Our team has grown a lot recently and we've also become increasingly diverse.
So we thought it'd be a great opportunity for some people to try out different drinks from some of our team's home countries.
Do you know why you're here? To try some drinks.
Yes, I've been listening to it for the past couple hours and I am excited.
Do you know why you're here? To drink.
Olamide! So I think you're a new face to a lot of the FlowClean audience here.
Do you want to introduce yourself, what you do here? Hi, it's Olamide and I'm a fit tech.
A lot of talking with factories, a lot of talking with the designers.
In the creator world.
And you also brought, can you introduce us? It's called palm wine, it's from the palm tree.
My language, it's called EMU, like the animal.
But yeah, it's the African palm juice and it's made from the palm tree.
It's usually like a sap. It takes a long time to get, you just put in the screw or whatever it is.
They put it in there and then it drips down.
But it tastes really good fresh. It could be alcoholic, it could be non-alcoholic when it's like, you know.
When I had chicken pox once when I was a kid and we had fresh palm wine.
Like you bath with it. Other than that, you know, you go to restaurants and you just want a fresh palm wine.
It's served in a kalabash. I hope everyone enjoys it.
What is it? Palm wine. Oh, that doesn't sound bad.
Yeah. Palm? Palm.
So like palm trees. Okay, that was fine. Fun story about Nigeria, I've never been.
Wine? It's wine, but it's not alcoholic yet.
Alcoholic? I can't smell anything.
It smells like cheese and wine.
Palm juice. Yeah. Should be good.
Oh my God. There you go. You did shake this before serving, right?
Yes, yes.
I don't drink. Right. But I know wine tastes like this.
Okay. Smells like, like, like cockroaches?
I don't know. Cockroach poison or whatever?
Okay, that's... Oh. Dennis, that's barely any...
Why is it so... Smells like the same, too.
Like sour smell.
Ooh. Ooh. I like it.
I will give it like a nine.
Nine? Okay, wow. Dennis, I like it.
So if I drink this whole bottle, nothing will happen. No, nothing will happen.
The initial taste is pretty good, but the aftertaste is like, again,
like the cockroach poison or something.
Mmm. No. No.
I feel like I've just had an old popsicle.
I give this one a nine. A nine out of ten.
So I wouldn't recommend it. So it would be below six.
Five point nine. Yeah. Two out of ten.
I'm sorry, but four? If there's alcohol in it, then that would be a ten.
But right now it is nine.
So this is a turtle gelling that's made from turtle shells.
From here it says a herbal gelling, just not to scare away a lot of people
who don't know what this is. I really hope this doesn't have actual turtles in it.
Like, what do you mean? Are you vegan?
Oh God, that means it has turtles in it, doesn't it?
What is going on today?
What is going on? Oh, a herbal gelling with lychee.
Is it lychee or lychee? I think it's still in there.
It's not really coming out. I love it.
Now, like I said, I've tried a lot of flavors of fruits and everything.
I like lychee. It's really good.
I mean, it's good. Like lychee or lychee, whatever you call it.
Yeah, it's good. It's just like lychee jello with bits.
I want to like... Oh, it's brown.
Okay, I got some of the jelly. Not a fan of that, but just the liquid.
That's good. I really like that.
Does it remind you of anything? Freshness.
I feel refreshed. Out of 10.
I'll actually give that one maybe a 6.7.
9? If 5 is a coke, I'd give this a 6.
So it's lulo juice. It's a Colombian fruit, which is like passion fruit, pineapple kind of flavor.
This one is not like 100% natural, but it's quite similar to the real flavor of the actual fruit.
Oh, what kind? This is a fruit?
It smells like almost pineapple-y. It smells sort of like...
It smells very similar to that plum juice, like even though they're not the same type.
It's cloudy. It's just a fruit. Okay, it's just juice.
Okay. It's a little watered down, though.
It's like, you know, when you have concentrated juice and it's so thick, but it tastes really good.
It's more sour. Yeah, it's a weird flavor. I don't know.
Never had... It's not overly sweet, which I like.
