Carbonated Beverage
As I said, for many years, my beverage choice was caffeine-free diet coke--slightly flat, if possible. Many people argued that it was the same as water, since it had nothing in it. My response was that whatever was in it made it taste so much more delicious than water. Turns out that whatever was in it is not, however, so much more healthy than water. Like a smoker, I always really knew this in the back of my mind, but after reading the Omnivore's Dilemma , I finally quit it. And delicious seltzer stepped in to take it's place. Oh, seltzer. So delicious, so refreshing, so watery. But also so heavy, and kind of expensive when you drink 2-3 liters a day. At first, Alex would buy it for me at the co-op, but the cost of the car service pretty much negated any cost savings. Then I had FreshDirect deliver it for me. Effective solution, but it also made me feel like kind of a jerk for using all of the human and fossil fuel energy to essentially deliver water to my house. And then I w...