/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.12039665]

Is Mike's any good or just a meme?

[Anonymous No.12039670]

>>12039665
I'm gay btw if that matters

[Anonymous No.12039674]

>>12039665
it's alcohol and sugar that barely tastes like alcohol. of course it's good, if that's what you like. if you like Pepsi or Mountain Dew you won't find anything to hate about the taste.

[Anonymous No.12039676]

>>12039665
It's like alcohol farted into a sprite.

[Anonymous No.12039684]

>>12039676
it's still 5%, and if you're a fatty with hardly any self control (like me) you can get fucking blasted on them quick if you drink a couple in an hour

[Anonymous No.12039691]

>>12039665
They taste good but as with any sugary alcohol beverage drinking too many will make your life hell the next morning

[Anonymous No.12039698]

>>12039684
>blasted on two mike's
Are you a 90lb cheerleader?

[Anonymous No.12039749]

>>12039665
Guaranteed headache and vomiting it you drink a whole six pack yourself.

[Anonymous No.12039776]

>>12039665
Tastes like herpes.

[Anonymous No.12039783]

>>12039665
if you're a male and prefer males sexually it perfect for you

[Anonymous No.12039815]

Anything with the word "hard" in it has been disgusting imo

[Anonymous No.12039829]

It's really good but they make my stomach after 2 or 3 and don't even get me drunk
At least drink something with a higher alcohol content like pic related if you're going full girly-sugar bomb

[Anonymous No.12039834]

>>12039665
they honestly taste good as fuck but really sugary drinks always give the worst hangovers in my experience

[Anonymous No.12039839]

>>12039829
what about mike's harder

[Anonymous No.12039841]

>>12039665
It's super sugary and tastes good, but you're literally drinking 45g of sugar per bottle, and when you're drinking in the evening that's a terrible thing for your body. It's like asking if Mt. Dew is any good.

[Anonymous No.12039855]

the trick with mike's is to drink about a third of it, fill it with vodka and repeat until you're 90% vokda

[Anonymous No.12039876]

>>12039665
just get a bottle of vodka and a bottle of lemonade

[Anonymous No.12039878]

>>12039876
ok now what

[Anonymous No.12039887]

>>12039665
Was good when I was in middle school, not so much now that I am a grown ass man.

[Anonymous No.12040058]

>>12039698
he's using couple in colloquialism form, he doesn't mean literally 2, he should have just said 'several'

[Anonymous No.12040601]

>>12039665
its good if you like sugary alcohol.
id probably pick hard cider over that though.

[Anonymous No.12040675]

>>12039878
Chug the vodka and pour the lemonade down the drain

[Anonymous No.12040676]

>>12040675
this

[Anonymous No.12040680]

>>12039665
Imagine liquifying those moist towelettes you get at rib places then adding to vodka

[Anonymous No.12040730]

While all 'products' have been 'manufactured' to some extent you'll generally have a much better experience going back to basics. Like vegetables compared to jar pasta sauce and base spirits compared to premix cocktails. No idea why half of this shit exists because it is just poor quality manufactured shit. Somebody wanted to make a product, make a brand, have a business, play at marketing. Just doesn't need to exist? A vehicle to add value to simple low quality products?

Mikes hard lemonade is basically a shitty overpriced vodka sour. Make a fucking vodka sour. I'm not even saying that a bottle of vodka need be anything than a basic ingredient, but sugar syrup, lemon juice, dress with a twist of zest and/or a cherry. To be fair I've no idea what hard lemonade costs? But a bag of lemons, bag of ice, jar of cherries, bottle of vodka and some simple sugar syrup shouldn't cost more than $20. Maybe pick up another bottle of spirits next weekend, boom suddenly you've expanded your range and drinking options. You'll get like ... 16 stiff fucking drinks that I'd not wanna drink more than 4 of? Why even buy this shit?

Most of it is aimed at and marketed to young adults/children who don't know anything. They want to get smashed. They are susceptible to branding and marketing and they think knowing things and effort is a sign of weakness.

