What the Fanta? Mystery Purple Fanta (2023, Revealed) - Weird Stuff in a Can # 190
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- Опубліковано 21 бер 2024
- I stumbled across this in a little grocery store and I suspect the mystery flavour might already have been published, but I will taste this without checking for that...
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Ahhhh, Glycerol Esters of Wood Rosins....their set at the 1989 Cambridge Folk Festival was epic. Only bettered by the Arrogant Sandwiches.
You made me 😂 out loud then.
Sounds like a band name straight from Monty Python's piece "Rock Notes" ('Contractual Obligation' album)
Ozric Tentacles has entered the chat !!
How about the Brominated Vegetable Oils? I hear they're pretty fire, too!
I think they opened for sprout mask replica at the Brentford festival of 76. Lots of snuff being passed round that year l. Not so many memories though for some strange reason
It looks like the glass of water left behind after a childrens painting class.
It tastes like purple, case closed.
As a "I'm very fun at parties" trivium: this is how many people in Europe react to US grape soda, because the grapes that seeks to imitate (concord grapes) are basically not grown here at any scale (outside of Moldova).
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The best colour 💜 but apparently not the best flavour.
Purple is a fruit.
What does it taste like to a colorblind person? Red? Pink?
Never imagined I'd enjoy listening to a British man reading the ingredients list on a can of Fanta
Strangely compelling, isn't it?
edit: For a real kick look up what he did to celebrate having 750k subscribers. He's disgustingly competent at a plethora of skills.
I have to wear a black uniform for work. That drink's the exact same colour as the water that comes out of my washing machine when I'm doing a uniform wash.
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Colour does deceive. Some wine students in sommelier school were given white wine coloured red at room temperature. Their tasting notes used the type of language you normally see with red wine.
It's possible some were just lying (whether unintentionally or not) and showing their knowledge of red wine. But it's possible it tasted like white wine but they thought that must be wrong because it's red wine.
@@sarahberkner it wasn't an entirely fair trick to play for some of the reasons you state and of limited value psychologically, but I'm sure that some were looking for red wine flavours and ignored flavours that they weren't expecting.
I have no idea of wine tasting, I just buy what has a nice flavour. No, there aren't any coffee notes. It simply tastes vaguely of grapes and alcohol.
But I do enjoy beer with fruity notes. Very nice in summer.
We had purple fanta here in South Africa last year i think. Apparently it was supposed to be apple pie or something. But everyone said it tasted like play dough or soap and nobody liked it.
if it tastes like play dough basically every kid under the age of 5 will love it.
Low flavourful coconut sugar play dough
Same in Australia, it was apple strudel here.
So... where elon musk comes from. Got it!
Yes, tasted exactly like playdoh. Disgusting, I don't know how they could call it apple pie
I sure am glad we didn't have to wait the whole 2 hours for the drink to chill.
April 1st video idea; weird stuff in a can with 2 hours of 'please wait' in the middle of the video
@@AtomicShrimp but now everyone will be expecting that
I work in the food industry and you're right about the cocktail of ingredients. People don't really think about the texture of soft drinks, but it's vital to the overall experience. We also use loads of natural flavourings, typically at levels of 0.1 to 0.3% concentration. The vast majority of that drink is pure water, but there's a lot of skill and science that goes into making it into a purple strawberry cheesecake!
im quite curious on what flavouring you could use for strawberry?
like atomic shrimp said lactic acid for cheese, vanilla for cake-like (or maybe cream?) and i think potato for starchy/velvety texture
considering it's sugarfree, and sugar adds some density, I can totally see why they added thickeners.
The colour reminds me of water used to clean a brush after painting with water-colours
So I searched for ester of wood rosin. And got this...
Glycerol ester of wood rosin (GEWR) is an oil-soluble food additive also known as glyceryl abeitate or ester gum. It is most commonly used to keep oils in suspension in water. Mmmm that sounds good 😂
Too bad it's not coffee flavored, because then you could've said you were _latte_ to the party.
I can hear your voice when I read your comment lol
"There's alot going on there!"
That's so polite! 😂
I love how our visual interpretations dictate the taste so much more than we would ever imagine it could. You saw purple on the can and in the drink itself, and immediately went purple to the flavour. Just as an aside, I've been watching you (silently, without commenting!) for years and I ADORE your videos. Thank you for all you do.
