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I recently made the mistake of thinking too much while watching an advertisement for "Propel Fitness Water." If you add stuff to it, is it really water any more? We don't call Sprite or CocaCola water any more. And yet, it's 99% water.

And, I don't market myself as Conscious Ambulatory Water, but as a mammal, I could.

I am Water Man! The majority of my body is water! Fear me!

That's how I enter every room. Even when it's empty.

Anyway, I should probably answer your post. Here's the thing: Isn't Propel more water than Coke is? If it's just a slight flavor (if that) change, than I don't see if it should be considered it's own entity. Besides, sodas use carbonated water, don't they?

You raise an interesting question.

Perhaps it is just enhanced water. But I defiantly agree...it should not be called water by itself.

Water sucks. Gatorade is BETTER!

It not only quenches your thirst, it TASTES better too!

Hmmm... Beer would be at least 90% water. Must remember that next time anyone tries to tell me beer isn't good for me.

Hmm..flavored water..The stuff is good, but I don't think it could completely replace water..I dunno really an I agree this is a good question, though it leave me wondering just wat the answer is

Kaebora wrote:Water sucks. Gatorade is BETTER!

It not only quenches your thirst, it TASTES better too!

Yuck! I hate Gatorade.

Kaebora wrote:Water sucks. Gatorade is BETTER!

It not only quenches your thirst, it TASTES better too!

Gatoraaaade!

Water sucks! it really really sucks!

Gotta love Waterboy.

Serously though I think its more along the line of flavor water than anything else, soda has carbonated water and syrup stuff and so on.

I know, it's arbitrary, but I do think it's a worthwhile premise, at least maybe for someone doing, say, stand-up comedy. There's something odd about calling it water and adding stuff, knowing that I'm myself technically water with stuff added to it.

thirsty....

Scott Gardener wrote:I know, it's arbitrary, but I do think it's a worthwhile premise, at least maybe for someone doing, say, stand-up comedy. There's something odd about calling it water and adding stuff, knowing that I'm myself technically water with stuff added to it.

Heh, I could see someone like Ron White doing an act about that. You do make an interesting point though.

Z wrote:and i hafto to say i find it hard to believe coca cola is 99% water. i think that might be a bit exaggerated...

I could believe it of diet coke. I think ordinary coke might be a bit less... it would have quite a lot of sugar (or whatever is that muck that goes into soft drinks instead of sugar) as well as flavouring.

Beer would have to be way less than 99% though... between four and seven per cent of a bottle of beer would be ethyl alcohol, for starters...

(I do think this so-called "sports water" or whatever it's called overseas has to be a big have, though. What's the bet it's just fairly much diluted fruit drink?)

Kaebora wrote:Water sucks. Gatorade is BETTER!

It not only quenches your thirst, it TASTES better too!

Gatorade is water with other stuff added. I like Propel better. Gatorade and Powerade has an oily taste to it.

Z wrote:
I AGREE. gatorade is second only to BEER.

Beer......bleh.

Well hell we still call it water when it's in a LAKE. With FISH. And PLANTS.

Vodka or Jager beats beer any day of the week. For now, I'll enjoy my Big Red soda.

Kzinistzerg wrote:Well hell we still call it water when it's in a LAKE. With FISH. And PLANTS.

There's H2O




Sure...water is what's in the lake. When it comes to bodies of water...you have...Puddle, pond, lake, ocean, ETC.

Moving water...stream, river, creek, ETC

Water falling out of the sky......Raining. To much rain....flooding.

And so on.

Mmmm...puddles...

Good point about lakes. The ocean is called water as well, even though it's a complex saline mixture with large numbers of microscopic organisms floating around in it. The salt content is roughly the same as plasma or IV lactated ringer's solution, given to surgery patients.

Don't forget all the trash-mud from New Jersey!

That's ....a very good question. One I think you can't really answer universally. Though, for me, I tend to consider things that still mostly taste and look like water to be water. So flavored water is more like water to me than coke, since coke is black, fizzy, and tastes completely different.

Or something like that.