- A very welcome back to The Try Channel.
I'm joined here by John, my lovely co-host,
and we here today - Hi!
- At The Try Channel are going to be trying-
one second, we're getting confirmation.
- Weird sodas. - Weird sodas.
- Weird sodas.
- And we're very, very excited to share
this experience with you all here today.
(jazz music plays)
- What's a weird, are we talking, like, mushroom flavor?
or are we talking like.
- Pop Rocks in a drink?
- Pickle
- Pickle?
- Onion, cheese, pizza, spaghetti.
- And probably some blue blue flavor, just blue.
- Coral reef blue
(Jazz music plays)
- Not dish washer run off.
- Coconut, maybe.
- Oh my God.
- What is that? Moldy bread?
- It's the first one, at east wait 'till the third one
to mess with us.
- That really doesn't smell nice.
- Oh, it's triggering some far buried memory.
I don't know if it's a good one.
- Oh my God, this is gonna be a great video.
We're gonna be getting sick.
- I'm literally Wallace and Gromiting at the smell of that.
Like I'm literally going.
- 'Cause it has to be. - Here, smell that.
- I have smelled it! - Sorry.
- Do you know, I'm just.
- "Here, smell that, will ya?" (laughter)
I literally smelled it like soon as it came.
- Sorry, it's just disgusting.
- It's cheese or something isn't it?
- Fuck me. - It's butter
or something like that.
Like butter or something, or buttery cheese or something.
- Maybe some kind of Asian tropical fruit?
- Or, uh.
Like some edible flower of some kind.
(squeaks)
- My eye keeps flickering to the bottle of it like, uh.
- It's nice.
(laughter)
What the hell?
- Well, I guess someone was judging a book by its cover.
Oh, wait (makes vomiting sound)
- Taste like if you're empty the fucking dishwasher.
- Oh.
- And the stuff that was left at the back of the dishwasher.
- It doesn't smell like buttery popcorn.
(gags)
- The smell there got me.
(gags)
- Oh, I can't look at you gag,
'cause that actually makes me gag.
- Ah, it's definitely some kind of obscure fruit.
- It's grand, like it's lemonade.
- It's a bit, is there some kind of?
I'm kind of getting a marshmallowy taste off it.
- Like buttery cheesy, I'm still on the buttery cheesy road.
- (laughs) No.
- Why don't you just get a bottle of ranch
and drink that you sick animals?
- It does smell like that though.
Gone off mayonnaise, ranch, sour cream.
- It tastes so much more elegant than that,
and now I'm afraid to drink it again.
- I can't believe that,
I've never had a sniff of something that was so bad
and then for it to taste so vanilla?
- Okay. - Yeah.
- And can I pour this over a salad?
Is this the equivalent?
Can I use this as my salad dressing now?
- Oh my God, when you burp, then is tastes like ranch.
- Oh, no
(laughs)
- Imagine Lester waking up,
"Hey Gladys, I just had a big idea.
I'm gonna make a soda that tastes like ranch dressing."
She's like, "sure you are Lester, go back to bed."
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- [Producer] Ey, next one guys!
- I think we're more equipped now this time.
- Yeah, I'm slightly more dubious now.
I'm just going, hey! (snorts)
- Oh, I know what this is.
- Wait wait, let me get it as well.
- Mother tucking ketchup.
- I actually think it is, I think I can smell it from here.
Oh no, it's not, it's not.
It's very strong, there's cinnamon or something in it.
- Pumpkin spice latte.
- That smells really nice.
So by the laws of this video,
because it smells nice it's gonna taste absolutely awful.
- That's topsy-turvy.
- Ready? Do you wanna taste it?
- Will we take a big gulp? (sips soda)
(laughter)
- Will we take a big gulp. (imitates sipping)
Okay, we're already there.
- That's actually not bad.
- Cinnamon, is it cinnamon?
- I'm no longer confident about anything.
- I like that actually.
- I like that too.
- Hints of cinnamon, also,
tangerine, maybe.
- The Bahamas and the West Wing.
(laughs)
- Reminds me of my first husband Ralph.
(laughs)
Oh Ralphie, with your tiny penis.
- Oh no!
- How I settled with you for five years
until I got with someone who had an average size penis,
and my God darling, it was a world of difference.
