I love how you don''t even have to send Ashens horribly out of date food and drink now. It just gravitates towards him. He is the Chosen One. The Tat Messiah. The Kwitatz Haderach.
Or maybe it's like Mr Burns in the episode where he finds out he's got basically every disease possible and they're all sort of cancelling each other out.
For real, I remember watching these videos in middle school almost 20 years ago. With how much the rest of the internet has changed since then, it's always fun to check back in and see the same old sofa.
Well I think there's something beautiful about this bottle sitting outside and unloved for NINE YEARS before finally being rescued by the only person in the world still willing to help it fulfill it's destiny by drinking the vile stuff.
Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote: "Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck" ~ Immanuel Kant
@@user-os7ec4dm8x She warned her young dog Pudgy to not be a fire dog and he went anyway and got in much trouble in a store on fire, so yeah, she'd easily be against this. But if given a situation where a kitten got sick on candy, she might give catnip to the kitty.
Ashens is the only person who would find a '9 years past its expiry date' bottle of diet Pepsi outside, covered in bird gack, and actually think "hmm, I think I will try this!"
artificial soda sweeteners decay after about a year, according to my type 1 diabetic friend with their unofficial phd in diet sodas, but in my own experience ESPECIALLY traditional diet sodas get much worse than the aspartame used in the zero sodas, it's so fascinating to me
You were the first video I ever saw on RUclips like 13 years ago. I find myself binge watching you and then slowly falling away for years then coming back and getting hooked again. And it always amazes me how much I see that original video I watched in your current videos. I hope these keep coming for years to come. Thanks for everything.
i know its a joke but i think the lore is that it's so filled with sugar and preservatives (it is an american soft drink after all) that it's remained preserved for over a century
Nah, the bombs would have killed off most bacteria, the taste would most likely be more preserved. Only those in very remote areas that weren't targeted would have the bacteria to change it.
@@SakuraShirakawa The chemicals still naturally degrade and interact. That's the principle behind the toxins that makes 20 year old frozen meat still not safe to eat.
I once worked a grocery store in my youth and there is no mistaking the smell of expired soda. The storage area in the back always reeked of spilled, dried old soda, and anytime I get a wiff in any other soda-selling place it always takes me back. I imagine you experienced that smell; it is not unpleasant but for sure odd.
There is little in a diet pepsi that can produce toxins when going of. Its too acidic and has little nutrience for bacteria. That old wedding beer he once drank had far more Potential to produce some fatal toxins
There’s a certain spring in his step that’s returned in this vid that had been missing from some of his content lately. The pub must be doing his soul good.
I want to hear what a chemist would say about the odour and taste. If it's like musky alcohol I wonder if the aspartame broke down into some kind of horrible volatile poison. Needless to say I'm glad Ashens survived this video.
I seem to remember hearing somewhere that aspartame breaks down over time- especially under adverse conditions- into something that's not too nice-tasting. And that diet soft drinks can get quite unpleasant after they're out-of-date for this reason. I'd have expected something that was just chemicals to survive better than sugar-sweetened fizzy drinks, but apparently not. Allowing for that, I was expecting the Pepsi here to be worse than it was, if anything, since it's already approaching a decade out of date. (Edit; after posting this, I noticed that "Peter JF" already made a comment explaining the chemical breakdown and shelf life of aspartame in more detail).
@@NotATube Nah. Sure aspartame breaks down into stuff like Formaldehyde, methanol and formic acid but there is too little of it for you to taste it (Aspartane is 300 times "sweeter" than glucose). What he is tasting is just unsweetened cola which is terrible.
Parents, guardian-figures and mentors: 'don't eat off the floor!' Stuart, finding a 'drink' amongst rubble, soiled by questionable excretions on its bottle:
The sheer cackling glee in Stuart's voice when subjecting himself to things probably deemed torture in some places is both a delight and mildly concerning
There is something rather disturbing about watching one of these videos right as it comes out because for all we know stuart is now in a bird poo pepsi based toxic shock right after uploading
Very interesting. As a control, I’ll put in my experience with this sort of thing. I found a case of orange soda from my uncles graduation party from 1986, and tried one that had remained unopened. This was in 2015 or thereabouts, so it would have been roughly 30 years old, and it was stored in a dark cool basement, and I can confirm that it had little effect on the taste, and it was actually one of the better orange sodas I’ve had. It did use natural sugars, as well as was not exposed to heat or sunlight.
