I’ve been keeping a bottle or two around just for my trips to the movies. Generally, I go to the Alamo Drafthouse, where you can order all kinds of food, drinks, even alcohol, and they deliver it to you in the theater. I’m avoiding sugar, so I order a water with lots of ice and squirt a shot or two of whatever flavor into the glass and stir it in. Plain water is kind of a bummer drink during a movie, so the flavor really helps.
The last couple times I went I believe I used Crystal Light Blackberry Lemonade.
Soda is giving me heartburn so I am trying to drink water, and usually it’s Poland Spring. I’d like to try the enhancers but I figure they mostly have citric acid in them also.
Aside: You know how in theory water is tasteless, and people say, how can you hate water, it doesn’t taste like anything? And of course most water does taste like something and that’s why I hated it? Since I started drinking the Poland Spring, I finally broke down and tried my friends’ well water, from the deep well and through a filter and out a spout in the fridge. :eek: It really DOESN’T taste like anything! It’s just pure watery refreshment. Man, I wish we had a well at my house!
You know, I was going to try this, I really, really was going to try this but… the watermelon looked sooooo good so I just went face down in the melon quarter (nom! nom! nom!) and it didn’t survive long enough to become juice.
Full strength. Cut off rind and push melon pieces through conical sieve to remove seeds. By the way, conical, aside from the shape, means sheet metal with a bunch of little holes. If you use a “screen” type sieve, it’s going to take a lot longer.
I’m not sure if it’s true, but I think the juice spoils really quickly, so I run an entire watermelon through the sieve, freeze it and consume it over the course of a few days or a week. Move from freezer to fridge and drink next day.
Watermelon (or any fruit or salad) doesn’t sit well with me if I eat it at night, and I don’t like it with my morning coffee, either, so I usually drink the juice at some point before lunch, especially when I return home all hot and sweaty after shopping. It’s excellent after lunch, too, as dessert.
That, and Cook County is too small to provide a captive audience - even poor folks can usually jump the border if they feel the need. Between taxis, Uber/Lyft, bus and train lines, and friends with cars no one is confined to the county. All that tax will do is hurt businesses in Cook County (and not raise the anticipated revenue) and increase business outside it, accelerating the rot in Chicago and the close-in suburbs.
