Tonight’s fine distinction iiisssss…Club Soda versus Sparkling Water versus Seltzer. Oooh. Nice one. Let’s see.
Club Soda is water that’s been artificially carbonated and to which minerals and salt has been added. Interesting.
Sparkling Water, or rather (interestingly) Sparkling mineral water, is what Club Soda is trying to imitate: it’s naturally effervescent (wtf, I had no idea!), naturally full of minerals and salt, balanced in taste, and comes straight from a spring. Think Perrier or San Pelegrino. Whaaaaaaaat. That shit is NATURALLY BUBBLY???? The dictionary does say that there is some “processing” involved with those, but does specify what, exactly.
Seltzer is water that has been artificially carbonated, but to which minerals and salt has not been added, which makes it taste rather more acidic than club soda. It’s also a great neutral-tasting foundation for other flavors to be added; think La Croix.
Man. This has been far more interesting than I expected. I’m going to have to go digging into how Perrier and San Pelegrino are actually made. How is it already bubbly? Is this where soda water, like the entire concept of bubbly water came from??? Bc it’s fucking NATURAL? Mind blown. This is why we do these.
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I am very close to catching up on my reading (of my manuscript). Whew! That’s a freaking relief. Two more solid hours, and I’ll be there. Also did some good outlining today, even if it wasn’t for long. The Idri story is coming together, I think. I hope. Made some rather big changes for an old/new character that I completely wasn’t expecting, but it’s a great change. Makes her much more interesting…and I think tragic in the end. We’ll see.
Coops has something going on with his eye. Was a little on edge throughout the day whether or not the doc was going to tell us it was an emergency and he needed to be seen right away, but that didn’t happen. I’ll take him in tomorrow at 10:30, we’ll see what they say. It’s this—what looks like blood or blood vessels inside his eye, kinda of down at the bottom. So, the whites of his eyes look fine, but inside his actual eyeball, it’s red in there along the front-bottom. We’ll see what the doc says.
Sleeeeepy. Night night.