I think you're right. Our senses can be very suggestible
@@AtomicShrimp To me this suggests an experiment where you try to taste something unknown, but are told it should contain a certain flavor, and see if your brain finds it and says it's there--even if it is not, in fact, present except maybe on the can. Not sure how this experiment would work in practice, but it seems like the kind of thing you might do. Would love to see it.
@@chuckpoore How To Cook That did a similar thing with demonstrating smell can influence our conception taste
One time (back when I had a real job), I was trying to remember an item of shopping that Jenny had asked me to pick up at lunchtime. When it came back to me, I unintentionally blurted out 'LEMONS!'; someone across the room said 'that was weird' - and they explained that they had momentarily tasted lemon just from unexpectedly hearing the word.
Had a cheesecake flavour one, genuinely the most foul drink I've ever spent money on. Some flaves were best left unmade.
Same. Glad it's not just me but as soon as I smelt it I knew I wouldn't like it and then when it passed my lips I nearly spat it straight out, revolting, and I was really thirsty at the time as well.
@@fookoff9220 Some twisted focus groups out there intent on keeping our throats dry 😔
for every cheese flavoured drink you find, make sure it use lactic acid for the cheese flavour, not butyric acid (vomit flavour, but also butter flavour) 😂
Ube - botanical name Dioscorea alata - and its other common name is purple yam, so you were correct!
Purple sweet potato is Ipomoea batatas and is also known as Okinawan or Japanese sweet potato as the Japanese cultivated some cultivars with a deeper purple colour in the 1990s. The purple colour in these plants contains chemicals that are particularly good for health.
Bought a bottle of this here in Germany in 2022. At room temperature it tasted kinda like cough syrup, but if you drink it cold, it tastes quite good actually.
because low temperature can mute your taste bud 😂
Interesting! In my country (Argentina), Fanta released limited mystery flavours (called "Fanta Misterio", literally "Mystery Fanta") for the last two Halloweens. AFAIK the flavours are not officially revealed at the end of the promotion, but to my (not at all amazing...) tastebuds they were mango (colored blue) in 2022 and spicy watermelon (or perhaps strawberry, but spicy!, colored red) in 2023. I loved them both, especially the red one. Regrettably, new or "unusual" flavours are rare and usually fail here :(.
I had a few of these cans trying to figure out what the flavor was. To me the taste mostly matched a blueberry muffin. I am actually surprised now hearing about the real flavor they intended.
Thanks for the great video as ever, greetings from the Netherlands
You're a brave man, actually drinking something with a list of ingredients like that!! LOL
Bought this at a similar shop when I was staying in the UK. Only had the big bottle, It was a grave mistake. I typically love purple flavour drinks (best colour). It was very not purple tasting.
I was shocked to see cyclamates on the ingredient list.
In a weird twist of fate, cyclamates are forbidden to use in food in the United States, but they are permitted in nearly every other country (South Korea being the other standout per Wikipedia).
you don't see purple cans that often i like how this one looks
Here in Canada the Mystery Flavour for Halloween was black and supposedly Blood Orange. It was good. And it left your tongue blackish.
Shrimp, i worked for Coca-cola last year and noticed something i thought was very interesting, the code you showed on the bottom of the can at the start reveals that I was actually working on shift in the factory this was made at. It was made on the 145th day of the year, meaning the 25th of May, on line 11, in the Sidcup factory (the factory I worked at). It was made at 2:14 am, and I was working a night shift. And although I actually worked on line the capri sun line 10, it always makes me happy when I see products produced in Sidcup, and it’s made me excited to find something made while I was on shift there too.
also to clear up the date situation, Capri Suns are given to the last date of the month one year ahead. For example, if a pouch was filled on April 1st 2024, it would have the BBE printed on it as 30th April 2025. Similarly though, a pouch filled on April 30th 2024 would also have the BBE as 30th April 2025.
This same rule follows the pattern but is only 9 months for cans for some reason, i believe pouches have the longest date of all products made by CCEP.
I remember when I bought this, I read somewhere it tasted like apple strudel (and I was convinced it tasted like that too).
Maybe different regions had different flavours?
For me it also tasted like apple strudel!
A carbonated drink with a strange colour. I’m going to call this one BURPLE and I think it is could be, because of the colour containing the essence of purple passion fruit skins.
I bought a big pack of k-cups a while ago, and one of them is a mystery cup. It has no text, just a big question mark on a white background. It came in a mixed variaty pack that contained different brands and variations of coffee, tea, hot chocolate, so It truly is a mystery what I could be, and I have absolutely no idea what is in it.
