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And no "water with a twist of lemon/slice of cucumber" goofs. Water isn't allowed.

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[–] [email protected] 176 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Water is the main component of any and every beverage

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'll drink this until the end of your life. Works the same with molten iron though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't actually thing you'd manage to swallow any of the molten iron...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You'd just need one of these:

You just need to get some into your mouth. It will do the swallowing on it's own.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

though can only be ingested once

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Based on the posed question and its limiting conditions, elemental mercury is a correct answer. Pure hydrogen peroxide or isopropyl alcohol would qualify, too.

If you include materials which are liquid outside of "room temperature," things like magma and liquid nitrogen would also be correct answers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Olive oil?

You wouldn't live long, but compared to the other options you're listing...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Of the liquids you listed, I think the hydrogen peroxide would be the fastest and most flame-filled death, more than the magma.

100% H2O2 is Very much unlike the 3% kind that can be purchased at a store.
It might even explode, I know shipping tanks of it can and I think that's usually under 100%.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not quite, actually! I mean, it’s not good for you, but once it’s in your digestive tract it mostly passes straight through rather than being absorbed. The vapor over the liquid is more dangerous, but once you’ve swallowed it that’s not a concern.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

that's exactly why this is the right answer

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nougat is a Lemmy user, presenting to the emergency room unconscious

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nougat is a Kbin user, presenting to the emergency room unconscious

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Why not gallium

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

always gave me a heavy feeling in the pit of my stomach.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I appreciate the creativity, but that is not a drink, good sir/madam...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I posit that any substance which can be ingested as a liquid by pouring it from a container into one's mouth (the act of "drinking") is, by definition, a "drink."

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but at the same time you know exactly what OP means with this question.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (22 children)

I don't think OP knows what they mean with this question. The top two 'serious' answers are coffee and tea, which is just "hot water with shit mixed in". Anything you drink is water with shit mixed in. Any answer that isn't "water with shit mixed in" means you die, either within months or minutes. Most answers that are "water with shit mixed in" would still kill you fairly quickly if that's all you ever drank.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think OP knows exactly what they mean, I think if you asked a five year old they’d know what they mean.

Yet for some reason, some people are completely missing the point of a very simple question which boils down to “if you couldn’t drink regular water, what would you have instead”…

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

That’s not “exactly” what they mean, as the difference between what you think they’re saying and other commenters think is clearly different. Is la croix or bubbly allowed? If not then what about a hard seltzer? If those are allowed then why isn’t lemon water allowed? If those aren’t allowed then where is the line? Gatorade is seltzer water without the bubbles and with electrolytes. It’s clear that OP’s question was not well thought out, hence why so many people here have a problem with it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The point of OP's question is clear. He's referring to a drink that has sensory qualities that are clearly distinct from plain water. Water with a spritz of lemon still reads as water. As a loose guideline this is like anything you'd order as "water with x" or "x water", like cucumber water. Coffee clearly doesn't fit into that category, it has sensory qualities that are very different than water with x in it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Speak for yourself. "Cucumber water" does not have the same "sensory qualities" as water unless taste doesn't count as a sense.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A friend had to read a paper about what people called water vs. how much water made up the substance. So like pond water has less water than tea, we call one water one tea. Truly thrilling research.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

do you have a link to the paper? I want to read it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This was a very long time ago; I do not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I had this argument with my roommate once. It was probably the biggest argument we ever had. IMO, just because it has water in it doesn't mean that the drink is water. Like, some people don't like the taste of water, but that doesn't mean that they don't like milk, which has water in it.

For me a beverage is defined by its flavor, not its components.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They said no goofs like lemon water though. So what’s the line?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i mean lemon water is still called water.

you don’t call apple juice apple water or sprite sprite water. i think the limiter is pretty naturally deferred in the naming of the drinks themselves.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah but this is the same reason Pluto is no longer a planet. Definitions matter, and every single beverage that humans consume is mostly water so, where is the line drawn on saturation of additional components? We need a DEFINITE line. Also I am in the camp that every beverage is “[Additive]-water” and anything that crosses the “not-water” barrier becomes “soup” until it is a baked good or building material.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I purposefully called it lemon water. You could also call it lemonade.

you don’t call apple juice apple water or sprite sprite water.

but you do in other languages. Just because it's hard to find examples in English doesn't mean that the concept is unique.

Examples:

  • Agua de horchata
  • Agua fresca
  • Agua de Jamaica a type of tea
  • people are literally saying coconut water in this thread so idk what you think that is.
  • Agua de Valencia a mimosa style cocktail
  • Uisce beatha literally 'Water of Life' in Irish, it refers to Whiskey
  • Aquavit another spirit that translate... you guessed it.. to Water of Life!
  • Nước Chanh ... i'll let you google this one yourself 😉

In fact if you start looking into the root words of things you'll find 'water' everywhere! Vodka, you guessed it, is based on the root Slavic word 'voda' meaning..... Water!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodka

We're just talking about water here. This extends to literally any ingredient in any drink ever. If you start looking at other drinks you start finding strange things like Punch which may be from the Sanskrit for 'five' denoting the five ingredients used in it.

The word punch may be a loanword from Hindi पाँच (pāñć), meaning "five", as the drink was frequently made with five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, juice from either a lime or a lemon, water, and spices.

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