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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmericans’ main complaint about water is that it tastes too much like water
from Grist:
http://grist.org/list/americans-bored-with-water-turn-to-fakely-sweet-candy-colored-liquids/
Do you feel like your doctors and your more annoying friends are always telling you to drink more water? Well, theyre just trying to help. Water is so important for your health! Sadly, water tastes like, well, water. And since Americans eat like 100 pounds of sugar a year, the taste of water just isnt good enough for us. Even though we are very lucky to have fresh water, we dont get too excited about it 20 percent of people say they just dont like how it tastes (i.e., watery). What we do get excited about are artificially flavored, sugar-free water products.
This does not mean stuff like Vitamin Water, by the way. That has calories, which are almost as gross as water. It means new stuff, like a no-cal Vitamin Water spin-off called Fruitwater. And Mio, which is some tasty stuff you can squirt into water. (YUM.) And Dasani Drops. One of the selling points on the additives, according to the Wall Street Journal, is that they are simpler to carry in a purse. OK, next time I tell you Ive purchased something because its simpler to carry in a purse please take me out back and shoot me.
Luckily, most Americans remain what the same article refers to as water purists. But the number of people who want water with flair is growing hey wow, so is the likelihood of global apocalypse! Coincidence?
daleanime
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)RandiFan1290
(6,206 posts)huhuhuhu!
MuseRider
(34,058 posts)Beat me to it!
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Everybody needs them!
And I can't seem to get that watery taste out of my mouth after I drink it.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)pink-o
(4,056 posts)I love water. Nothing beats a fresh cold glass after a long bike ride. I can't imagine reaching for a coke or a frappuchino at that point. (However, I might go for a Pinot Grigio!) No matter what else we drink, humans need water to stay healthy, flush out toxins and keep our bodies lubed. It's a sad commentary on our processed food intake that we eshkew the most necessary drink that keeps us alive!
reformist2
(9,841 posts)When they're told they need eight glasses, people just throw up their hands and reach for a soda.
cali
(114,904 posts)My water is so delicious. The other day at the doc's office, I asked for some water. I could smell it before I tasted it. Town water in a small VT town and the chemical smell and taste was just horrid.
Now my water is town water too. Fortunately it's gravity spring fed. Cold and delicious and they don't add chemicals.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)flavor water. Because the flavor of water on earth ranges from delicious to unpalatable. Because humans love variety.
Lex
(34,108 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)ananda
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gvstn
(2,805 posts)I have to say the convenience and widespread availability of it converted me from a soda/coffee drinker to a water drinker. I try to avoid drinking bottled water at home but am glad it changed my thinking about what I really wanted to drink when out and about. I just find water more refreshing then soda/juice/milkshake when I am thirsty.
Robb
(39,665 posts)If I couldn't drink water, I'd just die.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)who say "water rusts my pipes."
I don't get it, but there you have it.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)What I wouldnt give to have water that tastes like water.
politicat
(9,808 posts)My very earliest years were spent on a working farm with well water. Today, we would not give it to a baby -- all of the neighbors use nitrates and some seriously deadly pesticides. (In the 70s, we hadn't quite got that memo yet.) Our farm has always been non-chemical (Gramps was too cheap to pay for fertilizer or pesticide) but our neighbors weren't and everything got into the groundwater. My grandmother insisted on having a water cooler and 5 gallon bottle delivery. She was an early adopter of RO tech, too, and insisted on getting fluoride into our drinking water.
In my late childhood, we moved to Phoenix, where the water has to be heavily chlorinated to prevent cysts and bacteria. When it wasn't like drinking pool water, it was often muddy or rusty because Maricopa county poorly maintains its water infrastructure. In the late 80s and 90s, the hot small business opportunity was selling reverse osmosis water and ice from a storefront. People made fortunes selling municipal RO water at $.30 a gallon.
When I moved to Colorado as a young adult, I had to retrain my senses to trust tap water. It helps that our tap water is cold instead of bathwater warm, and that we're at the top of the stack, so ours is mountain spring water, but I understand why people say they don't like the taste of water.