45-Year-Old Cresta Pineapple Drink | Ashens
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Way, way back there was an animated polar bear in sunglasses who really enjoyed weirdly thick soft drinks. His beloved syrupy Cresta came in several flavours, pineapple being one of the most popular. Let us join together and crack open a 45-year-old bottle in memory of Cresta the Bear, and see if dangerously expired drinks taste as awful as we assume.
...It's frothy, man.
#Cresta #Expired #Ashens
"predates the concept of Best Before dates"
Perfect, then it's good forever!
TehSlan
“Forever good, it wants to stay/Forever Good”
@@coyotelong4349 Store the bottle in a stay fresh soda bottle bag. An excellent soft drink.
Weareonenation303
Oh I’ve no doubt 👌
🤣😂
I see no flaw in this logic.
"No, no, NO, NO, NO! Argh!".
Yep. That's the Cresta I remember.
And the new, "improved" Corona Man.
Ashens " I hate pineapple drinks" Me "That's fine it's not gonna taste like pineapples"
I still remember reading the ingredients on a bottle of mixed juice:
35% apple juice, 50 % water, 6% sugar, 9% Orange juice
The image on the front was of a beautiful basket of mixed exotic fruits, berries etc.
And to top it off: it was an 850 ml that costed 30% more than the others ☹️
@Altoid Bazingá oh that can't be legal.
"Oh, how'd Timmy get hospitalized?"
'Well I just don't know, all he had was some juice from that section of the store..'
"Let me see the ingredient-... ohh no.. He over dosed on multvitamins! D:"
"The corona man"... If he comes to my door anywhere past 2020 I'll tell him to jog on.
Ohoh
My mate was the manager of a Corona bottling plant in the 70s and now he's dead. Spooky or what?
But, you'll miss the chance to see him fail to sing The Rhythm of the Night
Hows that going for ya boss
seasons greetings from 2021
"I've been trying to date this bottle." Getting lonely?
Where do you think the frothiness comes from?
I find that alcohol bottles are way better for dating, you can have a much better time. It's "what's on the inside" that's important after all.
Yes
Sounds like a toxic relationship to me.
Spending so much time around the bacteria embedded in the sofa probably getting to him.
"The corona man would come round your house and deliver it!"
History repeats itself in odd ways.
Just 5 months after this video was filmed Covid started.
The sounds of Ashens seriously panicking amused the hell out of me lol
Good. I don't feel quite so bad laughing now. ;)
Pfp checks out.
I'm disappointed that the flavor lock didn't work. You should bring the bottle back to the shop and demand a refund.
no return!
the flavor lock kept something inside but it was not flavor.
*Flavor-Lok®
Doesn't say anywhere it has to lock in good flavours.
it came probably from a woolies.
You know its bad when Ashens can handle a 50 year old Ox tongue better than this drink...
The Ox tongue was better sealed in a tight metal tin. This is just a glass bottle with a cap on.
@izzy B thousand year old eggs aren't literally a thousand year old
@@ordelian7795 but it's got Flavour-Lok
Don't forget those rotten chocolate egg disks from one of the Easter specials
@@ordelian7795 thx for ur input 👍
Rimsky-Korsakov - composer.
Stuart Ashen - decomposer.
Korsakov is both now, a decomposing composer.
@@TravisStewart42 :(
If you sent a sample of this to a lab they would write back and tell you your horse has diabetes.
And that it had died years ago
...and it's pregnant.
Sir, you just made me laugh so hard, that my ass started hurting.
I've prolapsed
Nah if you sent that stuff to a lab, there more likely to send the guys in hazmat suites over and ask you why you have biological weapons of mass destruction
"The Corona Man would come round your house and deliver it". Is this why this is on my youtube reccommends?
Aben Zin he said it in such a sinister way, maybe it was a warning
Nah cause youtube is too bias and ignorant to want people talking about that on their platform
The algorithm has a sick sence of humour
It's always a good day when I get to see that "Technical Difficulties" card
Same here man.
Not for Ashens..
@@liz6367 Ashens is like Jesus Christ. He consumes out of date goods for our sins
@@Sesh_Gremlin_ And gets out of the hospital in 3 days, tops.
