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The quest for more sugar in everything now bears fruit. If these people are not addicted, nobody is.

by Piskvorrr 8y ago

erulabs 8y ago
Exactly my thought after reading this - they don't hate the taste of water, they hate the taste of not-sugar.
- notacoward 8y ago
  That's way too simplistic (and judgmental). I'm not fond of plain water, but "hates the taste of not-sugar" doesn't explain why I'd find unsweetened tea or lemonade preferable. Yes, really. Heck, I'd find salt water preferable in terms of taste, though it's a bad idea for other reasons. What theory do you have for why you're still a superior person?
  - erulabs 8y ago
    I'm not a superior person at all, and I never meant to imply that. But you ought to know that unsweetened tea and unsweetened lemonade still has plenty of sodium (or in the case of actual lemon juice added, fructose sugars (which are not required to be listed on the labels)), which is also a flavor enhancer. My point is that it's not water that tastes bad, it's that some people get so used to salt and sugar in everything they eat that plain old water tastes gross. > I'd find salt water preferable in terms of taste I'm absolutely sure that's true for varying levels of salt, as shown by your preference for unsweetened tea. Salt or sugar, they're both flavor enhancers, which was the point of my post. Also, it's entirely possible that people who hate water live in places where a lot of minerals and iron are in the water, which is common (and a lot of people don't like that irony taste). Or, the reverse where people grew up in areas _with_ a particular mineral in the water which is no longer there. Personally, a nice ceramic filter on a Big Berkeley, put into the fridge for a day, ooooh man I'm gonna go hydrate currently. Edit: I should have figured from your aggressive tone that a reply wasn't going to be productive, but after reading your bio - WOW. Feel free to let this thread die!
ktsmith 8y ago
I've been in Phoenix for the last couple of months and the water here is disgusting. It tastes terrible even after softening and filtering. My hands and body feel slimy after washing. After living somewhere with good tasting and large quantities of fresh water and then coming here it's very easy for me to believe that people would rather drink nothing than water. My one year old daughter loves water over everything else and even she won't drink the water here.

The quest for more sugar in everything now bears fruit. If these people are not addicted, nobody is.

erulabs 8y ago

Exactly my thought after reading this - they don't hate the taste of water, they hate the taste of not-sugar.

notacoward 8y ago
That's way too simplistic (and judgmental). I'm not fond of plain water, but "hates the taste of not-sugar" doesn't explain why I'd find unsweetened tea or lemonade preferable. Yes, really. Heck, I'd find salt water preferable in terms of taste, though it's a bad idea for other reasons. What theory do you have for why you're still a superior person?
- erulabs 8y ago
  I'm not a superior person at all, and I never meant to imply that. But you ought to know that unsweetened tea and unsweetened lemonade still has plenty of sodium (or in the case of actual lemon juice added, fructose sugars (which are not required to be listed on the labels)), which is also a flavor enhancer. My point is that it's not water that tastes bad, it's that some people get so used to salt and sugar in everything they eat that plain old water tastes gross. > I'd find salt water preferable in terms of taste I'm absolutely sure that's true for varying levels of salt, as shown by your preference for unsweetened tea. Salt or sugar, they're both flavor enhancers, which was the point of my post. Also, it's entirely possible that people who hate water live in places where a lot of minerals and iron are in the water, which is common (and a lot of people don't like that irony taste). Or, the reverse where people grew up in areas _with_ a particular mineral in the water which is no longer there. Personally, a nice ceramic filter on a Big Berkeley, put into the fridge for a day, ooooh man I'm gonna go hydrate currently. Edit: I should have figured from your aggressive tone that a reply wasn't going to be productive, but after reading your bio - WOW. Feel free to let this thread die!

ktsmith 8y ago

I've been in Phoenix for the last couple of months and the water here is disgusting. It tastes terrible even after softening and filtering. My hands and body feel slimy after washing. After living somewhere with good tasting and large quantities of fresh water and then coming here it's very easy for me to believe that people would rather drink nothing than water. My one year old daughter loves water over everything else and even she won't drink the water here.