I used to work at a supermarket and was tasked with cleaning under the racking in the warehouse. Whilst i was brushing under the shelves a can of beer rolled out which had clearly been there for some time. When i read the BBE date i was confused to discover it oredated the supermarkets current ownership by several years. My hypothesises are either the manager put it there to mess with me or the area under rhe racking had not been cleaned in over a decade.
They are both very possible 😂 though surely they would have said something if it was just to mess with you, and it would require them to own absurdly old beer.
ive recently experienced the same thing but find sodas and beers that are out of date even predating the oldest coworkers as my job very fun cleaning and finding old stuffthat havent exploded or is gross as balls
I can absolutely see the can having sat there for all those years. I work at a grocery store and I have found expired coupons from 1996 behind display racks and one time while cleaning out a convertor belt on a register I found a 50$ note from 1990.
I remember in history lessons hearing about the king’s poison tester, someone who was tasked with trying all the food to see how toxic it was, and thinking “surely they wouldn’t be many who would voluntarily run the gauntlet” ... apparently not as rare as I thought. Get well soon Stuart 👍😀
I don't think he would cut it as a poison tester. He's built up such an immunity that he'd test the food and be fine then the king would take one bite and instantly die
@@AtomSquirrel anyone who has the ability to casually call out cyanide poisoning with no worries in the world and come out unscathed is a fucking legend in my book
I want to comment for the algorithm because Ashens deserves all the promotion. Also I’ve learned that vastly out of date Pepsi in a bottle covered with pigeon droppings is unlikely to be be as tasty as a freshly chilled bottle off a supermarket shelf. Which is good to know and I’m glad that Ashens did that experiment so we know not to.
I reckon a fair bit of the artificial sweetener (Aspartame) has broken down into Methanol, Formaldehyde, and Formic acid. That would probably explain the taste. That drink is probably quite toxic by now.
@@DrBadmind Incorrect. Aspartame is not metabolized by your body. That's why it's an effective 0 calorie sweetener. However, 5+ years of UV radiation from direct sunlight will have catalyzed the breakdown process in a way your body can't.
No matter how much the world may change, get better, get worse, there is one thing that will never change, and that is Ashens. Thank you Ashens for still risking your death for our entertainment, you are the true King of England.
I’ve been subscribed to Ashens for over 11 years at this point and somehow, I always forget the channel even exists, then a new video appears, and I get delighted.
If it has aspartame, that can with heat turn into something like formaldehyde. Can't imagine what other horrors it would make with 9 years of weather. The fact it still had bubbles is weirdly amazing though
Not just heat but Aspartane is by its nature an unstable molecule. In optimal conditions its rated to survive in around 300 days and "unsweetened" cola is one of the most disgusting things that exists.
No aspartame = ecoli and you found out exactly what it is might scare you but for me I am immune to a lot of things now I live in america horrible stuff happened here try to avoid all america food please
Well my new mine of soda pop will delight you. Shitsi! Made with the finest pidgeon fecal matter and sitting in the hot sun on an undisclosed roof top for 9 years in Atlanta Georgia!
I could easily believe that it's well over a decade old considering that's the Diet Pepsi logo that they started using in 2008. I'm guessing it's probably from around 2011 or 2012 if the expiration date is January 2014.
"wow for a second I thought he might actually drink it. Thank god he's got gloves and everything he's probably just going to open it and see what it looks like...." *proceeds to take out glass and drink it*
Aspartame has an advisory shelf life of five years under ideal conditions. Prolonged exposure of aspartame to high temperatures and storage leads to its breakdown into aspartylphenylalanine and methanol or in case of cyclisation into diketopiperazine. So far as I am aware Pepsi no longer contains aspartame, but an old bottle like that would have.
Thanks for the clarification- I'd literally just mentioned elsewhere that I vaguely remembered hearing something along those lines. BTW, the UK Pepsi website says that it still contains aspartame (alongside Acesulfame K), don't know about elsewhere.
If it's sweetened with Aspartame that breaks down chemically in something like 6 months to a year. So it'd be like unsweetened Pepsi. So chemically, caramel water. I've been drinking diet beverages for years and you have to be really careful once they hit expiration dates, even if they are stored in ideal conditions.
I'm a diet soda drinker and even if this was kept under the best conditions it would be foul- I was sold a two year out of date diet coke at a rock and gem show and it was freaking RANCID. Apparently old sugared sodas aren't so bad.
