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

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Water is the main component of any and every beverage

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (13 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You'll drink this until the end of your life. Works the same with molten iron though.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nougat is a Lemmy user, presenting to the emergency room unconscious

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but at the same time you know exactly what OP means with this question.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I think OP knows exactly what they mean, I think if you asked a five year old they’d know what they mean.

Yet for some reason, some people are completely missing the point of a very simple question which boils down to β€œif you couldn’t drink regular water, what would you have instead”…

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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...

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dr. Pepper because I'm here for a fun time not a long time.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Tea. Iced or hot, black or mint, dash of milk or honey. So many combinations.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A 0.00000001 % NaCl brine solution

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

That might be more water than most water.

[–] sagrotan 26 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Coconut water fresh from a refrigerated coconut. I would only drink that, even if I didn't have to, if it was cheap enough.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Tea. Have about 5 cups of tea a day already.

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[–] ArchmageAzor 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Milk

I'll be the strongest mf in the skeleton war

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

cyanide. you take my water you take my life

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because the question is nonsensical.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] RBWells 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] CADmonkey 14 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Eonandahalf 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can drink Hβ‚‚Oβ‚‚ for the rest of my life.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brawndo. It's got what I crave.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Pure ethanol. If I'm gonna die of dehydration I might as well have fun doing it.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

If β€œdrinks that contain water” are not allowed, then nothing. I will die of thirst.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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

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