Mark Thorson wrote:
> Sheldon wrote:
>
> > Which is the world's most popular beverage?
>
> It's not water? �According to whom?

Culinarilly, water in of itself is not considered a beverage, a
beverage is water plus some other ingredient that also contains some
nutritional value... water by itself contains no nutritive value. A
beverage is considered a food, water is no more a food than air. To
be considered a food a substance must possess caloric content.

To be perfectly honest tea and coffee are not true beverages unless
they contain some nutritive addition, ie. sugar, milk, scotch...