What is your favorite drink (excluding alcohol)?

Yorkshire water. Not Lincolnshire water . Lincolnshire water is so nasty (and hard) that I'm doing 10 days stints on placement and drinking less than a cup of fluid a day. I do intake more than that in my food, but I'm also not eating as much fruit and veg as usual because living away makes everything more difficult.

I'm visiting my grandparents this weekend with my parents, who are going to drop me off for placement (near to my grandparents' home) on their way back with plenty of bottles of water (which has so far been impossible, as there are usually four of us sharing a small car). The environment says "Noooo!" but my kidneys say "Thank you!"

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Lemonade, I drink it all the time, sugar free.

Well coffee is a given

Juice! Usually vegetable juice or orange juice (real, pure juice, no additives)

All you need now is brand new socks and a freshly waxed floor.

KOMBUCHA !!!!! "Synergy" brand is the cheapest of the two brands in Whole Foods' refrigerated drinx section. ALL flavors, especially the "Green" and "Gingerade."

After that, "Ginger 'Gizer," Yerba Maté -- especially like the chai and chocolate teabag versions and the bottled Bombilla brand -- all flavors of the latter, Blueberry especially. "Mix 1" is good too. "Evolution" is good. I like healthy drinks. Oh, and my own homemade smoothies too.

Milk! I go through a 4 litre jug every week.
The only other things I drink are juice(about 1 litre a week) and just the odd glass of water here and there. I don't drink any coffee, tea, pop, etc.

A mixed drink of......Iced gingerale/lime juice/aromatic bitters/ fresh mint leaf

Milk...but it has to be near freezing cold or forget it. "Dr Pepper" is a close second.

> Milk...but it has to be near freezing cold or forget it. "Dr Pepper"
> is a close second.

I put ice in my milk, everyone thinks thats weird but , that;s the only way I like it.

I won't touch it if it is slightly cool or room temperature. Then, it becomes the drink that I like the least.

tea

watered down orange juice (straight OJ is too syrupy for me)
Oh, I like coffee a lot too, but I don't even think of that as a drink... it's a drug.

Slushie

Coffee would have to be it, though I only have 1-3 cups in the course of a day. Though I sometimes also go a month or more without any.

Water, followed closely by tea.

Ooh well I like coca-cola...

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You forgot a main one, and my favorite - MILK

> Milk...but it has to be near freezing cold or
> forget it. "Dr Pepper" is a close second.

Yeah, I keep my milk in the cold compartment of the fridge so it is verrry cold. Forget the Dr. Pepper though.

A Caffe Nero mocha with cream. Or coke.

They have a new drink here, which is water with a splash of Ocean spray Cranberry.........(named Cranwata) its is soooooo good and refreshing

Do they have Malta India down there? Used to by favorite drink when I was a kid in Puerto Rico.

"Malta" very popular, I assume its very similar to "malta India"

Soda wasn't even an option?

Gingerale with OJ concentrate, pomegranate syrup, and mint.
Next would be a banana coconut date shake.

The steady supply of coffee doesn't count.

The two mix well together too. (Dr. Pepper and milk)
I've recently discovered I can make pomegranate Quik without curdling by using grenadine.

water
sparkling water
English tea
cappuccino

Diet Pepsi

Well... it was coffee... but now it's Mate... MAte, MATE MATE MATE.... YES YES, NO CAFFEINE, RIGHT, LOT'S OF ENERGY!!! YES!!! I LOVE MY MATE.... GIVE ME MO' MO'MO, I AM SO ALIVE..... WOW...... YIPPEE!!!! (whew).....

> KOMBUCHA !!!!! "Synergy" brand is the cheapest of the two brands
> in Whole Foods' refrigerated drinx section. ALL flavors, especially
> the "Green" and "Gingerade."
>

Oh.... and if you do grow your own Kombucha mushrooms and drink that juice be prepared to maybe get an outbreak of pimples because it is a major blood cleaner.

Cool! I'd like to see a demonstration of how to make one's own.

Thanx for this!

Though I have never tried that, it could make for an interesting shake or smoothie. (Didn't LaVerne mix milk & pepsi?) I would be inclined to add ice cream and blend!!! (Thanks for the suggesting, KR)

Using soda syrups works even better. Cola syrup makes an interesting contribution to one's spice cabinet.

Coca-Cola

> Cool! I'd like to see a demonstration of how to make one's own.

Warm clime in a house is the best. I was given the shroom by someone. You make a gallon batch of black tea (or green tea) with a cup of sugar and the kombucha eats the sugar and tea and starts to grow in layers... sort of like a flaky biscuit. Really slimy and a light vanilla yellow color. I think it was a week. You can usually taste when it is ready. You then separate the layers and start another one for each layer. You can have quite a few going at once. They multiply. Very important: Never must metal touch the shroom or fungus or stir the tea. It does something to it... taints it somehow. Once when I removed one but kept the tea in a warm kitchen another grew just from the spores in the tea. I drank a cup a day. Really sweet vinegar taste.

I like Jones Soda. Creamsicle is my favourite. I wasn't thinking coffee... I like coffee.

Verrrry interesting. Thanx for the info.

My mom used to make it in her fridge. I think there was a movie on the subject, 'Day of the Triffids' or something.

Water. That includes sparking water.

I also like ice tea, coffee, tea, and juice. I'm not a fan of soda and only drink Diet Coke/Coke Zero as an alternative to coffee.

Got the hard water problem where I live. We solved it because one of our roommates has a water cooler and now we use that (and it's only about $3 for 18L of water).

Before the water cooler, I'd just go on through the day not drinking water. It gets hard after a while but that was still a better option than drinking tap water.

> watered down orange juice (straight OJ is too
> syrupy for me)
> Oh, I like coffee a lot too, but I don't even

Chase your OJ with some vodka. Or gin.

Oh - too bad I had to cancel my Netflix account - I'd check that film out. (The rent got raised and I'm on a fixed income so had to cancel my subscription but am thinking about a cheaper rate, like once a month or something.)

*hic*

'Day of the Triffids' was a 50's horror film with giant walking plant creatures from outerspace. Holding out at a lighthouse they discover the things react to salt-water hosing like snails. A jar of Kambucha growing in the fridge struck me as something alien.

THANKS! I think I'll try the public library for this film.

coffee, coffee, and more coffee.

> Well... it was coffee... but now it's Mate... MAte, MATE MATE MATE....
> YES YES, NO CAFFEINE, RIGHT, LOT'S OF ENERGY!!! YES!!! I LOVE MY MATE....
> GIVE ME MO' MO'MO, I AM SO ALIVE..... WOW...... YIPPEE!!!! (whew).....
what is Mate? anything like coffeemate?

oh tea. hummm

Tea bag form? That kills the whole exotic Argentinian presentation. Traditionally the entire cup is packed with dry leaves like a sponge, and one drinks it with straws which poke through down to the bottom.

1. Water. I drink major amounts of water daily.

2. Coffee. With half/half only.

I don't really drink anything else.

People have called me weird for icing any kind of juice. Orange juice NEEDS ice.

I could see how Milk would only be good ice cold. I can't drink white milk at all though. Maybe I should try it with ice. The only way I'll drink chocolate milk is with Ovaltine.... and I chug it. It's a good chocolate fix.

coke a cola

I use orange juice as my ice. I mix in a couple spoons of frozen OJ with a couple ounces of cran/pom juice, then pour in a can of gingerale. As I did so a few minutes ago I was thinking about you and a survey to see who enjoyed ice-cream style head freezing as a kid. Confirms my SC group mind observation.

I drink mother you know, the mother of all energy drinnks this also makes me hyyper!!!!!!!