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.
EVERY drink is water!
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 =)
Well, you can drink most liquids that don't contain water exactly once in your life, so you may as well pick the one that'll kill you in the least painful manner possible.
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.
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.
All normal drinks are just flavored water, so I guess steering fluid?
Coconut water fresh from a refrigerated coconut. I would only drink that, even if I didn't have to, if it was cheap enough.
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
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.
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
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?
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!
tea, Earl Grey, hot
Make it so
Brawndo. It's got what I crave.
Does it suck being a vegetable?
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.
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?
If “drinks that contain water” are not allowed, then nothing. I will die of thirst.
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.
water 2
Hydration boogaloo
H2O2
DHNO (dihydrogen monoxide)
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.
Yes if i do not have to sweat too much, else i'd probably need more.
😄
I can drink H₂O₂ for the rest of my life.
A lethal dose is a lifetime supply
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.
I be ded.
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
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.
Boob sweat
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.
Whole milk
Woah, nice username. Love how you were able to get it italicized like that
Unicode. https://emojidissector.com/
Thanks, its the cursive Unicode font
Tea. If I need to choose a type, Green Tea.
I'll go Earl Grey, that's basically how I live currently anyway.
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)
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
Liquid Dihydrogen Monoxide with a few crystaline samples of more Dihydrogen Monoxide
Where my Yerba Mate homies at?
Coconut water!!!!!!
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.
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.
I'd say Coke Zero, but technically this is just a "water with some chemicals in it" goof, and therefore not allowed.
Carbonated water. Leave it open for a while.
Apple juice with a good amount of milk.
Tea
Agreed, basically what I live off anyhow. But then it is leaf water, so unsure if the rules would allow!
Beer.
Cranberry juice. It has antioxidants!
Can you drink glycerine?
At least once.
Chloroform.
Birch sap is my first thought, but I might get tired of the sweet. Some kind of tea then, maybe rooibos. It's sweet or savoury as the occasion demands.
Birch sap is a great idea, but as a sole drink I think the manganese poisoning might get to you before the sweetness.
TIL that's a thing you have to worry about. It has 52% of your daily value per 100 grams, according to Wikipedia. It looks like we're pretty well adapted to clear excess amounts out, though, so maybe it's fine?
Rooibos all the way baby. I have a rooibos cambrick every night and green tea every morning.
Piss.
Ayran.
Are we assuming the drink magically has no calories or other negative effects?
I'd choose white wine if it doesn't get me drunk (and as long as it still tastes good and not shitty like alcohol free wine. And also as long as there's no social repercussions from drinking wine all day.)
If the drink keeps all it's normal properties then I'd choose green tea.
Man, it had want to be a HUGE drink! What happens if I run out?!
Polar seltzer. That's sparkling water, is that ok?
Mtn Dew Baja Blast. And it's not even a contest.
You have my Claw!
Unsweat tea
Yeah, sweat tea is the worst.
Odourless, tasteless, colorless, uncarbonated soda pop.
👍
It has to be refreshing, not too sweet. Because you'd need to drink a lot every day to stay alive, off the top of my head rice water sounds like an ideal drink, I love the flavor and it has less sugar than horchata, you don't want to have to stuff yourself with sugar every day when you're thirsty.
Another possibility is hibiscus water. Again - if I could regulate the sugar levels it would be a way to go.
The only thing that is more water than water, Cors light. But now, really I'd prefer to drink my own piss, since coincidentally enough, Cors Light is also one of the few liquid that is more piss than piss.
OG Four Loko
RIP
Ok fine, avocado toast flavored raw water.
Probably hydrogen molecules fused with oxygen with another hydrogen
Cider
Barley Tea. Sure it has water, but what drink doesn't? (Also I feel like my days would be heavily numbered if I don't drink any water for the rest of my life.)
lacroix boiii
H1O mixed with some Hydrogen. Check mate.
Some herbal tea. Mint would probably be best. It's what I drink most of the time anyway.
Decaf tea. Though that's just water with a sprinkle of leaves. Not so different from a twist of lemon or a slice of cucumber.
Coca Cola. I love it, but I try not to drink it too much. A nice iced can of Coke every now and then.
Cactus cooler.
It's an orange pineapple carbonated beverage that if you can find is such a happy experience.
milk i guess but my breath would stink
Arnold palmers. Nothing beats em
In that case I'd have h2o too
Is aforementioned drink free for life too? Because there's this whiskey distillery just up the road from me and they make a black tea infused whiskey that I wouldn't mind.
