The weird thing I do that I am thinking of today is how I drink water. My sister would say my favorite drink is Coke. Or Dr Pepper. Or Pepsi. But really it is very icy cold water. The weird thing is I go through cycles in which I have to have a certain glass.
For a long time I thought water just tasted better and colder in a blue glass. Had to be glass, not plastic, and blue.
Then for along time I only drank water out of a clear Libbey's stemmed glass. I think it was a wine glass but I am not sure. I have never had wine. Wal-Mart has the stemmed glasses, 4 in a box for like $4.99 or something and for years that is what I had at home for my glass of water. I liked how it felt to hold the glass.
Next it was a Coca-Cola glass. One year McDonald's gave them away if you bought some kind of hamburger meal but my local McDonald's would also let you buy them for a dollar. They had them in green, blue and plum. I really don't remember how many I had, but let's say I had 12 of them, 4 of each color. I loved my Coca-Cola glasses. I thought I was in high cotton. One time my son's mother-in-law came to my house for a family meal -- I believe it was the Thanksgiving I moved into my very own single wide trailer in 2009 (she did not live in a trailer house) -- and when I served water in those Coca-Cola glasses she said "my, you've eaten a few hamburgers." I guess now would be an appropriate time to tell you I grew up dirt poor in New Mexico. Having matching glasses of any kind from any source would have been a la-te-da thing. And I do like hamburgers.
My Coca-Cola glasses have all gotten broken except for two and I still really like them, but now -- and here comes the thing I would have wanted the floor to open up and swallow me if I ever thought of doing in my 20's and 30's -- I drink out of a quart Mason jar. Yes, I do. (My 20 year old self is dying of embarrassment). Well, I wouldn't in front of anyone but my kids, or strangers in a parking lot when I am thirsty and need a drink.
See, I need water. My body likes to be hydrated so I drink 12 glasses a day. A quart is the same as 4 - 8 oz glasses, right? So I fix 3 quarts of tap water, add a tray of ice to each one and put them in the fridge, because I can only drink icy cold water. If I drink my 3 jars I know I drank plenty of water for the day. No trying to keep up with the count of glass refills needed. If my water is not fixed (and had time to get very cold) then I will get thirsty, grab a cold canned coke to quench my thirst and never drink water.
If I am going to "town" (Wal-Mart, Kohls, the grocery store, my kids' homes) I know I will be thirsty as soon as my house is in my rear view mirror so I take my jar so 1) maybe I won't buy a coke and 2) because the Mason jar lid keeps it from spilling. Of course, on hot days I have to sit it in an insulated cooler. I leave it in the car, except at my son's home. He has well water and I don't like the taste of it (and I don't like the taste of bottled water). The other day my son told me that he hopes I don't take that jar in everywhere I go because it looks weird. I said why, does it looks like white lightnin'?
Do you have a favorite glass, cup or container?
Funny! No, I don't have a favorite drinking vessel, but it must be glass! No plastic for me.
ReplyDeleteOh, do you remember from our early childhood years (I'm assuming we are close in age) those metal or aluminum drinking glasses? My aunt had some and while I thought the jewel tone colors were pretty I didn't like to drink out of them. Didn't like the metal against my teeth and somehow I thought they made your drink taste metallic. I probably drank out of one just once when I was a real little kid but somehow I have that memory.
DeleteI like cold water and I keep a supply in the firdge. I don't drink soda, I would just be too lazy to pour myself a glass every time I got thirsty. I like the Tervis tumblers with a sppy-cup lid.
ReplyDeleteI admire you for NOT drinking sodas. I am trying to get past my soda addiction. I hate it that I ever started drinking 32 oz fountain drinks but here in Texas, especially when we have 4 or more months when it is 95 to 105 or hotter daily everyone carries around a big coke cup. I know it is the reason for my horrible weight gain and why I am trying to drink so much water.
DeleteSpecial short glass for Scotch rocks and special tall glass for Scotch water:)
ReplyDeleteI have never had Scotch ... this may be a silly question but does it taste like a melted butterscotch candy? If I ever take up drinking my friend tells me first I need to try rum and Coke. I am thinking I would try a fruity daquiri first.
DeleteI have favorite glasses for water as well. These days, it's a huge clear blue tumbler with bubble-like splodges of other colors. Very pretty --- and yes, my water taste better in it.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a beautiful glass. I like to have color in my life. :)
DeleteYep, I sure do. It is a 32 oz. plastic Allsups bottle that water was purchased in. I have several that I reuse. Not suppose to reuse those disposable water bottles, I know. For safety measures one of my daughters points that out to me all the time. I figure reusing that plastic bottle is probably healthier than that 32 oz Pepsi that I generally drink every day.
ReplyDeleteIf you wash it after each use I don't know why it would be unhealthy...and you are correct, couldn't be unhealthier than the Pepsi (I have been drinking Pepsi lately and just heard it has more of some cancer causing coloring or something than other sodas --- figures since I have been guzzling it down)
DeleteI relate to everything you said here! I go through the same type of quirks with glasses. I have been drinking out of mason jars for years, adding different sizes to my mix. Out of them I drink water, juices, champagne, and sometimes a little Jack Daniels with diet cola. I still have two McDonald's glasses. They're short with Mickey Mouse pictures on them, and they're kind of square. They are very strong, which is why they've lasted so long.
ReplyDeleteI knew we were kindred spirits!!! I keep my quart jar of water next to me all day long. My kids think their mother has lost it. :)
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