# Drinking Vinegar **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 14, 2008, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-vinegar/459956 "2008-08-14T09:00:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-vinegar/459956/21 "2008-08-14T19:43:00Z")
They sell drinks made with Kombucha in the local health food type stores and I’ve tried it a couple of times. It more or less tastes like slightly fruit flavored, carbonated vinegar, but not in a bad way. I’m avoiding it lately, though, since there are some questions about safety. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-vinegar/459956/22 "2008-08-14T22:32:48Z")
[QUOTE=cher3] They sell drinks made with Kombucha in the local health food type stores and I’ve tried it a couple of times. It more or less tastes like slightly fruit flavored, carbonated vinegar, **but not in a bad way**. I’m avoiding it lately, though, since there are some questions about safety. [/QUOTE] LIES! My wife brought home a bottle of this poison a couple weeks ago and it smelled so bad I couldn’t get it to my lips to taste it. And I’m using bad definition 1c: _not fresh : SPOILED_ ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-vinegar/459956/23 "2008-08-14T23:41:47Z")
[QUOTE=ralph124c] new englanders didn’t like to waste anything-which is why they drank buttermilk (uggh!) as well! [/QUOTE] When I was stationed in West Germany back in the very early 1980s, the grocery stores there sold flavored buttermilk. I thought they tasted pretty good. Regular buttermilk; however, is the culinary version of fingernails on a chalkboard. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-vinegar/459956/24 "2008-08-15T03:04:57Z")
Brown rice vinegar? Doubtful, but maybe. But black bean vinegar? Oh, god, yuck. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-vinegar/459956/25 "2008-08-15T04:19:58Z")
In cooler months I like a cup of hot water with apple cider vinegar and honey mixed in. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-vinegar/459956/26 "2008-08-15T09:23:53Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad] Brown rice vinegar? Doubtful, but maybe. [/quote] I’ve had rice vinegar on string beans when I lived in Japan. Tasted pretty good but obviously different than wine vinegar. > [@](#): > > But black bean vinegar? Oh, god, yuck. Exactly! I’m afraid to try the stuff. I wonder why they didn’t use the red beans which are popular here in desserts. Oh, I tried the blueberry-flavored stuff today. It’s fairly good, tastes like those sweet tart candies. Next week when I get the cast off, I’ll buy all the flavors they have listed and try them. Assuming I survive the worst of it, I’ll report here what my non-Scientific, one-person survey determines. ---
**Author:** ![rikc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c57346/32.png) [@rikc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rikc)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-vinegar/459956/27 "2008-08-15T10:16:05Z")
When a friend of mine was young, his mother would catch him in the kitchen drinking white vinegar straight from the bottle, and that is what I thought of when I first saw this thread. Some of these sound really tasty. I’m going to try this. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-vinegar/459956/28 "2008-08-15T13:02:51Z")
[QUOTE=burundi] My dad is a firm believer in the curative powers of vinegar. He makes up this stuff he calls “Jog in a Jug”–half apple juice, half cider vinegar [/QUOTE] He may have gotten the name from the seller of [this product](http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1370/is_n1_v30/ai_17830797) (which got yanked from the market after its promoter started claiming it could cure cancer, among other things). ---
**Author:** ![Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petrobey_Mavromihalis)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-vinegar/459956/29 "2008-08-15T13:12:45Z")
The Turks will pickle just about anything and pickle shops like [this](http://www.ctmwebdesign.com/2003/piklshop.jpg) are common. As a side line to the pickles they sell the pickling vinegar by the glass. People down it every day for ‘health’ reasons. Often there’s a fair bit of chili in the vinegar, so it can really knock your socks off. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-vinegar/459956/30 "2008-08-15T18:18:08Z")
[QUOTE=Petrobey Mavromihalis] The Turks will pickle just about anything and pickle shops like [this](http://www.ctmwebdesign.com/2003/piklshop.jpg) are common. [/QUOTE] One of my friends from Vietnam makes really delicious pickled lemons. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-vinegar/459956/31 "2008-08-15T18:30:59Z")
I always drown my fish and chips in malt vinegar. I think I’d drink a vinegar based drink. I must visit Korea some time. ---
**Author:** ![mrsspooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@mrsspooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsspooky)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-vinegar/459956/32 "2008-08-15T19:19:09Z")
I never thought of drinking it any other way than straight up! I love the stuff - my chips are always swimming in it. I like to think its preserving my insides! ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-vinegar/459956/33 "2008-08-16T01:33:40Z")
Don’t miss the **Vinegar Boy Saga** , as posted by \*\*Silver Tyger \*\* on 8/1 (quite long, but worth it) > **["Vinegar Boy", as told by Aaron - Customers Suck!](https://www.customerssuck.com/board/forum/the-heart-of-the-site/war-stories/220-vinegar-boy-as-told-by-aaron?t=166)** > > Classics ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-vinegar/459956/34 "2008-09-15T09:28:41Z")
As of this past Saturday evening, I’m walking without crutches. That prompted me to head for the local Home plus (yes, that’s the way the name’s supposed to be spelled here) this Monday afternoon and I bought three bottles of the drinking vinegar: [ol][li]Blueberry (because I like the stuff)[/li][li]Fiber and Rice Black Vinegar (from a different company than the blueberry and the other stuff listed in a previous post)[/li][li]Honey Rice Black Vinegar (from the same company as #2)[/ol][/li] I tried the second one and it’s atually pretty good. The fiber apparently comes from the 43.2% plum juice used to flavor it. ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-vinegar/459956/35 "2008-09-16T04:00:13Z")
> [@Daithi\_Lacha](#): > > In the art school I went to, a couple of guys I knew drank loads of vinegar in order to pass drug screenings so they could get a job with the local power company. We were freshman. Does that explain a lot? It my explain why my power keeps going o [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-vinegar/459956.md?page=1)