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Monster energy drinks. Tastes like what I imagine dumpster juice is like.
And any drink with Stevia in it. Instant dealbreaker if I see it in the ingredients.
Agree on the stevia. It's sweet but not like sugar. And leaves a weird aftertaste
Interesting about the stevia! May I ask what it tastes like to you? A couple of years I bought a liquid stevia sweetener on a whim (the "regular" one might have been sold out), and was surprised that it tasted... Idk. Sweet, but way warmer than regular sweetener. Hard to describe. Used up the bottle, then bought my regular sweetener again and somehow, it tasted awfully bitter to me now. Somehow, I can't go back now and really like stevia.
Its hard to describe but I'd say it's not the immediate taste so much as it is the aftertaste (both are bad but the latter is worse). It's just a lingering, unpleasant fake sweetness that sticks around for way too long.
Interesting. I can't relate, but I guess just goes to show his subjective the question is.
The smell too. Idk what it is about the smell of Monster when it gets warm, but it’s god awful.
Probably ethyl butyrate I think it's in Monster too, but there's a lot of weird crap in energy drinks to make it taste/smell medicinal. The recent Lab Coatz vid reverse engineering Red Bull has a whole laundry list of bizarre chemicals.
https://youtu.be/7pTqGJ3KSLE
I'd say that, even aside from anything specific to Monster, most carbonated beverages are optimized for drinking cold and aren't great when warm.
Fair enough. Tho there’s something about the smell that just permeates a car after you open Monster if you don’t immediately toss it when empty. Not that I’m even a fan of the flavor anymore. Liked it when I was in high school, but can’t stand it as an adult.
I've tried a lot, and never really liked any of them, but I thought Monster was the best tasting of the energy drinks. Red Bull was by far the WORST energy drink I've ever had.
Original Monster tastes like battery acid and I don't know why I love it (especially khaotic)
Our local coffee shop only has sugar in the raw, and stevia. Blech.
there isnt much options for sweetners, its either sugar, stevia, somehow they might have ethyrthiol, but that can causes loose bowel movements, so itas uncommon
I know it's not for everyone, but I personally prefer Splenda or sucralose.