Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

1y ago

You can only drink one drink for the rest of your life, but it cannot be water. What do you pick?

And no "water with a twist of lemon/slice of cucumber" goofs. Water isn't allowed.

320 comments

Water is the main component of any and every beverage
- Elemental mercury.
  
  You'll drink this until the end of your life. Works the same with molten iron though.
  
  though can only be ingested once
  
  Nougat is a Lemmy user, presenting to the emergency room unconscious
  
  Why not gallium
  
  always gave me a heavy feeling in the pit of my stomach.
  
  I appreciate the creativity, but that is not a drink, good sir/madam...
- True, but at the same time you know exactly what OP means with this question.
  
  I don't think OP knows what they mean with this question. The top two 'serious' answers are coffee and tea, which is just "hot water with shit mixed in". Anything you drink is water with shit mixed in. Any answer that isn't "water with shit mixed in" means you die, either within months or minutes. Most answers that are "water with shit mixed in" would still kill you fairly quickly if that's all you ever drank.
- A friend had to read a paper about what people called water vs. how much water made up the substance. So like pond water has less water than tea, we call one water one tea. Truly thrilling research.
  
  do you have a link to the paper? I want to read it
- I had this argument with my roommate once. It was probably the biggest argument we ever had. IMO, just because it has water in it doesn't mean that the drink is water. Like, some people don't like the taste of water, but that doesn't mean that they don't like milk, which has water in it.
  For me a beverage is defined by its flavor, not its components.
  
  They said no goofs like lemon water though. So what’s the line?
- r/technicallythetruth

EVERY drink is water!
Soda is less water and some sugar mixture
Juice is less water and some squished fruit
Beer is less water and some cooked hops
Tea is less water and some leaf infusion
Coffee is less water and some roasted bean-juice
A martini is even less water with some alcohol and old squished fruit
So DON'T TELL ME WATER ISN'T ALLOWED! Damn, this is making me irrationally angry. Maybe I need some water...
- I wish you'd said beer was less water and more squished fruit
- If that's the case, I guess I'll pick kool-aid powder.
- You can either have whole milk or fresh squeezed juice. 😂
  
  Whole milk is just water with some emulgated fat in it. Fresh squeezed juice is just water with some biomass in it.
  I suppose we need to switch to sunflower oil or something. It is digestible, has no water in it, but isnt exactly healthy.

Tea. Iced or hot, black or mint, dash of milk or honey. So many combinations.
- Agreed, but in theory you wouldn't be able to add milk (it's a drink after all)
  I prefer green tea personally, but recently found some Hawaiian Mamaki Tea, and I'm loving it.
  
  And without water, dude's just sucking leaves.
  
  In Russian, you eat milk, so..

Dr. Pepper because I'm here for a fun time not a long time.
- Fuck yaaaaa!

coffee for sure
- Right? How is this even up for debate lol
- But what if you’re thirsty at night?
  
  Well, I drink decaf coffee anyway so not a problem =)
- Boring

A 0.00000001 % NaCl brine solution
- I feel this breaks the 'no goofs' rule
  
  I will admit now that I only read the title.... Sorry!!!
- That might be more water than most water.

All normal drinks are just flavored water, so I guess steering fluid?

Sadly all "drinks" are made primarily from water. Otherwise they were called "chews". You living in the US of A by any chance? Unrelated question.

Coconut water fresh from a refrigerated coconut. I would only drink that, even if I didn't have to, if it was cheap enough.
- Death By Coconut: A Story Of Food Obsession Gone Too Far
  
  I don't think it's really fair to blame the coconuts here...
- The coconut water drinks at the Asian market are usually pretty good too 🙂

cyanide. you take my water you take my life

Tea. Have about 5 cups of tea a day already.
- Tea is water lol
  
  Every drink in the world contains water, by that logic we can't drink anything.

- Nothing like malk and a Laramie jr.

Milk
I'll be the strongest mf in the skeleton war
- Make sure you learn archery so that you can at least be an archery skeleton instead of a skeleton infantry plebe.
- Milk, the best way to hydrate.
- Milk is 70% water
  
  Newsflash, all drinks are mostly water
  
  Actually all drinks are 70+% water I suppose, if not, you call them not "drinks" but "stew" or "paste", or even drier: "sand"
  Edit: Nevermind, thought about 30+% alchools, having by definition less than 70% water 😅

Heavy water.
- You ded.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavywater#::text=Heavy%20water%20can%20be%20toxic,needed%20for%20poisoning%20to%20occur.
- Isn’t that poisonous in large quantities?
  
  Literally everything drinkable I can think of within the rules of this question(No water) are either outright poisonous or at least(in the case of food oils and certain glycols) would cause diarrhea rapidly accelerating dehydration. At least the poisonous options are quicker.

Tea
- This is basically my life anyways. Other less serious and more waterless answer is gasoline.

BRAWNDO!
- It's got electrolytes!
- It’s got what plants crave!
- It's got electrolytes!
- Does it have electrolytes?
- This is the answer of the current future

Beer, obviously.
- Brewski beers in my mojo dojo casa house.
  
  "You don't have to say dojo and house- -and casa"
- Beer is mostly water.
- Was searching for this one!

Why can't people stop being pedants and just answer in the spirit of OP's question 😭
Anyway, I'd pick bubble tea I think. There's a lot of variety and mileage I can get.
- Because the question is nonsensical.
  
  How is "water with lemon" any less of a drink then "tea". Question was fine if it just said, what drink other than water. But the addition of calling "water with lemon" goofs is not good question for me. Also ban water!! does OP realises almost all drinks for humans are just water and something else mixed to some degree?

Whiskey on the rocks.
I can suck the ice cubes during the day, and drink the whiskey at night.
- Right? OP said you can't drink water, but they didn't say anything about eating it
- Make it a scotch for me! I don’t even put ice in it. Got a neat little cup that goes in the freezer to chill it.

