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Does anyone know why it's currently nigh on impossible to find sparkling mineral water in any shop or newsagent? You can find umpteen types of the still variety in Boots, but not one fizzy bottle...

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 26 February 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i drank it all *hic*.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 26 February 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Try the fizzy orange in Boots. That's some good drinking.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 26 February 2004 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a hot, cold and fizzy tap on my bath, so it's not a problem I can easily identify with.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 26 February 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Ta - I'm just so bored of drinking flat watter. I also get really wound up (in Boots) by people (the same sort who pronounce 'latte' lahhhtay) who stand staring gormlessly at the sandwiches, pick them up one by one, examine them, look for the instructions...and then put them back.

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 26 February 2004 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Try R.S McColl. Or the canteen in my work. Or buy a bottle of Tonic Water, that's pretty much the same thing isn't it?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 26 February 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Tonic Water's OK, but it tastes a bit like ear wax...and don't deny having tasted it, heeheehee.

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 26 February 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

do you have this?
http://www.win.ne.jp/~ita/takao/italia/gastronomi/foto/sanbenedetto330.jpg

mmmm fizzy water, s/d

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 26 February 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: Thirsty Camel, San Pellegrino (pleasantly salty)
Destroy: Vichy (too salty)

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 26 February 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Earwax - like licking a battery....

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Eurgh, what the fuck is so appealing about sparkling water? It fucking mings! Not that I would buy water full stop. It's a matter of principle.

― Nick H (Nick H), Thursday, 26 February 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

It's often hard for me to find club soda or selzer in the States. Esp. in big bottles. Weird.

― Skottie, Thursday, 26 February 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Buy a Soda Stream and make your own fizzy water with added sound effects. I loved my soda stream, although my mum had to supervise me when I used it...

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 26 February 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay fizzy water! It is a glory and a thing of beauty forever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 February 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not all that fizzy, but I have water with free lead in it! Coming out of the tap! In my house! Hurrah for DC!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 26 February 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Search BADOIT. End of.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 June 2023 21:26 (two years ago)

Since I stopped drinking (9 months ago?) I drink carbonated water with lime like nobody's business. It has taken the place of booze quite nicely. I even got a big Yeti mug so I take it with me in the car.

It's time to go to the grocery store when I run out of limes. We can go without milk or anything else, but I have to have limes.

― Cow_Art, Friday, 30 June 2023 21:49 (two years ago)

I used to drink a lot of fizzy water and my dentist noticed! She asked if I drank soda and I said no, only unsweetened fizzy water... she could tell because the carbolic (?) acid makes little divots in the enamel..

I try to stick to regular old tap water now

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 30 June 2023 21:55 (two years ago)

Damn it! There's something wrong with soda water?!?

― Cow_Art, Saturday, 1 July 2023 03:19 (two years ago)

Just another dentist scam. Keep drinking that good fizzy gold cow_art 🫡

― hrep (H.P), Saturday, 1 July 2023 03:38 (two years ago)

my dentist (before he cancelled me) told me he had read some health study that concluded carbonated water is bad for your health. These fuckers are all owned by big water.

― calzino, Saturday, 1 July 2023 09:56 (two years ago)

The acidic element of carbonated water will wreck your enamel but just slower than sugar. Can't imagine I could really cut down on 'em anyway.

― nashwan, Saturday, 1 July 2023 10:05 (two years ago)

I think it helps to view maintaining your dental health as a managed decline project and accept that they are going to get progressively worse unless you are a flossing lunatic who brushes 4 times a day and never eat or drink anything good. Especially if you can't find a dentist within 10 miles who is taking on NHS. Then it becomes a DIY project!

― calzino, Saturday, 1 July 2023 10:16 (two years ago)

welp! just looked at the private surgery prices at my nearest dental practise. I wouldn't even be able to afford fizzy water after these grasping mofos have shook me down.

― calzino, Saturday, 1 July 2023 10:43 (two years ago)

I quit smoking, quit drinking, gave up Coke... I can't give up Topo Chico too.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 1 July 2023 20:52 (two years ago)

they've just got to ruin everything - so now sparkling mineral water is an unhealthy indulgence as well, jfc

― calzino, Saturday, 1 July 2023 21:36 (two years ago)

I'm a secret perrier drinker

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 1 July 2023 21:39 (two years ago)

I've just done a 'bunch' of research (I Googled it), and it looks like you should be fine as long as you brush your teeth.

I'm in denial, fwiw - I drink a shit ton and don't want to stop!

― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Sunday, 2 July 2023 09:03 (two years ago)

Yeah, I read conflicting things. It's sorta bad, but it should be okay if I drink a "normal" amount and don't swish it in my mouth? If being acidic is what's bad, the lime juice I always put in it is probably worse.

But fuck it, it's got to be better than gin and tonics, right?

― Cow_Art, Sunday, 2 July 2023 12:24 (two years ago)

I quit smoking, quit drinking, gave up Coke... I can't give up Topo Chico too.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, July 1, 2023 3:52 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

just never read about the coca cola's predatory extraction of water from indigenous communities in mexico -- otherwise you might have to switch to mineragua

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 15:34 (two years ago)

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