All tagged 2.5
Tastes like a chocolate popsicle that had been lurking in the back of the freezer for months past its ‘sell-by’ curfew. You know the kind— it’s covered in icy particles, which, due to the lack of other options, you give a cursory brush-off before thrusting the pop into your warm piehole in a vulgar act of misguided desperation. This chocolate milk embodies that experience.
Sweet and dirty, like how you’d expect the mud in Candyland to taste. The texture is more syrupy than milky, and you can tell there’s some fortification therein, particularly in the aftertaste.
Thin, smooth-- almost like drinking nothing at all. The main flavor is almost one of mild soy (though it’s definitely cow’s milk)-- it's lightly sweet and super forgettable.
Nary a hint of ‘goat’— and only a tiny kiss of chocolate— this is not nearly the flavorful experience that ‘chocolate goat milk’ would insinuate, be it good or bad. The cream clings to the inside of your mouth for an unnecessary duration after the swallow, but it doesn’t sport much of an aftertaste, as that would have at least required a fore-taste.
No chocolate flavor, but a pleasantly sweet and thinly creamy quality makes its blandness easily palatable. Nothing to get excited about, and only disappointing if you were expecting a single iota of cocoa.
Sour and wheaty— a somewhat mature approach, though it severely lacks a creamy presence that would shift things from ‘disappointingly watery’ to ‘understatedly sophisticated.’ That said, it washes out quickly, which ends up being fine because the flavor isn’t one that you necessarily want to have hanging around.
Multivitamin scent and flavor (to a lesser extent), and feels like a mouthful of beach sand. You can chomp on the individual grains during and after each sip, and there’s an audible ‘crunch’ as you do so. It’s chalky, passably chocolaty, and from a taste perspective, you could do a lot worse in the ‘breakfast shake’ category.
Sweet, but empty— with just a hint of ‘wheaty’ flavor toward the back end. The more I try it, the more I want something else.
Such an abrasive sourness that I was staggered from the first sip, and never quite regained my balance. It’s very thin and undersweet-- neither of which are bad things, but the flavor is so far in the sour & earthy direction that it renders all other characteristics moot.
Has an almost pinkish-brown coloration, and is super-sweet above all else. I can’t locate much of any cocoa flavor— just a thin, sugary drink that emulates milk fairly well, but won’t satisfy your chocolate craving one iota.
Earthy cocoa presence with not much else to pick up the slack. The flavor dissipates quickly which suggests a watery base. I'm sure 29 pence doesn't buy what it used to.
Chalky and seems to be shooting for a 'malty' flavor, but comes up rather short. It's light on flavor, but could be a lot worse considering the drink’s makeup and charter.
Despite having zero sweeteners (natural or artificial), this does *feel* like it’s artificially sweetened. It gives a sensation on the tongue not too different from artificially sweetened products I’ve had, but I do trust the label. It’s not offensive, especially considering the zero sweetener claim— they’ve done well to make it palatable.
Super sweet and not much else— I’m almost surprised that ‘milk’ is the first ingredient because it feels like one of those water-based ‘chocolate drink’ gimmicks that would come in the big plastic gallon jug. Kids might likes this because it looks like chocolate and tastes sweet, but it’s up to you do do what’s right.
Thick and chalky, with a fleeting cocoa flavor and relatively empty finish. It feels like it should be packed with flavor, but it washes out and doesn't deliver. There's also an unpleasant aftertaste that lingers for some time after swallowing— which is the only real reason to take another sip. But you have to break the cycle at some point. Now is a good time.
A tad less bitter than the regular Styrk version, but enjoyment is clearly not the goal here. There’s not a strong ‘protein’ taste or overly contrived texture, but it's a rather shallow experience from a flavor standpoint.
Tastes like you'd expect a high protein drink would— undersweet, under chocolaty, over ‘enriched' (multi-vitaminy)-- none of which approach an extreme level (thankfully). The texture is dense and starchy, but not too drying. I've had a lot worse, but tastewise, it’s still sub par in the chocolate milk category.
This is how I'd expect chocolate milk to taste if it came from an artesian well. A moderate amount of cream is about all that separates this from spring water.
Watery, warm, and chocolaty in a way that a vending machine hot chocolate is. Definitely not offensive, the cocoa tastes as it should, it’s just not a viable substitute for chocolate milk.
One of the sweeter liquids I’ve had in quite some time. It’s so prominent that it detracts attention away from the chocolate (unfortunately) and the texture (fortunately). Feel-wise, it's a departure from ‘milky’ and has a noticeable grit, even visually so.