I drink Pepsi Max quite a bit and even when it's approaching its best before date (like a month or two out) it starts to taste weird. I don't really drink any other soda (diet or otherwise) to say if the same happens to those, but it goes from my favorite cold beverage to genuinely pretty unpleasant. Can't imagine what it'd taste like after nine years.
Most artificial sweeteners break down at elevated temperatures and or with time. Aspartame the most common sweetener of diet soda has a half life of like a year when stored at room temp and in the low ph environment of a cola. There was likely very little if any left by the time mr ashens sampled a diet pepsi of this vintage stored under less than ideal conditions.
Reminds me of some red bull that I think my Dad took out of his car and it ended up sort of embedded in the driveway for at least 6 years. I rescued a couple of the cans and had one. Sort of tasted like all the ingredients had separated out, it was like water with a strong really off aftertaste. I'm sure I drank the whole thing anyway, it's a wonder I didn't die of a new disease.
@@lhaviland8602 I just wanted a red bull one day and remembered the forbidden driveway red bull. Gave it some time in the fridge to cool down, it was awful. Still drank it all though
When clearing out old documents and shoeboxes in my wardrobe, I found a creme egg box with 4 still inside that likely fell out of my backpack and just went forgotten about for three years. They were 2 years past their sell by date, but it was clear no insects had gotten into the box and the foil was intact, so I tried one. They weren't great, but I waited 2 days after the first one before eating a second, and finished the rest. The creme had kind of dried into something similar to cheap icing, and the chocolate was rather waxy. I think it was a batch from around the time people started to complain about them getting worse, so maybe they were always inferior. I would not have touched any of the old food Ashens has, though.
5:29 the reason for this is most likely because it was kept in glass. Plastic bottles and cans (because of the plastic lining), will tend to go flat way faster because of the plastic degrading which causes liquids to be absorbed and gases to escape, making it taste weak and flat
I'm just imagining ashens looking out of the window, spotting the Pepsi bottle and excitement immediately flashing on his face. Like me when I find a corpse outside and can take it home for cleaning. The strangest things can bring us joy
I have a glass bottle of Pepsi Max that is at least 20 years old that I bought at a motorway services when I was very young, thinking some day it would be of use. I am yet to see that day, but today is as close as I have come to it.
Oh that is most certainly the best before date. And considering most sodas have a best before of around a year, that bottle should be around ten years old.
It was likely left out there when the last owner was renovating the building for just opening what he mentioned had closed down, and one of the workers forgot it after it fell over out of eyesight from the window. I'm sure its from late 2012.
I'm more amazed that major brand soft drinks were still in glass bottles with meral caps in 2014 in England. They can be found in the States, but they are the ones bottled in Mexico and imported in.
if only humanity found a way to funnel all of the waste in the world through Ashens' liver, we'd be living in a bright and eco-friendly future we'd always strived towards
Has he made a "ancient expired nasty food" video since this? I feel like he's finally learned his lesson, and decided to just stick to nasty cheap microwave burgers
I speak from experience, sadly, when I tell you that if that bottle had any significant amount of direct sunlight exposure for 1-2+ years, it would have been SIGNIFICANTLY bleached. So, for sure that bottle didn't get a _lot_ of sun. Maybe just a short period each day at certain angles.
I think the aspartame that are in most diet sodas changes over time and makes it taste horrible shortly after the expiration date, whereas in regular sodas, they usually taste fine months after that date.
That's likely the case. I once drank a regular Pepsi that expired in September 2014 in December 2015 and it tasted the same as fresh Pepsi. I drank an Orange Crush that expired two years ago and it tasted mostly fine with some slight tinny after taste.
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I love how you don''t even have to send Ashens horribly out of date food and drink now. It just gravitates towards him. He is the Chosen One. The Tat Messiah. The Kwitatz Haderach.
"They tried and failed?"
"No, they tried the Pigeon Poop Pepsi and died. That ain't like the Water of Life. It's more the Water of BLEECH!"
A man of tat. If there were multiple, they might be men-tats.
You know how there's a cat distribution system? There's also a expired products distribution system.
He just finds it lying around on the sidewalk or in sectioned off back alleys lmao
The last time bin bags came out it was for a chicken in a can
It is totally plausible someone in Norwich knows “if I hide a diet soda somewhere there’s a chance Ashens will find and taste it”
A man on a mission.