Brawndo. It's got what I crave.
- Does it suck being a vegetable?

All liquid involves water.
I don't love tea but yeah it would be tea. Iced green tea lemonade, black tea with milk. If literally only one then iced black tea with lemonade, let it get diluted.
- False. I will now list 10 non water liquids
  Oil
  Mercury
  Alcohol
  Bromine
  Ethanol
  Methanol
  Acetone
  Benzene
  Chloroform
  Glycerin
  Source: The top of my head, and organicchemistrydata.org/solvents/
  
  Which of these do you think you could drink the longest before dying? lol
- Mercury
  
  This is actually true. Metallic mercury would pass through your gut with no ill effect. Mercury compounds are what will turn you into a Proud Boy.
- oil

tea, Earl Grey, hot
- Make it so

Water is in every beverage, this question is unanswerable.
Even without trying to be pedantic, what about Vitamin Water? Cuz my answer would genuinely be tropical citrus vitamin water. I could also do Mountain Dew, which btw contains water.
So the question becomes based on the exclusion of water without additives, which begs the question, why not lemon water then, and what amount of additives qualifies it as 'not water' anymore? If I use lemon extract and sugar does that count as lemonade? If so, why isn't water with lemon extract considered unsweetened lemonade?
- Shots of olive oil?
  
  I just threw up in my mouth.
- Just drink honey
  
  If honey is drinkable, it has water in it. Dry honey is crystalline and solid.

Tea assuming I'm allowed any variant of it, lot of different ways you can have tea to make it taste different, iced/hot probably being the most important in this scenario

If water isn't allowed, what does one drink? Everything we drink has water in it.

If “drinks that contain water” are not allowed, then nothing. I will die of thirst.

I can drink H₂O₂ for the rest of my life.
- A lethal dose is a lifetime supply

No water allowed that essentially excludes all beverage. If i could have anything else, i'd go with at least two kilos of fruit and berries per day, preferably melon, cucumber, oranges, cherries, raspberry (any berry actually...), plume, pear, apricot. And the occasional fish.
- 2 kilos???
  
  Yes if i do not have to sweat too much, else i'd probably need more.
  😄

Pure ethanol. If I'm gonna die of dehydration I might as well have fun doing it.
- Have you tried straight everclear? Having only tried a shot once, I'd put this plan closer to torture than fun lol.

Coffee, black. I’m a regular joe and I like my joe regular.

water 2

I be ded.

Tea! Any tea.
- If you’re being practical tea makes the most sense as it won’t wear down your tooth enamel or stomach lining or put chemicals in you every day like soda and juice etc… I like Cherry Pepsi but if I drank nothing but that I am positive I’d have ulcers and no teeth after a few years.
  
  Exactly! I do love my fruit juices etc but my teeth would be dead in a month or so. With teas you don’t have that problem 😀

Boob sweat

OK, well I guess if water isn't allowed at all then I'll have to go with the Dehydrated Water canister from Space Quest 1

Unsweetened soda, like Bubly and that French one I can't spell.
Edit: Or coconut water.
- I've heard that you should not drink more than 2 coconuts per day, but I don't know the consequences.
  
  Meh I've been drinking a liter a day of the stuff for years with no problems.
  I eat a western diet; it's one of the only convenient ways I can get enough potassium.
- If we're talking fresh, I'm down, but nothing canned.

Coconut water!!!!!!

Tea. If I need to choose a type, Green Tea.
- I'll go Earl Grey, that's basically how I live currently anyway.

Liquid Dihydrogen Monoxide with a few crystaline samples of more Dihydrogen Monoxide

Pedialite. I know some prefer Liquid IV, but I like that I can get Pedialite anywhere and it’s relatively cheap. I give it to my kids instead of juice. They also have popsicles which is great on those super hot days.
- Pedialyte popsicles are also the best hangover cure when you can't even hold down water
- Pedialyte popsicles at the beach are the greatest

Coconut water. So refreshing.
- And so much sugar
  
  10 grams of sugar per cup
  Huh, TIL
- And not that weird packaged coconut water sold in the US that smells and tastes like coconut oil. Actual fresh coconut water is the best.
- And here’s the thing - feeling too lazy to drink it? Just put it in an IV. All the hydration and none of the effort.

Duvel, Belgium's premium beer. Duvel translates to Devil, the beer most preferred by Joe Cocker and the reason he wouldn't return to Belgium because it would be the end of him. Looking back he had a point. (1944-2014)

Where my Yerba Mate homies at?
- right here dawg

My favourite drink after water (which is genuinely my favourite drink) is coffee. I don't think, however, that I would like to only drink coffee, so I suppose I will have to choose tea. Especially if I can have any variant
If I have to choose specifically then I'll say decaf Yorkshire tea.

Coffee. Coffee is my life blood.
- Isn't coffee (and tea) technically dirty water?
  
  Maaate everything you drink is dirty water.
- I also choose coffee. I will certainly die but I'll die happy.
- You and me both brother. You should see the looks I get sipping coffee while mowing the lawn on a hot summer's day.

Carbonated water. Leave it open for a while.

If we're allowing categories, I'd probably go for smoothies. There's enough variety in them that I wouldn't get bored and it's got a good amount of water in it so I won't die.

Apple juice with a good amount of milk.
- wtf
  
  Idk whether I am phrasing it wrongly but you just cut some apple, add some sugar and milk and start the mixer and yeah, the juice will be good.
- Wait… is the milk separate or mixed with the apple juice?
  
  mixed
- when i was a kid, milk and apple juice were my two favorite drinks, so one time, i mixed them. it was a bad time.
  
  The amount of mixture is important. If it's proper, trust me you will like it.