Wimmy Wham Wham Wozzle! It’s Slurm Time!
Back from the fantasy lands of Zelda and into the sci-fi universe of Futurama (with the flipping of fantasy to sci-fi, it’s starting to feel like split fiction in here). Have you accidentally cryogenically frozen yourself and woke up in the year 3000? Are you missing the taste of a delicious, sugary, additive beverage? Well, you may not be able to find coke anywhere, but there’s a new soft drink on the market and it is the delicious, green, gloop known as Slurm. This soft drink is highly addictive (after all, that is its catchphrase) with the main character of Futurama, Philip J. Fry drinking so much off it, it turns his skin radioactive green.
Now this recipe is going to be hard to recreate in real life, due to the fact it isn’t invented until around 2850 and is made on the planet Wormulon. It also has a secret ingredient (spoilers ahead!) which is it is made from the secretions that come from the anus of a Wormulon queen (it’s not weird I promise, just like the queen says herself “honey comes from a bee’s behind, milk comes from a cow’s behind and have you ever used toothpaste?”).
The recipe calls for mint jelly, frozen limeade and soda water. Put the mint jelly and limeade in the blender to create the sludge part of Slurm. Add that to glass and top with soda water and there you have your very own Slurm. Now for this recipe, I had difficulty getting the mint jelly and the limeade. In the UK, it seems like we have the box standard strawberry, orange, raspberry etc flavours, but no mint flavour, therefore I had to buy gelatine and add peppermint flavouring to it. The limeade was also difficult to get, with none of the major supermarkets having any (plenty of lemon and lime or lime and mint) and I even struggled to find it in the corner shops, until I remembered seeing it at the corner shops next to my mam’s and after a quick trip, I had finally found the elusive limeade.
So how about the taste of it? Well, it was something and it was something Craig and I both disliked it. My blender didn’t do a good job of blending the frozen limeade and the jelly, so there were shards of limeade in the drink, which was probably the most pleasant part to be honest. The jelly tasted vile and I like mint flavouring, but as a jelly it was not palatable. The soda water as well was an interesting choice, as it has a very strong taste, which to me overpowered the drink entirely. If I were to remake this drink, I would probably use a lime and mint flavour carbonated drink and add a blended Mogu Mogu drink in a pineapple or melon flavour, so you still have the thickness to it, but a nicer flavour.
Overall, I honestly can’t recommend this drink, and I think you should either give my recommendation a go, or just stick to this centuries delicious, sugary, highly addictive drinks.
