Poll: What is your favorite Beverage? [Archive]

rainman::|:|

Apr 22, 2003, 11:55 PM

duh you guys, arn is a doctor, we should all pick Milk to show support for good, well balanced diets :D 'course, i'm lactose intolerant, so i have to stick with the second most healthy: coffee...

;)
pnw

Performfreak

Apr 23, 2003, 12:12 AM

juice!

fresh squeezed orange juice... yum

mixed juice drinks... yum as well

juice= yum!

scem0

Apr 23, 2003, 12:32 AM

where's tha vodka?!

jk :). I guess soda, although I am not that big of a fan of beverages.

janey

Apr 23, 2003, 12:35 AM

wine, coffee, tea, water, coke...
basically anything with caffeine too :D

arn

Apr 23, 2003, 12:42 AM

Snowy_River

Apr 23, 2003, 12:47 AM

Definitely juice! Good for you, and tasty, too.

I'm impressed by how many people have actually chosen water. I would have thought that soda would have been much more dominant, perhaps with a better showing from coffee. But then, what do I know? I'm a purist! ;)

Hemingray

Apr 23, 2003, 01:20 AM

Wow, what broad categories. :D

First, juice. Second, soda.

If we want to get into specifics, Dr. Pepper/Mr. Pibb is my favorite soda beverage, and juice... well, I just like juice. As long as there's no bananas in it, that is. :p

herr_neumann

Apr 23, 2003, 01:59 AM

Beer... Mendicino Eye of the Hawk as for the favorite. Second would have to be Budwar or Checvar as it is called here in the states.

senseibiz

Apr 23, 2003, 02:05 AM

I like ice tea but my favorite is tang

celaurie

Apr 23, 2003, 02:31 AM

When I said tea, I didn't mean that cold stuff in the tall glass you Americans drink... Bleh...

:p

Victoriatus

Apr 23, 2003, 05:58 AM

Originally posted by paulwhannel
duh you guys, arn is a doctor, we should all pick Milk to show support for good, well balanced diets :D 'course, i'm lactose intolerant, so i have to stick with the second most healthy: coffee...

No lactose-free milk in "other worlds than these"? Just curious.

My beverage would be red wine, favourite one is Bushman Rouge or Casillero del Diablo Syrah. (Ice) tea is okay, but coffee gives me pretty bad shakes.

melchior

Apr 23, 2003, 06:20 AM

milk tastes better out of the carton.

alcohol would have to be gin. mmmm, bombay blue just goes down so smoothe!

maradong

Apr 23, 2003, 06:34 AM

beer

iGav

Apr 23, 2003, 07:04 AM

Skimmed Milk
Bulmers Strongbow
Coca-Cola
Water
Apple Juice

That just about covers it....

Potus

Apr 23, 2003, 08:14 AM

double short cap: 'nuff said.

shakespeare

Apr 23, 2003, 08:15 AM

Fizzy water, totally. I could live off of San Pellegrino. In fact, I do live off of San Pellegrino. That, and Schweppes Bitter Lemon (while in the States) and Club Lemon (while in Ireland).

pivo6

Apr 23, 2003, 08:18 AM

Just plain ice cold water for me is still my favorite, But right now I need a good cup of coffee. I'm out at home and had to resort to one of the worst beverages---instant coffee

Mr. Anderson

Apr 23, 2003, 08:24 AM

I drink more water than anything else - but I also have a coffee every morning, milk regularly and I love a good wine.

But water is the best :D

D

Fender2112

Apr 23, 2003, 08:31 AM

This is a trick question and I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate me.

St. Francis Old Vines Zifindel... very good for those who like red wine.

Centris 650

Apr 23, 2003, 08:38 AM

Originally posted by celaurie
When I said tea, I didn't mean that cold stuff in the tall glass you Americans drink... Bleh...

:p

You don't know what you're missing! Some good ol' southern ice tea is good for ya! ;) Actually I voted for Soda though I'm a big water and tea (SWEET ice tea) drinker too.

howard

Apr 23, 2003, 09:27 AM

jelloshotsrule

Apr 23, 2003, 09:35 AM

Originally posted by Victoriatus
No lactose-free milk in "other worlds than these"? Just curious.

indeed there is soy milk. which is what i drink (not lactose intolerant though)... and rice milk which i haven't tried.... but it's definitely not quite the "same"... regular milk has a very refreshing taste. whereas soymilk is a bit sweeter... it's good, but not the same.

i'm the type of person that loves using a drink to complement a certain type of food... orange juice is a must with a bagel (or just in the morning in general). coke is great with a sandwich and chips. coke and mountain dew (or code red) are all great with popcorn....

kool aid is always great.

DakotaGuy

Apr 23, 2003, 10:02 AM

Miller Lite.

