Grass Jelly Drink
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My weird brother Bob sent me these oriental pops. He has been
snickering all day waiting for me to try this stuff...
Bottle appearance:
Yeo's Grass Jelly Drink is from Maylasia. The photo on the
side of the can (see below) is evidently what we have to look forward to.
Ingredients are water, "aqueous extract of mesona chinensis", cane sugar and
corn starch. Sounds more like a disease than a pop. Tastes more like it, too.
Soda appearance:
Opaque brown with chunks of something gelatinous. This is gonna
hurt.
Smell:
Sort of mediciny.
First Impression of taste:
Sweet.
Second Impression:
Sweet, but mildly mediciny. Greg says it tastes like bad
cough syrup - one that says "cherry flavored" but tastes just awful.
James says it tastes like a tire. He said that about Love Potion 69, but
this time he's right.
Flavor:
This is not good. It's decidedly like some sort of
eucalyptus or menthol type drink, but with these awful jelly things.
Carbonation:
Nope.
Full Description:
Well, this is a drink with a surprise bonus in it. Bob warned
us so we weren't caught totally unaware (and we probably would have spit it
into the sink thinking it was something spoiled if he hadn't warned us!), but
this stuff is full of clear Jello-like "worms" (see photo below). The
gelatin is square cut 1/2" long strips of something like a cross between
gummy bears and blamange. They add no flavor - just a disturbing little
chewy thing to gag on. By the time the can is half done, you are left with
a glass full of gummy worms in eucalyptus water. And they don't float or
suspend in the glass like the picture on the can - they just sit in the
bottom of the glass and wait for you.
Score:
We have to compare this to Mystic Seaport Spruce Beer, and
Spruce Beer is still the worst we have ever tasted. So we give this a -1.
It's not as noxious as Spruce Beer, but Spruce Beer didn't have the "chunky
bits" in it. If you added the worms to Spruce Beer you would have something
so terrible it could wipe out whole neighborhoods. Hmmm....