I've been drinking brewed cacao (Cacao beans roasted, ground, and brewed like coffee) almost every day lately. So that.
See username :) So much variety even though it's all the same tea plant
How different from water does it have to be? Just not in the title?
Because both something like sparkling water and juice are basically water.
But I already pretty much only drink sparkling water so I'll pick that one if it's allowed (if the spirit of your question is "no flat water").
Sparkling water is where my head went too. What if you're stuck with one flavor tho?
Plain sparkling water. It's already my favourite one. I drink it by the pallet.
Oolong tea
Go big or go home, I say. Pappy Van Winkle for the rest of my days.
Bud light. It’s basically alcoholic water.
Maybe truly hard seltzer since it tastes better.
Coke zero, baby, yeehaw.
Can confirm you won't die, I know a guy who basically does this lmao
I'll die eventually... with an ice cold Coke Zero in my cold dead hands.
Vanilla milkshakes.
The most water-like thing I am allowed by your very contrived rules. Maybe water with two slices of cucumber.
Spezi.
P I S S
OK Bear Grylls
Irn bru
I'll take the large glass of Poison. 1 glass is more than a lifetime supply.
Definitely not egg nog.
Lemonsoda
Dimethylmercury
And no "water with a twist of lemon/slice of cucumber" goofs. Water isn't allowed.
No sugar, no proteins?
Tap water has minerals.
Tea. There's a lot of room for variation anyway.
What is this "water" you speak of? Seriously, I almost never drink it, I'm more into sugary drinks. But in light of the question asked, my one choice would be chocolate milk.
How do you survive? My teeth would feel so sticky!
I never really thought my mouth felt sticky? And I always have to wash my hands and face after eating something sticky like candy. I just finished eating some grapes and even from that I feel sticky.
Bro's organs have diabetes.
Much to the surprise of my doctor, I still don't have any sign of trouble. I'm 55 and just had my last check-up in February, and the only thing of concern is still my cholesterol.
Milk
Milk tea
Tequila, some ice
Tequila contains water, and is also not healthy to have regularly.
My heart says unsweetened black iced tea, but after a bout of kidney stones I guess I'd have to go with an iced herbal tea. Maybe something minty.
Wait what why would unsweetened black iced tea be bad for kidney stones??
Monster Ultra Zero. Idgaf about caffeine or aspartame or if it gives you energy or not, I just like how it tastes. I’d love a caffeine-free version that I could drink without worrying about dosage too much, but hey… we all gotta die sometime.
Horchata
Glass bottle coke
...jimmynoteeth
The fuck I'm gonna do with teeth. You don't have to chew coke
Soy "milk"
SoBe Citrus Energy. Sadly it's important to find anymore. Nobody seems to distribute it anywhere near northern IL or southern WI anymore.
Coconut water/organic* Cranberry juice/Spritz.
Wheatbeer.
Irohas Melon Cream Soda. Long since discontinued Japanese seasonal item from about five years ago. Others come close, none are as good.
Ginger ale!!
@genesis COFFEE!!!!!!!
Does this drink based magic, by chance, make refined sugars less problematic? I really want to say wild cherry pepsi but I drink a lot over the course of a day and I don't think my body will cope well with that much fructose.
If I want to live to see the age of 50 I think I'll go with cranberry pomegranate tea.
Tomato juice, maybe?
7UP Free but not the new one they've recently changed it to, the proper one. I miss it so much 😭
Kephir
Iced jasmine tea. It is so good!
Apfelschorle. Basically apple juice with sparkling water (don't know if this has an english name).
rolling rock
Sweet Tea
I already drink it everyday anyway so things wouldn't change much for me.
Unsweetened ice tea.
If the drink is free, Arizona black and white iced tea. If not, iced coffee with a bit of honey and non dairy creamer
Honeybush tea. It's an herbal tea from South Africa that tastes like honey..
alouda, milk based mauritian drink my girlfriends mum intoduced me to
Coffee
I would say milk, but I'd die pretty fast because I just cannot drink enough milk in a day to count for all the water I need, and the excess calcium/whatever would probably be very bad for me.
Maybe there's a type of non-caffeinated tea that gets the job done? Does that count as being cute?
People need water, this is not going to go well.
Elemental mercury.
You'll drink this until the end of your life. Works the same with molten iron though.
Nougat is a Lemmy user, presenting to the emergency room unconscious
Why not gallium
I appreciate the creativity, but that is not a drink, good sir/madam...
always gave me a heavy feeling in the pit of my stomach.
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.
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.
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