i just dgi, maybe i'm conditioned from youth to expect a sugar rush from carbonated liquid, but even w/out that factor there's a dry aftertaste from sparkling that i dislike intensely
so OTM. also reminds me of having to drink dispirin as a kid.
― smoove operator, Friday, 30 December 2011 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://closettokitchen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/lacroix.jpg
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 30 December 2011 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
Drinking one of those right now.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 30 December 2011 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
i pretty much only drink seltzer when it comes to water. the colder the better.
― t. silaviver, Friday, 30 December 2011 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
what's the deal with club soda? it's saltier than seltzer, right? i like it but it never quenches my thirst, it's like i could drink 2 gallons of it and still feel unsatisfied.
― t. silaviver, Friday, 30 December 2011 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't club soda just carbonated water? No other ingredients.
― nickn, Friday, 30 December 2011 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.livestrong.com/article/408009-how-healthy-is-club-soda/
― trudy campbell, Friday, 30 December 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
I like room temp water but Melb's water is very clean and tastes good (well, most of the time, occasionally it is v vagely bleachy), but the water in Perth is GODAWFUL, in the north anyway, it is incredibly chloriney and has a strange soapy/salty taste and the only way I could stomach it was icy cold which killed any "flavour" in it blegh. Canberra's tap water tastes like a swimming pool :(
― Leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. (Trayce), Friday, 30 December 2011 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
Brita pitchers at room temp grow green slimy shit p quickly ime
Jaq do you like vanilla coke zero? So good!!!
― Stevie :-D, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't tried it, but will do now! I mainly just doctor regular diet coke with torani sugarfree vanilla syrup.
― jaq, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Since I lost my sense of smell I prefer Coke Zero and regular Coke. Both used to taste too sweet, and Diet Coke had a nice light "crispness" about it. When I got anosmia, Diet started tasting like garlic, which was weird.
― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
i used to just drink a couple glasses of ice water a day but then a gastroenterologist with a bow tie scolded me and now i'm up to like 3.5 liters/day, from a smartwater bottle which i fill with regular dumbwater. i had a v. strict preference for freezing too but it was surprisingly easy to kick. when i get anything else though i blitz it with ice. and then eat all the ice.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 30 December 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
A bow tie. Well no wonder.
― OH GNUS (Pyth), Friday, 30 December 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
I drink a lot of water. SF water out of the tap is excellent. I'm not a huge fan of the American habit of super cold water. My favorite bottled fizzy water is Badoit.
― M. White, Friday, 30 December 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
xxxp: I presently drink tap exclusively, mostly as tea or coffee. I definitely plan on installing post-plumbing reverse osmosis filtration on a drinking water faucet once I'm settled down, but it isn't the fluoride that concerns me. I thought this hypothesis of copper plumbing as a cause of the modern Alzheimer's epidemic was pretty compelling.
― Filled with Kolaveri (Sanpaku), Friday, 30 December 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
Jesse, do you have an anosmiac assessment of Pepsi Max?
― saddle shoes for X-Men (rusty flathead screwdriver), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not even sure what Pepsi Max is. Is it like Jolt! cola?
Hey, remember Coke Black? I lived in a Jesuit priests' residence for a couple months while working New Orleans and they went through a lot of Coke Black. I don't think it still exists. Poor priests, having to drink regular brown Coke.
― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 30 December 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
I drink a lot of water, have a big 24oz water bottle I fill 2 or 3 times a day, and I drink a few glasses at home. Don't like freezing cold water much, not a big ice fan either. Just room temperature water is good enough for me.
Sac's tap water is pretty drinkable, but we keep a Brita in the fridge.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 30 December 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
Omg I loved that shit. Summer of '06 was the last I saw it
― Stevie :-D, Friday, 30 December 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
I had no string opinions on it. It was just Coke with espresso, right? It was mostly just a bit confusing for my tongue, but inoffensive.
― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 31 December 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
THose of you who insist on ice, how do you get over the horrid taste ice always has? Mine always does anyway, it... I dunno, it aborbs fridge smells or something?
― Leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. (Trayce), Saturday, 31 December 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
ooh the freezer smell - frozen meat - totally
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Saturday, 31 December 2011 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
Whatever it is, it is metallic and weird. I mean I'll use ice anyway but that fridgey taste :(
― Leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. (Trayce), Saturday, 31 December 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
IME ice gets that taste from sitting around too long, which mine doesn't get to do. Tho sometimes if there is some strong stuff in the freezer with it, it picks up the flavor That sucks.
― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 31 December 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
IME ice gets that taste from sitting around too long, which mine doesn't get to do.
Ditto. Our ice tastes fine, but we outpace the icemaker most days.
― William (C), Saturday, 31 December 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
That's another reason why we don't bother with ice. By the time we use the ice, it's all fridgey.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Saturday, 31 December 2011 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
USE MORE ICE
― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 31 December 2011 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
We never have room in the freezer for ice, either.
My parents have an ice maker that's separate from their fridge and it makes really awesome ice that is perfect for crunching and I use lots of ice when I'm at their house.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
smelly ice? never heard of it. crazy.
i <3 water but i don't drink a ton of it, even all day cycling i'll rarely drink more than a litre. if i don't have any to hand though, i panic.