I would say 7 or 8.
Not a huge fan of this, but I kind of like dig the aftertaste.
Like the bitter-y taste. Okay, like probably 6.
5-6? Just, I guess it's a personal preference.
6 out of 10. I give this one an 8 out of 10, but a slightly different font.
Because that's what it tastes like. It's, yeah. So I bought two drinks.
One is brown rice milk. It's actually a very traditional thing we drink in the morning, but with breakfast.
So they're basically ground with brown rice and peanuts.
Very thick and milky and rusty drink.
Brown rice milk? Yes.
More than no rice had boobs.
How do you milk it if it doesn't... Oh my gosh!
I just want to see what it looks like. Oh yeah, that's just... Oh, it's thick.
Look at the viscosity on that bad boy.
It tastes like chocolate milk, but I know that this will taste like if you blend brown rice kind of thing,
but also if I like a chocolate kind of flavor.
Like a peanut or reminds me of like a chocolate M&M or something.
It tastes like if you blended up a bunch of peanuts and rice.
Overall, pretty good. Not bad. Chocolate, peanut, something like that.
Yeah, yeah. It tastes like if you liquefied a cliff bar.
I really like how it's not overly sweet. 8 out of 10.
8 out of 10. Yeah, 6.5. Yeah, not bad.
I would say 7. What's the calorie?
You didn't tell me that. Yeah, Lloyd's been on the fitness grind.
It's worth the extra calorie.
This is a core melon drink.
So how do they do it? They actually cook it with brown sugar.
A lot of brown sugar. This is the vegetable they use.
So by himself, it's actually already pretty sweet.
So with brown sugar, it has that really fruity,
honey scent and smell.
Very nice. I think people like this.
Is this just melon flavor? What's good?
That's a great question. It's a type of vegetable, I think.
That explains why I don't know it's a vegetable.
Actually, not my favorite, but it's good.
You're liking this one? I think we have a winner. What are you feeling about this one?
Happy. I feel jolly.
I feel like this is a drink I would sit down right before I open my presents at Christmas.
Should I say 7? 9.5? The Scottish side of you brought iron brew.
I can't say it properly. I can't roll my ARM, so it's the brew.
No, I can't do it. This is made five minutes from where I lived.
Wait, serious? Serious. For the longest time throughout my entire time living there,
I had no idea what to call this.
Cream soda. The best way that you can explain it, I think.
Is it orange? Let's find out. It's orange.
Oh, it's fizzy. I've been waiting for fizzy ones.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow.
This is childhood. This is my childhood. Wow.
What's in this one? What is this? Is it orange juice?
Mmm. Mmm, it's good. Kind of like fenta and sport drink together.
This is my favorite so far. 8.
7 or 10. I don't know where on the list I have.
Let's just say it's a 9. But yeah, this is my favorite.
This is winter melon tea. Usually I make soup out of them, but this is also good for sweet drink.
Mmm. It just smells like coconut water.
I thought it was going to be more like a more like melon-ish but sour kind of flavor,
but it's like quite sweet. Yeah, it's like a mix between tobacco and maybe like burnt coconut husk, but it doesn't
taste burnt. I mean, it's not the best drink I ever had, but it's good.
Like a 6. I give this, sadly, I'm sorry, a 3 out of 10.
This is Sunny D, the tangy original experience.
This is a drink from my childhood, but I haven't actually added that many times.
Oh, my God. It tastes good.
All the orange juices that you can find on the store, like in the supermarket.
Right. It tastes basically like this. It's a little bit more lemon-ish.
It's like oranges, but like cheap oranges.
I think I actually had this like somewhere.
It's probably not the same thing, but like there was like powdery stuff, and then you
mix with water. It tastes like that. I used to have like a spoon, like just grab like a bunch of those and just put it in my
mouth and then mix with some water. Okay.
Yeah, in my mouth. Yeah, you only need a cup for that.
I like it. It's everything like orange, apple, grapefruit.
It's like all the citrus and then sweet things, more sweet things.
That's it. More sugar.
