• kingthrillgore
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    11 year ago

    I would put Polar Seltzer Water at A, all other selterzs at B, Dr Pepper at C, and the rest where they lie.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Really? How? Keg and c02? Do you add anything, like citric acid? Im a home brewer, I’ve got a kegerator set up with 3 kegs. I want to do one with carbonated water some time

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        Soda stream is just a CO2 bottle on cold water. It carbonates after an hour or so, or if you shake it.

        A better option imo is to buy a big tank of C02 and connect it to a big tank of cold water which in turn has a tap. You probably have all that!

        https://tasteofartisan.com/how-to-make-carbonated-water/

        I personally found the taste of plain cold carbonated water… actually good on its own. Otherwise you can add flavor like a canned seltzer would have.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          I have a CO2 canister with a diy bottle cap. I use regular coke bottles for carbonating the water. It tastes good, but it is still destructive for your teeth.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Yes I do have all of that, I may fill one of my 5 gallon kegs with just plain water and see how it goes. Thanks!

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          It’s pretty normal. I’m american, it’s common here with a little bit of flavor, but the unflavored or very light flavored ones are my favorite. In Europe a lot of times if you ordered water at a restaurant you would have to order “still water” or you would get sparkling water.

          Edit: in the German speaking countries and countries around Germany anyway

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Years ago when I visited Germany (a hotel in Heidelberg), there happened to be another American in front of me at the hotel. He asked for water. The young woman behind the counter, knowing he was American from his language and accent, said: “Would you like any gasoline in your water?”

            He was very confused, and I couldn’t contain myself, bursting out in laughter. I stepped in and explained, she meant to say “gas” and was asking if he wanted still water or bubbly water. She knew most Americans didn’t drink carbonated water, at least then – a few years later brands like La Croix would sweep the country’s soccer moms all over the States.

            We Americans think it’s funny but then I remember that these people know multiple languages and of course someone is going to get a word wrong here and there.

            I also remember the four of us at dinner getting served waters and the waitress was saying “please” as she sat down each one on the coaster on the table. Which my understanding is that she was translating ‘bitte’ to English and that word has many meanings, one of them meaning please but can be used when your hand something over, if I’m not mistaken.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            I am well aware that the Germans think tap water is poisonous, but that’s Germany. They aren’t quite right in the head. The best water is straight out of the tap. Although I understand that in some places it tastes like pee. But in that case why not just buy still water?

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              I drink plenty of tap water… I also like carbonated. different tastes I guess? Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean others don’t.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I’ve got a plain older countertop device with mini CO2 cartridges (with a cheap exchange program) for now. I am redoing my living room and study soon and will get a kegarator soon so I have it on tap.

        I don’t need the flavors infused. But if I’m feeling fancy I’ll add a slice of lime or lemon, or both (usually when I need to use the rest of one after making dinner). Although it is my understanding this is certainly possible, adding flavours/syrups or what not.

      • kase
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        31 year ago

        It’s probably photoshopped. You can’t trust anything these days smh my head

  • Cowbee [he/they]
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    71 year ago

    Water, coffee, whiskey, wine. Drink alcohol maybe once or twice a month, coffee and water daily.

    All S tier.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      Hard disagree with whiskey.

      How you gonna say wine and coffee then be hyper specific with what liquor? Just say liquor.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I have every confidence this is a gigabrain take that everyone will agree with

        grappa should have its own sub-basement-shit-tier as both a liquor, alcoholic beverage and beverage in general.

        fuck grappa. all my homies hate grappa

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          11 year ago

          I have had grappa that sent me to another planet for the depth of flavor. I have never been able to actually find a bottle of good grappa and have long since given up. But I know that good grappa does exist

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          11 year ago

          But im sure there are people out there that would put grappa as their s-tier liquor, ultimately that was what I was trying to say, that by putting liquor as s-tier everyone can put their favorite in that slot.

      • Cowbee [he/they]
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        21 year ago

        There’s just as much variation in whiskey as there is with wine and coffee, honestly.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Here’s my own controversial take:

      Any and all alcoholic beverages taste like garbage, people simply get used to the bad taste because they’re expected to drink it and/or are alcoholics.

      Countless times i’ve been offered drinks that “taste good”, or that “you can barely taste the alcohol” and every single time they taste terrible. Even when there’s a hint of flavor behind it all, it is utterly ruined by the taste of alcohol.

      No amount of seasoning is gonna make your food taste good if you’ve already taken a dump on it.

      • Cowbee [he/they]
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        11 year ago

        I can definitely see how you would feel that way, but for me, there’s definitely a whole world of depth of flavor brought out via fermentation, which includes alcoholic beverages. I don’t personally care for the alcohol content usually, but the flavor is truly unique and can be special.

