[rick]

By far my favorite meal beverage... be it home tap, restaurant tap (know your restaurant), spring-sourced or, if absolutely necessary, bottled (please no added-flavours) - nothing washes down a meal better without taking away from the taste experience of said meal like a fine glass (or preferably pitcher, w/cubes) of water.

One exception: breakfast. I prefer a juice if my meal is of the breakfast variety/style. OJ works, Apple will do in a pinch... grapefruit and peach I will pass on. Milk can work, but its very selective on which meals it accompanies and often you need a juice as well to make the whole thing gel.

Pop is always the "nothing better readily available" cop out in my books... that I fall back on way too often.

I pity those who for some reason I cannot comprehend, cannot stomach much beyond a half glass of water a day. That has got to suck.

[Ad Astra]

Aye. All that said, whoever started the idea that Americans would be willing to shell out $1.50 for a half-liter of filtered municipal tap water is a GENIUS.

Me, I prefer tap water via my Culligan system.

[Ragnarok]

I agree with the no water for breakfast. It doesn't work for some reason. A juice is needed.

The one exception I have for choosing pop over water is, Dr. Pepper. I will always take the Dr. Pepper.

[Thalia]

I agree with the no water for breakfast. It doesn't work for some reason. A juice is needed.

I'm the same, I like juice or redbush tea to wake me up! It's the same when I'm ill, I need something I can taste.

I carry a bottle of water EVERYWHERE with me as I'm constantly worried about being thirsty, but we need more water fountains at uni to fill it up.

[Joshwa]

god's pop!

[aez]

I have a oral fixation (omg!) so I down probably 20 glasses of water during my work day... which of course means 7-10 trips to take a wizz since I'm just a desk jockey.

But yeah. I'm with you. My not-girlfriend's parents don't ever drink water, and that's all I ever have to drink when I have guests, excepting beer and liquor.

They fucking bring their own "Sweet Tea."

[Thalia]

But yeah. I'm with you. My not-girlfriend's parents don't ever drink water, and that's all I ever have to drink when I have guests, excepting beer and liquor.

I like providing a range of juices and teas when I have guests, but I think I am a hostess by nature!

[Matt]

I love to take hot water and mix it with ice. You let it set until it's cold... and then WOW. What a drink!

[Phife]

I drink tap water, usually filtered, though not always. Unless your municipal water supply is deemed unhealthy for some reason, why spend money on water!?!?

[Thalia]

My mum got a Brita filter but we couldn't tell the difference because our water tastes amazing anyway, the filter parts had to be replaced all the time so she got rid of it.

[SnrPearls]

We have a Brita, only because we were buying a case of bottled water almost every week. Apparently, tap water or water through the fridge + ice isn't cold enough. I can't really tell the difference in taste, and the brita is supposed to leave fluoride in the water, which is nice. I have several different water bottles, and most days I'm student teaching, I try to drink a liter of water at school, plus another glass or two afterwards.

One of our slightly up-scale grocery stores has an isle of "specialty waters", and I'll admit, I've tried some. Mainly, it's just strange flavors of water that you pay a ridiculous price for. Oxygenated water? How fucking dumb. Your digestive track absorbs very little oxygen, and according to all the tests I've read online, they only contain about the same amount of oxygen as a single breath. Woohoo. You spent an extra 2 dollars for another breath of air, which you probably won't benefit from in the first place.

They also have MetroMint, which I still haven't made my mind up on. It's purified "spring water" and mint oil. Chilled near freezing, it's actually pretty good. Any warmer though, and it gives you a weird mouth feel.

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[Dean]

I drink water without ice...


...as long as it is mixed in equal parts with whiskey.




Seriously, the only time I will force myself to drink plain water is if I am completely out of every other possible consumable liquid and it's midnight and I can't be bothered changing out of my skivvies to drive to the 24-hour store to buy something else to drink.

[Matt]

^ You sir are not a functioning alcoholic then. A functioning alcoholic keeps a bottle of water beside my their bed for when I they wake up in the middle of the night and are thirsty. When I they slam the whole bottle of water I they don't wake up with a hangover.

[CaptainPony]

I'm drunk and it's 3am...so I drink water.

Unfiltered tap. I hope you Brita people live in Russia because otherwise it's probably not worth it.
Having worked closely with my local water supplier (Epcor) I know how clean the water is.
They actually blast the water with some serious radiation to destroy harmful bacteria. Fuck beaver fever I'm tasting some delicious better than Dasani water.

Ice hurts the teeth.

[doa12]

Living in Illinois, you get a different perspective on things, because things are just different here.

As village officials were building a national reputation for pinching pennies, and sending out fliers proclaiming Crestwood water was “Good to taste but not to waste!,” state and village records obtained by the newspaper show they secretly were drawing water from a contaminated well, apparently to save money.

Officials kept using the well even though state environmental officials told them at least 22 years ago that dangerous chemicals related to a dry-cleaning solvent had oozed into the water, records show.

The village avoided scrutiny by telling state regulators in 1986 that they would get all of their tap water from Lake Michigan, and would use the well only in an emergency. But records show Crestwood kept drawing well water on a routine basis—relying on it for up to 20 percent of the village’s water supply some months.

source

That said, here I drink water from the tap. I occasionally buy water to keep in the fridge to have a cold bottle to take somewhere, such as to soccer or when I'm helping someone at their house working outside. At work I will buy a bottle every couple days because the water system in the building was warned against when I started, and even though it has been fully replaced since, it's not cold, so I waste 65 cents to get 20oz out of the machine. Usually I drink soda though. Recently at home I've been drinking sunny delight since I haven't been feeling well and thought the vitamin C might help.

[rick]

^ You sir are not a functioning alcoholic then. A functioning alcoholic keeps a bottle of water beside my their bed for when I they wake up in the middle of the night and are thirsty. When I they slam the whole bottle of water I they don't wake up with a hangover.

QFT.

[Thalia]

^ You sir are not a functioning alcoholic then. A functioning alcoholic keeps a bottle of water beside my their bed for when I they wake up in the middle of the night and are thirsty. When I they slam the whole bottle of water I they don't wake up with a hangover.

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It's the miracle cure!

[Megan]

I've only had tap water once in my life, so I will probably never drink it. I will cook with it or make coffee with it, but if I'm drinking straight water I drink it from a bottle.

[Joshwa]

^ You sir are not a functioning alcoholic then. A functioning alcoholic keeps a bottle of water beside my their bed for when I they wake up in the middle of the night and are thirsty. When I they slam the whole bottle of water I they don't wake up with a hangover.

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It's the miracle cure!

Sooo true. Everyone needs two bottles by their bed. A bottle of water and a bottle to piss in when they cant be bothered going to the toilet.

[Lupuss]

That's what the bed's for. D'uh!