getting water at a restaurant

ICE

I like my water water-flavored

well i think "w/ ice" is inherent

unless you order more ice, then go w/ other

i've never been a lemon person but recently i've been loving the taste of water + a squeeze of lemon

i should say i've never been a lemon WITH WATER person -- always been a lemon person, in general

drinking plain, cold, unadorned water reminds us of where we all come from. it's possibly life's purest joy. no need to accessorize it. http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

a restaurant i used to like put slices of cucumber in the water. it was delicious.

who was it on top chef that got kicked off iirc partly bcuz of a failed experiment w/ cucumber water

not that it doesn't sound good

ooh i have a lemon in the fridge! i always forget about the lemon-water option. i'm a fan of regular water (brita-ized), no ice
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yes! cucumbers! celery! refreshing

i was gonna say cucumber

I would send back cucumber water. :(

Like lemon. Like sparkling even more! Save it up for business lunches, when someone else is paying the bill for ridic 10$ bottles of water.

i had pimms for the first time recently and im all about putting cucumber in drinks now.

like probably not beer or anything but you know

lemon+water sounds better in theory than practice ime. it's great with sparkling water tho.

LIMEZ imo

it's all good. Lime goes best w/sparkling water, imo.

water must come fortified with plenty of nice, fresh ice. if this is impossible, it should at the very least icelessly arrive extremely cold. neither the water nor its ice may ever taste in the least of chlorine or soap or whatever other adulterating have you. i should never have to ask for water or even approve its delivery. the glass should magically appear a minute or two after i sit down and refill itself invisibly whenever its contents dip precipitiously. "invisibly" is the most important word in the preceding sentence.

a slice of lemon is not essential but would be nice.

Lime goes best w/sparkling water, imo.

OTM. lemon in unsparkling water.

Plain? I prefer "Original."

I like mine without anything in it, especially not ice. it should be room temperature and that's it.

cucumber water is delish & refreshing! some place i went to recently had a cucumber mint lemonade that i loved -- i know it sounds iffy but it tasted great.

i would drink that!

at home i never usually adorn water with anything but ice but i enjoy lemon water at restaurants. i never specifically ask for it tho

unless I'm at a dump or someone's house or something, water w/o ice is absolutely unacceptable

i really don't get why water without ice is unacceptable. it tastes better without ice and you know you won't get brain freeze. maybe i just get brain freeze really easily, i dunno.

I'm not a dog dammit, gimme ice. Also, no straws. so unnecessary

It's more "refreshing" w/ice to me, but that's probably just bs

lemon yes

ice bad for digestion, freezes the stomach, people !

cucumber water is delish & refreshing! some place i went to recently had a cucumber mint lemonade that i loved -- i know it sounds iffy but it tasted great.

― avenged benfolds (get bent), Wednesday, July 13, 2011 7:30 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

was it square one?? so good! auntie ems has cucumber water too. its the best!! very refereshing!

When allegedly nice restaurants bring me a straw with my water or tea or soda, my first thought is "what, aren't your glasses clean?"

Prefer my water with ice, btw, but it's not a huge deal. I don't drink much of it anyway.

it wasn't square one or auntie em's; it might have been pitfire pizza.

(nb square one and auntie em's are awesome)

square one does cucumber mint lemonade and its gr8

a glass of your finest tap water please. no lemon.

this is a persian (thus valley) thing, i think? it is super amazing – my friend's mom used to have a pot of water w/ cucumber, rose hips, and mint floating in it that was goddamned brilliant

regular/plain water

don't get the point of a lemon... it adds nothing, besides as a garnish I guess. Water with a bit of lemon in it tastes bitter, like ultra diluted lemonade or something... gross imo.

i am against all "flavored water" tbh

I enjoy the occasional bit of lemon but I'm w/dave cool on this, water is the seldom mentioned 6th element

i once ran audio for a dylan show, and his rider specified the water be kept at a certain temperature, flavored with meyer lemon (???) and served in a heavy drinking glass. promoter didn't bother to cross that shit out, so on the day of the show one of my little tech dudes had to run all the fucking place around upstate NY trying to find meyer lemon to squeeze so the big man could sing

ice bad for digestion, freezes the stomach, people !

i have heard this advice from actual scientists i know!

lemon is "cleansing"

it's also astringent & acidic & actually not something you should be having when you're singing

i like water with lemon ok (protip for at least one person itt--you have to squeeze the lemon into the water) but it never quenches as well as the straight up version.

i always have to drink "original" water after i drink lemon water tbh

hahaha yeah i feel you on that

When I was sick a few years ago, I started going to this lunch place around the corner from work. Since anything cold gave me these weird throat-clenching side effects, I always asked the waitress there for water with no ice.

I'm all better and everything, but each time I go there, that waitress still serves me water with no ice, even on days like this week when it's 99º outside. I never told her why and now after four years, it would feel just kinda awkward to explain it all for her.

And besides, you get ripped off when you get the ice. You could be having 200% more beverage with your meal.

the most recent scientist friend to tell me about the icy water = bad issue also told me that Vitamin Water is bs because vitamins are rendered inert or at least their potency is extremely diminished because of light damage through the clear container!
i said, but i like the pomegranate vitamin water zero sometimes when it is hot out. but i was still kinda sad about this revelation :(

vitamin water is just gatorade with a b.a.

xxp man i would stop dining at a restaurant that didn't have free water refills!

this is the summer of FRESCA! for me tbh

am i the only one who gets pissy when my water glass sits unfilled for 9/10ths of my meal? like... isn't that the very basic level of customer service you can offer somebody who pays to eat at your restaurant?

it is

And besides, you get ripped off when you get the ice. You could be having 200% more beverage with your meal.