If you're interested, I'd be happy to send it to you if you'd like to try to explain and figure out what it is like you did for this mystery purple root drink.
Edit: I just double checked it and it does say "Two Rivers Coffee" on it, but I checked their website and they sell all different kinds of k-cups too. So not much help there.
I'd be frightened it's a possible poisoned chalice 😂. Only kidding, or am I? 😂
@no-oneinparticular7264 the pellet with the poison is in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Lol. I hear Danny kaye confusing that line in my head every time I hear or read the word chalice lol.
I loved his old goofy movies
Recently bought some sort of mystery flavored coke bc they were out of cherry.
'futuristic!'
It was fucking disgusting.
How did YT let you get away with that f word. ?? I had a warning and comment deleted cos I wrote the b name of a female canine yesterday 😊😊
dude i tried that by accident and it was horrendous
@@pixie706 people can choose to filter certain words out of their comments. So most likely the channel you commented on had the b word in that filter. Hence the removal.
@@kievvu ah thanks..... I actually was using it to describe a female canine so was surprised at the reprimand. Odd place this YT sometimes 😣
The only flavor of coke that I find absolutely repulsive is vanilla. Literally made me gag
Nothing cleaver to say just thank you! Taking pleasure in the small things is a thing i try to do and seeing shrimp do the same thing affirms this approach.
sweet potato, radish...lmao.
Back in primary school my teacher just scratched out the expiration date on food products we used for cooking class... And boom all fresh and unexpired.
It’s funny how much suggestion plays in to how we perceive things such as taste.
If I recall correctly there was a situation was a candy maker that made some gummies that they only changed the colour to represent the different flavours.
It's interesting how colour is used to enhance flavour, the opposite of blindsiding with a weird colour, like blue for strawberry or orange for banana. Lots of experiments have been done on the subject.
purple is the best color
My friend brought some of this (in the knowledge that it was (allegedly) strawberry cheesecake flavour) to a Lord of the Rings marathon in December. There were probably 10 or so of us there, and the bottle was still pretty full by the end of the marathon. It did not go down well.
Next time definitely do a blindfolded taste test, I had a feeling the purple colour would throw you off (which I'm guessing was the point of making it purple). My mind went to purple sweet potato as well even though it tastes nothing like it! But I also tasted a vanilla/cream soda flavour in it too, it was pretty confusing.
If fanta does another mystery flsvour thing, i'd love to see do a blindfolded taste test
Hi Mike,
Living in Anglesey, our nearest "actual city" is Bangor, just over the bridge.
As Bangor is a university city, with students from all over the world, theres some fantastic ethnic shops... i can wander around them all day.
The first flavour I noticed was artificial sweetener. With an aftertaste so strong, so overpowering, I call it "Fanta sucralose flavour"
I’ve had this, I enjoyed it! - I also had one in a large bottle that was cheesecake! … this year, UK from Sainsb’ I think.
I wonder what un-CAN-ny flavors are in store for you
😂 very good 😂
This is just proof that colour coordination in marketing has an immense effect on the consumer of a product, wether it be the colour of the packaging or the colour of the product itself, it acts almost as a placebo and makes you taste/see/think stuff that isn't there.
Example: green packaging and grains of wheat on a box suggesting that the wheat crackers inside the package are "healthy" or a "healthier alternative".
I like how it coordinated with your shirt. Thanks for the video, have a lovely weekend.
Cyclamates .. wait.. wasn't that a banned food ingredient? - I remember the word from a song about things that were 'taken away' (8-tracks, bay city rollers, red dye number 2, etc.. can't find a clear reference to that song though, lol)
(Looks it up) - Nope.. banned in the US, not in the EU (and presumably the UK).
As someone who loves strawberry cheesecake, and had a whole bottle of this stuff, I can say I never really got the strawberry cheesecake flavour. I couldn't personally say what I felt it tasted like, but I didn't particularly think it tasted 'bad' either. Just not really something I'd drink all the time.
Only in UK. Stateside, even the biggest ethnic grocery store don't have 1/2 the weird canned you find. Its never more exotic than tamarind flavored soda (mexican isle in local grocer).
Wet a square of paper towel, squeeze out excess water and wrap round a can of drink in the fridge. It chills much quicker.
thanks for the video was never interested in trying this drink ,so thank you for trying it for me ,hope to see more strange foods in a can :)
Maybe the vinegar flavour is it having gone off. Artificial sweeteners can do that over time giving an odd taste.