It's a 10 out of 10 for a cheap drink.
Like if it's something I would buy, I probably wouldn't.
8.9, like 8.5. This one feels pretty sugary.
I'll give it a 7. I haven't drank this for like a long, long time.
This was basically my childhood. That's some sort of like pop.
It sort of like tastes like Fanta.
How do you pronounce it? Jianli Bao. So we're just going to pour some in, eh?
Yes. We've got some heavy carbonation here, and this is not going to open, is it?
Oh, a pull tab. Okay, cool. That mists like Red Bull, by the way, and looks like Iron Brew.
Damn. It's pretty good. I would buy that.
I'd put that solidly like a little sweet.
7. Maybe a mid 7. It wouldn't replace like Coke for me, but I would definitely pick that out if there was nothing else.
So this is Duque, some other Middle Eastern countries call it Iran.
It's yogurt with salt and water, sometimes with dried mint.
The more sour the yogurt, the better. So if you let it go bad, it will actually taste better.
This one is carbonated.
This one in the fresco bottle is not carbonated.
Yes, I'm going to drink some of this. And when would people usually drink this?
Anytime you want. With food, without food, breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Oh, man. I'm happy there's going to be some leftovers.
Milk, bacteria, culture, and salt, salt.
Oh. I don't know.
I don't know.
If this wasn't in the bottle, I wouldn't drink it.
Oh. Oh. Oh, no.
I was excited. I'm not sure now.
Wow, this is so tart. Oh.
Wow, this is like strong.
Oh. Ah.
It's a derived taste. I feel like you kind of have to grow up with it to like it.
Don't look at me like that. What's in this?
It's really good. I love it.
I didn't even put any in my mouth. It tastes like baking soda I'm going to grow almost.
That's how I feel towards it.
No. No. No.
Sour. Sour. Very sour.
Smells like feet. I need one of the orange juice.
I really don't want to do anything that would insult any culture.
But this is, I don't know, not my favorite.
I can understand some of the drink if I live in that region.
Sorry, I can't even drink it. I can't even drink it.
Okay, the aftertaste. That's like cheese.
What would you rate it out of 10? Two. This is a zero.
It's only a zero because I couldn't drink it. No.
Sorry. Out. I'll give it one out of 10.
That's like a zero out of 10. No.
One. Sorry. I'll give it five.
I actually quite like that. I didn't do it first, but now I do.
No, thank you.
I feel like, you know how you want to stay awake?
This is something I would take. Because you can feel it.
And you're like, oh yes, I'm up. What is this?
I brought the best water you will ever taste.
That is a promise. This is the purest water you can find in, I think, the entire world.
Oh, so just water. So is it going to have a lot of minerals in it?
You know the fancy type of water that they sell at the supermarket?
Yeah. This feels like that. pH of 8.4, nice.
It's a good palette cleanser, though. Maybe I'm crazy, but it actually tastes like a melted-down ice cube.
Maybe it was placebo. I felt a bit of a weird sensation on my tongue, like a burning or bitterness.
But nine-something, almost 10, it was water.
I still think our water is better. So I would say six.
10 out of 10, because water is good for you. Very healthy, so 10 out of 10.
It's like a bird nest beverage.
It's extremely nourishing. Yeah, it's made of swallow spit.
So bird spit. Bird spit. But it's like, yeah, I would say all over Asia, it's pretty well known.
It's definitely a delicacy. I don't even like human saliva.
Why would I be drinking bird saliva? Ew.
Oh, it's like... I don't like the texture.
Is that it's real? Oh, why is it so chunky?
Usually it's not that chunky.
I don't know if I like it. I don't know if it's psychological, but I don't like it.
It's the texture, man. The taste is not too bad. Knowing that it's bird saliva, if you told me this is like it's jello, I would be fine.
They make it sound so gross. It's actually not that bad.
I'll give it six out of 10. Oh, no. I don't want to see this.
I mean, it takes like nothing.
I don't know how people will enjoy that. Six point one for bird saliva.
Like one out of ten.