RIP Stuart Clive Ashen 1976 - 2019
Cresta was infamous for being full of dangerous chemicals when it was new (I think they took those out as the years went by), and now they've had 45 years to degrade and fester.
Clive?
@@RyuakiraX yep. That's his middle name.
@@daemonspudguy
nice.
@@daemonspudguy he really is the most Norfolk man in the world (well apart from my mate Connor)
Ashens smells like sewage
Seconds later
Ashens drinks anyway
Like Steve1989:
"That smells foul"
*takes a bite*
*shocked Pikachu face*
@Cris Packet Ironic he forgot a colon when talking about sewage
🤢
Mr. Snake bruh moment
I think this might be the most vicious reaction I've ever seen Dr. Ashens have to something he's tasted on this show.
Considering that this is the guy who ate canned tarantula and surströmming, that says a lot.
His Surströmming was too fresh. Properly rotten surströmming would be 100% liquid and tastest "acidic, like poison" according to one expert
Weird question but has he ever eaten lutefisk on the channel? I searched but couldn’t find anything.
I think we are now beaten by that awful instant mash he tried
Good job. It sounded delicious. I wonder if they fizzed those drinks with bicarbonate of soda and citric acid like Creamola.
Creamola was the nuts.
Came over to have a laugh at Ashens, ain't ya? :p
...probably, whatever was used, now tastes like beaver farts at this point
Senpai!!!!!!
Oh hey Clive. Fancy seeing you here!...
I was about to comment apparently Stuart uses the same mic setup as Clive and here he is
"The Corona Man would come round your house" well, that certainly aged well
Ikr
Unlike this bottle of Cresta.
wowie super funny
Oh how you hadn’t had known but fuckkkkk
Dear Ashens,
You've taken plenty for the team, and I really appreciate you doing these questionable things for us. Your videos have brought me a large amount of joy over the years.
Thank you
Aaaaaawwwh...
Epitaph first draft?
@@zacharykim295 I could definitely imagine this as a speech at his funeral.
RIP
and him lots of money. I mean what else could an intelligent man use his PhD in psychology for, than making a name for himself as "the block that eats rotten food". Better then Uber driver.
“The initial smell was of medicine, then that was taken over by sewage“
Famous last words
Honestly the entire time he was putting off drinking it I was like 'no... no... no... don't drink it', especially when he described and reacted to the smell. Alarm bells were ringing; this seemed like a terrible idea even by the standards of what he's done before and that reaction confirmed my fears. Good grief Stuart, don't go dying on us!
bird brain I wouldn't be surprised if he cancels next week's livestream to recover in hospital.
What a slow burning, visceral reaction.
The bacterial concoction in that bottle must be so old it's grown several arses for its pinworms to have pinworms.
Rads: +15
You feel ill (Infection)
You are now sick with advanced radiation poisoning
Nothing shouts 'Summer in Norwich'
like a 45-year-old pineapple drink
Well that and incest ...
*No Return* on the lid is pretty ominous
No Return to the land of the living I think.
Beverley I’m afraid means don’t return the bottle back to the company For your deposit back haha. I’m sorry to disappoint
@@Landie_Man Yeah, pretty sure she knows that, dude.
Plot twist: it was actually durian flavour, and perfectly fresh
Never expected you here! Hello!!
Durian stinks, it doesn't taste like that
Oh hey, it's atomic shrimp. But anyway, durian taste lovely.
Durian smells like rotting ass but it tastes like mild garbage bag, not good but not super offensive
Someone PLEASE make a new PopStation. I don't think Ashens can take much more of this.
Switch POP Station please.
Stuart has been entertains me ever since I stumbled on his channel, I can't wait to see what's next on the brown sofa of wonderment
The last ones that he reviewed were OK, the 2nd Plant vs Zombies/Angry Birds and arguably the Lexibooks
They had lot of bad games, but still were a million times better than the old ones
@@Alex-fv2qs A million times better yet still terrible. I bought a LexiBook Cyber Arcade recently. I found at least three versions of towers of Hanoi before giving up and replacing it's insides with a Raspberry Pi Zero W.