Keep the can - it might become collectable. Yes the ingredients do read like an accident at a chemical factory!
I bought a 2 litre bottle of this and it said on the packet strawberry cheesecake. I could taste it. The bottle lasted a long time though. Not so moreish.
it looks like a flamin' moe !
Hmmm.Mandela effect maybe?There was a pink one that might have been strawberry cheesecake but my google search says this one is apple pie,which also shouldn't be purple.Whatever it is it's definitely weird stuff in a can.There is supposed to be a black one but I don't know if that's new.
It just tastes like a very funky potentially gone off cream soda to me, strawberry cheesecake is wild 🤣
How fun!
I bought two bottles of that stuff for my nephew's birthday party last summer. The kids sure loved the purple color and artificial taste 😅.
I didn't think it was too bad, either. But then I'm addicted to energy drinks, so ...
We couldn't actually look up the correct flavor back then, but I don't think, any of us guessed correctly. I personally tasted woodruff. But maybe that's because anything woodruff flavored is usually brightly and artificially colored and flavored as well. Albeit in green. I don't think, I've actually ever tasted the real thing. It's so fun, how we don't recognize flavors, unless the food actually also looks like what we expect.
Loving the shirt/tablecloth combo, Mr Shrimp.
They had another one of these around the same time I think, it was coloured blue, and was eventually revealed as lemon and elderflower. I tried it and it wasn't all that nice!
They used Brilliant Blue as a colouring! That could have been a clue as red (strawberry colour) and blue make purple!
Ube is wonderful. Can be sweet or savory. So the dessert potatoes would have ube...
Very interesting. I'd try it but haven't seen it here in Canada.
Weird thing about the colour is nearly everyone will have drunk it straight out of the can and never seen the colour. I wonder if these things are an elaborate recruitment campaign for taste testers.
I actually tasted one of these when they first came out and I don't know about you but as soon as I took my first sip I went "Strawberry Cheesecake." Turns out, I was right! Lol. I actually liked it a lot but it was too thick for my liking so I never really bought it again.
Oh we had these in Australia! They were... weird.
If you’re interested I have a small bottle of coke (unopened) from the Football World Cup Germany 2006, still remarkable fizzy if you shake it up!
Horribly expired stuff is more Ashens' thing...also feeling horrified that 2006 is now 18 years ago!
Thank you - I do appreciate the offer, but I cannot accept gifts or donations. On this topic, however, I do have in my possession an unopened can of Fosters lager with commemorative labelling from the maiden voyage of the MV Oriana, which I purchased on board on that maiden voyage in April 1995 - it will be 30 years old next year, so I might open that one on this series.
Don’t tease us with that maroon can with a pull tab off to the side of the video.
That ain’t fair!! Tell me your secrets can man!
Looks like the water from washing your kids paint brushes.
Purple really is the best color 💜💜💜
As soon as you said vanilla i muttered "ube" and then you said vegetal and i yelped "UBE!"
Thanks, that was interesting. I've never seen a mystery flavour marketed like this. By the way, there's an interesting story to the origin of Fanta that they never told us about as kids.
You're a braver man than me Gunga din!
Watched a UA-cam video that was saying fanta was made by the Nazis back in the WW2 era and if it is I kinda don't want to drink it anymore, which wouldn't be a major loss since I rarely drank any in the first place. If I drink a soda, it will be mostly Coca Cola, Pepsi or Dr Pepper. So call "fruit flavor sodas I drink every once in awhile like orange or grape, but during the summer the Coca Cola company will release the tropical Sprite flavor and I just love that drink. It's strawberry and pineapple mix with the traditional lemon lime that's always been in sprite. What's weird for me is that when I drink them I sometimes can taste only the strawberry and sometimes only the pineapple but never both at the same time. I don't know if anyone else experiences that, but it is strange that it does that, but I love them anyways. They were releasing them year round, but either they stopped it, or I was just not paying attention when I do go grocery shopping. When I do, I normally just get the items on the list and not pussy foot around looking at stuff, if I do that I'm likely to buy some new product because I'm wanting to know what it's like and have a good chance of wasting it because it wasn't good and I hate wasting food. That's how I bought a 20 ounce tropical Sprite at a gas station one very hot July a few yrs ago and got very lucky that I liked it. I try to avoid buying a lot over the summer so I won't get burned out, and maybe that's why they only do that during the summer months.
