Do you feel the fizz?

Crooked Jack

So I went up Slieve Gullion with my friends there at the weekend. It was a roasting hot day so after we'd walked for a bit i whipped out a bottle and took drink from it. They recoiled in horror and one of them vomited on a mountain goat.*
What was so horrendous? I was drinking fizzy water. Now it wasn't that they just didn't like it themselves, they couldnt understand how anyone could drink it. During the day more and more people declared not just a dislike, but an outright hatred of fizzy water.
Eventually I found someone who conceded that it was nice when mixed with cordial.
So AH, do you fizz?

*some creative license may have been used

Johnny Drama_11

It's alright.

awec

Fizzy water is brutal. Massive no here.

Actually hate the stuff.

Crooked Jack

Johnny Drama_11 wrote: »

It's alright.

This is the response I expected from 99 per cent of people. Just generally not caring.

awec wrote: »

Fizzy water is brutal. Massive no here.

Actually hate the stuff.

This is the actual response I got from most people.
A lot of them complained about its taste. It doesn't even have a taste.

awec

Crooked Jack wrote: »

This is the response I expected from 99 per cent of people. Just generally not caring.



This is the actual response I got from most people.
A lot of them complained about its taste. It doesn't even have a taste.

It has a "taste", but it's one of those tastes that is hard to describe.

There is certainly a twang off it compared to still water.

9959

I misread your opening line as "I went up Steve Gullion with my friends..."

No problems of course, consenting adults etc.

vicwatson

This thread is gas

fondue

Fizzy water is the best, so thirst quenching!

Crooked Jack

9959 wrote: »

I misread your opening line as "I went up Steve Gullion with my friends..."

No problems of course, consenting adults etc.

Steve was lovin' it

NothingMan

Always hated it and still do bu my ex gave me it with some apple and blackcurrant cordial and I thought it was delicioius

On it's own... still rank!

biko

I don't have a particular preference, will drink either sparkling or still bottled water.

Crooked Jack

NothingMan wrote: »

Always hated it and still do bu my ex gave me it with some apple and blackcurrant cordial and I thought it was delicioius

On it's own... still rank!

It's deadly with barley water but it doesnt really work in porridge. Had to do that in work the other day and I was unimpressed with the results.

Christ the Redeemer

I love it.

mixing with cordial never works. tastes like gash.

NothingMan

Christ the Redeemer wrote: »

I love it.

mixing with cordial never works. tastes like gash.

Well maybe it's because I like the taste of gash....

Ice Storm

Crooked Jack wrote: »

This is the response I expected from 99 per cent of people. Just generally not caring.



This is the actual response I got from most people.
A lot of them complained about its taste. It doesn't even have a taste.

It does have a taste! If you took a bottle of sparkling water and shook it until all the fizz was gone it would still taste different to still water.

One of my friends swears by it for hangovers. Think I would rather suffer the hangover tbh.

9959

biko wrote: »

I don't have a particular preference, will drink either sparkling or still bottled water.

A glass of water, Sparkling or Still?
I remember 'Alan Partridge' saying that he preferred "Half and half".

WilyCoyote

Crooked Jack, you obviously picked up this healthy habit whilst visiting the mainland?

DonkeyStyle \o/

Disgusting, can't drink it.
Because it's carbonated, my brain keeps waiting for a flavour to happen... and when it doesn't, it causes mental discomfort and panic in my taste centres, which is interpreted as "yuck".
Add the smallest amount of any flavouring, Ribena (etc.) and it's fine.

Grayson

It's nice to use as a dash with whiskey. But that's about it.

Someone I knew bought some bay accident when we were climbing a mountain in bolivia. We only realised when we got to base camp (about 5,000m) and open one. It started bioling immediately. At low pressure the gas imediately trys to get from the water and the whole bottle was boiling like a kettle.

I am pie

fizz all the way, refreshes the gub.

1shot16

Hate the stuff maybe if it had a hint of a fruit like apples or lemons!

humbert

Warm fizzy water. Good god, man.

Crooked Jack

WilyCoyote wrote: »

Crooked Jack, you obviously picked up this healthy habit whilst visiting the mainland?

I live on the mainland. And a certain phrase you used sounds familiar. Do I know you?

Meangadh

Mank.

And what's with people putting stuff in water in restaurants?? Lemon, lime, mint- I even saw CUCUMBER once (VOMIT).

Just leave it be. Plain water, no feckin' around with it.

Eeden

humbert wrote: »

Warm fizzy water. Good god, man.

Yeah. I really like fizzy water, but it has to be cold.

Agricola

Hate the stuff. Mixed it with cordial recently, thought it would be the best use for a bottle of it which was in the fridge. It made me feel a bit sick. Think my brain just cant square the circle of water with a fizz in it. Yuck.

TINA1984

Love it! rather it to still water. Drinking it right now with a dash of Lemon concentrate - pwopa refreshing.

