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

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[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 176 points 1 year ago

Water is the main component of any and every beverage

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 61 points 1 year ago
[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] jacktherippah 15 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

though can only be ingested once

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] li10@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] DarraignTheSane@lemmy.one 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] li10@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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”…

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[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

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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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 86 points 1 year ago

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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[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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[-] redimk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] MelancholikhPatata@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago
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[-] slowpowke@nano.garden 35 points 1 year ago

A 0.00000001 % NaCl brine solution

[-] jonsnothere@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

I feel this breaks the 'no goofs' rule

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[-] AverageCakeSlice@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

That might be more water than most water.

[-] sagrotan@lemmy.world 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.

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

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

[-] haych@lemmy.one 23 points 1 year ago

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

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cyanide. you take my water you take my life

[-] jsveiga@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

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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[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Milk

I'll be the strongest mf in the skeleton war

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[-] Andiloor@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] beto@lemmy.studio 17 points 1 year ago

Whiskey on the rocks.

I can suck the ice cubes during the day, and drink the whiskey at night.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Right? OP said you can't drink water, but they didn't say anything about eating it

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[-] macracanthorhynchus@mander.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

Brawndo. It's got what I crave.

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[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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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[-] jinarched@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago
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[-] CarlsIII@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

If “drinks that contain water” are not allowed, then nothing. I will die of thirst.

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 14 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

[-] StantonVitales@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] Eonandahalf@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I can drink H₂O₂ for the rest of my life.

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[-] DivergentHarmonics@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] Sombyr@lemmy.one 12 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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