Water is the main component of any and every beverage
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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Elemental mercury.
You'll drink this until the end of your life. Works the same with molten iron though.
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though can only be ingested once
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.
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True, but at the same time you know exactly what OP means with this question.
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.
I think OP knows exactly what they mean, I think if you asked a five year old theyβd know what they mean.
Yet for some reason, some people are completely missing the point of a very simple question which boils down to βif you couldnβt drink regular water, what would you have insteadββ¦
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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.
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EVERY drink is water!
- Soda is less water and some sugar mixture
- Juice is less water and some squished fruit
- Beer is less water and some cooked hops
- Tea is less water and some leaf infusion
- Coffee is less water and some roasted bean-juice
- A martini is even less water with some alcohol and old squished fruit
So DON'T TELL ME WATER ISN'T ALLOWED! Damn, this is making me irrationally angry. Maybe I need some water...
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Tea. Iced or hot, black or mint, dash of milk or honey. So many combinations.
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A 0.00000001 % NaCl brine solution
That might be more water than most water.
Sadly all "drinks" are made primarily from water. Otherwise they were called "chews". You living in the US of A by any chance? Unrelated question.
All normal drinks are just flavored water, so I guess steering fluid?
cyanide. you take my water you take my life
Coconut water fresh from a refrigerated coconut. I would only drink that, even if I didn't have to, if it was cheap enough.
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Heavy water.
Whiskey on the rocks.
I can suck the ice cubes during the day, and drink the whiskey at night.
Right? OP said you can't drink water, but they didn't say anything about eating it
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Why can't people stop being pedants and just answer in the spirit of OP's question π
Anyway, I'd pick bubble tea I think. There's a lot of variety and mileage I can get.
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All liquid involves water.
I don't love tea but yeah it would be tea. Iced green tea lemonade, black tea with milk. If literally only one then iced black tea with lemonade, let it get diluted.
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Water is in every beverage, this question is unanswerable.
Even without trying to be pedantic, what about Vitamin Water? Cuz my answer would genuinely be tropical citrus vitamin water. I could also do Mountain Dew, which btw contains water.
So the question becomes based on the exclusion of water without additives, which begs the question, why not lemon water then, and what amount of additives qualifies it as 'not water' anymore? If I use lemon extract and sugar does that count as lemonade? If so, why isn't water with lemon extract considered unsweetened lemonade?
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If water isn't allowed, what does one drink? Everything we drink has water in it.
Tea assuming I'm allowed any variant of it, lot of different ways you can have tea to make it taste different, iced/hot probably being the most important in this scenario
If βdrinks that contain waterβ are not allowed, then nothing. I will die of thirst.
No water allowed that essentially excludes all beverage. If i could have anything else, i'd go with at least two kilos of fruit and berries per day, preferably melon, cucumber, oranges, cherries, raspberry (any berry actually...), plume, pear, apricot. And the occasional fish.
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Pure ethanol. If I'm gonna die of dehydration I might as well have fun doing it.
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Coffee, black. Iβm a regular joe and I like my joe regular.
I be ded.
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