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[venta]

Following on from yesterday's post, about avoiding cramp.

Lots of people rubbished the idea of sports drinks, suggesting instead that sugar/water/salt solution was what I wanted. So, yesterday I duly mixed up the WHO-approved quantities and added lemon juice to make it taste less nasty.

Ewww. Vile stuff. I'd expected to find the saltiness of the drink a problem, which actually it wasn't particularly. The problem was what I can only think of calling the texture. What looked like normal water suddenly became repellently... silky, somehow, sliding over my tongue like a big fat roll of gross fluid. I drank half a pint of the stuff, then gave up. I also didn't get cramp last night, in fairness, though I'd have to try it for a few more nights to be sure that wasn't random chance.

I appreciate that, were I dying of cholera, I might be prepared to drink it. Grateful, even. However. I am not dying of cholera, and I live in a country where commerically-prepared non-disgusting electrolyte powder is readily available.

Ideally, I'd like something like High 5 Zero, as alien8 suggested, which is purely electrolyte replacement (ie not an "energy drink", since I'm not using it in an exercise context). But I'd still prefer to just pop into a shop. So, next stop is Holland & Barrett to see if I can find some of their pre-mixed powder which valkyriekaren recommended. Ooh, unless the nice branch of Evans Cycles in Reading carries the High 5 stuff...

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[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

I did manage to source and drink a buttermilk in a London based Indian restaurant last month, not even in fierce heat. It was nectar! Nectar I tell you!

Then I gave it to my chap to taste - the look on his face was incredible, I think he might even have tried to scrape out his mouth on a napkin.

(Oh, the other illicit pleasure that I picked up from a Persian chum is munching a mini cucumber, but salting it as you crunch down. That's delicious too, and probably bad for you if you eat too much salt.)

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'm with your chap on this :) From my one experience, salted lassi is one of those things that actually tastes much worse than you think it will (or than it should, given its constituent ingredients).

I don't really eat salted snacks much, either - the exception being edamame, which are usually snowed under in salt.