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Default Most Popular Beverage

On Feb 26, 9:39Â*am, John Kane > wrote:
> Sheldon wrote:
> > Mark Thorson wrote:
> >> Sheldon wrote:

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> >>> 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. Â*A
> > beverage is considered a food, water is no more a food than air. Â*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?


Puh-leeze... you should be banned from all food groups, what a moroon!