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As a person that regularly fasts this question just made me exit the site immediately.

• deleted 5y ago
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• savolai 5y ago
  This is a general diagnostic, one of many that may help, not a prescription that you are expected to meet.
• jstx1 5y ago
  Same, it's only 10:30am - a meal would make me feel worse.
• andy_ppp 5y ago
  It actually continues on in this direction suggesting it's fine to drink soda if you don't like water... I'm pretty sure the site was designed specifically to annoy me.
  • distances 5y ago
    Does that always mean lemonade in the US, or does soda also include soda water (carbonated water)?
    • scrollaway 5y ago
      Soda in the US refers to "pop" in british english. Americans don't usually say "soda water" for carbonated water, in my experience.
      • scoot 5y ago
        > "pop" in british english It might be regional, but I think "soft drink" or ""fizzy drink" are far more common. I can't recall the last time I heard "pop" used in this sense.
        • jrh206 5y ago
          When I was a child in Yorkshire I used to hear pop all the time. My parents and grandparents would say it. Nowadays it seems to have faded in favour of soft/fizzy drinks, but my grandma still says "pop".
          • scoot 5y ago
            North of England was what I had in mind. I guess "soda pop" (US) and "fizzy pop" (UK) might have a common root.
        • vidarh 5y ago
          Was about to write the same. I've lived in the UK 21 years and I can't recall ever having heard "pop" other than from Americans. An entirely unscientific search on some sites (Deliveroo, Ocado etc.) shows "pop" either not returning any drinks (Deliveroo near me) or returning pretty much the same as "soda", with Ocado returning the "fizzy drinks" category for both searches.
      • FabHK 5y ago
        Regional variation in the US: A 1996 linguistics study inspired a map [...] showing “soda” prevalent on the coasts, while “pop” held sway in the Northwest and Midwest, and the generic “coke” took the South. There must be some electoral significance to this. https://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/the-soda-vs-pop-map/ https://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/the-soda-vs-pop-m...
    • laserlight 5y ago
      In US, soda is a catch-all term for all types of carbonated drinks. Though, sugary types, especially coke, come to mind before the plain carbonated water.
    • losvedir 5y ago
      This question is so strange to me! What dialect of English do you speak? Soda generally means like Coca Cola or some other sweetened, carbonated beverage. It doesn't mean soda water (though I can understand the confusion), which we can seltzer or sparkling water. It absolutely does not include lemonade! I never in a million years would think of lemonade as remotely related to "soda". Our lemonades are not carbonated, and are just lemon juice, water, and sometimes sugar. The question is so surprising to me. Where are you from? To you, what does "soda" mean? What does "lemonade" mean?
      • AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
        Lemonade in the UK is carbonated, so it is very similar to what we in the US call soda.
      • stavros 5y ago
        What does "mean" mean?! I love your sense of wonderment at different cultures, wait until you hear about what "chips", "pants", and "fanny" mean in the UK!
      • prawn 5y ago
        They might be in Australia. Lemonade here is carbonated (like 7Up). Soda would be soda water. Sweetened, carbonated drinks are generally called "soft drinks". Lemon squash would be more like a homemade lemonade, but still sweetened and carbonated (can't remember if you have Solo in the US).
      • distances 5y ago
        Hehe, sorry for the language confusion and derailing the topic! I'm not a native speaker and have always assumed that "lemonade" can be used as a generic term for all carbonated soft drinks, cola drinks included. I think my confusion comes from the Finnish loan word "limonadi" which is an umbrella term for carbonated sweet drinks. And now checking what real lemonade looks like -- I think we'd call that lemon soda but it wouldn't definitely belong in the "limonadi" category. So a bit confusing inversion of terms during some cultural adoption! Edit: I see the usage is closer to UK naming convention, so maybe that's the history.
• rustybolt 5y ago
  Good! Is there anything that can be done to let you refrain from posting comments as well? On a more serious note, your comment would be a lot better if it had a constructive tone (like "good concept, but for many people going 4 hours without food will not make them feel bad").
  • iqanq 5y ago
    Why does everything need to be said in a positive tone for it to be useful? Some things simply suck.
    • coldtea 5y ago
      It's not the tone, it's the content, or lack thereof.
    • rustybolt 5y ago
      Yup, like getting people offended because some webpage suggests that might or might not be good to eat if you haven't had food in four hours.
• coldtea 5y ago
  Lest you learn something further down?
  • emptyfile 5y ago
    "Learning" incorrect information is not beneficial to me.