also the most accurate: “It’s freaking Celery flavored soda.”
However, believe it or not, there is one beverage on the planet worse than the dreaded cel-ray:
It’s local to Eastern and Central Kentucky. I think it tastes like someone took a perfectly nice bottle of ginger ale and added a whole bunch of sage to it. There are people around these parts that swear by it, though. Blech blech blech.
It’s local to Eastern and Central Kentucky. I think it tastes like someone took a perfectly nice bottle of ginger ale and added a whole bunch of sage to it. There are people around these parts that swear by it, though. Blech blech blech.
Oh, I have tried it, and I assure you it’s every bit as disgusting as it looks. The soda itself is this syrupy, cloyingly-sweet fruit stuff that’s bad enough to begin with, but then you’ve got these…things…suspended in it. “Balls of pus” is a good description; “boogers” would be another. They have no flavor, so their only purpose seems to be to feel vile going down your throat.
Orbitz didn’t last long. Wonder why.
I’ve still got an unopened bottle of the stuff in my refrigerator. I don’t know why anymore, but I can’t bring myself to throw it away. The clots have worked their way about halfway down the bottle by now. I guess I’ll throw it out when they reach the bottom.
I’ve gotta second scott evil’s mention of Bière d’épinette/spruce beer. My mom’s side of the family absolutely loves this stuff–they’re French-Canadian. I, on the other hand, can’t fathom why someone would want to drink pine sap.
My mom kept on saying I’d like it when I got older. Well, I’m 19 now…I don’t think things are going to change.
However, if anyone here knows how to get the stuff in the States, I’d be much obliged…my mom/grandma/uncles would be forever grateful.
I didn’t think Orbitz was that bad. The drink part itself tasted fine and there were lots of different fruit flavors. The problem with it though was that all the little balls floating around in it had a viscousy-gelatany texture. It was like swallowing hoards of someone else’s hockers for the texture alone. GAG!
For some reason I couldn’t drink that but I can drink tea and shakes with bubbles just fine. Maybe it is because the bubbles are about the size of marbles.
Several years ago there was a version of 7-Up called 7-Up Gold. I never tried it myself, but my sister tried it. She said it was the most vile concoction she had ever tasted. I asked her what it tasted like. She couldn’t describe it, other than to say that it was just plain awful, so maybe someone here who had tried it could describe it. If it was as bad as she said it was, it’s no surprise that it wasn’t on the market for very long.
Believe it or not, I actually went to a grocery store this afternoon (Victory Supermarket in Milford, MA) with every intention of buying a bottle of Moxie to try once more so that I could give a more accurate description. I got to the beverage isle and saw the sinister bottle right away (fittingly, it was sitting right next to Tab). I honestly started to feel weak and nauseated. I could not do it. I had a hard afternoon ahead of me and I was worried that I might get really sick if I tried even one sip. I bought a plate of eel sushi and left. I had been beaten by the soft drink. true story.
Moxie moxie moxie~
It tastes like vics vapor rub mixed with glue and liquid smoke with just a hint of coca cola and jizz. Oh God why did I ever have to taste this crap. I took one sip and spit this across the yard.
I must agree, though your description is too generous. At least battery acid would kill you and get rid of the taste. No such luck with Tab, it forces you to live and remember.
I imagine Tab is produced like this: run a large urban water filtration system backwards, carbonate, and bottle.
I actually just tried Pepsi Blue about 10 minutes ago - its not all that bad. I agree that it kind of tastes like gummi candy, but it also makes me think of liquid cotton candy and I LOVE cotton candy, so I kind of like Pepsi Blue. I was scared of the colour, but finally decided to buy it and see what it was like. We don’t usually buy a lot of pop, so it won’t be a regular purchase, but still… I like it. shrugg.
I gotta say Moxie too. I had the unfortunate experience of having some once.
ANY chocolate soda is bad, whether diet or not. I like chocolate, it just doesn’t go well as a soda.
That Lemon coke is shit, but it pales in horribleness when compared to Moxie.
And listen: Many of you are too young to remember when diet sodas were a crime against humanity. Before Nutra Sweet and Splenda, diet soda had saccharine. It was awful!