Anyways is there any truth to that about the Nazis inventing Fanta?
The brand name is about the only thing connecting Fanta to WWII Germany, so 'made by nazis' is a weirdly reductive take.
If it was made by modern day neo-nazis, that would be a sensible reason to avoid it.
My family and friends agreed on cream soda / vanilla cream / artificial strawberries and cream if I remember correctly
This looks like a job for barrister John Warosa.
Thats an idea, see if you can find Ube Ice Cream.
Sounds like part fermented potato with a toxic blue dye in it to me.
Food?
nope.
Water?
....almost?
Noxious?
undoubtedly.
An uba drink would probably taste pretty good. I'm also a fan of taro and that's my go-to flavor of bubble tea.
Taro fruit yeah i had a bubble tea and it taste like that i get vanilla birthday cake from it
We had these around Christmas and assumed strawberries and cream.
I’m old enough to remember ‘Fancy Nancy’ … the Fanta gimmick from the early seventies. Never in our wildest dreams would we have envisaged a purple Fanta! I’m glad you tried it Michael so I don’t have to :)
As someone too young to remember that,,,what was it exactly? O:
@@tapew0rrm ua-cam.com/video/fwULr9hOQPc/v-deo.htmlsi=GMv-BYXcH0--Y_Gm it might have been an Australian thing. Pretty pointless in black and white:)
I tried this and thought it tasted like overly sweet coconut, thought it was repulsive. Which is werid, bc strawberry cheesecake sounds like a flavour I'd like
i bought a bottle of this last summer and got the strawberry and vanilla flavour, i thought it tasted like Campino strawberry hard sweets if anyone remembers them
Ah man campinos, what a blast from the past, they were lovely but I have to disagree that this tasted anything like that lol disgusting in my opinion.
And here i thought “greige” in paint colour was the step too far. Does pludge work here?
whatever the flavour is, it goes nicely with your shirt! :)
I would not say purple is the best colour, but it's certainly up there. easily top ten, depending on the shade. that's just in my very subjective opinion, which should never be taken seriously by anyone. purple is objectively the best colour.
This shows you just how powerful the visual element sent to the brain affects what you taste if you're expecting something different based on what you see. I was the same when I tried this, I could have drunk hundreds of these and never guessed what it was, but then when you know - suddenly the taste is there. Side note: I wonder if it would be fun experimentally to do this blindfolded so you never actually see what the drink looks like before you taste it?
I like how your shirt complements your tablecloth!
Natural flavourings are anything BUT natural.
Pickled Red Cabbage would be my guess
the last mystery-flavor thing I tried was the "Fruity Pebble" flavor Oreos, for which my guesses included things like turkey dinner! D: I was not a fan.
…strawberry cheesecake soda sounds revolting 🫣 thank you for trying it Mr. Shrimp, so I didn’t have to ✌️…and where on earth would strawberry actually be a purple color? (I guess that would only be in fanta’s ridiculous marketing team’s imagination… 😅)
Episodes like this make me feel terribly pedestrian and boring, I like my coffee coffee flavored, and my whisky either blackberry or honey flavored. I gave up fastfood/junkfood/sodas years ago, so thank you for taking the plunge on things like this, lol.
Love this can
Oh and also, in most of North America we moved the clocks forward for daylight savings time but apparently that didn't happen in England because your video now releases at 1:00 PM where I am (Toronto) where it used to release at 12:00 PM.
Our clocks change on the last Sunday in March
@@AtomicShrimpglad you said that, shrimp, I was trying to work out the date for changing my many clocks. 😂
I have found that if you cannot quite figure out a taste of something like this, it's almost 100% guaranteed to be strawberry cheesecake. I guess that's a taste that's hard to identify but also easy to kinda get near there while also not at all getting there at all... taste wise....
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I bought a bottle of this and for me atleast it tasted exactly like a strawberry cheesecake, I liked it..
At least it isn't bubble gum seems like most surprise flavors are bubble gum
I like the color purple
"Get this - right - we - haha, lmao, LOL even, we - we put the flavours we've spent money in R&D developing, right, get this - even though we know it sucks, we put it - right - we put it in a 'mystery can' and sell it to people."
"But - it's disgusting. Nobody will want to drink it."
"That's fine - everyone only has to buy 1 each, try it and decide they don't like it, we'll still make massive profits"
Until the rumour goes around that its awful
and people will still buy one to test it.@@reallivebluescat