# What was the last beverage you tried on a whim? How'd it turn out? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 8, 2000, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172 "2000-10-08T20:00:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sangria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Sangria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangria)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/1 "2000-10-08T20:00:14Z")
I had one that the bartender said was invented on **Cheers!** , although I haven’t seen that episode yet. It’s called **Step Into An Open Grave** and has some of EVERYTHING! Tastes like hell and burns something wild. I tried to make it drinkable with soda but couldn’t dilute it enough, so he bought me something else. This time I took a lime-coke and sat still for a while until my stomach came back. ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/2 "2000-10-08T20:18:45Z")
I tried Zima on a whim and it sucks. SUCKS. How anybody drinks this crap is beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/3 "2000-10-08T21:57:58Z")
- I tried the blue vegetable-washing soap you use in those shaker-things. I figured it wouldn’t be regular soap, because regular soap wouldn’t all rinse off, and would make you sick pretty quick. This didn’t taste like regular soap, but did kinda churn my stomach and about a half-hour later my tongue did burn a bit where I had put the stuff. - As to _why_ I tried it, I already basically said: the label says “natural ingredients” and washing vegetables in that much regular soap would definitely make people ill, so I wanted to see if this stuff was edible. (barely, if at all) - MC ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/4 "2000-10-08T22:10:34Z")
Chartruese (sp?) liquor that was 106 proof, green, tasted like Necco wafers flavor… really weird, spicey, herby, sweet. The kind of stuff you have around just so you can have folks try it (once) -lasts for years… ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/5 "2000-10-08T22:16:30Z")
Bicardi 151. Actually, it was more of a dare than a whim. Turns out I like the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/6 "2000-10-08T22:44:06Z")
I think it was bad vodka mixed with Pepsi…started out as straight bad vodka, but it was _really_ bad. 2:1 Pepsi:vodka was reasonably ok, though. ---
**Author:** ![OrcaChow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@OrcaChow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrcaChow)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/7 "2000-10-08T22:55:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MC \* > \*\* - I tried the blue vegetable-washing soap you use in those shaker-things. I figured it wouldn’t be regular soap, because regular soap wouldn’t all rinse off, and would make you sick pretty quick. This didn’t taste like regular soap, but did kinda churn my stomach and about a half-hour later my tongue did burn a bit where I had put the stuff. - As to _why_ I tried it, I already basically said: the label says “natural ingredients” and washing vegetables in that much regular soap would definitely make people ill, so I wanted to see if this stuff was edible. (barely, if at all) - MC \*\* Warming up for the Darwin Awards, are you? 🙂 Petroleum is all-natural ingredients. Sand is all-natural ingredients. Cobra venom is all-natural. Did you not notice the _Not for internal use_ warning anywhere on the label? ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/8 "2000-10-08T23:22:05Z")
Last beverage tried on a whim: Clearly Canadian, strawberry-melon flavour. I figured anything Canadian can’t be too bad. I love the stuff!!! Last beverage tried on a dare: Tequila. I’m 17 and I’d never had anything alcoholic except half a Mike’s Hard Lemonade that my best friend and I nicked from her parents and shared, but when I went to Mississippi to visit my sister (who’s a bartender), her husband dared me to do a shot of straight tequila with him. I was nervous – anything that requires two separate taste-bud-dullers can’t be all that good to have as your first real taste of the hard stuff – but I did it. Twice. Once with him and once with the guy I had been flirting with all day. I hated it. It tasted like salted, limey rat’s ass. But I expect I’ll forget all about that and do it again when I want to get shit-faced some day. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/9 "2000-10-08T23:24:46Z")
**MC** - you’re a nut. I like that. My last beverage on a whim was Thai iced tea, and I’d love to make it at home, but I’m too lazy. Hubby’s last drink on a dare was something called a Grassfire – tabasco sauce and tequila – I think mixed half and half. Not sure, and he still can’t talk. ---
**Author:** ![Sangria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Sangria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangria)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2000, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/10 "2000-10-25T21:58:12Z")
Today’s try was something called a Chambord Shiver, which looks like a pink sno-cone with a raspberry on top. Tastes like it too. Not awful, but also nearly impossible to drink until it starts to melt. ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2000, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/11 "2000-10-25T22:07:56Z")
I once ate a cherry that had been soaked in Everclear for six months. Don’t ask. I’ve also eaten a raisin that had been soaked in gin for a long, long time. Double don’t ask. ---
**Author:** ![Fletch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/919ad9/32.png) [@Fletch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fletch)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2000, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/12 "2000-10-25T22:20:42Z")
The local barmaid comes up with a different weird each week for the football games. The drink for last monday night was a “Miami Jetstream”, green gatorade, 151 rum, Triple Sec, tequila, orange juice and grenadine. Not bad, but… not good either. ---
**Author:** ![Suo\_Na](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Suo\_Na](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suo_Na)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2000, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/13 "2000-10-25T22:38:50Z")
**Fletch** : I was about to ask how anyone could stand to ruin good alcohol with Gatorade, but then I looked again and realised what booze you were talking about. Rum, tequila, and (maybe a little) Triple Sec can’t get any worse. My condolences to your liver. ---
**Author:** ![Fletch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/919ad9/32.png) [@Fletch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fletch)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2000, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/14 "2000-10-25T22:56:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Suo Na \* > \*\ ***Fletch** : I was about to ask how anyone could stand to ruin good alcohol with Gatorade, but then I looked again and realised what booze you were talking about. Rum, tequila, and (maybe a little) Triple Sec can’t get any worse. > > My condolences to your liver. \*\* Oh No! Don’t mention liver! She might make up some pureed liver and beer. “Pate Fois Bud” ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2000, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/15 "2000-10-25T23:03:40Z")
The last drink I tried was an Ice Cream Sandwich. It has amaretto, kahlua and cream, and some other stuff, but I was too drunk at that point from White Russians and Toasted Almonds (my faves) to hear the bartender. However, rest assured that it was delicious, and tasted just like a yummy milkshake, which is why I had 5, which is why I spent that night paying homage to the great God of Toilets. Try it if you like creamy, milky drinks, but do not have 6. I felt like a ton of concrete was residing into my tummy. Blech! ---
**Author:** ![bare](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bare/32/471_2.png) [@bare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bare)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2000, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/16 "2000-10-25T23:29:08Z")
I have lasting memories of buttermilk. I was very young. All I knew is that I liked butter, so buttermilk had to be good. My mom and grandma tried to talk me out of it but grandpa said, “If the boy wants buttermilk, let him have buttermilk”. I never did forgive him. Note: bad thing to drink before you board a train. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/17 "2000-10-26T03:57:56Z")
Gen-yoo-wine Moonshine. Very bad. Very, very bad. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/18 "2000-10-26T04:19:24Z")
Bone-dry fino sherry. The sweet stuff is like cough mixture, but the salty dry stuff turns out to be great. ---
**Author:** ![Baglady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Baglady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baglady)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/19 "2000-10-26T04:30:13Z")
[**Red Bull**](http://www.redbull.com). Okay, so it’s not a bar drink. It’s a canned energy drink. but it sounds like a beer, right? It tastes um… odd. But not bad. Unfortunately it’s expensive (the price of a beer), and I didn’t feel any extra kick of energy. ---
**Author:** ![JuanDeCuba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a87d85/32.png) [@JuanDeCuba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JuanDeCuba)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172/20 "2000-10-26T05:28:48Z")
I drank about 2 ounces of Cholula, but thats not alcoholic. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-beverage-you-tried-on-a-whim-howd-it-turn-out/36172.md?page=2)