I'm not a superior person at all, and I never meant to imply that. But you ought to know that unsweetened tea and unsweetened lemonade still has plenty of sodium (or in the case of actual lemon juice added, fructose sugars (which are not required to be listed on the labels)), which is also a flavor enhancer. My point is that it's not water that tastes bad, it's that some people get so used to salt and sugar in everything they eat that plain old water tastes gross.

> I'd find salt water preferable in terms of taste

I'm absolutely sure that's true for varying levels of salt, as shown by your preference for unsweetened tea.

Salt or sugar, they're both flavor enhancers, which was the point of my post.

Also, it's entirely possible that people who hate water live in places where a lot of minerals and iron are in the water, which is common (and a lot of people don't like that irony taste). Or, the reverse where people grew up in areas _with_ a particular mineral in the water which is no longer there. Personally, a nice ceramic filter on a Big Berkeley, put into the fridge for a day, ooooh man I'm gonna go hydrate currently.

Edit: I should have figured from your aggressive tone that a reply wasn't going to be productive, but after reading your bio - WOW. Feel free to let this thread die!