Red Bull Gives You Wiiings

[Hymie]

Until just now I’d never drank the stuff, but was curious as to the taste.

For anyone else not having drunk the stuff, it tastes of a carbonated (fizzy) strawberry drink.

With 32mg of caffeine per 100ml; a 250ml can contains no more than a typical mug of coffee.

With a marked recommended retail price of £1.45 (250ml can), no wonder they can afford to run a formula 1 racing team.

[THECORBYLOON]

How much does a cup of coffee cost?

[Hymie]

I reckon I get at least 10 mugs of coffee out of a 100g jar costing 99p.

[newmodarmy]

Around £4  now thecorbyloon

[Deskdiary]

Nope, I've never 'got it' either. A few years ago I was driving some mates to Gatwick at silly o'clock in the morning as we were all going away for the weekend, and I said I was knackered. He gave me a Red Bull and it just tasted like sickly sweet sugar water. So, I pulled into Clacketts, and got a black coffee instead.

 

I had one mouthful of Red Bull, and it was the first and will be last mouthful I'll ever have.

[newmodarmy]

Well you could also  make your own caffeine strawberry flavoured fizzy drink for less than £1.45 if you wanted to.

[237SJ]

People drink it with vodka though, which changes the dynamics somewhat. I find it smells (have avoided tasting it) like a sort of berry mix (a bit like blackberry tea bags).  Disgusting stuff.

[THECORBYLOON]

You could get almost three cans for the price of a bought cup of coffee then.

I read there's about 4mg of caffeine in 10g of coffee which means you'd need to drink eight or nine cups of coffee to get the caffeine in a can of Red Bull.

[Hopkirk]

If you think that tastes bad, have you tried Irnbru?

[Hazlinny]

^^ Made from girders  ...  love it, Hoppy 😊

[Hymie]

18 (330ml) cans of Tango (fizzy orange drink) can be purchased for £7.50 from Tesco, which is equal to around 13p per 100ml; whereas 250ml of Red Bull for £1.45 is 58p per 100ml.

[Hymie]

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-much-caffeine-in-coffee

[New Judge]

no wonder they can afford to run a formula 1 racing team.

In fact, Hymie, they run two F1 teams - Oracle Red Bull (their senior team) and Visa Cash App RB Formula One Team (RB for short, their junior team). They also run a Formula 2 team, a Formula 3 team, and Red Bull Ampol Racing - an Australian V8 Supercars Team. If that's not enough, they own at least four football teams in Europe and the USA and have recently taken a minority stake in Leeds United!  

[Hopkirk]

Paid for by idiots 

[rockyracoon]

Vile stuff. Tastes like liquid bubblegum.

[Cloverjo]

I used to like IrnBru as a hangover cure. Red Bull is just way too sweet and sickly. 

[Barmaid]

I loathe it, Mr BM loves it with vodka.

[10ClarionSt]

Scotland is the only "country" in the world where Coca-Cola is not the best selling soft drink. In Scotland, that honour falls to, yep, Irn-Bru. Also very popular in Asian communities and is the main beverage at Asian weddings. You heard it here first folks! 😄 

Oh, and I've never had as much as a taste of Red Bull. 

[davebro3]

there must 1000s of energy drink brands - anyone tried BUM?😂

[douglas9401]

Is it peach-flavoured, davebro?