Time for me to start hiding drinks along Prince of Wales road
Worst part is that may have been why it was there since he was already well established by the time this bottle was made.
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarineTo review games that are shit, like tail of the sun for the PlayStation one, more like fail of a son of a bitch
I do wonder just how many diseases Ashens has unintentionally immunised himself against with videos like this.
My thoughts exactly. 😂
Xana
Or maybe it's like Mr Burns in the episode where he finds out he's got basically every disease possible and they're all sort of cancelling each other out.
Not even close to that MREguy who ate 90 year old military food
@@SwedishEmpire1700steve? Lol
Man the consistency of this channel is so comforting, no matter how life changes ashens is always here looking at some weird old tat
For real, I remember watching these videos in middle school almost 20 years ago. With how much the rest of the internet has changed since then, it's always fun to check back in and see the same old sofa.
Ashens really just saw a ancient bottle of pepsi and thought ‘thats video content’.
"that's VALUE"
He was right, evidently.
It's ashens, of course he's gonna try an old bottle of drink he found.
He knows what we want
But we didn't know it, until we seen it
Well I think there's something beautiful about this bottle sitting outside and unloved for NINE YEARS before finally being rescued by the only person in the world still willing to help it fulfill it's destiny by drinking the vile stuff.
Ashens thirst for the oldest drinks has taken him to hobo levels of finding them...
.....And I am glad to be here to see it.
We have entered the garbage arc
Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote:
"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck"
~ Immanuel Kant
Ashen's is every protagonist in a Fallout Game picking up unopened bottles of soda from the ground.
The inexplicable talking Betty Boop bottle opener really makes this whole thing special
It's something from a video a long, long time ago. Strage gimmick aside it was actually a very good bottle opener.
Betty's probably not happy havig to open a bottle covered in poo.
@@user-os7ec4dm8x She warned her young dog Pudgy to not be a fire dog and he went anyway and got in much trouble in a store on fire, so yeah, she'd easily be against this. But if given a situation where a kitten got sick on candy, she might give catnip to the kitty.
Birdy Poop
This man has been creating peak RUclips content since I was a kid, absolute legend
Ashens is the only person who would find a '9 years past its expiry date' bottle of diet Pepsi outside, covered in bird gack, and actually think "hmm, I think I will try this!"
IDK Steve1989mreinfo might do it. I have seen him try some crazy stuff.
Dinosaur Dracula does stuff like this too
@@CraZY.pRIME. the bottle did have a . . . nice hiss!
@@CraZY.pRIME. let's get this out on to a tray...
Well technically he got paid thousands to do it lol
artificial soda sweeteners decay after about a year, according to my type 1 diabetic friend with their unofficial phd in diet sodas, but in my own experience ESPECIALLY traditional diet sodas get much worse than the aspartame used in the zero sodas, it's so fascinating to me
Genuinely worried what kind of horrors it takes for ashens to wear gloves 😂
Most memorable thing for me was the two hundred year old olives. Been a hot minute!!!
bird poop. he says so within the first couple minutes.
Pigeon shit. Not fun. Don't blame him for wearing gloves.
Poop
And probably other miscellaneous particles of unknown
@@mistie710 especially with the fact you can literally get bird flu from it iirc
You were the first video I ever saw on RUclips like 13 years ago. I find myself binge watching you and then slowly falling away for years then coming back and getting hooked again. And it always amazes me how much I see that original video I watched in your current videos. I hope these keep coming for years to come. Thanks for everything.
So we finally know what a Nuka Cola bottle would actually look and taste like huh
Still gotta wait an other 195 years hahaha
i know its a joke but i think the lore is that it's so filled with sugar and preservatives (it is an american soft drink after all) that it's remained preserved for over a century
Nah, the bombs would have killed off most bacteria, the taste would most likely be more preserved. Only those in very remote areas that weren't targeted would have the bacteria to change it.
@@SakuraShirakawa
The chemicals still naturally degrade and interact. That's the principle behind the toxins that makes 20 year old frozen meat still not safe to eat.
@@antipsychotic451So, if it were a normal bottle instead of diet.
I can't believe he didn't clean it off first before bringing it to the sofa, the absolute madman
I just love how your immediate thought upon seeing a crusty abandoned bottle of soda is _"I must drink this"_
You truly are a madman
I once worked a grocery store in my youth and there is no mistaking the smell of expired soda. The storage area in the back always reeked of spilled, dried old soda, and anytime I get a wiff in any other soda-selling place it always takes me back. I imagine you experienced that smell; it is not unpleasant but for sure odd.