I love the heavier, darker stuff, but too many carbs and calories! Lite is 96cals and 3.2 carbs! Lowest of all beers even if its a little soft it works!

Otherwise I love bottled water, diet soda, etc.

gerror

Apr 23, 2003, 10:03 AM

Beer.
Ezelenbock, for already 2 years the best bockbeer of the Netherlands!

Victoriatus

Apr 23, 2003, 10:09 AM

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
indeed there is soy milk ... and rice milk ...

Well, we've got real lactose-free milk. Looks the same, tastes the same, is the same - except for the lactose, which is partially removed and the rest is enzymatically split into simpler sugars (like in low-lactose products). Can't describe my feelings when it hit the market last year. Totally great! I've been lactose intolerant for almost a decade, and it's a bit hard sometimes because they seem to put milk powder (or alike) in everything.

jelloshotsrule

Apr 23, 2003, 11:04 AM

Originally posted by Victoriatus
Well, we've got real lactose-free milk. Looks the same, tastes the same, is the same - except for the lactose, which is partially removed and the rest is enzymatically split into simpler sugars (like in low-lactose products). Can't describe my feelings when it hit the market last year. Totally great! I've been lactose intolerant for almost a decade, and it's a bit hard sometimes because they seem to put milk powder (or alike) in everything.

wow, that sounds quiet interesting. haven't seen such a thing here, though i haven't looked

and i know what you mean about avoiding milk... i'm working on cutting dairy/eggs out of my diet (the dairy industry here in the US is no good..) and it's quite tough... there are some good cheese substitutes but they are lactose free, but not milk derived casein free... and of course most breads have some sort of milk derivative if not eggs also...

yzedf

Apr 23, 2003, 11:43 AM

Guinness to be specific.

www.guinness.com

mc68k

Apr 23, 2003, 11:43 AM

2% at the house

but when i go out i get the whole stuff *drool*

dstorey

Apr 23, 2003, 12:05 PM

either beer, biere, biara, cavacia, lager or pils....blonde, blanche, brun or ambre it doesn't mater....not noir though

nmarsh1

Apr 23, 2003, 12:08 PM

Hell yea! You can still get it at some places.

Spammmy

Apr 23, 2003, 12:53 PM

It's pop!!! Not soda!!! POP!!!!!! P-O-P!!!!!!

BTW, my favorite beverage is Cream Soda, which is still POP, even though it has the word SODA in it.... :)

dstorey

Apr 23, 2003, 01:00 PM

Originally posted by Spammmy
It's pop!!! Not soda!!! POP!!!!!! P-O-P!!!!!!

BTW, my favorite beverage is Cream Soda, which is still POP, even though it has the word SODA in it.... :)

not carbonated water? Actually the french called corbonated water/pop/soda whatever limonade, which is where out lemonade comes from...not cause it has lemons in it (probably never seen a lemon and its clear too....), just cause its a mistake made through translation....i never knew tioll i saw the word limonade on coca cola and thought 'eh but colas isn't lemonade'

celaurie

Apr 23, 2003, 01:21 PM

Originally posted by Centris 650
You don't know what you're missing! Some good ol' southern ice tea is good for ya! ;) Actually I voted for Soda though I'm a big water and tea (SWEET ice tea) drinker too.

The last time I had some good ol' southern ice tea I nearly ended up in a diabetic coma! SWEET being the operative word!

Stelliform

Apr 23, 2003, 01:33 PM

Originally posted by Spammmy
It's pop!!! Not soda!!! POP!!!!!! P-O-P!!!!!!

BTW, my favorite beverage is Cream Soda, which is still POP, even though it has the word SODA in it.... :)

Actually down here in the swamps it is all called coke. "Do you want a coke?" Means "Do you want this pepsi that I am holding in my hand?" Same applies for any carbonated beverage. (Also Sprite and 7Up are interchangable. :))

vollspacken

Apr 23, 2003, 02:44 PM

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!!

...actually Beck's to be specific and I have to know since I'm German :) ;) :D :cool:

vSpacken

GeneR

Apr 23, 2003, 03:54 PM

Water is a personal favorite. Cool water is great.
Drink it all the time.

Raspberry ice tea is great! Love it too.

Wine is cool. Don't have it too often, but when I do, LOOK OUT! heh! :D

Stoli...haven't had it in a while. Good stuff.

Milk...yeah, and I'm lactose intolerant but I don't care. I just stay away from people for a while. :D

-hh

Apr 23, 2003, 03:57 PM

I found it pretty hard to decide - each beverage has its place. I chose water because that's what I generally drink the most of.

At work, its coffee in the morning, milk at noon, ice tea or water in the afternoon.

Dinner's usually milk, water or wine. The evening "watch TV" beverage is a couple of glasses of water.

When out for dinner or weekends, its beer. Real stuff, like Guiness, not Bud. The only time I'll drink that 'Lite' stuff is when it is literally free.

