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As American, can confidently say that yes, people drink soda as water. You can usually find people who drink directly out of the 2 liters but be mouth agape when you tell them you drink water from the tap
People are so accustomed to sugar overload they literally can't taste anymore. I drink la croix if I want something a bit bubbly, but so many Americans make fun of la croix drinkers. "It's like smelling a lemon from 10 feet away haw haw haw".
No, drinks like that actually have a lot of flavor, but your taste buds are so constantly overwhelmed with sugar that your literal ability to taste has degradated
Actually, hot sauce and peppers did that for me. Everything tastes like cardboard unless it comes with a few thousand Scoville of heat.
I love whiskey and hot sauce because I hate my tastebuds lol
You should try putting a little hot sauce in the bottom of a shot glass, then fill it with tequila and add a squirt of lime juice. It's a spicy treat
To be fair, there are places across the world and particularly in the US where the water doesn't taste or smell good, but even then bottled water will do so much better. Though I'm in the UK, I'm considering buying myself a filter because the water tastes a little weird here. Not dangerous - just... too weird for my taste buds.
A lot of the US has fair water when it comes to taste.
Y'all Brits tho. I've had you're water. I'm usually not someone who says "water has taste", but yours does lol.
London especially, was like drinking straight out of the Thames.
Yeah I'd get a filter if I lived there lol. Ours tastes like crisp refreshing nothing, like better than bottled
Yeah, I was quoting Tom Scott there. His video on Dasani's failed UK launch is a good watch. It really depends on location lol.
And that's pretty funny considering according to the same video, the UK has some of the safest drinking water. Though safest doesn't imply the best tasting.
Absolutely get a filter! My local tap water tastes a little weird to me, too, but a filter is great for that, and is so much better than getting bottled. It also wastes less plastic!
A lot of people in the US don't trust the water, which is strange because you would think that would make people act when a city actually does lose their local water safety but...
Interesting. The only tap water than I've had in America with taste came from homes that had their own wells, like my mother's. Her water used to have a slight egg/sulfur smell before she got a whole home filter. Interestingly, though - on days that it didn't smell, everyone thought it tasted really good.
Ehh, I pretty much only drink water and never soda and I agree with La Croix being irritably mildly flavored trash.
All La Croix taste like what I imagine cardboard tastes like. I think they make it smell like the listed flavor and hope people's brains interpret it as taste.
2 liters..
Will take me a week to get through that.
At one point I drank four or more of those daily, as in 8+ liters of Coca Cola. Glad that's behind me, but I'm still not entirely free of the sugary monster.
It does become an addiction for sure. I thought it was a good thing to have work provide free soda, but I was up to around the same amount. Cut it out cold turkey
You used to drink 8 liters of regular coke?
8 liters of water per day already beggars belief. That's going to the bathroom at least 16 times a day. You'd also need to take electrolyte supplements to avoid your nervous system shutting down.
But 8 liters of coke per day? That's 880 grams of pure sugar. And 3200 calories, which is 150% of daily intake for average person.
If you consumed 880g of pure sugar daily, i think your liver would have failed after just a few weeks.
I'm very proud of you for stopping, I know how strong sugar addiction can be. Good luck with your fight.
Halfway through I'd be tired of it and leave it alone for an indiscriminate amount of time. I have trouble finishing 1L bottles, what would I do about 2?
I’ve seen guys who finish two or three off in an hour at work.
Lived in the U.S my entire life and can't fathom this. To consume 6 liters of carbonated beverage in an hour sounds impossible unless it were your soul focus as in a competition. Sounds painful
I worked at a UPS warehouse during a summer break in college no AC or water fountains every old guy had multiple two liters by them it was insane.
A lot of tap water isn't healthy.
My towns tap water is on a boil notice a few times a month at least.
Soda being unhealthy =/= tap water being healthy
To fix that problem you can install a Reverse Osmosis water filter system under your sink to get a "tap" of purified water and not have to buy water from the store. I got one with a pH re-mineralization stage to add back some beneficial minerals that RO purification removes. The filtered water tastes absolutely perfect.
