Originally Posted by
gfunkdave
I bought a SodaStream a while back and use it to make plain fizzy water. It makes me feel like I'm having a beverage that isn't water. Sometimes I put a little squirt of lime juice in it.
Lately I have been through more and more places with urns of chilled fruited water available to guests and residents. I've noticed it in hotel lobbies as well as the assisted living center and nursing home where my mother has lived the last year. I worry about the cleanliness of these and for whatever reason the urns always have the most recalcitrant stopcocks. Despite health worries and the mess I inevitably make, I have found most of these incredibly refreshing.