i’ll never understand the people who absolutely can’t stand drinking just plain water. though i guess they’ll never understand how i will 100% of the time refuse water with any bullshit added for “flavor”
I was this person for ages. Our tap water had a taste growing up, and all the water fountain water in school tasted like pennies. I assumed all plain water was disgusting. My first bottled water was Dasani, so yeah, more shitty water. I assumed all bottled water was just as gross as all the other water I had.
As an adult, I had to transition off of soda to flavored sparkling water. Then, from that, to flavored still water. Now, I can drink plain water. Most people don’t even try to adjust their taste buds.
Except it isn’t, you can’t really control certain factors regarding water flavor, hell the mile between my home and the place I stayed while my mother worked was enough for the well water to taste completely different. One was amazing, the other so hard with minerals I’m surprised it cause kidney stones
Depends on where you are and what the source is. If the tap water isn’t filtered, and the only bottled water is in plastic bottles, I’ll take a flavoured drink of some kind over it because I hate the taste that gets left behind by the plastic.
Acid reflux causes butyric acid to exit the stomach through the lower esophageal sphincter and enter the throat and potentially mouth. This causes a slight puke aftertaste to any substances imbibed. Sweet drinks can drown the vomit taste out, but water can’t, so water tastes like puke.
I used to be that way before getting into the habit of drinking water a couple years ago. I think a lot of it is just being used to drinking stuff with sugar, such that one’s tastes have long since adapted to that and then you notice and are disgusted by the lack of said sweetness in the water. I remember water seeming to have a sort of bitterness to it that went away after awhile when I stopped drinking sweet tea all the time and made myself drink water.
I have often made the experience that when I’m thirsty, drinking pure water will not help it, but somehow make it worse. Drinking juice or literally anything else though (except coffee, alcohol, …) does improve it.
In my own personal experience, this insatiable thirst is due to low blood sugar (or high? getting those confused) and if I don’t get some kind of sugar I get a headache. But it is not the same as regular thirst.
And it sucks. I haven’t really pieced together what triggers it for me.
i’ll never understand the people who absolutely can’t stand drinking just plain water. though i guess they’ll never understand how i will 100% of the time refuse water with any bullshit added for “flavor”
I was this person for ages. Our tap water had a taste growing up, and all the water fountain water in school tasted like pennies. I assumed all plain water was disgusting. My first bottled water was Dasani, so yeah, more shitty water. I assumed all bottled water was just as gross as all the other water I had.
As an adult, I had to transition off of soda to flavored sparkling water. Then, from that, to flavored still water. Now, I can drink plain water. Most people don’t even try to adjust their taste buds.
Clean drinking water is a privilege in the States.
Except it isn’t, you can’t really control certain factors regarding water flavor, hell the mile between my home and the place I stayed while my mother worked was enough for the well water to taste completely different. One was amazing, the other so hard with minerals I’m surprised it cause kidney stones
I’m one of those people. Plain water just doesn’t satisfy my craving most of the time.
Especially in hot weather when im active I can literally drink myself sick on “plain” water and still feel the need to drink more.
Add just about any type of flavoring (even in less than recommended amounts) and suddenly I can drink reasonable amounts of water and feel satisfied.
Depends on where you are and what the source is. If the tap water isn’t filtered, and the only bottled water is in plastic bottles, I’ll take a flavoured drink of some kind over it because I hate the taste that gets left behind by the plastic.
Acid reflux.
What?
Acid reflux causes butyric acid to exit the stomach through the lower esophageal sphincter and enter the throat and potentially mouth. This causes a slight puke aftertaste to any substances imbibed. Sweet drinks can drown the vomit taste out, but water can’t, so water tastes like puke.
I used to be that way before getting into the habit of drinking water a couple years ago. I think a lot of it is just being used to drinking stuff with sugar, such that one’s tastes have long since adapted to that and then you notice and are disgusted by the lack of said sweetness in the water. I remember water seeming to have a sort of bitterness to it that went away after awhile when I stopped drinking sweet tea all the time and made myself drink water.
Even a slice of lemon?
It took a long time of flavored water to get me off of soda, but after awhile I found I could stomach regular water.
I have often made the experience that when I’m thirsty, drinking pure water will not help it, but somehow make it worse. Drinking juice or literally anything else though (except coffee, alcohol, …) does improve it.
In my own personal experience, this insatiable thirst is due to low blood sugar (or high? getting those confused) and if I don’t get some kind of sugar I get a headache. But it is not the same as regular thirst.
And it sucks. I haven’t really pieced together what triggers it for me.
Electrolyte imbalance?
I have the same problem except its soda. Soda (or anything carbonated really) does nothing for my thirst