Get creative!! I am on the hunt for the most refreshing drink possible. Give me some combinations or a simple description of a drink you find life changing, esepcially when you are dehydrated or simply have got the thirst bad.
Here is a simple starter:
*Ice cold water with ice cubes!!
*Chilled fresh orange with lemonade!!
*Chilled chocolate milkshake!!
*Mango juice
It is my intention to make asm any of these drinks as possible!! Get drinking!!
I must say that I find whiskey with ice to be very refreshing. Incidentally, I got my exam result for Film History and I got 79…
I kick ass!
I’ve always found iced water with ice to be a bit of a mishit as regards the quality of refreshment. I prefer ice cold apple juice or blackcurrant juice…
Sour Cherry juice is the refreshment of gods.
I once read a book when I was a kid called The Search for Delicious. The idea was that this king sent a bunch of people out to find the most delicious thing in the whole world. Everyone failed and the last guy was exhausted and stumbling home on a very hot day. Someone gave him a drink of water and then he realized that delicious was a cool drink of water on a hot summer’s day.
I always liked that story and generally agree with it. When it’s hot and I’m getting thirsty a cool drink is like magic. However, a nice glass of whiskey can have its own special effects.
Colinsign,
Give us a better definition. I’m with Adlerian. Nothing is more refreshing that a glass of cool water on a hot summer afternoon, but that is slaking thirst. Are you asking about thirst or taste? Seems that they may be two different issues…
If I’m slaking taste, a nice Pilsner has its’ merits…
JT
Primiarily I am concerned with what quenches THIRST!
But personal taste can be included!
I thought it was quite simple really: name a drink you find very refreshing…
I’d have to go with water too…
At different tournaments and stuff… we’ve been offered every drink under the sun, when you come off the floor thirsty as hell… all I ever seem to want is water.
Not too cold either I should add…
Gatoraid, specifically Lemon Ice flavor.
tan…
its an armenian drink of non-fl;avorered yogurt (madzoon) and water with salt garlic and ice
veyr refresin gon a hot summerday
Garlic?
hmm… that’s interesting.
I’ve been told (unconfirmed) that really cold water can’t be absorbed as quickly as body-temperature water (or a little lower) and as such it doesn’t quench thirst as quickly. Your experience (and my own) would seem to bear that out.
Yeah… I’ve heard that, my own personal experience would indicate it’s correct.
Often times my mouth is so hot anyways… half ice/water water is such a contrast that it physically hurts, the absorbtion thing aside.
It’s sort of counter productive when you come off the floor to rest and you get a brain freeze.
Yeah, I meant a cold drink in general.
Really, a drink that has a little salt in it is best when you are dehydrated. That helps you return electrolytes so that you don’t get sick. You can actually have a seizure or feel drunk from drinking too much water. That’s why athletes use sports drinks.
Anyway, a cool DRINK on a hot day, or time, is quite nice.
tentative
I loved this. He is SO right. In the scheme of our sustenance of life, words are nothing but a mirage…
I hate to say it, but when I am thirsty, (really thirsty) there is absolutely nothing like a very, very icey-cold beer. Actually, I know I should drink more water… like I should floss, do yoga, refrain from smoking and cursing like a drunken sailor. Take vitamins, exercise, drink booze more moderately… get a yearly mammogram. You know. On and on and on.
I don’t know, but a very large piece of cherry pie a la mode sounds awfully nice right about now. Maybe two. It won’t ever quench my thirst… then again… indulgence can be a very good thing on an off-night, eh?
Thanks Mr. tent.
Sure sure, you get that feeling of someone presses rocks on either side of your head…
It’s even worse with Icecream
In my younger days I used to take part in a series of 10k fun runs. At the end of the race everyone got a banana and I found this to be a good thirst quencher.
Now that’s unusual! The most refreshing drink is a banana!
A bananna… I’m guessing, but it sounds like quenching a thirst of potassium depletion…
Colisign, How about the notion that there may be different refreshing drinks depending on the specific thirst? I know it complicates things, but there seems to be more than one definition of ‘thirst’.
Don’t blame me, you started it. 
JT
…or melon?
Water.
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