The Beverage Desert

[foxgrrl]

Why is it so hard to find something to drink? Oh yeah, because I don't want to drink:

• Tap Water
• High Fructose Corn Syrup
• Aspartame (NutraSweet)
• Alcohol
• Milk
• Caffeine
• Excessive amounts of Sugar

Dear Lazyweb: What kind of drinks can I put into my body? Note that most fruit juice available in the United States is fortified with High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Update:
Ok, small amounts of Caffeine and non-HFCS sugar are ok. I just don't want a lot of those most of the time.

Comments

[zeeth_kyrah]

I'm generally fine with tap water run through a home filtration system. I buy some drink with a sturdy bottle, and re-use the bottle, washing it in the dishwasher every so often when the smell changes. I have three plastic bottles which have lasted at least six months now.

Then again, I've never been shown any convincing research that fluoridation does anything to the body except protect the teeth a little, or that other chemicals in the water were at any harmful level. And besides, it's been run through a frickin' carbon filter, one good enough to pump swamp muck through and get drinkable water (and believe me, when your pipes dump yellow out the tap on a regular basis, you don't want to drink that stuff without something in between you and the eldritch horrors).