water & u

the tap water in bavaria is cleaner than pretty much anywhere in europe, but if you ask for it in a restaurant they claim it is dirty or sth and try to sell you 200ml of table water for like 3€. tbh i think they genuinely believe this though. it is very hard water so it doesn't taste amazing, and like 50% of the floor space in german supermarkets is bottled water and beer (cheaper than water, no lie), so clearly there is a market.

i don't dink as much water as i should though sometimes i'lll drink tons of it but on other days while at the office i forget about the watercooler and just do not drink anything at all. i used to drink from the tap, still do sometimes but my flatmates look at me like i'm strange or smth cos apparently you shouldn't drink tap water here as it could make you sick.

also cold water is horrible. room temp is the best. i'm slowly getting used to warm water cos if i don't specify that i want cold water in restaurants, they'll bring it warm. i'm also daily amused by one of my colleagues who always asks for warm water with ice...

i drink a lot of water (via brita filter, room temp) and a fair amount of herbal or green tea

sometimes i buy vitamin water zero when in the US (we don't have it here, the zero one) because i am a disgusting savage i kind of like it but also because the plastic the bottle is made out of doesn't make my lips get crazy dry (which is what other water bottles, nalgene included do!)

also cold water is horrible. room temp is the best. i'm slowly getting used to warm water cos if i don't specify that i want cold water in restaurants, they'll bring it warm. i'm also daily amused by one of my colleagues who always asks for warm water with ice...

Where do you live? Also it's unclear whether you prefer warm or cold water. If you like it then why are you having to get used to it?

isnt some of the appeal of v cold water that it negates the actual flavour thus making hard water more palatable

I bathe in Evian.

@Jesse: i live in malaysia. rereading my post, it doesn't make a lot of sense but basically i like room temp the best and am getting used to warm water. ice cold is something i really have a hard time with as i can barely take more than a couple of sips of it.

Oh, you're distinguishing between "warm" and "room temp." I took them to be synonyms. Who serves actually WARM water??

restaurants in malaysia ! (and i'm guessing in china too)

even poor towns in china will have boiling water spigots, where people lug giant thermoses to every morning to fill up

Jesse that is your worst nightmare - subtropical climate and warm water to drink.

When you say "warm" you do not mean HOT, right? But somewhere between room temp and boiling?? WHYYYYYYYY????????????????????

xp - Yes. God. Fuck. Fuck everything about that. I will be here in Chicago chewing ice cubes and eating frozen grapes.

Sorry, that sounds closed-minded, but man, actually-warm water sounds literally nauseating.

I drink water, cold but no ice, 3 or 4 large glasses/day. There's a Brita pitcher kept in the fridge for drinking (also several sodastream bottles full of plain water b/c cold water carbonates so much better), and there's one left out on the counter for making tea and coffee. Water straight out of the tap is good here, but the Britas are some kind of weird habit. It's not like we change the filters religiously.

I also drink two cups of either tea or coffee every morning and have 3 cans of diet Coke every day (with vanilla syrup if I'm at home). Wine with dinner every so often; beer and cocktails occasionally. No juice, no caloric sodas, no milk.

haha my thought at first. and then you realise that it's not that bad. and slowly you get used to it. also hot here means between room temp and boiling. tbh i really miss cooooold weather :(

drink it cold from the tap no filters no ice but i'm not averse to either just can't be arsed

never fizzy ffs fizzy water tastes awful

i haven't gotten around to changing the filter on my tap so i'm drinking it cold from a big jug in the fridge.

*love* fizzy water. love seltzer. love club soda.

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

down home most people got their drinking water from local wells/springs, tap water tended towards brown until p recently- the spring water was the business tho, def. bottleable and saleable to yanks imo

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.

http://closettokitchen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/lacroix.jpg

Drinking one of those right now.

i pretty much only drink seltzer when it comes to water. the colder the better.

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.

Isn't club soda just carbonated water? No other ingredients.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/408009-how-healthy-is-club-soda/

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 :(

Brita pitchers at room temp grow green slimy shit p quickly ime

Jaq do you like vanilla coke zero? So good!!!

Haven't tried it, but will do now! I mainly just doctor regular diet coke with torani sugarfree vanilla syrup.

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.

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.

A bow tie. Well no wonder.

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.

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.

Jesse, do you have an anosmiac assessment of Pepsi Max?

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.

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.

Omg I loved that shit. Summer of '06 was the last I saw it

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.

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?

ooh the freezer smell - frozen meat - totally

Whatever it is, it is metallic and weird. I mean I'll use ice anyway but that fridgey taste :(

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.

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.

That's another reason why we don't bother with ice. By the time we use the ice, it's all fridgey.

USE MORE ICE

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.