As an aside. A friend of mine recently told me how he kept so lean and trim years ago.
He only ate things he didnt like. Brutal, but I bet it worked.
That reminds me of the old joke:
Man goes to the doctor and says, “Doctor, how do I live to be 100?”
Doctor says, "Give up drink, give up fine foods, give up chasing women. You’ll live to be 100 easy. "
Man says, “Ok, but why would I WANT to?”
Same thing with eating only things you don’t like. What’s the point?
Great, it would definitely work. Unfortunately there’s not many foods I don’t like.
As for water, I am lucky enough to live in Chicago which has the best tap water in the country. I drink water, but only to quench a deep thirst. I prefer the Crystal Light drink mix route now that I have given up my beloved cola.
Ah cola, what times we did enjoy. Why did you betray me with your seductive sugar? Ah, you haunt me still, oh nectar of paradise, my Royal Crown! Would that I could taste thee again, and have thee on my lips. I praise thee though I shun thee. Fie upon thee, oh tepid Crystal Light! You cannot approach my forbidden love! You cannot…
Well, that’s enough of that.
I don’t hate water, but I sort of forget about it.
I go days at a time drinking just coffee, maybe some wine at dinner. Suddenly I’ll get very very thirsty and go chug a glass of water…then that’ll be it for a while.
As fat as America is getting, you would think a zero calorie,refreshing drink would get great love.
This reminds me of when I was younger and my mom had this little apparatus that allowed you to make your own seltzer water. It was a novelty with her, and for a few weeks we drank gallons of it. Unfortunately, the novelty wore off and we were back to drinking diet coke as our beverage of choice.
For what it’s worth, I can kind of understand why people wouldn’t like water. Although most of the rest of the world drinks it as a primary beverage, in the States, water wasn’t realy popular as a drink until it was branded. At least I don’t remember anyone in my circle of friends actually preferring to drink water in anything but small quantities unless they were exercising until bottled water showed up.
I remember when that happened, thinking, “You’re kidding me. Who’s going to buy tap water in a bottle?” Of course, I eventually wound up buying the occasional bottle of water, too, but I recall thinking that the original idea was absolutely absurd. I clung to my diet cokes as long as I could.
I dislike it, but I don’t hate it. If I’m really thirsty, I’d certainly drink water rather than going without. However, if given my druthers I’ll have some Arizona green tea or a nice glass of fruit juice.
I live in Florida, where (1) water quality is poor, and (2) groundwater contamination has resulted in a 50% drop in the average sperm count among adult males over the past 60 years, so I’ll only drink bottled or filtered water when I do drink it.
It does. It’s called Diet Coke. 
I’m also with the OP, the older I become the more I dislike the taste of water.
I’d rather drink a Gatorade, some low cal fruit juice or Whiskey. 
I will have Water once in a while just because it’s good to drink some. But screw that 8 glasses of water a day.
This idea has been somewhat discredited lately. Any fluid intake counts.
If you pee at least 2-3 times a day and it’s faintly yellow to clear, your fluid intake is good.
I’ve drunk cola just about all my life, but my teeth are an utter mess, so I’ve started drinking water. I’m kind of getting to like it. The tap water at my home is fairly lousy (though not unbearable), but the spring water that comes in jugs is fine.
A friend of mine hates water more on an intellectual level than a tastebud thing- the life swimming in it disturbs her.
I love water, I even have favorite water and a least favorite. Wellwater from a hand pump on a farm I lived in as a kid, very near Lake Michigan, ice cold and so clean is my absolute favorite. Then second is the drinking fountain at my local Meijer’s store, it’s so cold. My least favorite was at my aunt’s house. She had wellwater, but unfortunately it tasted and smelled fishy. Yuck. I live in a city now and I’m lucky to have nice water.
I like water - but not most bottled water. Evian, Aquafina, Poland Spring (especially!) - it always tastes flat and stale.
Dasani is okay, as is Fiji.
I drink water almost exclusively. Well, plus coffee in the morning. Anything but water only makes me thirstier. Very rarely I’ll drink a coke, but only if there’s tons of ice available, and generally it’s because there’s no coffee and I need caffeine.
When I drink fruit juice (I think of it as a snack or dessert) I have to cut it in half with water or it makes me feel sick.
We used to be able to buy caffeinated water, and I bought it by the case - gave up coffee entirely and just drank that every morning. Loved it, miss it, can’t find it anymore. . .
On special occasions I drink flavored seltzer waters - like Perrier or Zazz, not the sweetened stuff.
For the love of god don’t tell her whats floating around in the air
I’m okay with water, but it isn’t my first choice, and I prefer it ice cold.
Is there some sort of special chemical they use for the water you get in bulk for water coolers? Water cooler water gives me horrible stomachaches, but tap water (both well and city treated) and most bottled water is okay. I’ve never been able to figure that out.
Fortunately, I live in area that has great tap water so I like it. I’ve also made it my daily regimen to drink a glass of carbonated water before bed. I used to have swallowing problems but they gone away since I started doing this.
Still, that doesn’t mean I don’t drink other liquids (e.g., coffee, diet pop, beer, juice, etc.) fairly often.
Nope, I dislike water too, and have tried it several different countries; various parts of my own country; and several varieties of bottled. I don’t like any of it.
I do drink it occasionally - when I get a dehydration headache (which happens quite a lot as I don’t really like soda or juice either so tend to mainly drink tea or coffee), water shifts it quickest - but I still don’t like it.
I like drinking water as my beverage of choice. Actually beer is my beverage of coice, but I usually am walking around with a bottle of water throughout the day.
Not a big fan of sodas, or flavored/vitamin water drinks but I will drink fruit juice, a couple cups of coffee in the mornings and beer in the evenings.
sounds a lot like