I tried a Red Bull once and could barely down one bottle without inducing nausea. It was the worst mass-marketed soft drink I had ever ingested-Gatorade being a close second.
The nasty stuff tastes good when your body needs the electrolytes that it contains.
I like milk but there are times when it tastes like someone added a tablespoon of sugar to it. That is when I am low on calcium.
But I have to agree that Red Bull is nasty. Give me a nice coffee!
The original Red Bull [Krating Dang in Thai] is a syrupy drink from Thailand which comes in 100 to 150 ml. bottles, at 40 cents a bottle in Thailand, 69 cents each in the US if you buy it from a Chinese grocery in six packs. Red Bull used to, and probably still does, sponsor the Saturday morning Muay Thai matches on Thai TV. Red Bull was a rival to Lipovitan D, from Japan, and now has has other rivals Carabao Dang [”Red Buffalo”] and M-150.
Like drinking bottles of Mrs Butterworth’s.