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You can only drink one drink for the rest of your life, but it cannot be water. What do you pick? (kbin.social)
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And no "water with a twist of lemon/slice of cucumber" goofs. Water isn't allowed.

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[–] 177 points 3 years ago (65 children)

Water is the main component of any and every beverage

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  • [–] 61 points 3 years ago (23 children)

    Elemental mercury.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    though can only be ingested once

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years 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%.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (29 children)

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

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago* (28 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.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago* (5 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”…

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years 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.

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  • [+] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (5 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years 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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