  • MacFearrs
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    41 year ago

    Ok but what about Irn Bru, it’s gotta be just under water

  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    I don’t disagree that water is king. But putting coke and pepsi in the same tier must be some kind of crime.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        And forever more shall our families fued. On my blood do I swear undying enmity towards the PepsiApologist, Kiwi_Girl.

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                11 year ago

                I once bought a stange Chinese can that according to the label (and because of multiple translation mistakes) it was a soup, a beverage and a soda.

                And I also bought another one from Vietnam that says it’s a soda and includes “bird nest” as an ingredient.

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          O Holy One, Pepsiman, who blesses our teeth with holes shaped in your great symbol’s image.

          Grant us the strength to drive these CokeCrusaders from our lands, led by the dastardly KredeSeraf.

          May our rivers once again flow ripe with the chemical by-products of your majestic factories.

          Dulcis. Immutabilis. Pepsi.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I have tried both and both taste like a lethal dose of liquid sugar. Among the American drinks only Fanta doesn’t outright taste like diabetes, it only has that as an aftertaste.

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    151 year ago

    Water is the goat but have you ever jad a soda pop made botanically? Modern soda is just synth flavors and sugar, but it used to be flavored with actual spices. It’s harder to find, but if you can find a truly classic soda brand it absolutely slaps modern corn syrup shit out of the universe

    Imagine tasting cola, except it actually has a deep flavor palette and isn’t cloyingly sweetened subsidized corn liquid

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      1 year ago

      most humans cant drink milk, humans are the only species that drinks milk as adults, humans are the only species to drink another species’ milk. milk involves raping and killing cows. F tier

      • ikarushagen2
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        21 year ago

        Ah yes, gotta fuck then kill the cow to get me some delicious potassium soup

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          Mammals produce milk for their offspring. Dairy farmers have to keep their dairy cows pregnant and having babies constantly so they continue producing milk. This involves bulls inseminating the cows or more commonly non-consensual artificial insemination. Either could be considered rape. I guess an ethical farmer could only choose to opportunistically collect extra milk at times when their cows have given birth and after the calf has drank their fill, but that’s not how it happens at large dairy farms.

          • AItoothbrush
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            Oh yeah because the bulls in the in the wild ask the cows for permission -_-

            • @[email protected]
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              41 year ago

              Letting nature do its thing is a whole lot different than humans doing a similar act. We generally don’t condone cruelty to animals in lab environments or everyday life, even though predators maul and maim other species all the time.

            • @[email protected]
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              31 year ago

              And the inseminated cows goes “o fuck, I’m late again! I can’t go thought this again. my career will go to shit”.

          • @[email protected]
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            i always thought domesticated cows were bred to produce milk all the time. i will search a little to know more about that

            edit: i have searched and dairy farming indeed works the way the person i replied to said it worked. to add, that can be done so much to a single cow it can cause diseases and infections on the cow

            edit2: i forgot to say that those things dont count as rape, since rape means forcing a person to do sexual things without their consent, so by letting a bull do the work i feel its completely fine. artificial insemination is a different story, and i just seriously dont want to think about it

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            This involves bulls inseminating the cows or more commonly non-consensual artificial insemination

            Animals aren’t capable of consenting to anything. They lack both the communication capabilities and the mental facilities to make the kind of decisions that are involved in any kind of consent. This is similar to how the severely mentally disabled are unable to consent and must instead have a caretaker give medical consent.

            I’ll concede that animal farming practices are generally difficult to justify and align with our modern morals, but farm animals can and often are treated with a level of respect to quality of life that is not far from some pets, just with the added expectation that they also provide for us.

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              Yes, I was leaving that exercise for the reader and you hit it out of the park. Being unable to consent, any sexual act performed on them by an able-minded adult human is rape.

      • DAEMON
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        11 year ago

        Some of the points check out others are like WTF?

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Water is S, Milk is A, and Beer might be D tier. It’s bad for you like the drinks in F tier, but you at least catch a buzz.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        I‘d argue on that but only because the quality of tap water can vary so immensely… Almost nothing beats good tap water but I’ve had tap water that was so godawful I’d rather drink almost anything else if there’s no way to filter it

        • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆
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          11 year ago

          I’ll give you that caveat. My brother lives in the rural town where we grew up in the butthole of Oklahoma, and his water is so hard that they justified spending thousands of dollars on a whole home water softening system. My in laws pump their own water and it’s foul. I think they need to be filtering it. I think there’s something in their groundwater.

          As for the water in the urban and suburban parts of Oklahoma City, it’s pretty hard to find truly bad tap water.

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            11 year ago

            I’m from Germany and I know no one that pumps their own water so I never had to deal with outright rancid water but the water at my mum‘s place is hard enough you can hold it without glass (slight exaggeration). They don’t have a home softening system but just a small filter can…

            If I’m really thirsty I manage to drink maybe one and a half glasses before the taste hits…