Once in a blue moon, I'll have a single malt scotch, usually one that's about as old as a good fraction of the posters here, as reported in a prior survey :D

-hh

RBMaraman

Apr 23, 2003, 04:34 PM

Anymore, I find myself drinking water all the time. I used to drink Dr. Pepper 24/7, but now I find myself grabbing a bottle of water to satisfy my thirst. I can't believe I'm actually saying that water is my favorite beverage!

MacFan25

Apr 23, 2003, 04:35 PM

I like soda and water. I have been drinking a lot of water lately. I just like it for some reason.:D

medea

Apr 23, 2003, 05:25 PM

I drink more green tea and water than anything else at home, when dining though I prefer to have a good mineral water like san pellegrino and a nice wine.

GeneR

Apr 23, 2003, 05:43 PM

If it's burger and fries night and it's a good restaurant with a lot of choices I'll get a chocolate malt. Or perhaps a chocolate shake. But in general water seems just fine.

Green tea's great, especially during the winter. :D

evoluzione

Apr 23, 2003, 06:15 PM

well, the fact that the water in the kettle just boiled, says one thing....

TEA!!! proper english tea, PG Tips, tea leaves if I fancy being a bit nostalgic, but usually just tea bags, ooh, come to think of it, that's weird, way back when, PG Tips used to have monkeys acting in the commercials, and teabgs 'tar is monkeys! do do do do. anyways, i digress, again, tea, with milk, and sometimes sugar.

if i really am dying for a cuppa, i have to have about 3 liptons teabags if there's nothing else available, american tea is just gross, and the "english breakfast tea", well, we don't drink that crap in england, pure marketing that is.

and what is awesome, is dunking some biscuits (cookies) in it... mmmm....

other than tea though, is beer, Murphys is my beer of choice, it's not bitter like guinness, or in the summer, corona (with lime) or shandy is very nice (half beer half sprite/7up etc)

skunk

Apr 23, 2003, 06:26 PM

Pink champagne every day :)

janey

Apr 23, 2003, 06:33 PM

wow surprisingly a lot of people on macrumors are lactose intolerant.
i'm not but i dislike milk...haven't had any in an extraordinarily long time...i'm a soymilk person.

shadowfax

Apr 23, 2003, 06:37 PM

I'm definitely a vanilla coke person. Dr Pepper is also good.

GeneR

Apr 23, 2003, 06:38 PM

Originally posted by evoluzione
well, the fact that the water in the kettle just boiled, says one thing....

TEA!!! proper english tea, PG Tips, tea leaves if I fancy being a bit nostalgic, but usually just tea bags, ooh, come to think of it, that's weird, way back when, PG Tips used to have monkeys acting in the commercials, and teabgs 'tar is monkeys! do do do do. anyways, i digress, again, tea, with milk, and sometimes sugar.

if i really am dying for a cuppa, i have to have about 3 liptons teabags if there's nothing else available, american tea is just gross, and the "english breakfast tea", well, we don't drink that crap in england, pure marketing that is.

and what is awesome, is dunking some biscuits (cookies) in it... mmmm....

other than tea though, is beer, Murphys is my beer of choice, it's not bitter like guinness, or in the summer, corona (with lime) or shandy is very nice (half beer half sprite/7up etc)

I forgot how milk is placed in tea in England. I was there about fifteen years ago and found it quite delicious. The cookies were also a great treat. I could understand the idea of "tea time" after that. :D

skunk

Apr 23, 2003, 06:56 PM

Originally posted by GeneR
The cookies were also a great treat.
They're BISCUITS fer Chrissake, not cookies. Talk English, willya? ;)

wdlove

Apr 23, 2003, 07:16 PM

It was a very difficult choice. I chose soda, turned out to be 23.5%. It's coffee in the morning, sounds funny, but I wish that coffee would taste the way it smells. I love to smell freshly ground coffee! :) After lunch I drink water. Overall the best taste is the soda!

Spammmy

Apr 23, 2003, 10:19 PM

Pop!!!!!!!!
Actually, one time when I was on a trip somewhere, I asked the waitress what kinds of pop they had, and she made some comment about that I must not be from there or something, that I must be a tourist, or asked me where I was from, or something like that. Anyway, it's pop, not soda.... So there.

voicegy

Apr 23, 2003, 10:59 PM

2 cups of coffee in the morning.

2 bottles of water during the day.

Milk with lunch, and usually with dinner. I could drink a gallon a day, actually, I love it so much.

Once in a while, I'll do Ice Tea. And, of course, we all like an ocassional beer or a shot of Vodka.:p

vniow honey, you're still doin' Kool Aid? I thought we talked about that...easy does it sweetie!;)

Cor blimey! Our mates across the pond sure get their kinckers in a twist about us Yanks and our tastes! Grab some wacky backy, spoon a dollop of treacle in yer tea and have a kip.

