besides Ice Tea and Lemonade...what is a good summer drink?
@bookreadermom08 (5614)
United States
June 6, 2009 10:27am CST
I have drank way to much soda pop this winter and I really want to cut back. The summer will be the best time to do that only I can do ice tea and lemonade but I get bored with those really easy...
do you have any suggestions to an alternative?? I have mixed the two ice tea and lemonade which is called the "arnold palmer" drink, and I can do that too but I want something that I will have more than once in a while and get me away from the "pop" or "soda" ....
so what do you drink during the summer??
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@bookreadermom08 (5614)
• United States
7 Jun 09
I am not sure what that is, but it sounds interesting...LOL
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@GADHISUNU (2162)
• India
8 Jun 09
I just wanted to surprise you. It is a sqash like concentrate made by Hamdard Pharma a Unani Medicine making company. It is declared to be made of extracts of various summer or all season flowers major constituent being Rose and adding some root extracts to make it both tasty and tonic like. The concentrate a syrupy dark pink liquid could be dilute in water and drunk. It could also be mixed with refrigerated cold milk and taken.
Since the medicine men of yore - i.e. Unan = Greece coming through Arabia via the Muslim conquest to India, I presume this has been a well-studied-over-the- generations drink.The name has the meaning Quencher of Soul's Thirst- an obvious hyperbole characteristic of all Eastern Nomen.
Down South in India, you have [I]sherbet[/I] made of a root-extract called [I]Nannari[/I] in Tamil. I will research the Botanical Name and publish or some Tamilians on myLot could also help. IMO Summer drinks could be defined better by people who endure the more intense ones isn't it?
@bookreadermom08 (5614)
• United States
9 Jun 09
LOL, ok, that sounds much more interesting and healthy as well!!
thanks for the information.
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@bookreadermom08 (5614)
• United States
7 Jun 09
wow it has been ages since I heard of Tang... I might have to check into that, thanks!!
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@metschica25 (5399)
• United States
7 Aug 09
Hey Hey!
During the summer I can never drink pop . It really does weight me down and when its real hot it makes me sick . Usually, I just drink water , and my new thing is green tea, because that kinda wakes me up and has some perk to it . Nothing like a nice glass of lemonade , but the diet kind from crystal light is good , and any ice tea . Gotta have lots of ice as well 
@cyrus123 (6363)
• United States
7 Jun 09
I have never heard of mixing lemonade and iced tea together. I wonder what that would taste like?
My favorite drink has always been coke. I drink a lot of diet coke these days. You said you were tired of soda or pop, though. What about kool aid? I've been drinking that instead of tea these days. May I also suggest Gatorade? That's a good thirst quencher. Kathy.
My favorite drink has always been coke. I drink a lot of diet coke these days. You said you were tired of soda or pop, though. What about kool aid? I've been drinking that instead of tea these days. May I also suggest Gatorade? That's a good thirst quencher. Kathy.1 person likes this
@bookreadermom08 (5614)
• United States
7 Jun 09
how funny that you mention gatorade, my hubby just said yesterday he wants to start drinking that this summer... so I actually think I will have more of that in the house this summer...LOL
thanks for the suggestion!!
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