Ah the true diet Pepsi, you can't put on weight if have permanent food poisoning :)
😂Guaranteed to lose calories drinking it, just depends on how many calories are in your stomach
Eww.
I'm honestly convinced Ashens helped open a pub just for more opportunities like this
this might be the final ashens video we see, i genuinely cannot believe he even tasted a tiny sip of the stuff, rest in peace
Not the fossilised jelly babies?
You can't believe it even though you watched the video?
Some horrors defy belief even after they smacked you in the face.
Not the 100 year old olives? Not the wedding cake? Not the Dasani? But the 2014 Diet Pepsi that will do it
There is little in a diet pepsi that can produce toxins when going of. Its too acidic and has little nutrience for bacteria. That old wedding beer he once drank had far more Potential to produce some fatal toxins
The fact that you didn't clean the bottle, forcing us to look at it...gotta love it
Even though it's only 9 years out of date, this one somehow worried me more than any of the >50 year old things you tried.
Even if that bottle had been put through an industrial grade dishwasher there's no way i'd have even contemplated tasting that.
When you can't (for any reason) fathom the Context of an Ashens Video based on the Title and Thumbnail, you know it's going to be a good Ashens Video
There’s a certain spring in his step that’s returned in this vid that had been missing from some of his content lately.
The pub must be doing his soul good.
I want to hear what a chemist would say about the odour and taste. If it's like musky alcohol I wonder if the aspartame broke down into some kind of horrible volatile poison. Needless to say I'm glad Ashens survived this video.
I seem to remember hearing somewhere that aspartame breaks down over time- especially under adverse conditions- into something that's not too nice-tasting. And that diet soft drinks can get quite unpleasant after they're out-of-date for this reason.
I'd have expected something that was just chemicals to survive better than sugar-sweetened fizzy drinks, but apparently not.
Allowing for that, I was expecting the Pepsi here to be worse than it was, if anything, since it's already approaching a decade out of date.
(Edit; after posting this, I noticed that "Peter JF" already made a comment explaining the chemical breakdown and shelf life of aspartame in more detail).
@@NotATube Nah. Sure aspartame breaks down into stuff like Formaldehyde, methanol and formic acid but there is too little of it for you to taste it (Aspartane is 300 times "sweeter" than glucose). What he is tasting is just unsweetened cola which is terrible.
Parents, guardian-figures and mentors: 'don't eat off the floor!'
Stuart, finding a 'drink' amongst rubble, soiled by questionable excretions on its bottle:
He an adult, he's old/big/ugly enough to do what he likes XP As mum would say.
They say don't "eat" off the floor. He didn't eat this, he drank it, so it's all good.
The sheer cackling glee in Stuart's voice when subjecting himself to things probably deemed torture in some places is both a delight and mildly concerning
There is something rather disturbing about watching one of these videos right as it comes out because for all we know stuart is now in a bird poo pepsi based toxic shock right after uploading
Birdshit can carry some N A S T Y disease, so I hope he was mad careful.
@ninjafang i would actually do it for the laughs as long as i had sonething to contain it without staining everything with bird crap
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine Watch out for the bird shit!
this man just drank pepsi-scented formaldehyde and wood alcohol
Only Ashens would look at a bottle of Pepsi covered in Pigeon Poo and ask, "Is anyone gonna drink that?"
Ashens could bring home a 10 year old brick covered in poop and I’d find it fascinating. This is top notch content.
As a local to the same City Stuart lives in...
I wouldn't give him these ideas, there are some werid items discarded in our city...
Very interesting. As a control, I’ll put in my experience with this sort of thing. I found a case of orange soda from my uncles graduation party from 1986, and tried one that had remained unopened. This was in 2015 or thereabouts, so it would have been roughly 30 years old, and it was stored in a dark cool basement, and I can confirm that it had little effect on the taste, and it was actually one of the better orange sodas I’ve had. It did use natural sugars, as well as was not exposed to heat or sunlight.
the worst part of this video is ashens reminding us that 2014 was 9 years ago and not 2
Silly Stuart, every Pepsi you've ever had has been bird shit Pepsi. This one was just honest about it.
I used to work at a supermarket and was tasked with cleaning under the racking in the warehouse. Whilst i was brushing under the shelves a can of beer rolled out which had clearly been there for some time. When i read the BBE date i was confused to discover it oredated the supermarkets current ownership by several years.