- It looks kinda like ketchup when you think the bottle,
you can get a little bit more outta the bottle
and you put some water in.
You're like, okay mom, I think, I think we've reached the-
I think we've reached the end of the ketchup at this point.
- Pumpkin spice.
- Yes.
- Pumpkin and.
- Spice pumpkin latte.
(sings)
- Pumpkin pie? - I never in a million years
would've guessed that.
- Ah, good luck and go home.
- Never in a million years.
- Pumpkin pie.
- Ah, that was one of my first guesses,
like a pumpkin spice latte.
- We are drinking pumpkin pie soda.
- Wow, we only got it on the 11th guess.
- Y'all get your fixins!
Thanks Lester, I will.
This time.
- That is actually terrible.
We're, like, we're not on, on our, on our game here.
- There we go!
So it looks like a small part of me was correct,
before the crippling self doubt sat in.
What a unique tale that's never happened to anyone else
(producer laughs)
- Um, right. Nutritional facts, zero.
(drinks loudly)
- Table manners.
(laughs)
(jazz music plays)
- Oh yes, urine.
- Is this to clean the table? Do you want it?
Do you wanna clean the table
and then give us the soft drink or,
is this what this is for?
- Oh, this is got like, a real like
taste, smell. - Now I need to pee.
- Oh no, that ah!
- Oh, did that not occur?
- Oh, that's corn. That is corn, there's corn in this.
- Whoa, that is corn on the cob.
- No, smell, just take your time alright?
- There's too much pressure.
(laughs)
- Exactly, that is exactly like opening a can of sweet corn
- With butter and all,
it just smells like popcorn, doesn't it?
- Yeah, it does smell like popcorn.
- Popcorn.
- Very close. You're very, very close.
- Nachos.
- Now you're miles away.
- Sweet corn!
- Yay! - This is sweet corn!
- Don't even need to take a sip,
and I am going to moderately confidently agree.
- Oh, that's nice.
- Oh yeah, that's vile.
- That just tastes like butter.
- Yeah.
- What if it transforms into a sweet corn in me belly
and then comes out again?
(laughs)
- Yeah.
It tastes like the juice that would be in the can.
Oh, that is so aggressively corn.
- This farmer wakes up corn, a nice drop of refreshing corn.
- Yeah baby, sweet corn. - Sweet corn.
- I'm starting to like Lester now.
- Sweet corn.
- It is, it's actually piss.
(laughter)
- What a twist!
(laughter)
- That is, that is powerful.
- My God they've done it like.
- But it still tastes very similar
to the sweet corn juice.
Like it, they did really, the nail is on the hammer,
or whatever that saying is called
- The nail is resting on the hammer.
- What is it called?
- [Producer] Hit the nail on the head.
(laughter)
(jazz music' plays)
- Oh, is this like shite flavored or something?
(laughs)
- Oh, great, more poo.
- I just wanna smell it before I even open my eyes.
(laughs)
- I'm gonna taste it before I look at it.
- Oh my God, I opened my mouth over the top of it
and whatever the taste is, it felt warm.
(gags) (laughs)
- Is it bad?
- Oh, Gromit. - Really?
- Really bad smell.
(gags)
(laughs)
- Did you not, (gags)
did you not make that reaction when you did
What?
Oh no, that's actually, that has me getting sweaty and all.
What is that?
- It smells like bacon fries to me.
- Maybe like barbecue chips?
- Oh good God no.
- No. I don't like it.
- There's some meaty element. (laughs)
There's a meaty element in my soda.
- Oh good God. Now what the hell?
Oh, that just crept up on me.
(gags)
- I think your senses and my senses
are completely different,
'cause you thought sweet corn smelled like sweet corn,
I thought didn't.
- Yeah.
- Do you know, like I think we have like different senses
- But when you put them together they make magic.
- Ugh.
- Oh, it just does not compute.
(laughs)
It's just like, the brain is like,
"get it down, don't even think about it."
- Some kind of bacon, beef, some kind of meat based chip.
- What on earth is that?
Why are you making this Lester?
My God, what's wrong with you?
- Gone off chocolate and PVA glue.
- Bacon soda.
- Ahhh, It's bacon, well done.
- ♪ Meat in my soda. ♪
- We are drinking, MC, bacon soda.