I know people who order their sodas no ice so they won't get "ripped off" by having a soda that's cold instead of one that's totally fucking disgusting but which there's more of

I dont require ice in my water tho chilled water would be nice. Just leave a large (1.5L) bottle full of cold water on the table and let me refill it when needed, thats all I ask. No ice though - my poor teeth cant handle ice.

But ice in my cider? NO PLEASE DONT DO THIS. Diluted cider is the devils wee wee.

I know people who order their sodas no ice so they won't get "ripped off" by having a soda that's cold instead of one that's totally fucking disgusting but which there's more of

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/drink_stare.gif

if soda is unrefrigerated, it needs ice. room temp = bleh.

when i worked food service, we had a lot of people who wanted (a) ice water and nothing else (b) soda with little or no ice. that meant i had to haul ass to the ice machine several times *and* haul ass to change out the soda bibs several times. more work for me, but congrats on getting something free and sticking it to the man, bucko.

I often want ice water and nothing else but it's not because I'm a cheap ass it's because nothing else sounds good

I honestly don't like water in my Coke! I even drink warm cans around the house.

My favorite honest-to-god drink in the world is flat room-temperture Sprite.

flat sprite is the best for hangovers (make mine ginger ale btw)

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the unique sadness of coke mixed in the wrong ratio to flat soda water, tasting of chlorine and served in a dirty orange pebbled plastic tumbler

I want water because I hate soda and related "drinks". Sugary water. Blech. If I'm gonna have something non-water at dinner, its going to be wine.

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The only soda I drink is Ginger Ale, I can drink that w/o ice

the unique sadness of coke mixed in the wrong ratio to flat soda water, tasting of chlorine and served in a dirty orange pebbled plastic tumbler

this is like a special kind of sadness you find at places like hometown buffet or sizzler

yeah, but there is already so much joy filling those places that a little thing like soapy sugar water is no biggie

i jsut spent like 10 minutes trying to find those plastic glasses online. can't. dunno what to search under. 'bathos' and 'tumbler' or 'drinking water' and 'despair'?

AHA

http://www.webstaurantstore.com/12-oz-pebbled-plastic-tumbler-12-pack/12-oz-pebbled-plastic-tumbler-12-pack.jpg

am i the only one who gets pissy when my water glass sits unfilled for 9/10ths of my meal? like... isn't that the very basic level of customer service you can offer somebody who pays to eat at your restaurant?

― remy bean, Wednesday, July 13, 2011 8:40 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark

just because you're giving them a tip you expect good service?!

http://www.jesrestaurantequipment.com/plastic-tumblers-pebbled-tumblers-c-305308_305728_306372_306575.html

xpost, aha, nm

xposts oh man even the color is bad for the soul

i can understand dylan's request, though. there's something really satisfying about drinking from a heavy glass

two years, and somebody's gonna make an indie movie with that on the poster and zooey deschenel wearing roller skates in the background

haha

it's like they were going for amber, but fucked it up and the end result is basically the same color as a terribly sick person's urine

i can understand dylan's request, though. there's something really satisfying about drinking from a heavy glass

― dell (del), Wednesday, July 13, 2011 8:23 PM (1 minute ago)

otm, I cherish the beer glasses I found that weigh a kilo each (empty)

that glass has lead dontit

my wife thinks so, she refuses to drink out of them

she is smart.
cup of sadness.

EXCUSE ME I did not ask for a glass of ice with some water added to it. What did I ask for? I asked for a glass of water, not that freezing, tinkling abomination. What presumption. Take this back and bring back a glass of WATER. Room temperature. Same for beer.

Those gold tumbler cups remind me of fake decorative "walls" found in mobile home bathrooms.

They practically have little daisies screwed into them!

At least that's what my grandparents' mobile home had screwed into its pebbled walls: daisy-shaped fasteners holding up the sheets of plastic.

they remind me of something vague and uneasy, which i'm just going to assume is a repressed childhood memory (tho possibly just of a movie i once saw)

with that lead up

Shakey's pizza buffet

pizza hut used to have red ones like that back in the day too, iirc

Yes, Laurel, though I can't for the life of me find anything on GIS.

YEah, just imagining drinking soda from a red cup like that and you know it's Pepsi.

i recently soda of some nameless sort from such a cup. it was large and pebbly red, as described, and the contents tasted mostly of what they should, of nameless sweet nothing. but the cup was sticky, and so was the table. the table remained sticky no matter how many napkins i spent trying to to destick it, as it though it were fashioned from ancient mucilage. it held the napkin i interposed between poles of stickiness with tearing force. this was in hawaii, on a slow weekday afternoon, on a rattan porch that smelled of stale beer. no part of this picture seems inappropriate in retrospect.

Sometimes, grotty stickiness is as it should be, like when your feet stick to the carpet in the pub at a punk gig.

another good thing about cuke-water is that it looks really beautiful, in a jug, if you've sorta spiral-sliced the cucumbers, looks in-fact-now-i've-seen-it sort of like the twirling strands of terrence malick's lumia.

thought this thread was going to be re: the bigger water in restaurants topic of where automatically gives you some upon entering, which is: america, and the best thing about america, but not the rest of the world so much.

I sometimes order soda with no ice *and* water with loads of ice from fast food take-outs, if only to do this:

1. Drink the miniscule amount of water out of the ice water, leaving ice cubes.
2. Introduce warm soda to ice cubes
3. Cold soda!
4. Two or three refills of ice cube cup with aforementioned soda.

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I'm still boycotting LA Mill in Silver Lake because of the time I ate there and asked for water instead of coffee, etc. They brought me water in the tiniest glass imaginable - somewhere between a shot glass/espresso cup and those tiny glasses you get at old diners whenever you order orange juice.

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