About how much did your whole set up cost you and were you able to install it yourself or is this something a plumber would need to do?
It was about $175 if I recall correctly. Installed it myself, wasn't very difficult. Had to drill 3 holes under the sink for hoses to go in their places.
I think the drill was the only tool I needed. Replacement filter sets are around $80 per year, so the cost over time / per day is very small. I drink water from it several times per day.
EDIT: Oh yeah I needed some wrenches too for the T-junction connection. You have to turn off your water to the sink, then wrench free the pipe and install the T-junction in between, to tap the output for your filter system.
La Croix is vile. I drink unsweetened ice tea instead lol. I have between 1 and 3 gallons of it in my fridge at all times
Wait? American and your soda bottles use litres?
Haha, I never thought of it that way but yes. 2L sodas are the most common, but I've also seen 1L and 3L bottles. I've seen 500mL and 750mL liquor as well. I can't think of anything else that uses metric units. Milk comes in gallons, pints, or quarts for instance.
They really wanna save costs on the manufacturing of the containers, I guess. That's also the reason why they started using those taller thinner aluminium cans; the circular pieces at the top and bottom are thicker and therefore use more metal, reducing the area makes the whole can cheaper to make.
Using the same 2L bottles worldwide is also cheaper than making a special bottle just for the US.
What? I've never seen a metal 2L bottle. I've only seen plastic. I don't believe compatibility "worldwide" is the reason at all. 2L plastic bottles haven't changed in the USA for at least 30 years.
I'm pretty sure you misunderstood, the middle part of their comment is just talking about normal sized soda cans. As far as I'm aware 2L metal soda cans aren't a thing.
There are nearly 1L metal cans though! Crowlers are typically 32oz so just shy of a liter
I see the agenda is progressing. Soon we will have rid the world of the imperical system. We started with soda, we are coming for your guns next. You wanna buy a 9mm?
yeah who would have guessed. I literally can't think of anything else that does though
Some Ammo (9mm)
Every chemistry physics class taught since the 80s
Electricity (light bulbs, batteries etc)
Wine/Liqour ( 750ml, 1.75L mlst standard but smaller sizes are as well) anyone someone asks for a fifth or a half gallon they haven't read the bottle.
The large ones yes. The smaller ones are still in U.S. Customary, we have 8oz, 12oz, 20oz and sometimes 24oz containers for when you want smaller amounts.
Figuratively.
Considering la croix is not sweet, you will have literally the same experience as someone with taste buds that are 100% burned out from sugar. The lemon flavor is recognized by the sense of smell, and to some degree the sour sensing tastebuds.
Polar seltzer is the king of all seltzer. La Croix is like the seltzer water equivalent of drinking RC Cola. Yeah I'm gatekeeping fuzzy water. Let's fight! We're both clearly well hydrated enough door combat.
as someone who exclusively drinks water / sparkling water, La Croix barely has an aftertaste of a hint of flavor lol I prefer most other sparkling waters to it
The only drink that I have regularly except water is coffee. My taste buds are a bit bust too on account of being Indian. I can't taste the subtleties of coffee as some people seem to be able to. Pomegranate, cherry, peach, whatever, can't taste any of them in coffee. The only flavours I can actually taste in coffee are sweet, chocolatey, and well, coffee.
Interesting, that happened to me after covid, my taste buds changed for a few weeks. You are definitely picking up on the more floral and aromatic flavors rather than the obvious sweet ones. In some ways your palette is off, but in other ways you're probably really fine tuned
I am American and I love bubbly waters of all kinds. Sodas taste nice for the first few sips but the flavor loses its appeal quickly and I find them all way too sweet. But seltzers? I can drink them all day.
Are you from the South? Just curious because I'm from NJ and have never seen someone drink directly from a 2L.
From the Midwest, the south's little brother, where the state fair has mandated motorized scooter parking at each booth
Stop pretending to be Americans, y'all are not even using freedom units /s