Yeah, I do hate drinking plain water, I always have. Most bottled water I have tried is gross, and the tap water here is gag-alicious.
The problem is I drink way too much diet soda and Crystal Light, so lately I tried another shot at bottled spring water.
After trying a couple of different kinds I found that I liked Deer Park the best. So now I keep a 24-pack in the refrigerator. I can drink it, but I still have to kind of make myself. At least it doesn’t taste nasty to me.
Plain water is good, especially really cold. You guys that buy bottled water, you buy the water from my state (more than likely). You’re welcome.
Our neighbors own a water filter company, so we got one of their high quality models. Cold water from it tastes great. Soda pop, sugar water labeled as fruit juice, and the like (gatorade, vitamin water…) are what’s really gross.
I used to find that drinking water didn’t quench my thirst. Not immediately, anyway. Go figure. A few years back, I started buying Sam’s Choice water at Wal-Mart. It says it has “flavor-enhancing minerals”. I don’t know that it enhances the flavor - it tastes just fine to me - but I feel like it quenches my thirst better.
The ingredients list on my bottle of Sam’s Choice water(I find it funny typing that):
purified water
magnesium sulfate
potassium bicarbonate
potassium chloride
I tried one of those filters you put on your faucet once. The water was so strongly chlorinated, it was unpleasant to drink. After being filtered, the chlorine taste was greatly reduced or eliminated. Unfortunately, it then tasted ‘fishy’. 
I used to hate it, and hardly ever drank water when I was younger, but I can bear it now, and often drink plain water, mainly because it’s much cheaper. Tap water in Hawaii is really good too.
The only things I used to drink were Gatorade, milk, root beer, or fruit punch. Of course I’d fit other things in, but that was pretty rare.
Nowadays I drink a ton of regular water (only while at home, never bottled), Vitamin Water, Gatorade, and sometimes a soda should I be at a restaurant.
It depends a lot on which water we’re talking about. The water at Mom’s doesn’t taste too well and it comes from a roof deposit which goes uncleaned for years, so I understand why she’s moved to bottled water (although her fixation with it being “low mineral content” is absurd, nobody in our family has had kidney stones in the last five generations at least). In other places it tastes fine.
But then again, I also like milk with milk…
Meh, you guys are just spoiled with an abundant array of sugary and/or caffeinated drinks to choose from. But if you’re thirsty enough, there isn’t a human alive who would turn down a nice cold glass of water… and love it.
As far as quantity goes, if we’re talking about “standard” eight ounce glasses, then that’s pretty much equivalent to the two to three liters a day people are reporting here. It’s also about equal to two quarts, which incidentally was the daily fresh water ration aboard ships in olden times.
I LOVE plain water. Even before I was diagnosed with diabetes, it was my favorite beverage.
Is your water distilled or purified, with no minerals etc?
I don’t like the taste of that stuff either. But plain tap water in my area, or Crystal Geyser (filtered spring water) tastes excellent to me.
Peace,
mangeorge
Rereading this thread is really making me think about water more. I now live in the mountains with a 900ft well. We had the water tested, it came back pretty damned perfect, except a very low pH, which evidently, will play hell on our metal pipes and fittings. We have a Total Dissolved Solids tester thingy, our water in Tampa was 200 ppm. The water here? 15 ppm, that is almost R/O water! The thing is, it comes out of the tap at 50 degrees! So perfectly clean, mountain water at a drinkable temperature, right from the tap. I really have to try to develop a taste and tolerance for it.
After a nightly dose of beer, nothing but ice-cold water will do in the morning.
It has to be clean, fresh non-tap water, and ice cold.
Otherwise I really hate it.
But then, I’m hydrophobic.
I have to ask, what makes water “fresh”? Is it a cure for rabies?
Doesn’t matter - I tried the Brita thing, the cooler at work, bottled water…none of it is bearable.
I think parents are to blame for this ruinous attitude toward water by filling us with apple juice practically from birth. Drinking juice is like mainling sugar. If a child won’t drink water, that child isn’t thirsty.
If your tap water isn’t good, there’s good bottled water available. Your water company is required to provide you with an analysis of your water quality.
Parents, and the marketeers who influence them.
I spend summers in El Salvador on a project investigating children’s dental health in rural areas. Over the last couple of decades the streams and groundwater have become polluted by unregulated industry, so people have to buy whatever it is they’re going to drink. The cheapest liquid, by far (half the cost of bottled water, somehow) is Coke. It’s everywhere, even in baby bottles.
80% of the children under 5 have severely decayed teeth, causing constant pain (parents sooth them by giving them hard candy to suck on). The loss of teeth interferes with their ability to eat properly, resulting in severe malnutrition, even in areas where good food is abundant.
Five years ago we started educating parents about the effects of sugar, and three years ago we started applying fluoride varnish on children’s teeth three times a year in several test villages. The rates of caries (dental cavities) in those villages has plummeted, but more importantly the incidence of malnutrition has gone down close to zero.
I know people love sugar just the way they love tobacco, but is it really in our best interests to profit from promoting unhealthy habits of consumption?
I don’t dislike plain water per se, however I hate the water from my flat’s tap. Tastes like chalky ass. I’ll drink tap water pretty much anywhere… except at home.
I’ve only read the first thirty posts or so … but did anyone else bring up the idea that plain water has variable appeal based on the situation?
After cutting the grass, ice-cold water is quite refreshing. With a savory meal, plain ice water is a nice, neutral taste to kind of “center” the palate every minute or two.
Sitting in front of the tube with a game on? Plain water – even if ice cold – has much less appeal. At the movies? Forget it. Early-morning bleary feeling? A few swallows of water helps dry mouth, but after that I want coffee or strong tea.
I should note also that our tap water is decent at room temperature, and superb when chilled.
No, you’re wrong, sorry.
I was in the Army. I’ve been pretty goddamned thirsty after 16-hour route marches, day-long section and platoon attack practices in 90degree heat, the whole nine yards. I drank a lot of water on those days. And I disliked every single drop of it.