Water is the main component of any and every beverage
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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Elemental mercury.
though can only be ingested once
Based on the posed question and its limiting conditions, elemental mercury is a correct answer. Pure hydrogen peroxide or isopropyl alcohol would qualify, too.
If you include materials which are liquid outside of "room temperature," things like magma and liquid nitrogen would also be correct answers.
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You'll drink this until the end of your life. Works the same with molten iron though.
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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.
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 “if you couldn’t drink regular water, what would you have instead”…
That’s not “exactly” what they mean, as the difference between what you think they’re saying and other commenters think is clearly different. Is la croix or bubbly allowed? If not then what about a hard seltzer? If those are allowed then why isn’t lemon water allowed? If those aren’t allowed then where is the line? Gatorade is seltzer water without the bubbles and with electrolytes. It’s clear that OP’s question was not well thought out, hence why so many people here have a problem with it.
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The point of OP's question is clear. He's referring to a drink that has sensory qualities that are clearly distinct from plain water. Water with a spritz of lemon still reads as water. As a loose guideline this is like anything you'd order as "water with x" or "x water", like cucumber water. Coffee clearly doesn't fit into that category, it has sensory qualities that are very different than water with x in it.
Speak for yourself. "Cucumber water" does not have the same "sensory qualities" as water unless taste doesn't count as a sense.
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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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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...
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.
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All normal drinks are just flavored water, so I guess steering fluid?
A 0.00000001 % NaCl brine solution
Heavy water.
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?
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cyanide. you take my water you take my life
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 “drinks that contain water” are not allowed, then nothing. I will die of thirst.
Tea. Have about 5 cups of tea a day already.
tea, Earl Grey, hot
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
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Pure ethanol. If I'm gonna die of dehydration I might as well have fun doing it.
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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
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