bubbly water

[dagibbs]

Everybody, well almost everybody, drinks mineral water over here, but it is bubbly mineral water. You can get non-bubbly, but the default is bubbly (with gas). It even comes in multiple levels of bubbly from the same company in many cases.

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[ragnhildr.livejournal.com]

This is true in Norway, as well. I got kind of used to the slightly citrus flavoured bubbly water.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

If it were slightly citrus flavoured, that might be nicer -- but it isn't flavoured, just bubbly. So, sometimes it has a (to be) slightly nasty flavour because the carbonation gives an acid (carbonic acid?), I think.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

Pick up a container of citrus juice concentrate, and add as needed. It's amazing how much better plain filtered water tastes to me when some lemon juice is thrown in.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a squeeze of lemon does really help water.

[shyska.livejournal.com]

Lemon makes almost everything beveragey better.

[bytowneboy.livejournal.com]

I'd heard that too... apparently you can even get taps for your sink that will dispense bubbly water.

Ew.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Taps for it? Ew is right.

[gabriel-le.livejournal.com]

I've seen machines that sit on your counter and you can press a button or pull a lever and bubbify your glass of tap water.

[shyska.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised. I've seen several Germans get very agitated when Perrier was not available at a corner store. I wonder if it's necessary to digest some of the food?

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't think bubbly water would help digest the food -- but if it did, that could both explain Germans drinking bubbly water and German food.

[shyska.livejournal.com]

The same way that soda pop can help "cut the fat" when eating pizza?
Bob says it can help one to belch and Germans belch after a good meal, it's polite. I'm lost on this one, I have trouble with carbonation.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Soda cuts the fat, the same way diet soda removes the calories from the Big Mac and extra-large fries?

[shyska.livejournal.com]

I dunno.

We got addicted

[o-bunny.livejournal.com]

When we were in Germany, lo these many years ago, we got addicted to the mineral water. Almost like beer, there are local waters; in some of the small towns, the bottlers have faucets where the locals can fill their own containers for free with the water that folks elsewhere are paying for.

We also discovered that there are soft drinks available in Germany that are made with the naturally-carbonated mineral water that comes out of the ground. Very interesting, as the carbonation usually produces much finer bubbles than the soft drinks that we get here.

But lemon in water? Eugghh. Of course, I'm the guy with the citrus allergy...

Re: We got addicted

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, if you're allergic to citrus then lemon in water wouldn't be a good thing.

I don't think we're getting such "localised" mineral water.