(easy there...you know I'm just havin' a bit of a wind up with ya...by the by, me mum's British)

iWantAMac

Apr 24, 2003, 06:56 AM

Water.

And just for the record, I don't understand why or how people can drink milk.

Sonofhaig

Apr 24, 2003, 01:58 PM

Milk is good for the bones. Soda contains phosphoric acid, that as we age will have a major effect on how brittle our bones become. Stay away from the freakin soda!!!!! I ain't kidding either!

runningman

Apr 24, 2003, 05:16 PM

I hate to say it with my log in but coca cola. Love the stuff.

conceptdev

Apr 24, 2003, 05:42 PM

Coffee is tragically under-represented.

wdlove

Apr 25, 2003, 04:55 PM

Originally posted by Sonofhaig
Milk is good for the bones. Soda contains phosphoric acid, that as we age will have a major effect on how brittle our bones become. Stay away from the freakin soda!!!!! I ain't kidding either!

I'm going to be in a 10 1/2 week study on osteoporosis. They are investigating the impact of protein, fruits, and vegetables on bone. We will be getting calcium an multivitamin from them as a volunteer!

herr_neumann

Apr 25, 2003, 06:48 PM

Originally posted by Abercrombieboy
Miller Lite.

I love the heavier, darker stuff, but too many carbs and calories! Lite is 96cals and 3.2 carbs! Lowest of all beers even if its a little soft it works!

Otherwise I love bottled water, diet soda, etc.

The new michelob (sp?) is lower.

GeneR

Apr 25, 2003, 06:58 PM

Originally posted by skunk
They're BISCUITS fer Chrissake, not cookies. Talk English, willya? ;)

What's the difference? ;)

I used to be a big advocate of Coca Cola. Then someone told me how it has phosphorous (sp?) acid in it and that a lot of sodas have the same active acid ingredient. I really wasn't too impressed with that little bit of info until someone told me that in it's undiluted condition this acid is labeled a chemical hazard and must be shipped into the plant in drums with hazardous material labels on it. I was also notified that you could clean your garbage disposal and your toilet bowl with a litre of Coke or Pepsi by simply leaving the stuff in there overnight.

I tried it.

It worked.

I was impressed.

Next I was told if you take a tooth and put it into a cup of Coke or Pepsi overnight that it will dissolve the darn thing. Haven't tried that. I need all my teeth at the moment. However, it makes a bit of sense.

Now I drink water. :D

celaurie

Apr 26, 2003, 04:58 AM

Okay, is it too late to include a Gin and Tonic!?

Um, I'm buying! ;)

RandomDeadHead

Apr 26, 2003, 06:02 AM

Black coffee, and lots of it.

mushroom tea is also a treat.

voicegy

Apr 28, 2003, 08:59 PM

Originally posted by GeneR
What's the difference? ;)

Next I was told if you take a tooth and put it into a cup of Coke or Pepsi overnight that it will dissolve the darn thing. Haven't tried that. I need all my teeth at the moment. However, it makes a bit of sense.

Well, even as a non-Coke or Pepsi drinker, I still have to defend the companies against that old urban legend...neither will dissolve teeth:

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tooth.asp

rickvanr

Apr 30, 2003, 09:06 AM

nestle nestea... i prefer lemon flavor, often with a lime and some ice, so good

Potus

Apr 30, 2003, 09:18 AM

colas aren't good for bones
but everything in moderation even moderation

GeneR

Apr 30, 2003, 05:33 PM

How about horse radish, vinegar and water? Shaken, not stirred? :D

wdlove

Apr 30, 2003, 08:09 PM

Originally posted by celaurie
Okay, is it too late to include a Gin and Tonic!?

Um, I'm buying! ;)

Where shall we meet! :p

celaurie

May 1, 2003, 04:40 AM

We should have an international get-together. In droves we should up and leave, and make the pilgrimage to the promised land; the land where we are all free, and Apple is our everything, and gin our refreshment...

Or something! ;)

wdlove

May 14, 2003, 03:25 PM

Originally posted by conceptdev
Coffee is tragically under-represented.

A littel something for coffee lovers!

Here's a joke for all you coffee lovers...

You know you've had too much coffee when...
* You can type sixty words a minute with your feet
* Instant coffee takes too long
* You chew on other people's fingernails
* You answer the door, before people knock
* You sleep with your eyes open
* You go to sleep, just so you can wake up and smell
__the coffee
* You don't even wait for the water to boil anymore
* You're the employee of the month at Starbucks and you don't even work there
* You help your dog chase its tail
* You lick your coffeepot clean
* You go to AA meetings just for the free coffee
* You're so wired you pick up FM radio
* You have a picture of your coffee mug, on your coffee mug :p