Two things are prominent in my memory for being utterly ghastly.
The first I called "worm stuff." It's what our parents gave me as a kid when they suspected some intestinal wormage. I don't recall the product name but it was a powder that came in satchets. The powder was disolved in tap water to produce a purple solution that had a uniquely vile taste and smell that filled your mouth, nose, ears and brain. It had my gag reflex going like a ungoverned steam piston *does a little sick in mouth and swallows*
The second, much more recently ingested was a radiographic contrast agent called Gastrografin. I was started on this about 16 hours before an abodominal CT scan and had to drink glass after glass. Absolutely f-o-u-l. There was a hint of aniseed but that failed to make it remotely palatable. Good lord - my uvula is twitching just thinking about glugging the stuff down.
Oh and Robinson's bitter....
MDMA solution. Truely the worst taste on earth
my Nanna used to have Kaolin and morph for stomach upsets. horrible to start with, but so moreish.
some Polish drink that tasted like boot polish and old books
Badgers Blandford Fly, positively disgusterous
Cola.
Seriously, wtf?
Lager. Its shite.
Mushroom tea with ribena OR mushroom tea with thunderbird
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Airag - fermented horse milk - luke warm, fatty, alcoholic, dirt and hair floating in it
Bleach
I had glandular fever and my throat wouldn't stop bleeding so the hospital made me gargle bleach solution several times a day. It made my lips crack and bleed.
Some #### once dumped a load of cayene pepper in my brew... oh hang on a moment... that was you Mr Starship.
On Scout camp many years ago due to an untidy patrol box and a lack of light me and my mate once made an ern of tea with 7 tea bags and a Brillo. Tangy.
Sambuca. Nuff said.
[i]my mate once made an ern of tea with 7 tea bags and a Brillo. Tangy. [/i]
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A mix of sherry and baileys.... 😯
Tequila *voms*
At a recent cider festival I was given a suspiciously pale looking liquid in a pint glass that smelled like a tramp's pee. I've never tasted tramps' pee but I daresay it probably compares favourably with that cider.
And cinzano. At the tender age of sixteen I managed to get off with an otherwise unfeasibly hot girl at a party who'd been downing the stuff. The taste is still with me twenty one years later.
Tis true! The cups were cleaner after the brew than before it*. After a week on camp you could eat or drink anything without fear of causing harm.
*That bit isn't true.
A cement mixer one drunken night at the pub,
consists of one measure of Baileys and one measure of Cointreau in same glass.
Had to drink it but keep the horrid solution in my mouth and swill it for a minute! it turns in to a lovely past hence cement mixer.
Never again.
Had to drink it
❓
Stroh 80, some revolting Austrian rum that's the same alcoholic strengh as aftershave. If you put ice in it the exothermic reaction between the alcohol & water makes the bloody stuff heat up - you can feel it burning all the way as it goes down! Then 15 minutes later the lights go out.
Semi liquidised charcoal (or close derivative). Happily (in as much you can be happy in these situations), I wasn't aware of it until afterwards. That was bad enough though.
The first I called "worm stuff." It's what our parents gave me as a kid when they suspected some intestinal wormage. I don't recall the product name but it was a powder that came in satchets
Pripsen, I'd agree there
Closely followed by a root beer float, can't believe anyone would drink that for fun.
Barium meal was unpleasant but not horrendous.
Some ridiculous super strength Polish vodka made me vomit instantly
The smell of tequila makes me gag and the taste would invoke instant vomit
Tequila
Rank stuff - makes me gag.
Ohh, and that 'coal' cough syrup we used to be given as kids.
+1 for Fosters lager.
had some cheap mongolian vodka once that didn't make you feel drunk, but made you feel a wave of toxicity through your body for about 10 minutes. tasted nice though. love tequila.
I like Stroh rum! Nice in tea.
They do a weaker version, yellow label instead of orange IIRC.
Jaegermeister is vile, as is anything with aniseed.
Mushroom tea, neat, is probably the worst though.
Guinness and tomato juice *shudders at memory*
Dr Pepper.
ebygomm - after all these years (30+) I now know what it's called.
Ta 😀
Had some Green tea the other day which my other half then commented that my breath smelt like BO! Other than that probably cod liver oil medicine, I did not like that at all.
The green tea was perhaps a bit strong and tasted like cigarettes and smelt like it to.
Campari and Bells whisky. Or just neat Campari
+1 to the kids' worming drink - my mum told me it was milkshake.
+1 also to mushy brew. The secret is to keep condensing it until it's the consistency of treacle - at that point, a couple of swallows is enough 🙂
at a particularly boring party, we decided to make cocktails from the contents of the kitchen cupboard - by far the worst was fosters lager with a chicken stock cube and soy sauce mixer
Pernod
Unicum - in Budapest
even the name cannot hint at how awful it is
Tibetan Yak butter tea. A big group of us had it thrust upon us, and everyone that drank it and wasn't a Tibetan guide was instantly sick. It was pretty exciting.
