Post #3973225
2026-07-20 22:51 UTC
Legit remembering seeing Facebook memes about the ingredients of these, I don't know what Americans call them but they're like our micro-bottles of squash IDK "water enhancers" or some shit like that, anyway memes about how they're full of shitty chemicals and they'll make your bum fall off or whatever, and I remember thinking "This is propaganda, the likes of coke and pepsi make a whole lotta money transporting fucking MOSTLY WATER in trucks and they don't wanna give that up, they're fighting Big Pipe and Big Small Juice Bottle and this is how they're doing it 'cause they want to sell you the water with the flavouring," no turns out they really are full of shitty chemicals and furthermore they taste like ass and my new hot take is that these little bottles are managed opposition, making something taste this bad isn't something you do on accident
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social 2026-07-20 23:05
Y'know what another fucking thing, Soda Streams are new and fancy and expensive in America, but they went through several cycles in England and I understand the latest cycle is a fancy expensive aspirational thing but the cycles in my youth were very much a working-class "We can't afford brand name fizzy drinks but there's ten Soda Streams in every car boot sale and I've got a mate who's a welder" sort of affair
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-21 00:13
@ifixcoinops@retro.social yeah I used to use those things but they're a poor improvement over plain water. I'd like to make up an effervescent salts formula, unsweetened perhaps, that puts a bit of fizz and natural flavor in the water