My hypothesises are either the manager put it there to mess with me or the area under rhe racking had not been cleaned in over a decade.
They are both very possible 😂 though surely they would have said something if it was just to mess with you, and it would require them to own absurdly old beer.
ive recently experienced the same thing but find sodas and beers that are out of date even predating the oldest coworkers as my job very fun cleaning and finding old stuffthat havent exploded or is gross as balls
Explain what "oredated" means, and the plural of _hypothesis_ is _hypotheses._
I can absolutely see the can having sat there for all those years. I work at a grocery store and I have found expired coupons from 1996 behind display racks and one time while cleaning out a convertor belt on a register I found a 50$ note from 1990.
So how'd it taste??
A heroic effort, Stuart! I'm greatly relieved you survived to fight another day.
I remember in history lessons hearing about the king’s poison tester, someone who was tasked with trying all the food to see how toxic it was, and thinking “surely they wouldn’t be many who would voluntarily run the gauntlet” ... apparently not as rare as I thought. Get well soon Stuart 👍😀
I don't think he would cut it as a poison tester. He's built up such an immunity that he'd test the food and be fine then the king would take one bite and instantly die
“Cyanide again?”
“Yep, cyanide”
“Figures”
Thanks for reminding me those existed, I've heard about it so little that I was wondering if I'd dreamt it XD
@@AtomSquirrel anyone who has the ability to casually call out cyanide poisoning with no worries in the world and come out unscathed is a fucking legend in my book
To be honest, I haven't clicked on an Ashens video in years. I've been subbed, just been watching other stuff.
But this? This I had to see.
He brought it home the same way many serial killers bring home their trophies
Only Ashens would see an abandoned bottle of Pepsi and go "Ye I'm gonna drink that"
I want to comment for the algorithm because Ashens deserves all the promotion.
Also I’ve learned that vastly out of date Pepsi in a bottle covered with pigeon droppings is unlikely to be be as tasty as a freshly chilled bottle off a supermarket shelf. Which is good to know and I’m glad that Ashens did that experiment so we know not to.
That brown couch has seen and experience more interesting things than all of my 45 years of existence.
I reckon a fair bit of the artificial sweetener (Aspartame) has broken down into Methanol, Formaldehyde, and Formic acid. That would probably explain the taste. That drink is probably quite toxic by now.
Good stuff to get high from.
Ah, yes, methanol, the casual soft drink of choice
It gets metabolized into those things in the body when consumed anyway. That wouldn't make it any more toxic.
@@DrBadmind Incorrect. Aspartame is not metabolized by your body. That's why it's an effective 0 calorie sweetener. However, 5+ years of UV radiation from direct sunlight will have catalyzed the breakdown process in a way your body can't.
@@Ferrari255GTO You won't see it coming.
No matter how much the world may change, get better, get worse, there is one thing that will never change, and that is Ashens. Thank you Ashens for still risking your death for our entertainment, you are the true King of England.
This man can legit show me a Pepsi that was left outside covered in bird shit for the last 9 years and still make me find it interesting. Amazing.
I’ve been subscribed to Ashens for over 11 years at this point and somehow, I always forget the channel even exists, then a new video appears, and I get delighted.
I love the fact that Ashens can take a piece of trash off that's been laying outside for God knows how long and make an entertaining video about it.
“Uhh.. ahhh, awh! I’m afraid that doesn’t taste of Pepsi at all anymore” -Ashens speaking on a 9 year expired Diet Pepsi
Ashens is patient zero for a new pandemic 😀
Nooooo!!
I think his immune system is so strong at this point from out of date food that a virus will try to attack him and get left in a ditch.
I choked on my tea at the Betty Boop bottle opener that just wouldn’t stop 😂😂😂😂
This is the definition of letting the intrusive thoughts win
@ 0:36 it looks like the bottle has left a trail as it makes it's way across the ground. 'It's alive'!
If it has aspartame, that can with heat turn into something like formaldehyde. Can't imagine what other horrors it would make with 9 years of weather. The fact it still had bubbles is weirdly amazing though
Yes you're right, the old carcinogen!
Not just heat but Aspartane is by its nature an unstable molecule. In optimal conditions its rated to survive in around 300 days and "unsweetened" cola is one of the most disgusting things that exists.
