Why does cold water taste better?

IndustrialNoise · Post by **IndustrialNoise** » 2004-04-12 09:16am

Or come to Parma. Parma's known for it's crappy...well, everything. At least once a week we have to drink bottled water for a few hours becuase the tap water's gone brown.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2004-04-12 09:44am

We got good water here.

But we prefer beer over water

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-04-12 09:46am

wautd wrote:We got good water here.

But we prefer beer over water

let me guess. here happens to be in germany, right? or maybe Ireland?

PainRack · Post by **PainRack** » 2004-04-12 11:38am

wautd wrote:would icecream be tasty when it was hot?

You ever eaten roasted ice cream? Its delicious. Expensive, but delicious.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-04-12 11:56am

Darth_Zod wrote:
wautd wrote:We got good water here.

But we prefer beer over water
let me guess. here happens to be in germany, right? or maybe Ireland?

That is not entirely correct

The per-capita consumption of water in Germany is higher than that of beer. And the bevarge we drink the most is coffee.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2004-04-12 12:10pm

Darth_Zod wrote:
wautd wrote:We got good water here.

But we prefer beer over water
let me guess. here happens to be in germany, right? or maybe Ireland?

close. Its Belgium

The most different kinds of beer in the world baby.

with for each brand a different glass (so a pub with 300 kinds of beer has 1 glass for every sort of beer)

Oh and by the way, cold beer tastes better than warom beer also

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2004-04-12 01:16pm

Fighter of Foo wrote:Or come to Parma. Parma's known for it's crappy...well, everything. At least once a week we have to drink bottled water for a few hours becuase the tap water's gone brown.

Or come to Canada. Delicious water, cheap drugs and downloading music is completely legal.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » 2004-04-12 08:26pm

Greater Manchester has the softest, best water in the UK, this is a fact so any idiotic southerner ready to argue should stfu and not make me go get quotes.

I do like cold water, alot. I don't know why, it's just refreshing.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2004-04-12 08:34pm

I've been spoiled by rural water through a filter. I can't drink anything else. My grandmother lives in a town that gets it from a well. That shit tastes like metal and gives me a short fit of diziness like a cigarette.

And Iowa City water isn't that bad, although I don't think I've had it straight from the tap.

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2004-04-12 08:49pm

Another reason that cold water is preferable to a lot of people is that many people only drink water when they've been doing something sterenous and are hot. Thus, cold water cools them down and seems more pleasant though the taste is really the same. Seriously, who wants to drink warm water after running a mile or something?

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-04-13 07:25am

Jon wrote:Greater Manchester has the softest, best water in the UK, this is a fact so any idiotic southerner ready to argue should stfu and not make me go get quotes.

I do like cold water, alot. I don't know why, it's just refreshing.

I agree there, when my brother comes up from IOW, he always notes that the water up here is so much better for his skin than the inferior southern water.

Oddly enough, i've found that bathroom water is usually the best.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-04-13 08:27am

i'll concur with that bit. i've noticed that almost no matter where i go the water out of a kitchen sink is typically of inferior quality to that in the bathroom sink. It's as though they're filtered completely differently. either way bathroom water is better.

Korvan · Post by **Korvan** » 2004-04-13 03:29pm

Dissolved oxygen in the water improves the taste. That is why most household taps use an aerator (a grill that makes the tap water more frothy). Cold water can hold more oxygen than hot, so it tastes better.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-04-14 02:22am

Rye wrote:
Illuminatus Primus wrote:
kojikun wrote:Nothing to do with water, but it IS a tasty beverage. And what more do you need?
A tasty burger...
Mmmhmmmm!

Personally, i loathe warm water, reminds me more of bodily fluids, or something. Cold water feels better going down the throat, you get more experience out of it or something.

It seems to me that every warm beverage besides tea, coffee, and hot chocolate taste like pee to me.

And on a pointless side note, I don't trust the tap water in my house, but because my cat keeps licking it, rather than fears of contamination.

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2004-04-14 06:33am

Doesn't cold water burn more calories, since the increased temperature requires energy to warm your body? Maybe it's an evolutionary thing.