@@wolfgangervin2582 A SplapStation?
"The corona man would just come and deliver it" never has that statement been more true
On the backs of the bottles was a reverse shot of whatever the Cool Bear™ was doing on the front.
The reverse shot always revealed that aforementioned front shot was in fact mockup assisted by several put-upon penguins.
I believe it was an attempt to mock coca-cola, which explains it's disappearance from the market.
@@cakeboss4194 Especially as it was created by Schweppes who were bought by Coca Cola
I can remember puking up the blackcurrant flavour Cresta I'd had outside a cafe, somewhere in Devon circa 1974.
Legend says that stain is still there to this day. The council cleaners will never get that off the floor.
6:20 It was at this moment, Stuart knew, he had made a grave mistake. All the memories of the nastiest nasty foods, the memories he had been suppressing for so long, came back to him, flooded his mind, all at once. There was no pineapple. Only death. Rip dear friend.
But then he came back to life and all’s good mate.
You could hear him reaching for the vodka and swishing it around no sooner than he drank the cresta
Ah yes, Cresta. Exactly what I remember.
“No no NO NO NO NO” *starts to hyperventilate through the nose*
Gin is a better option than vodka for the rinsing/disinfecting because juniper is also a disinfectant that works differently to alcohol, so you're covering more bases.
Good to know.
Hippy bullshit.
Yeah... If you like turpentine induced madness
@@sneer0101 It's not "Hippy bullshit". There is extensive study on the uses of juniper essential oil as a disinfectant and anti-fungal...most of which is peer-reviewed and verified. It's not like it's the only plant with such properties either...thymol (which is found in thyme) is one of the primary ingredients in Listerine, and extracts of turmeric are being studied, with positive early results, for use in topical MRSA treatments. Plants have to fight off infections too.
@@peteynutt4104 Juniperis Communus berries are not a source of turpentine.
0:58 Me, a non-native English speaker: "Why would Ashens try to go on a date with this bottle?" *5 seconds later* "Oooh."
Your still slow 😂
ynwa you’re*
"It's no longer frothy, man... but *I* nearly was."
His vomit probably was
Frothing at the mouth.
45 years you say? That's ancient I thought... and then you said 1974 and it dawned on me that that's when I was born. Oh god.
It's alright Dave, you have probably aged better than the cresta
That's somehow the year my mom was born, wtf
This may just be the most violent reaction yet!
was not expecting it at all
Seriously, eating that century egg wasnt as violent as this was
Welp, now Ashens has a highly evolved parasitic race brewing in his gut, ready to burst forth from his chest someday like a creature from a Ridley Scott film.
And this, children, is how Covid-19 was born
I think the different parasitic growths from all the rotten garbage he's eaten just fight each other all day in his stomach, which is why he hasn't gotten sick yet.
either that or its died from the various "edible" abominations in his innards
This is how measles came back into society, along with smallpox and any other previously eradicated diseases. From this early 70s sewage soda
Someone sneezed in the Cresta factory in 1974 and 45 years later Stuart opened this bottle.
I'm sorry but previously eradicated diseases have not returned the World Health Organization (WHO) certified the eradication of smallpox in 1980. The last reported case was in 1977 .
K Wils learn to take a joke
@@kwils6685 r/woooosh
@ashens I just came here to say that some time in the 70s my father needed to provide a urine sample to take to the doctor. All my mother had available was an empty Cresta bottle so she cleaned it out and he used that. When he had peed, he was walking around the house, shaking the bottle whilst shouting 'It's frothy, man!' I fear you have just found that sample... 😂🎉
I just love watching a man eating and drinking spoiled food and I am not sure why. Please never stop doing these videos.
One of these days, you'll drink something so old that it will give you super powers and you'll become AshensMan
The Goddamn Tatman
Then the world will be blessed
RIP Stuart Ashen, 1958 -2019
He was born in 1976
Yes, but he's aged considerably from all this substance abuse.
Cris Packet You had me at petty
61 is the perfect age to die.
He's not that old 😂😂😂😂
That's one of the most violent reactions I've ever seen Stuart have to expired things
Cresta was definitely around in the 90s, polar bear included.
