I don’t hate it, though I used to. Now I just prefer not to drink it.
I drink about 3 liters of water a day, either from the tap or the water filter/cooler in my fridge. There is no better drink, in my book. I enjoy beer, wine, scotch, juices, but water is the best. I don’t like soft drinks (sodas) and might only have one every 2 or 3 years, and prolly by distraction whe I eat out.
As W C Fields once said :
I don’t drink water. Fish phuck in it.
Personally, I really dont care for plain old water unless really thirsty and nothing else is available.
Another chime-in for well water. Ours tastes better than any bottled water I’ve ever tasted. Our well is really deep, and must tap into a really tasty source. My daughter’s house is only a few blocks away and their water isn’t nearly as nice.
Mmm, tap water. I go through about a half liter to a liter of it every day. It tastes delicious to me and I quite prefer it ahead of sugary juices and powdered drink mixes. They don’t quench my thirst, they leave a sugary taste or residue in my mouth. No thanks, plain tap water is good for me.
I also hate plain water, tap or bottled. But iced with a little lemon and I am OK.
I grew up drinking soda, milk, fruit juice, sweetened tea, Kool-Aid- anything but water. Admittedly the tap water wasn’t the best (kinda sulphery at times), but I definitely didn’t form good eating habits as a kid. As an adult, I first gave up sugared soda and then gave up caffeinated soda. Until recently I oscillated between caffeine-free diet cola and seltzer water. But as part of trying to reform my eating habits I decided I was drinking too much high-acid liquids. I don’t drink tap water but I don’t drink the expensive name-brand water either; my compromise is the 80-cent a gallon spring water sold at the grocery store. It’s ok when well chilled.
I still find myself craving soda occasionally but I think that’s psychological. One thing I’ve noticed is that if I’m not getting enough potassium (which most sodas are loaded with) in my diet, I get a dry mouth that water won’t relieve. I bought some potassium-based salt substitute and that helps.
I don’t like drinking water. However, I drink tea and coffee in copious amounts. It isn’t that I don’t like the taste, even on a well, it is that when I drink plain water I feel…uncomfortable? I don’t know, it just doesn’t sit as well as virtually anything else. I can feel it and it feels icky somehow. Hard to describe, but I just do not like.
I agree. In my younger days, I did not like the taste of water. I drank mostly carbonated beverages and juice. When I became serious about losing weight I realized I had to curtail my addiction to cherry Coke and started drinking water almost exclusively. I have acquired a taste for water over the years since and now crave it when I’m thirsty. Pop just doesn’t satisfy my thirst like water does now.
:eek: Wow, I can’t imagine drinking that much liquid in one day! The only time I would get near that amount is when I was traveling in Israel during the summer and carried a 2 liter CamelBak in my backpack.
I dislike water. I’ll have it if there is nothing else, but it’s not preferable to me. My drink of choice is the XXX flavor of Glaceau Vitamin Water.
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You are not alone. I don’t care for plain water. Although it doesn’t happen all the time, I have gotten slightly nauseated from drinking it on an empty stomach.
I definitely get nauseated from plain water on an empty stomach and have thrown up enough after doing this that it’s a proven fact…
What is “plain water”? Here in Atlanta I don’t drink tap water because it is full of chlorine and tastes nasty. Head for south Georgia and north/central Florida and it is full of sulphur and tastes worse.
Bottled water is okay if cold, but if allowed to warm up tastes of plastic.
Maybe I am too sensitive. The above aside, I don’t dislike water but there is almost always a tastier alternative.
I am blessed with such good water right out of the tap. Local water system comes out of some wells in the Coast Range, deep into the basalt. No sulfur, sweet water, and cold for most of the year. Better than any bottled water you can buy.
The water in my tap from East Bay Municipal Utilities District (EBMUD) is just fine. I keep a jug of it in the fridge and take a swig every morning. I feel sorry for the bunch of you who need sugar or corn syrup to feel ok.
Aside from coffee and beer, water is my drink of choice, albeit Brita filtered water for the most part. I rarely drink sodas or tea or fruit drinks. It’s mostly due some urinary/bladder issues and a meager attempt at controlling my weight, but also because I don’t want to buy any of those other drinks.
Dearborn Hgts water is fine. I drink black coffee in the morning and then water all the rest of the day. No juice, no pops, just water. I chill it in the refrig in bottles and drink it out of the bottle. I like water.
When I was in high school, I just couldn’t imagine drinking water for anything other than rehydrating during sports practices and games. Drinking it all by itself when I didn’t need to it replenish water lost through sweat seemed weird and tasted kind of gross. Then again, that was before bottled water became really popular. Other than that, I chain-drank diet cokes.
After I started college and couldn’t afford to buy diet coke all the time, I switched largely to water. Now it’s the most refreshing drink I can think of. I’m not sure if it has something to do with coming from a town where a lot of water came from wells, (where I grew up the water can smell strongly of sulphur) to St. Louis where the water is pretty clean and odorless. Regardless, if I want something I can guzzle and feel truly satisfied, it’s always cool water.
What’s odd is that before I was pregnant, I didn’t mind room-temperature water out of our water filter; now it squicks me out if it isn’t on ice or at least chilled (chilled, no ice is best).
I don’t get this line of thinking. Drinking Crystal Light does not equal drinking water. Crystal Light is the same as drinking diet soda. Just because you are starting with a bottle of water, people seem to think it “counts” as drinking water.
It does count as far as fluid intake is concerned.
No and yes!
I like my water barely above freezing*, with lots of ice. If I have my precious ice, I tend to drink two or three glasses of water with a meal (probably 32 oz) and a lot more throughout the day, but water without ice, even if it’s still cool to the touch, is about as appealing as a tall glass of saliva. (I don’t like the taste of minerals or plastic, or wet, tepid things in general.) Sure, if I’m truly thirsty, I’ll drink whatever water is available, but I’ll try not to taste it.
*I swear, if there was a kitchen appliance for producing supercooled water, I’d be all over it, even if it led to grievous bodily harm.