water & u

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.

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.

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.

I think on a whole, ILX drinks too much water.

I'm sure that statement will make some people IA.

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.

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.

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."

I almost never drink water alone but I drink tons of herbal tea

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.

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.

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.

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

Oh! I want to read that!

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