My Grandma always had a truckload of their lemonade for us to drink until our heads went green with nausea.
Me: "I wonder how that tastes..."
Ashens: *Proceeds to die*
Me: "So... ... ... Good?"
They made these up into the mid 2000's cause my dad's mum used to buy the Lemonade version, how I remember is the polar bear Ashens mentioned.
@The Bloody Doctor Yes, I think she used to get it off the Milkman I think sadly she's no longer around so I can't ask her I'm afraid.
Poisonous rot and some kind of bleach, you say?
Sounds like a perfect description of kombucha.
He should drink 40 year old kombucha
Kombucha tastes like pee and smells like pee. Just horrible
And that's how you know it's good for you!
Seriously though, it's just another foul overpriced hipster fad. Kill it with fire, I say!
I'd take the ancient soda over kombucha anyday
As the first Kombucha Drinker in this thread, if you don't like its strong taste, *water it down to a tolerable level if you still want to drink it.* It's also really not expensive to make at home (the primary way I get it,) if you go that route. If it smells like rot, *you did it wrong.* The L.A. Beast did it wrong: he most likely had it brewing too cold, which explained the mold.
The ideal brewing range is 79 - 81 Degrees F. Brewing goes slower and slower from 78 to 72 F, and dangerously slow under 72 F.
*NEVER* put Apple Cider Vinegar in it, or you'll ruin the whole damn batch: you'll introduce vinegar eels, which eat up the acids produced by Kombucha. At that point, dump everything, get rid of the spicket, boil the jar *and* bleach it, then boil it again.
The genuine panic oh my god I felt it through the screen
"Smooth, frothy & rotten. It's deadly, man!"
Mmm, exactly how I used to like my Cresta.
I don't know why, but the tears and holes in the label make it feel so much more like something that should have been left in the past.
"Abandon all hope, ye who opens this"
the tears were from the last person that tried to take a swig, the poor soul
like it was ripped straight out of a Fallout game.
"Corona-man" that hasnt aged well
Kenneth Kennethson Haven’t watched Ashens in months and this pops up in my recommendations
Literally just thought that myself I had to double check if this was a new video because it did sound like he was referencing!!! But obviously not 😳
When you're just about to go to bed but Ashens brings out another quality video.
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!
your fucking funny. 10/10 for the original comment
@@buzmitch17 You alright, love?
PLEASE DONT COME TO MY HOUSE MR CORONA
it was very funny listening to him die slowly in the background 🤣
yeah, that wasn't a slow death
@@technopoptart *fast and painful* my bad
@@insertcreativenamehere9704 thankyou. it is important that the hearing-impaired viewers correctly understand the fizzy drink-based agony for their personal pleasure
@@technopoptart yes yes your right my most sincere apology
6:19 Stuart's entire life flashes before him.
I thought this said 45 year old creates pineapple drink
I'd still watch
That's very different. Lol
Better than 45 year old creates a lemon party.
He’ll be 43 this December if memory serves
6:20 what a reaction. Ashens kinda broke and had to race to fix his system with vodka
You should send samples of the things you eat and drink to some one who can test what kind of things are actually growing in there
I fear he would stop trying things...
@@GeorgiaGeorgette ah yeah that is a fair point... some times it's better not to know haha
6:19 that's going to have to be my new text alert for family!
I don't know about you but that's how I react every time I see my family.
Cresta? Corona? How many British soft drinks were named after Toyotas?!
Maybe the real question is how many Toyotas are named after British soft drinks? :O
Don't you mean Corolla?
Evelyn Clare There really was a Toyota Corona back in the day.
Vauxhall Cresta.
All of them
My mum still raves about Cresta. I'm going to make her watch this. It's frothy, mannnn.
You're about on with the mid 70s.
That was a visceral reaction
Visceral Reaction is my new band name!...
02:56 ... Corona drink? "The Corona man would come around your house and deliver it".
So now we know where it comes from.
Havent watch your vids since december I think for unknown reasons,man I miss this kinda vids from you.
You missed the ox tongue in a can?
@@Alex-fv2qs Yes sadly,gonna watch all the vids I missed in a row when I have some free time.
