Drinking

Good point.

Our water is good enough to drink from the tap.
I fill a bottle when leaving the house, even for shopping.
Cant remember my parents ever doing such a thing, unless going on a day out.

I’m quite sure my late parents would never have bought bottled water under any circumstances!

As a child I drank mainly cold milk, with Ovaltine as a treat.

Going out to play as a child, or into town with friends as a teenager, none of us took a drink. We’d go to a café and pool resources to get a drink to share, or just find one of the water fountains dotted around. As kids playing on the common we’d drink water from the stream from cupped hands, we all survived despite fishing for tiddlers and sticklebacks at the same shallow spot.

When the family had a day out in the car, my father would always stop at a pub halfway, he’d go in for a beer, my mother and I sat outside or in the car and he brought drinks out, a shandy or snowball for my mother and always pineapple juice for me (still my drink of choice on my rare visits to a pub)!

They didn’t do picnics, but would find a café for lunch.

Water at home apart from elevenses, orange squash and a biscuit.
Metal water jugs on the tables for school dinners, the fizz lorry was Corona I think, it was a treat.

Perhaps we didn't need to drink as much water because we didn't eat processed food which was loaded with salt? The grown ups in my childhood didn't drink wine with their meals, in fact never drank in the house except for the occasional drink for a special occasion. I wasn't taken out for restaurant meals either.
Nowadays, if I go out for a restaurant meal I always ask for water on the table and I drink it because I find the meals are very salty. I always take water to exercise classes because I get thirsty (my mother never went to an exercise class in her life!) At school I ate school meals and we always had water to drink and we needed it although the food was cooked in the canteen and not processed in a factory. I think we forget how much life has changed since we were young.

I didn't know that plain bottled drinkingwater existed until I was abroad in my 40s.
When i was growing up, we never took water out with us unless going on a picnic..

A typical day's drinking for me through my primary school years would be a glass of milk with breakfast, a small bottle of milk at morning break, a glass of water at lunchtime, then tap water at home as and when I felt thirsty, which wasn't very often. Then, I think, milk at bedtime.

Once in secondary school I drank even less.
By that age, I think my parents assumed I was old enough to know when i needed to drink, and probably had no idea how little I actually drank - I don't think I had anything whatsoever to drink until lunchtime!
Basically, I only drank when i felt thirsty, which wasnt very often, and was almost always water (our local tapwater was good back then).

I remember my mum going to my primary school back in the early seventies to ask if I could have a bottle of water in class as I got so thirsty. They said no, it wasn't allowed.

Drinks at home were water, squash and the cheap fizzy pop from the van that came round on Fridays.

This bottled water nonsense is a fairly recent thing. If you wanted water it came from a tap. We had cordial and milk and from a very young age drank milky tea. I had my two sons on milky tea at a very young age too. Fizzy drinks were for Christmas and parties.

As a child in the 50’s and early 60’s we drank tap water with sometimes a dash of orange squash. We only had fizzy drinks in the house if one of us was sick and needed coaxing to drink. My dad used to arrive home with a bottle of cream soda.

Anyone remember a brand of orange squash called Tree Top? The bottle had an oversized white plastic lid. My mum used to save a stack of used ones in the cupboard. We used them for various tasks including as spare egg cups 😄

Water during the week…..pop on a Sunday.

Never bottled water, and all liquids were rationed - I think my mother didn't want to have to find toilets when we were out. To be fair, they were few and far between and largely disgusting. My poor kidneys. I do remember when Perrier became popular as a posh thing.

Strange how nobody thought of carrying water or needing constant sips of the stuff until bottled spa water started to be marketed aggressively in the UK.

I remember playing out with friends for hours then coming home and having a drink usually water or juice.
Nobody carried water with them in those days.
I find it odd now that people can't seem to go for more than a few minutes without a gulp of water.

But I do remember 1975 and 76, DS was 4 and DD was 3 and I definitely took water, tap water of course, when we went anywhere.
As a child, we must have had drinks because I know that a glass bottle knocked the corner off a front tooth when someone barged into me.

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Oh talking about fizzy drinks my grandad bought (can’t remember what they are called) one of those things you put gas sparklettes in the side to make orange juice fizzy Were they called Sparklet machines ??

The one I remember was called a "soda stream" you could buy the cordial to make different flavour drinks and it came with 6 small bottles , we used ours quite a lot But I stopped buying the flavoured cordial quite quickly and just made fizzy squash instead.
I remember the pop man coming around on Friday and they would deliver bottles of pop and cola. My mother would only but from them near Christmas as a treat.
I also remember you used get money back for the return of the glass bottles.

We used to put a halfpenny stick of liquorice in a bottle of water and gave it a good shake til the water turned a strange brown colour when we went on our "picnics" .

Oh talking about fizzy drinks my grandad bought (can’t remember what they are called) one of those things you put gas sparklettes in the side to make orange juice fizzy Were they called Sparklet machines ??

No I never took any water out with me, no such thing as bottled water I lasted perfectly well until I got home, there were drinking fountains in the local park and another I think I remember on the sea front.
I didn’t eat when out either other than a ice cream or lolly
We were always told it was ‘ common’ and bad manners to eat in the street

My children always laugh at me that whenever they were ill as children, their memory is that whatever was wrong with them they would be given chicken noodle soup and lucozade ( I d forgotten that but they are right)

Fizzy drinks were only for Christmas and birthdays. The rest of the time it was water from the tap or water fountain.

We didn’t have bottled water or any fizzy drinks. Water , Ribina or Robinsons Orange barley water dilute.
I was always envious of anyone who had Lucazade when poorly.

Never ever had bottled water, unless it came out of our tap. We always had a jug of water on the table but we preferred pop.

I have always loved drinking water, right back from when I was a child.
I can remember the water fountain in the school playground, and it was always me breaking off from whatever game we were playing to have a gulp!

I was raised by parents in the hospitality industry, always had a glass of water by me, took one to bed. Then when our main home was in a hot Mediterranean country, always had a bottle of iced water in my bag and as soon as I drove in my car.

Fizzy was a treat kept for Fri/Sat/Sun

Something I carried on as an adult and passed onto my children, they used to take water into school with them before it was a thing All GC take water bottles into school/college.

Dehydration can make you seriously ill.

We drank water with meals, both at school and at home. Out of school hours, it would be water or milk, and I remember having Rose’s lime juice. My mother made real lemonade with diluted lemon juice and icing sugar. I used to long for such exotic drinks as Creme Soda or Dandelion and Burdock, but hardly ever got them.

Only adults drank tea or coffee in my world. I remember being astonished when I was about eight to be offered tea by an Irish neighbour.

Bottled water wasn’t available in Scotland. Our natural water was more than good enough and there were drinking fountains all around. At home I would have tap water, milk, squash, Irn Bru or other fizzy tooth rotting drinks. I still drink tap water even in restaurants and I usually carry a bottle of water to make sure I hydrate ough