But yeah, nobody needs to drink blue fizzy liquid called things like 'artik blu'.

[Anonymous No.12040748]

>>12040730
It's an alcoholic lemon-flavored malt beverage

Don't know if your 'Murican but we have much worse such as DRINK LIKE A BOSS and Spiked Punch Steele Reserve, drinks that'll turn your shit blue and green

[Anonymous No.12040760]

>>12040748
No things beverage wise are a little more classy here in the UK due to codes of practice. There was a period in the late 90's to mid 00's when alcopop as it was known really took off. The advertising standards here doesn't really allow anything too stupid when dealing with alcohol. We briefly had hooch which is the same stuff. Smirnoff made Smirnoff ice. WKD made a range of luminous alcopops. Red square made a premixed vodka redbull. Generally while they were the same sugary trash designed to be binge drunk by students they had an air of legitimacy about them because they were brought to market by big alcohol producers. They were cheap, often £1 or less in multiples and quite quickly became attached to a disreputable culture of binge drinking and sort of faded away alongside some political grumblings and minimum alcohol pricing policies.

They totally still exist though. Instead now we've flavoured 'craft' ciders, 'botanical inspired' drinks and 'craft' gin. The kids who grew up drinking alcopop now drink toffee apple cider. The sugar content is down, the marketing is a lot more adult and the prices are higher, but it is very similar.

Like molson coors owns rekorderlig which was a creation of chilli marketing brands. Rekorderlig positions itself as a swedish family cider maker using spring water and natural fruits to create wholesome artisan ciders. It is a fucking alcopop!

The worst is craft gin pushed under the weird days of the empire/shabby chic/brrrrrrritish vibe. Makes me feel fucking ill to see the country reduced to a twee marketing stereotype to sell overpriced and overhyped alcopops to self described yummy mummies. Bleh.

[Anonymous No.12040764]

>>12039665
It's ok. Mainly tastes like skunky lemonade made with cooking concentrate and not fresh squeezed lemons.

[Anonymous No.12040777]

>>12040760
I like the term 'alcopop'

[Anonymous No.12040778]

A massive amount of sugar. Have fun getting FAT, thanks Mike!
The original 5% alc/vol 11.2 fl oz bottle will run you 220 calories, 33 grams of carbs and 32 grams of sugar.
There are 395 calories in 1 can (16 fl. oz) of Mike's Harder Lemonade (8% alc.)

[Anonymous No.12040799]

[Anonymous No.12040800]

>>12039776
+1 FP Technology & Culture from the trenches

[Anonymous No.12040808]

>>12040777
kevins 07s gone craazzzy

[Anonymous No.12041345]

>>12040778
that's less sugar than a coke, actually

[Anonymous No.12041349]

>>12039665
They taste exactly like lemonade. They're great if you're the kind of person who enjoys alcohol as a drug but doesn't enjoy alcohol as a drink.

[Anonymous No.12041350]

>>12041345
Except you only drink one bottle of coke, and if you wanna get drunk off of Mike's you're gonna need an entire 6 pack at least

[Anonymous No.12041358]

>>12040748
>DRINK LIKE A BOSS
Oh fuck, I tried one of these out of curiosity and I had to pour it down the drain after a few sips, it was fucking unbearably bad.
This is coming from somebody who can drink shit like Earthquake without issue

[Anonymous No.12041361]

>>12041350
haha yeah who would drink more than one bottle of coke like some fat piece of shit haha not me no way

[Anonymous No.12041506]

>>12040058
Are YOU a 90lbs cheerleader?

[Anonymous No.12043209]

>>12041350
just buy the harder version

[Anonymous No.12043257]

>>12039665
Beetus. Better get Wilfred Brimley's direct line.

[Anonymous No.12043264]

>>12039665
It's a lemonade vodka cooler...not the first thing i'll buy at the liquor store, but I wont say no if someone hands one to me

[Anonymous No.12043814]

>>12039839
It's bad. It's just Mike's Hard but with a gross alcohol aftertaste. 2/10, still got drunk, but would rather pound down numerous bottles of regular MH for the same effect.