Now we know where the Coronavirus came from.
Mix pineapple juice with cream soda... and bingo, cresta pineapple. If you want to know what it used to taste like.
I'm actually going to give that a try.
Definitely the first time I've said that on an Ashens video.
@@GeorgiaGeorgette Same here man! Thing is, I don't think that I can get Cream Soda in the U.K...
Now to scour my local supermarket for Cream Soda! I don't think that I've seen that stuff in England since I was a kid...
@@maxscardanelli6185
Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Tesco all do it!
Farmfoods do it as well
It literally sounded like someone was holding him down and forcing him to drink it.
Me in 2019: "Hehe a man who delivers Coronas like milk."
Me in 2020: "Stay the fuck off my property."
6:40 the Cresta was so good that Ashens panicked and chugged the whole glass then the bottle.
I gotta say that was one the most violent reactions i've seen Stuart have on any of these things even that "Century egg" didnt get this kind of reaction.
Had to check out the Cresta polar bear ad. didn't disappoint
"The Corona man would come by your house"
*Sorts comments by newest first*
6:20 LMAO Most intense reaction I’ve ever heard on his channel! 😂😂😂
I was trying to watch a yourube video and clicked the notification st the top by accident, got pissed off, saw a new ashens title and smiled lool
I keep coming back to this. It's the single best reaction I think Ashens has ever had to anything.
Ah, Corona reference. When my uncle almost lost his leg in a mining accident he was in a hospital over the road from a Corona bottling plant, so I always associate the brand with horrific industrial accidents.
Every time we get to enjoy one of these violent reactions with no visual, I desperately wish that our boy Ashen would get a face cam for tasting videos. The sound of vodka being gargled and the sudden hat flung onto the sofa are wonderful for comedy but he has such an expressive face!
2:58 I know this was about drinks but my god it aged like delivered milk
The subtitles make this a work of art.
Vicki Mew [assorted noises of disgust]
Vicki Mew [sniffing, interrupted by the occasional “ugh”]
I'm making Clinical Enema Agent the name of my band
I screamed "NO!" when Ashens said he was gonna sip it! xD
'The Corona Man would come round your house and deliver it'. That aged poorly very quickly lol
Just like the Ayds weight loss candy.
😂😂
ashen’s fans are just naturally funny
"Oooh it smells of..... ooh arghh uhhhh" - Ashens 2019
this has to have one of the best reactions of all of your videos of trying consumables
"The corona man" ... "nobody gets anything delivered anymore" ... so 2019.
Just one tiny sip after spitting it out almost killed Ashen’s, some one please give him a 20 pound raise just for that alone, I want Ashen’s to last for generations to come!
What I will never get over is how he records all of these with a lapel mic clipped to a hat that he places over a camcorder
It’s always a good day when I get home from work and see a new Ashens video.
ASHENS I REMEMBER YOU I MISS YOU I HAVEN'T WATCHED YOU IN YEARS I GReW UP ON YOU!!!!!!!! THANK YOU FOR MAKING VIDEOS!!!
I don't often watch your non food videos, but man, I love your food videos so much I've probably seen them all at least twice, some even more times. Do another week of food stuff!!!
"The corona man would come round and deliver it to your house"
In 2020, that has a whole different meaning
Just like the weight loss candy named Ayds.
3 years since the upload and you are still alive 😊
GET ON WITH IT.
Edit: I am so sorry.
It’s no longer frothy, man.
I don't know when they introduced the UPC in Britain, but here in the US it went nationwide around 1976. Also, that looks like what here in the US we would refer to as a "trucker bomb" :)
Lorry drivers cider.
@@snowflakemelter1172 Transport driver's tropical drink.
Road maintenance worker's random mystery refreshment.
Holy hell. You have the courage of a a polar bear with shades on. Well done sir! Oh.. and QUATRO was absolutely the most awesome drink ever. My last taste was in August 1989. I got a can from a drinks machine in Kensington. How on EARTH I remember that is beyond me. It’s the power of QUATRO probably. And while we’re at it. Bring back GINI!
more like Crusta now
that had to be the most intense reaction you've ever gotten on film