― ledge, Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
I have considered buying a standalone ice machine. I would love to find one that dispenses these things
http://www.manitowocice.com/images/uploaded/mii/ice_forms/alt-ice-type-tubular.jpg
Which Manitowoc Ice Machines calls "tubular nuggets" and says of them Softer, chewable texture with good cooling. Cylindrical shaped nugget with 5/8'' diameter and average length of approximately 1''. With the longer pieces and 90% ice quality, tubular nugget is ideal for dispensing applications.
This discussion reminded me of this gourmet ice company in Chicago:
But Lang, whose grandfather founded the company in 1923, said Gourmet Ice is special. It is frozen over 48 hours, as opposed to about 12 minutes for a conventional cube. Air bubbles, which cause cloudiness and trap freezer smells in other cubes, are removed, as are dissolved minerals.
― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 31 December 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
I think on a whole, ILX drinks too much water.
― Jeff, Saturday, 31 December 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sure that statement will make some people IA.
― Jeff, Saturday, 31 December 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
I was arguing with a friend on FB about the cult of hydration. She was saying she was trying to drink more water b/c she was always dehydrated. I really, really doubt that many people are actually regularly dehydrated. The eight-glasses-a-day thing is kinda malarky. The bottled water industry has been successful in convincing us that we're dehydrated, I think.
― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 31 December 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, the body is pretty good at telling you when it needs water. Unless your nervous system has some kind of glitch, you probably can drink fluids when you're thirsty and all will be well.
― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 31 December 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Or if you have gotten into some kind of disordered hydration habit. Which I guess is pretty likely if people are saying "I hate water."
― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 31 December 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
I almost never drink water alone but I drink tons of herbal tea
― tanuki, Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
I love those tubular nuggets of ice!
Maybe another reason I don't care for home ice is because when I have ice, I eat it and home ice isn't very fun to eat.
When a friend of mine was pregnant, she used to crave ice from a very specific Burger King and would often go out at inconvenient hours to just get giant cups of their ice.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
If you piss about 5 to 7 times a day, you're adequately hydrated, unless you are introducing obvious diuretics into your system, such as several cups of coffee. That throws everything out of whack.
― Aimless, Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
My sister-in-law craved pellet ice when she was pregnant.
Which reminds me: that side of the family, which is made up entirely of horrible people, hate water. My s-i-l's mother drinks literally ONLY Diet Rite.
My s-i-l's close friend puts Mountain Dew in her babies' bottle as a "treat" while they were nursing, and later because "they like it" and "water is gross" ("it rusts your insides lol!"). The s-i-l would probably have done something stupid like that, but my brother put strict limits on the kids' soda intake. Even so, she would sneak sugar in their water b/c "water is gross," nevermind that my niece loved plain water as a toddler.
― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
you guys should read the chapters of this book i have about pica that address a fixation with eating ice
http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/101640000/101643417.jpg
― league of women voters, Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
Oh! I want to read that!
― jaq, Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
Huh, so apparently I'm part of a trend in ice munching.
-Sales of machines that make easier-to-chew ice jumped about 23% [from] 2006 from 2003, according to data from the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute. - Ice chewers swap tips on Icechewing.com.- Amy Grant bought Vince Gill an ice pellet machine for Christmas. Gill says [i]"Europe is a drag," he says. "I ask for ice, and they give me one or two cubes. They're stingy with their ice. I'd never survive there."[i]
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120165510390727145.html?mod=blog
― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
I became anemic a couple of years ago because of a medication I was taking and experienced some pica-like cravings as a result. It was disconcerting.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
ice chewers are disgusting savages imo
― silby, Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
even the sound of someone biting down on a popsicle makes my whole nervous system wig out
oh man i wanna read that pica book. i used to eat a lot of paper. (eighth grade was a hard year.)
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 31 December 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
it's pretty good, would recommend!
― league of women voters, Saturday, 31 December 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
> I have considered buying a standalone ice machine. I would love to find one that dispenses these things
― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, December 31, 2011 2:27 PM (7 hours ago)
Not quite that shape, but Manitowoc's SM50. residential ice machine does make these terrific, perfectly clear, gem-like octagonal ice cubes. It's what I hope to have in my kitchen someday. Once you try these you'll never want to go back to the smelly, cloudy-white ice crescents that your refrigerator makes again.http://www.towsleys.com/mfsg/itemimages/IF14_rg.jpg
Scotsman makes a good undercounter ice machine too, and less expensive, which makes cylindrical ice. Every other residential undercounter ice machine i'm aware of makes boring rectangular cubes, although they'll still taste good and be perfectly clear.
― Everything else is secondary, Sunday, 1 January 2012 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
water with lemon juice squeezed in, about 2 liters a day. refrigerated, no ice.
must have lemon because i just don't really like drinking plain water. this is probably cause i grew up in a town with very chemical-ly tasting water, i always hated drinking water as a kid. now that i've discovered the magic of putting lemon in my water, i drink it constantly, and have stopped drinking soda almost completely.
that said, soda water is awesome. i went through a diabetes scare + doctor complaining about my "liver numbers" and suggesting i cut back on teh booze, so i stopped consuming sugar but needed something non-alcoholic to drink at the bar that wasn't sweet sugary coke. soda water totally works for that, and bonus, bartenders usually give it to me free
― messiahwannabe, Monday, 2 January 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
Water w lemon was my jam until I discovered water w lime
― Stevie :-D, Monday, 2 January 2012 14:47 (twelve years ago) link