OneArt

Didn't like it at first, but since I moved to Germany it's quite common and I actually prefer it now.

Normal water is just... Bleh. I prefer to drink something with a kind of "taste", but I don't drink juice as much because sugar gives me headaches.

Fizzy water is perfect.

checkyabadself

pellegrino.........mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

9959

checkyabadself wrote: »

pellegrino.........mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Isn't he the new Man City manager?

Lyaiera

I really like the stuff. I was going through a huge amount of it with the weather we had. It's helped me cut down my fizzy drink and tea and coffee consumption by an amazing amount. The only problem is getting gallons of the stuff home from the supermarket when you don't have a car. I just get my house mate to order it when he's getting the shopping delivered, but I never get enough.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

It has to be absolutely freezing, but yeah I really like it.

Ruudi_Mentari

How come girls like it. is it not to go with gin

my mam as a lot of bottles of some posh fizz water down there but is useless to me.

Spike Witwicky

Its rotten. I'd rather drink me own piss. And thats brown at the mo

frozenfrozen

I voted the wrong thing because I do feel the fizz but don't like fizzy water. It's revolting and tastes like dirty water

Ruudi_Mentari

I could pour myself a bath with all that pointless water down there and really feel the fizz.

awec

Ruudi_Mentari wrote: »

How come girls like it. is it not to go with gin

my mam as a lot of bottles of some posh fizz water down there but is useless to me.

Sparkling water is not the same as tonic water (which goes with gin).

I absolutely hate fizzy water, but tonic water on it's own is pretty much undrinkable. Awful stuff.

Ruudi_Mentari

awec wrote: »

Sparkling water is not the same as tonic water (which goes with gin).

I absolutely hate fizzy water, but tonic water on it's own is pretty much undrinkable. Awful stuff.

Oh; yer right there.

and actually I think its just vintage bottles it was put in, says Munster Mille Geyer Freres *1895* no way is the fizzy tonic therein that old

Irish Guitarist

Fizzy water is horrible. The only time I ever drank it I thought it had a taste of artificial sweetener.

If I want to bring a bottle of water somewhere I'll fill an empty plastic bottle with tap water and leave it in the fridge for a while.

If I was going to add something to water it would be squash or cordial. Either that or I'd just have a decent tasting soft drink. I don't see the point in adding just enough additives to water to leave it still tasting somewhat like water except with a horrible aftertaste.

Reiketsu

Absolutely despise it. I only like it if its the peach flavoured stuff.

languagenerd

If it's flavoured sparking water(the ones with a hit of orange or blackberry or something), that's grand, but not plain. Just can't drink it! It doesn't taste like still water as far as I can tell and it really feels weird having fizz but no flavour. I'd go thirsty rather than drink it!

ArnoldJRimmer

awec wrote: »

Sparkling water is not the same as tonic water (which goes with gin).

I absolutely hate fizzy water, but tonic water on it's own is pretty much undrinkable. Awful stuff.

I think fizzy water is the absolute business, particularly for hangovers. And just to make you gag even more awec, I could also drink a litre of chilled tonic water, love the stuff

humbert

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

I think fizzy water is the absolute business, particularly for hangovers. And just to make you gag even more awec, I could also drink a litre of chilled tonic water, love the stuff

Typical smeghead.

downonthefarm

used to drink it at raves,loved the bubbles,cant stand the stuff now

Nemeses

Say no to fizzy water!

nozzferrahhtoo

Ice Storm wrote: »

It does have a taste! If you took a bottle of sparkling water and shook it until all the fizz was gone it would still taste different to still water.

Here in Germany most people want to drink it with the fizz. So much so that when you go to the supermarket the fizzy type is called "Classic". When I first got here I wanted no fizz so I read "classic" and thought "Classic.... the way water classically is... that must be the no fizz one". But noooooo.

Today I can go either way. Do not mind fizz or no fizz. But there are, as you say, certain brands of no fizz water I will not buy here because it tastes very much like they produce the no fizz water by taking the fizz version off their production line and removing the fizz they themselves had already put in there.

The difference in taste between water that never saw fizz and water that had it but then had it removed is massive.

tin79

awec wrote: »

It has a "taste", but it's one of those tastes that is hard to describe.

There is certainly a twang off it compared to still water.

The taste is carbon dioxide. If you ever get a face full of the vapour off dry ice it tastes the same.

Fecky the Ninth

Tastes like Andrews Liver Salts, awful stuff all together.

Frank Black

Have you ever given a 6 month old baby, fizzy water to drink, just to see the expression on their face?


I haven't anyway.

suicide_circus

love it.

there are different grades if fizziness too, I've have sparkling water in Germany which actually hurt my mouth & throat due to the violence of the bubbles, that was not so good.

Andy-Pandy

I love the stuff, drink a few litres a day. Has stopped me from drinking coke, fanta 7up etc.