What in the world?
- Like when you smell bacon cooking for breakfast,
you're like, "oh baby yeah, put it on me plate."
You can't wait, you know? It's a sexual experience.
But this? This, no.
- Imagine you go to like an all American dinner,
and you're expecting like the bacon and the Turkey,
and like, I don't know,
all the like big festivity, like, stuff.
And instead they just put out a six pack of these
and they're just like, "here's your ketchup,
here's your bacon, here's your salad,
there's your dressing, go on kids."
- That's, that's not bacon.
- No, it's not.
- More like fake-on.
Ranch didn't taste too bad, ranch just smelled awful.
That tastes awful.
- The problem with the ranch as well
is that we weren't expecting it,
we thought it would be grand sodas.
Like it was the first we were like, "yeah! No!"
With this we're like really cautious and it still sucks.
Like really sucks.
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- Ooh, I like the color
- Flesh color.
- Okay, okay okay.
- I'm gonna try it blind again.
- I can't, yeah. I don't, I don't wanna see again,
'cause it kind of adds a little bit of spice, you know?
- I'm smelling peach, kinda candy,
sweet tones off of this Collin.
- Oh, it's like candy floss.
- Peachy.
- Ooh, I like this.
Like, um.
- Peach, vanilla, like actually very pleasant.
- It's nice.
It's sweet.
- Blah, blah, weird aftertaste.
- Very weird aftertaste, what the hell?
- Oh. I'm so silent cause I'm like,
it seems so obvious and yet.
- It seems very benign.
- Or like a vegetable.
- It's like sausages or anything like that.
- Yeah.
(laughter)
It's not like a boiled egg or nothing like.
- I'm getting flavors of like sweetness, but I mean,
I can't put me finger on what flavor it is.
- That aftertaste is, is taste.
(gurgles)
Oh my Lord. Go, yeah, go for it.
Mix it up, get a feel for it.
- Mm, yeah, feel it. - Yeah, what is it?
- Power!
- Power.
- It is.
- Raw, unadulterated power flavor.
- Haven't a clue.
- It does have that kind of like artificial sweet,
like bubble gum maybe, but like not bubble gum.
- Got a flavor out of here and I can't.
- Yeah, I feel like it's a sugary sweet or something like.
- Oh, oh, oh. Is it like a jam and jelly?
PB and J, something PB and J, jelly and jam,
something with jelly and jams in it?
- No
(laughs)
- No.
That's a different bottle,
I think you got the bottles mixed up Collin.
- Peanut butter and jelly.
- You did it.
She's only gone and done it.
- Peanut butter and jelly.
It just dawned on me 'cause I think that's
kind of a jelly flavor.
- Oh.
- No.
- No. - No
- Here, so, so basically it's sweet, it's nice, it's lovely,
but it doesn't taste like the peanut butter.
- Not at all.
- So it's probably the jam is taken over the peanut butter
but you think the peanut butter would take over the jam?
- Now, I guessed it,
but it doesn't taste like peanut butter at all.
I kind of get the jelly,
but no way the peanut butter in at all
- I could see a little, I could maybe see the jelly,
like jam is somewhere in there, you know? But like.
- Maybe the peanut is in the smell
and the jam is in the taste.
- Lester's just letting us down again.
He had a bit of a peak there with the sweet corn,
and out the shed too long at this stage.
Someone should bring him in.
- Do you think Lester invented all these flavors
on the off chance that 20 years later
there would be a YouTube channel in Ireland
trying weird sodas for a video?
As Sherlock Holmes once said,
"once you've exhausted all logical avenues,
the only answers left are the illogical."
- Yes. And it is illogical that these even exist.
So why not? - Exactly.
- Yeah, you know, Mr. Fixins,
this is case of quantity over quality,
and the quality falls down on the peanut butter and jelly
and on the, the ranch, I guess, yeah.
- Lester, you old son of a gun,
I don't know how you're doing it,
I dunno why you're doing it, but boy, God, you're doing it.
Keep doing it son, yeah?
- It was a roller coaster of soda. Wasn't it?
- Yeah. It all was wet and it went down me throat.
(laughs)
- Thanks so much for watching us
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- That's right.
And you can just call me a wacky, waving,
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- Whoa.