Review of quirky drinks being sold at Home Bargains
Reporter Catherine Musgrove gives her verdict on some quirky drinks on offer at Home Bargains - following a TikTok star's quest to find alcohol free Blue WKD.
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00:04 Last week I reported how a Chorley TikTok star had gone to Home Bargains in Chorley and found
00:10 some alcohol-free Blue Wickeds and then a big debate had started about whether it was Wicked
00:17 or WKD or even some Weekend, people have said it's Weekend, I call it Wicked. So I went to Home
00:24 Bargains today in Preston to see if I could find it and do a taste review but I couldn't, so instead
00:31 I had a look on the non-alcoholic aisle and I found myself four things that I'm going to
00:36 review for you. The first one is Brain Wick, I think that's an energy drink, sour blue raspberry,
00:43 so I'll give that one a go. The second one, and this is going to have to go in the freezer, but
00:49 Slush Puppy pink bubblegum flavour. This one is Jelly Belly Tutti Frutti, so that's like a jelly
00:58 bean flavour. And this one is the one that I'm most worried about, it's Mogu Mogu, never heard
01:05 of it, strawberry flavoured drink with Nata de Coco, no idea. First one I'm going to try, which
01:12 I think is the safest one, is the Tutti Frutti Jelly Baby. This I've just seen on the receipt
01:17 was 99p, so let's give that a whirl. Doesn't smell overly sweet, I couldn't really question
01:30 the fruit flavour but let's have a go. Well first of all it's still, it's not sparkling,
01:41 it's very sweet, I should imagine. It's not unpleasant and there is like a jelly baby
01:48 kind of taste.
01:51 It's okay, I probably would buy that one again for 99p. So the second one is this Mogu Mogu,
02:03 and the bits that I can see floating around in it that I'm a bit worried about because I don't
02:10 know, it looks kind of like mould, white mould, and apparently it's coconut gel.
02:15 So it's strawberry flavoured with coconut gel, so here we go.
02:18 Oh it's coming out all lumpy, that's not appealing, not appealing, and I can already
02:30 smell from this distance, a very strong smell of artificial strawberry. So yeah, I mean I'm
02:37 not against that, I've got a sweet tooth but I'm not looking forward to actually the texture of
02:44 this one. No. It doesn't taste horrible, it's sweet, it's still, but it's like immediately
02:59 one of those lumps, like jelly, hard jelly, that doesn't taste horrible, it's just,
03:05 I don't think you should be having lumpy drinks, not for me, sorry, nope. Okay now for the last
03:10 one, this Brain Liquor Mega Sour Blue Raspberry, and I thought it was an energy drink because it's
03:19 kind of packaged like an energy drink, but it's not. Fizzy candy drink, and I've just read the
03:24 ingredients, I can't see any reference to like caffeine or anything along those lines, it just
03:30 says carbonated water, sugar, citric acid, or the usual flavourings. Now if this isn't mega sour,
03:38 I'm going to be very disappointed because it's told me it's a drink, so let's see. Fizzy.
03:45 Yeah it smells, it smells of chemicals, that's all I can say.
03:54 We'll see, I actually quite like blue raspberries, so, oh wow, so you can see the colour on that,
04:01 doesn't help that I've got a gold coloured cup, does it? There you go, bright blue, bright blue.
04:07 It's sour, but it's not mega sour, it is sour, it's just not mega, and I honestly,
04:14 I don't know who's drinking this, how many mils is this? 500, I don't know who is drinking 500
04:21 mils of this. This one, I'm going to go and pop it in the freezer now and I'll come back to that
04:25 tomorrow. Okay I'm back, it's been more than 24 hours and I've got my pink bubblegum slush puppy
04:32 that's totally frozen, it says freeze squeeze drink, it's super cold. Okay,
04:40 let's see what this one's, this is 99p as well, so they've all been 99p, and just before I start,
04:47 I've got to say that the brain liquor one, I did go back to, actually it was quite moreish, so
04:54 let's see if this one is alright. It's difficult to drink, but I've got annoyed with waiting,
05:02 so I've chopped the top off, can you see how frozen it is? It's not very slushy,
05:06 it's just an ice block, so it is pink. Looks a little bit, looks a little bit watery to me,
05:15 I'm going to smush all that up and tell you what it tastes of, but if you are doing this for
05:20 children or even for yourself in the summer, you're going to have to get it out of the freezer
05:26 with probably about 20 minutes notice, because it's just not drinkable in that form. I've mushed
05:32 it around a little bit, I've actually just read the instructions on the back, maybe I should have
05:37 done that before, but it does say you've got to leave it for 25 minutes to defrost.
05:41 Very sweet, I should imagine it to be, but weak, very watery,
05:51 bit of a disappointment in all honesty after all that.