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I'm currently writing a research paper on beverages. Right now, I'm trying to divide the beverage universe into various subcategories. What I've come up with thus far:
Water Juice Milk Alcohol Brewed (coffee, tea) Carbonated Non-carbonated sugar-water (orange-flavored drink, kool-aid, etc)
I'm looking for any information on drinks that don't fit into any of these categories, as well as any interesting or unique suggestions for specific areas for me to research. Any ideas?
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What would Soy Milk be classified as? It's not real animals milk, and it's not really juice. I'm acutally quite interested in this, Is this for psychology, or some kind of biology class in college?
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English, actually. And as for soy milk... good point. I'll have to look into that. Thanks!
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I'm not sure if I agree with alcohol as either a single category, or as a category at all - ultimately it's just a chemical added to other liquids. Beer? Carbonated. Wine? Fermented juice. But then there's spirits, what would they be classed as?
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Can you clarify the difference between alcohol and spirits? I've never found anyone who could explain it.
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In the south of Sweden (only), on M�rten G�s-day, when you eat a goose, you traditionally use the blood in a soup, Svart-soppa (Black-soup). Supposed to be very nicely seasoned, though I've never tried it.
We don't use it for a beverage of course, but there must be some culture that has, or is.
So, hemoglobin mixed with plasma, iron and water, the eighth spot there.
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Petroleum products. That includes things like Sterno, moonshine, & the quart of aviation fuel a friend of mine in the Air Force used to start every day off with. Of course, his favorite drink was a mixture of ouzo & akvavit, so...
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At the end of the day, spirits are just alcohol solutions with added ingredients. I'm not even sure how most spirits are made. Similar to wines I assume, like whiskys ferment for years in casks. . .
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My definitions may be squewed, but I always viewed alcohol as an ingredient, and spirits as a type of drink. Wine contains alcohol. Wisky contains alcohol. Beer contains alcohol. Wisky is a spirit. Beer isn't.
So, basically, beer isn't a spirit. Gin, wisky, vodka et al are spirits. Wine...I suddenly forget. I think it is, or it might be it's own catagory.
Beer can also be broken down into roughly three groups: Larger, Bitter and Stout. And ale. Is ale a bitter? Or different? Or is it one of those things that's only different if you have a flat cap and beard?
Also, I don't know if it counts as a seperate catagory, but what about those energy drinks, like Red Bull, or Lucozade, or whatever they have in the US? Stuff with glycogen, caffine, taurine etc? Not stuff like Coke, stuff that's actually advertised as giving you energy?
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With petroleum and airplane fuel, we're kind of rubbing out the line between beverages and liquid-form substances in general, no?
I think the criteria for a beverage is that it is sold/handled for the purpose of ingesting.
I can drink paint thinner but that doesn't make it an accepted beverage. Unless... No, that is too diabolical.
Perhaps blood and milk go together? Well not literally, but in the grouping. Organic but non-vegetarian beverages. Then we can forget blood and keep milk as the representative for organic, non-vegitarian drinks. What else is there? Urine and saliva. Some indian gurus drink their own piss verily.
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what about those energy drinks, like Red Bull, or Lucozade, or whatever they have in the US? Stuff with glycogen, caffine, taurine etc? Not stuff like Coke, stuff that's actually advertised as giving you energy?
I'm classifying that with the powdered stuff. Maybe I should call that "artificial". I suppose coke would fall under the same category, but carbonated drinks are so prevalent now that they kinda deserve a section of their own.
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quote:Originally posted by Omega: what about those energy drinks, like Red Bull, or Lucozade, or whatever they have in the US? Stuff with glycogen, caffine, taurine etc? Not stuff like Coke, stuff that's actually advertised as giving you energy?
I'm classifying that with the powdered stuff. Maybe I should call that "artificial". I suppose coke would fall under the same category, but carbonated drinks are so prevalent now that they kinda deserve a section of their own.
But none of that stuff is powdered. At least not over here. A lot of them have a nice line in being spirit mixers too.
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