No aspartame = ecoli and you found out exactly what it is might scare you but for me I am immune to a lot of things now
I live in america horrible stuff happened here try to avoid all america food please
Out of date bird poop diet pepsi is rare. If you liked it and wanted more it would be almost impossible to find 🤣
Give me about 9 years and I'll find all you could ever want. Which I imagine isn't that much!
@@Joe90h You see, it would be different because it isn't 9 years from 2014 specifically.
@@Gold_Yoshi Like anything really Wine, Whiskey, Bird Shit Pepsi
Well my new mine of soda pop will delight you. Shitsi! Made with the finest pidgeon fecal matter and sitting in the hot sun on an undisclosed roof top for 9 years in Atlanta Georgia!
@@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852 It's been marinating near dirty needles to further concentrate the flavours in a sophisticated manner
Normal person: "eww look at that old pepsi bottle covered in pigeon poop, disgusting!
Ashens: "I MUST DRINK THAT!"
I could easily believe that it's well over a decade old considering that's the Diet Pepsi logo that they started using in 2008.
I'm guessing it's probably from around 2011 or 2012 if the expiration date is January 2014.
Always good when the video opens with Ashens wearing black gloves
"It's time to be relieved from this prison of fat once and for all" is not what I expected to hear from an ad on this video
Ashens: Wears gloves for safety
Also ashens: drinks ancient Pepsi
I'm glad Ashens was brave enough to complete this experiment in freshness.
The expiration date for pepsi is typically 2 years after production, so you're actually drinking an 11-year-old bottle of Pepsi sir.
"wow for a second I thought he might actually drink it. Thank god he's got gloves and everything he's probably just going to open it and see what it looks like...."
*proceeds to take out glass and drink it*
Have you seen the rest of his videos?
“This is the first time I’ve ever tried Bird Shit Pepsi” 🤣
Aspartame has an advisory shelf life of five years under ideal conditions. Prolonged exposure of aspartame to high temperatures and storage leads to its breakdown into aspartylphenylalanine and methanol or in case of cyclisation into diketopiperazine. So far as I am aware Pepsi no longer contains aspartame, but an old bottle like that would have.
Thanks for the clarification- I'd literally just mentioned elsewhere that I vaguely remembered hearing something along those lines.
BTW, the UK Pepsi website says that it still contains aspartame (alongside Acesulfame K), don't know about elsewhere.
Wait methonol? So if we all leave sodas to sit and go bad for years we can have free gas?
Fun fact
Coke was made before refrigerators and is made to drink warm. Pepsi was invented after refrigeration and is made to drink cold.
We've missed you and appreciate your years of near perfect content.
- Sees Forbidden Diet Pepsi.
- Decides to make content with it.
- Regrets it almost immediately.
Just for the taste of it... oh wait that's Diet Coke. Great video Stuart, you never fail to make me smile.
Cant believe how much ive missed Stuarts videos like this.the guy is a legend.
If it's sweetened with Aspartame that breaks down chemically in something like 6 months to a year. So it'd be like unsweetened Pepsi. So chemically, caramel water.
I've been drinking diet beverages for years and you have to be really careful once they hit expiration dates, even if they are stored in ideal conditions.
4:31 "nice hiss"
I'm a diet soda drinker and even if this was kept under the best conditions it would be foul- I was sold a two year out of date diet coke at a rock and gem show and it was freaking RANCID. Apparently old sugared sodas aren't so bad.
Yeah makes sense sugar is a type of preservative tho sodas aren't typically using sugar like that haha
I drink Pepsi Max quite a bit and even when it's approaching its best before date (like a month or two out) it starts to taste weird. I don't really drink any other soda (diet or otherwise) to say if the same happens to those, but it goes from my favorite cold beverage to genuinely pretty unpleasant. Can't imagine what it'd taste like after nine years.
Most artificial sweeteners break down at elevated temperatures and or with time. Aspartame the most common sweetener of diet soda has a half life of like a year when stored at room temp and in the low ph environment of a cola. There was likely very little if any left by the time mr ashens sampled a diet pepsi of this vintage stored under less than ideal conditions.
my fallout 4 character finding a 200 yr old nuka cola
Reminds me of some red bull that I think my Dad took out of his car and it ended up sort of embedded in the driveway for at least 6 years. I rescued a couple of the cans and had one. Sort of tasted like all the ingredients had separated out, it was like water with a strong really off aftertaste. I'm sure I drank the whole thing anyway, it's a wonder I didn't die of a new disease.