Closely followed by some sort of fermented raisin, pigeon blood and mashed antler concoction - also in Tibet.
Closely followed by Deuchars IPA.
xcgb - Member
Unicum - in Budapest
even the name cannot hint at how awful it is
😆
1/3rd of a pint of Orkney Skull Splitter at a pub in York.
Some home made bramble wine that was still fermenting.
4 or 5 of us sat round, drunk wanting more to booze when someone suggested the demijohn of homebrew in the cupboard
"Don't the bubbles mean it'ss till fermenting?"
"yup, but it means it's got some alcohol as well"
After eating Labrunum seeds as a kid me and a mate went to hospital and were made to drink gallons of weak squash and then some special make-you-vomit coloured liquid that tasted foul and made you chuck up uncontrollably for hours. Thats pretty bad.
A white spirit called Palinka from eastern europe made from plums but tastes like ethanol mixed with pear drops flavouring has a similar effect to the above medicinal liquid if drunk in large enough quantities.
Magic mushroom tea with 1,700 little mushrooms in is a close third 😯
cod liver oil, although the malted stuff was OK
This: Brennivin... :gip:
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Accidentally drank a tiny drop of petrol once whilst siphoning from a tank (legitimately mind).
Words cannot describe that sensation. Took about a week to stop burping little petrolly burps too.
Oh wait - EVEN WORSE THAN PETROL - a friend of mine said to cure a sore throat get some raw onion and garlic chopped up, and put set honey on top of it in a jar. He reckoned the onion and garlic fumes would melt the honey (I know - wtf?) and if you scooped the honey from the top of the resulting pot you would not taste any onion and garlic.
HE WAS VERY WRONG!
I could not eat honey for years afterwards. Hard to understand how to otherwise yummy, non toxic, non-alcoholic and perfectly edible things could combine to bring me to my knees through nothing but taste.
raw eggs
Palinka is Hungarian, but granted is a bit "harsh". I went to a few warehouse parties in Romania and we were never sure if we would get ?uic? which is single distilled plum brandy so was anywhere between 30-50% or Polinka which was double distilled and up to 70-odd. They were handed round in old unlabled plastic bottles so you had no idea until it was too late!
I can't believe no one has said Picolax yet! 😯
Gin with Martini Rosso is my (current) least favourite drink ever.
Lost weekend in Reykjavik on it - Brennivin is nectar by comparison.
Nelsons Medicine during Crossing The Line Ceremony. Contents are a closely guarded secret but more than one dose usually gets preojectiled overboard.
PJM1974 - Member
Tequila *voms*
That pretty well sums up my 21st birthday 'celebrations' unfortunately 😳
Took about a week to stop burping little petrolly burps too.
Did you ever try to light them?
Slivovitz made by the locals in Bosnia. The MO tested it and it contained human DNA 😯
Did you ever try to light them?
Given that I smelled as if petrol fumes were oozing out of my pores.. no.. I didn't.
Badgers Blandford Fly
really? Lovely stuff
Stroh 80
We used to party on that. Not a bad drop
Tequila
Cheap tequila can be pretty ropey but I've got quite a taste for the good stuff (actually, and the cheap stuff too as a marguerita). [url= http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/03/0312_tequila/18.htm ]Patron[/url] is delicious
Now if you want a "challenging" drink you need to try [url= http://www.thedrinkshop.com/products/nlpdetail.php?prodid=4335&afwinid=90909 ]Fernet Branca[/url] Unforgettable doesn't really go far enough. I bought it by mistake, confusing it with [url= http://www.thedrinkshop.com/products/nlpdetail.php?prodid=4911&afwinid=90909 ]Ramazotti[/url] which is similar in a lot of ways, and definitely from the same family of drinks, but delicious rather than disgusting.
I bought some cough syrup from Poundland the other day. Grim stuff. 🙁
PMSL at MostlyBalanced... I thought it said "Period".....
xcgb - MemberUnicum - in Budapest
even the name cannot hint at how awful it is
Tried that, thought it was alright, if a little bit hairspray-ish in the aftertaste.
My vote would go on Koffola which is the Slovakian version of coca cola.
My memory of the taste is diet happy shopper cola + paracetomol + burnt hair. YUMM 😐
When I was at 6th form I 'won' a £5 bet by drinkinjg half a bottle of Insignia Rio aftershave. I was very ill. Could taste it for days too. In fact, 19 years layer I think I can sort of taste it now I've brought up the subject...
Took some of the waters from Bath, the spa town. Guaranteed to make you ill, not well.
I concur with simon_nic - Fernet Branca is absolutely foul. Though I think it does have some medicinal value - I was feeling very sick in my local boozer one night, the landlord gave me a shot of FB and about 30 minutes later I vomited (a lot), then immediately felt chipper 🙂
Could be a coincidence of course.....
I actually kind of like Brennivin, as long as it's cold.
