# Worst Beverage? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** soda-softdrinks\ **Created:** [March 14, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-beverage/998850 "2024-03-14T23:38:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 75
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-beverage/998850/75 "2024-03-15T15:55:31Z")
Fernet is apparently very popular with chefs and their underlings. It’s not terrible. I like it more than Moxie or energy drinks. I have never tried Malort but enquired about it here after _The Economist_ made fun of it. > [@Malört And Other Weird Local Tipples](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malort-and-other-weird-local-tipples/982174): > > I have never heard of Malört, a wormwood drink popular in Chicago (and now also sold in Ohio) until reading about it in The Economist, though it has been mentioned in passing here (as hard to explain to aliens, and when discussing bitters). Sounds like a possible cross between absinthe and sewage waste, but that might be unfair. But there are lots of local tipples, and often reason they stay local. Screech is rum too toxic for Jamaicans, foisted on visitors to beautiful Newfoundland in the C… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-beverage/998850)._