DUDE WHAT!?
@@lhaviland8602 I just wanted a red bull one day and remembered the forbidden driveway red bull. Gave it some time in the fridge to cool down, it was awful. Still drank it all though
thank you for the research dr ashen
When clearing out old documents and shoeboxes in my wardrobe, I found a creme egg box with 4 still inside that likely fell out of my backpack and just went forgotten about for three years. They were 2 years past their sell by date, but it was clear no insects had gotten into the box and the foil was intact, so I tried one. They weren't great, but I waited 2 days after the first one before eating a second, and finished the rest. The creme had kind of dried into something similar to cheap icing, and the chocolate was rather waxy. I think it was a batch from around the time people started to complain about them getting worse, so maybe they were always inferior.
I would not have touched any of the old food Ashens has, though.
oh god lol
5:29 the reason for this is most likely because it was kept in glass. Plastic bottles and cans (because of the plastic lining), will tend to go flat way faster because of the plastic degrading which causes liquids to be absorbed and gases to escape, making it taste weak and flat
I'm just imagining ashens looking out of the window, spotting the Pepsi bottle and excitement immediately flashing on his face. Like me when I find a corpse outside and can take it home for cleaning. The strangest things can bring us joy
W H A T ?
The consistent style and high quality of videos throughout the years is almost inhuman.
I forgot the obvious one:
"LIQUID FILTH!"
I just get anxious every time Ashens is going to die of botulism.
This is how i feel nuka colas look when you find them in fallout
Think it's an intentional reference
I've so missed these gross out videos, thanks Ashens
I just got hit in the head with a can of Pepsi
Luckily for me, it was a soft drink.....
Booooo
*rimshot*
I have a glass bottle of Pepsi Max that is at least 20 years old that I bought at a motorway services when I was very young, thinking some day it would be of use. I am yet to see that day, but today is as close as I have come to it.
Getting severe diarrhea is probably not the 'diet' that you were looking for
Ashens just got tired of waiting for people to send him old/expired food and drink that he decided to find some himself.
Oh that is most certainly the best before date. And considering most sodas have a best before of around a year, that bottle should be around ten years old.
yup horrific tbh lmao
It was likely left out there when the last owner was renovating the building for just opening what he mentioned had closed down, and one of the workers forgot it after it fell over out of eyesight from the window. I'm sure its from late 2012.
This bottle expired a year after Ashens made his first video of eating old food, which means that it probably was bottled when he uploaded that video
Should have sent it to Big Clive and had him put it through the Soda Stream.
14 years and still loving this channel 😂
I'm more amazed that major brand soft drinks were still in glass bottles with meral caps in 2014 in England. They can be found in the States, but they are the ones bottled in Mexico and imported in.
I could walk 10 minutes to Asda right now and buy a multipack of glass bottle coke? It’s everywhere
They’re usually found in pubs & restaurants or some fancier cafes. As far as I know, all Coke & Pepsi is made here in the U.K.
By that, I mean all Coke & Pepsi sold in the U.K is made here.
"He's not actually going to drink it, is it?"
"He's going to drink it"
I swear Ashen's must have an incredible immune system with all the weird stuff he's eaten and drank over the years
if only humanity found a way to funnel all of the waste in the world through Ashens' liver, we'd be living in a bright and eco-friendly future we'd always strived towards
Has he made a "ancient expired nasty food" video since this? I feel like he's finally learned his lesson, and decided to just stick to nasty cheap microwave burgers
I speak from experience, sadly, when I tell you that if that bottle had any significant amount of direct sunlight exposure for 1-2+ years, it would have been SIGNIFICANTLY bleached. So, for sure that bottle didn't get a _lot_ of sun. Maybe just a short period each day at certain angles.
more sun would have been good I think, it acts as a desinfectant
texan here i see alot of bleached sodas and they arent even out of date some times. the sun here is no joke
I think the aspartame that are in most diet sodas changes over time and makes it taste horrible shortly after the expiration date, whereas in regular sodas, they usually taste fine months after that date.
That's likely the case. I once drank a regular Pepsi that expired in September 2014 in December 2015 and it tasted the same as fresh Pepsi. I drank an Orange Crush that expired two years ago and it tasted mostly fine with some slight tinny after taste.
this pepsi was probably produced in 2013 due to its 2014 expiry date
I've been watching for over a decade, thanks ashens!