Do Do Lemon Water

Date Purchased:
June 2004
Purchased From:
Burlington Supermarket
Rating:
7.5/10
Reviewed By:
Shane

Even more enjoyable than Do Do Apple, this light tasting drink is recommended for those moments when bland refreshment is required.

White Gourd Tea

Date Purchased:
Oct 2003
Purchased From:
Burlington Supermarket
Ingredients
Water, Sugar, White Gourd, Flavour(yesterdays underwear?), Caramel
Rating: 2/10

Reviewed By: Shane (unfortunately)

Who the hell made this? Damn you Vitalon! What sock-chewer was walking along one day, saw those gourd things growing and though, 'gee, if we grind that up, it'll make great tea!'. With any luck that person died a horrible, painful death involving spoons.
Its made of gourd people! Gourd! You carve them and make them into cheap bowls or brightly painted smiling people to sell to tourists. This drink had been my greatest challenge yet, and my biggest failure. That's right. This drink was so disgusting I just couldn't bear to drink it all. I felt a little vindicated after trialling it on other people and seeing the horrified looks on their faces. Sorry to the people whose innocence and wonder I stripped away.
So, what does white gourd tea taste like. The answer? Who knows. The best I can tell you is that it tastes like white gourd (also known as wax gourd). Nothing else in the world tastes like that and thank God. This is what Satan serves in hell to welcome new arrivals. I repent!

Do Do Apple Water

Date Purchased:
September 2003
Purchased From:
Burlington Supermarket
Ingredients
Apple, Water
Rating: 7/10
Reviewed By: Shane

Good, refreshing, light on the apple taste and heavy on the water taste. As with all watery drinks in this category, I'm a little hesitant about where the water came from. I have bad memories about DoDo, but don't let this turn you off, the memories are from my sampling of white gourd tea, which I purchased at the same time and drank first. DoDo came to the rescue and helped wash away the dregs of horror that other 'drink' left behind. Give it a go.

Demi Soda Apple

Date Purchased:
April 2004
Purchased From:
Burlington
Ingredients
Unknown
Synopsis
This is a stock standard fake apple flavour with that tangy carbonated tang. Nothing special.
Rating:
7/10


Reviewed By:
Shane

Coconut Fibre (Nata De Coco)

Date Purchased:
March 2005
Purchased From:
Adelaide Chinatown
Synopsis
Ok this was the bomb! I'm not sure it can really be called a drink. It has liquid in it but the true joy of this is is the jellied coconut pulp. If you've ever had a Bubble Tea with jelly then this is the type of jelly that's in it. The jelly is coconut and it's sweet, chewy and tastes like coconut. Secondly it comes with a spoon too another reason why you may not consider this a drink. This is an excellent something to do munchy food as you can chew on the bits for a couple of minutes kind of like bubble gum. Now you can drink the sweet coconut flavored liquid but you'll probably be on the walls as it's pretty sweet. Either way I loved this stuff. 9/10!!! .
Rating:
9/10


Reviewed By:
Anthony

De De Coconut Juice (Jus de Coco)

Date Purchased:
March 2005
Purchased From:
Adelaide Chinatown
Synopsis
This was a coconut juice drink. The liquid clear and there is cubed coconut pulp floating within it. I’m a pretty big fan of coconut juice so this already had the thumbs up for me. It does taste like coconut juice, maybe a tad on the sweet side due to the added sugar but overall not bad at all.If you don’t like bits in your drink you may want to use a strainer because there’s enough in there that you can’t avoid them.I give this drink a 7/10 for the coconutty goodness and quite a reasonable attempt at a coconut drink.
Rating:
7/10


Reviewed By:
Anthony

Young Coconut Juice with Pulp

Date Purchased:
February 2004
Purchased From:
Oshin
Ingredients
Young coconut juice, water, young coconut pulp, sugar
Synopsis
Good. Yaaaaa. Like.
(drinks of world would like to apologise for the short and, to be honest, crap review. Nat is a man of few words and small underwear. We encourage you to seek the advice of a third party before selecting this beverage. Thank you.)
Rating:
8/10


Reviewed By:
Nat

Champagne Soda

Date Purchased:
January 2004
Purchased From:
Burlington Supermarket
Ingredients
Soda Water, Frustose, Citric Acid, Malic Acid, Caramel Flavour
Synopsis
After some initial trepidation and joking around I opened Champagne Soda, looking forward to a quiet afternoon at work being mildly poleaxed and smiling at everyone with a glazed look. Imagine my dismay when it turned out to be non-alcoholic. Ah well. It tasted good. That fake grape flavour, sweet and slightly fizzy too.
Rating:
8/10


Reviewed By:
Shane

Cali ICE - Sparkling Apple

Date Purchased:
18 Aug 2004
Purchased From:
Best Friends - Phillipine Supermarket
Synopsis
Blargh
Rating:
5/10


Reviewed By:
Shane

BonBon

Date Purchased:
September 2003
Purchased From:
Dodgy little joint down Brunswick St
Ingredients
Er....grapes I guess
Synopsis
BonBon makes me pause whenever I go to review it. On one hand it has that great grape taste and a good refreshment factor. On the other hand it has floaty, squishy grapes in it that leap into your mouth and make you gag. They're not too bad, but it makes for an interesting texture to the drink. I enjoyed it to a certain extent but I doubt i'll buy another one.
Rating:
6/10


Reviewed By:
Shane

Apple Sidra

Date Purchased:
October 2003
Purchased From:
Burlington Supermarket
Ingredients
-
Synopsis
Quite a good effort at apple cider, sweet with a little bit of a bite or tang to it. I enjoyed it, but there's somthing that's stopped me from buying it again.
Rating:
7.5/10


Reviewed By:
Shane

A & W Root Beer

Date Purchased:
August 2004
Purchased From:
Burlington Supermarket
Synopsis
The frosty mug taste may be gone but the drink remains almost as goods as the original frosty mug tasting version of several years ago. Like a cross between creaming soda and sarsaparilla. A superior beverage worthy of world status.
Rating:
8.5/10 (bring back the frosty mug taste and will be a 9)


Reviewed By:
Judd

2% refreshing water: Lemon

Date Purchased:
September 2003
Purchased From:
Some little shop on Brunswick Street
Ingredients
Unknown. Probably water and lemon.
Synopsis
Fairly tasteless, literally it's just a can of water with a very faint aftertaste of lemon. All in all it seems quite unoffensive, my problem with this drink is not knowing where they can the water. Is it carefully prepared in a monastery by only the most holy of monks, or just a can of water from some tap in a Hanoi chop house? You have been warned.
Rating:
6.5/10 - Refreshing, but it IS just a can of water.


Reviewed By:
Shane

Best before...

Well that clears up any ambiguity