Worst thing was some godawful grappa that a uni friend brought back from Italy (the cheap stuff as that's all we could afford). I remember drinking it by the half pint for little while, then not much else.
Unicum - in Budapest
aah, memories of a mental stag do, crazy nightclub, strong drugs, more strong drugs by the Danube then walking into a bar at midday, pint and a shot of Unicum, repeat for 6 hours, and start all over again. Haven't got a clue what it tasted like by the way...
I once went to a banquet in Taiwan to celebrate the placing of a big order (approx €50m). They like a drink out there and things got a bit silly. The worst was a spirit made from water melon. It smelt like puke, as did my puke when I got back to the hotel room.
Taipai - Honk Hong - Paris - Heathrow - Manchester with the mother of all hang overs. I wanted to die.
Plant food and I don't mean mephedrone
Some local hooch resembling petrol given to us by greek bar owner at 7am an hour after landing in crete when we went looking for somewhere open.
Some stuff Sheldon had at SSEC, polish I think, was pretty rank too
In my impecunious youth my brother and I had a still and made our own whisky. (Family tradition, g'gfather did time for it)
Results were usually ok, but one time we made a special batch.
I can still remember it burning as it went down and the 3 days in bed that followed. I shouldn't have finished the bottle 🙂
We named it Glenvomit and kept the bottles for a few years to see if they would improve. They didn't.
Pi55....
Also tequila. Tastes worse than the pi55 actually
KY1973 - please elucidate on the former.
Marrow rum made by the local mayor.. the stuff that had been strained through the gusset of her tights was slightly easier to stomach.. If you'd met her you'd understand how surprising this was..
Thatchers traditional cider can be an unwise choice as your first pint of the morning.. it's more than a bit treacherous if you've had a heavy session on it the night before..
I've also had some very scary and probably potentially lethal Poteen and Mescal..
The worst has to be that cheap vodka that you can buy in cornershops though..
Oh yeah I may have involuntarily and unknowingly imbibed some micturation. Bleurgh thanks for bringing up that memory.
Whisky & gin are not a good combination... thank's Lloyd Cole
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It tastes like that stomach acid you get in your mouth after a violent puke
I did some travelling a while back, ended up Kerala in a remote village, anywhoo's I was made some tea from what looked like very dry palm leaves.. Turned out it was hallucinogenic and I sat spinning and vomiting for 3 very long days.
It was the only time I've taken anything remotely drug related, but they drank it like it was, well tea..
I felt very wrong indeed.
Cypriot Zivania was pretty bad, Hamburg docks Aqvavit got ejected fairly swiftly, as does most Sambuca, but not much compares to the cocktail of cheapo Baileys-a-like, Buckfast Tonic and genuine Czech Absinthe I once imbibed, back in my less responsible youth.
The other half would probably tell you her worst was the night I made her a nice hot mug of Bovril. Some veggies have no sense of humour.
PJM1974 - Member
And cinzano. At the tender age of sixteen I managed to get off with an otherwise unfeasibly hot girl at a party who'd been downing the stuff. The taste is still with me twenty one years later.
Of her or the Cinzano? 😆
Worst drink I've ever had? John Smiths bitter! Or some curry flavoured beer that tasted more like fairy liquid. Rank!
Oh yes Hot cross bun flavoured beer from Morrissons dear god it was rank!
What were they thinking 😯
I'm sensing a lot of tequila-based hate on here. it's really not that bad if you choose decent stuff. I've found through extensive research* that only the cheap stuff tastes vile.
My worst tasting booze has to be either advocat or the dodgy Grenadan rum my mother brought back one year. Never tasted rum that tasted so terribly vile. Even seeing how it was made couldn't make me like it. Lime could not improve it. Cocktails could not disguise it.
Still drank it.
*Germany '94. Got to love Aldi.
The first I called "worm stuff." It's what our parents gave me as a kid when they suspected some intestinal wormage. I don't recall the product name but it was a powder that came in satchets. The powder was disolved in tap water to produce a purple solution that had a uniquely vile taste and smell that filled your mouth, nose, ears and brain.
As soon as I read the thread title I thought of this stuff. Ooh it were vile alright. 😥
Inadvertently took a big swig from my can of lager at a party, only to discover that it was the identical can next to mine which had bin used to stick fag ends in. Nasty.
Did a similar thing with a cup containing some washing solution stuff my mum had bunged on the side of the sink, as a child. Was old enough to know not to drink stuff I din't know what it was, but a moment of madness.
Nastiest stuff what people actually drink for enjoyment what I've tried has to be that Aquavit stuff. Proper, proper 'orrible.
But Aquavit is lovely! It's got lots of herb tastes to it, like fennel and... fennel.
Next thing you'll be saying that schnapps is vile stuff too.
But Aquavit is lovely!
No it's not. And neither are you if you actually like that vile muck. 😡
Oh wait, wait, I know a good one
HMB, the food supplement. Try some, go on, I dare you.