Author: Olly

The next chocolate milk review on the cards is at the budget end of the scale – and in fact is possibly the worst choc milk ive ever had the misfortune of drinking.

We shop in booker quite a bit, and i often pick up a crate of chocolate milk to keep me going whilst everyone else drinks their cans of energy. I usually buy Yazoo as you cant go wrong with that – however this time round i chose Funtime Chocolate Milk and boy was i disappointed when i got back to the office.

This drink manages to taste exactly how you would imagine “Brown water” to taste. Its awful, flavourless and i struggle to drink a whole bottle.

If i’d paid 59p for it too i’d be well pissed off.

If funtime would like to improve their recipe and send me some to try ill be happy to re-review, but for now don’t buy this crap.

Funtime Chocolate Milk – 1/10

I heard someone say “write about what you know” once in a movie, or maybe it wasn’t a movie – maybe i didn’t hear anyone say it at all – well wherever i heard it, i have decided to embrace it and start reviewing chocolate milk as its something that i know – and am quite well known for drinking.

Rather than start with something run-of-the-mill im starting my chocolate milk reviews by talking about 2 new brands from the same manufacturer.

Arla are no newcomer to the milk product world but they are newbies in the chocolate milk world – this report on the Grocer written only a few months ago states how Arla “are not in it for the short term, we are not a flash in the pan” which to me is good news as their first two efforts are not too shabby.

I’ll start with Gulp – a kind of obviously named chocolate milk drink with a very different flavour compared to similar drinks on the market here in the UK – it reminded me of how chocolate milk tasted in europe (chocomel etc) but its much thicker like a Friij. It a nice alternative to the other thicker chocolate milks on the market and i would definitely buy again.

The Wing-Co chocolate drink was a different beast altogether – its being aimed at men and marketed as an alternative to snacking – it contains 40% more protein than other chocolate milks and you can taste it when you drink it – its nice, but it was very filling and it cant really be consumed as a drink which to me kind of defeats the point. I may buy it again – but when i’m hungry not thirsty.

All in all, both drinks were nice and i would buy both again depending on circumstances – i prefer the bottle shape this size too, it means you can hold and store a bit easier.

Chocolate Gulp – 8/10
Wing-Co Chocolate – 6/10

EDIT: Bought Arla Gulp a few times since and realised that it reminds me of the taste of chocolate custard or chocolate rice pudding… I knew it was familiar