Sheldon wrote:
> 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...
>
Are you sure that milk is a nutritive additions? I've always thought of
it as a flavouring for tea.

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John Kane, Kingston ON Canada