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I get the hiccups if I don't have something to drink during meals, especially if the meal has high carbs (potatoes, pasta, bread). Weird yes, and I don't know why...
Sparkling water with breakfast and lunch, wine with supper.
When we go out to a good Italian restaurant, which there aren't any locally, our water choice is San Pellegrino and our wine choice is Banfi Classico Reserva Ducale, chianti. We expect to spend $200.00 to $300.00. We only do this about once or twice a year on special occasions. Right now the closest one to us is in Daytona Beach, about 300 miles away.
I guess I produce enough anticipatory saliva during the gustatory experience that nothing is "dry" or "hard to get down" (unfortunately; I might weigh less if I drank more liquids to displace room in my stomach).
It might also be because I seldom sit down to a formal four-course meal, as such; I'm more of a grazer (small, frequent meals).
With a snack like cheese and crackers, I'll have wine; with chips, I'll have diet soda or flavored sparkling water. I also like a refreshing iced beverage on its own in summer or hot cocoa or cider in winter. But with a meal, I don't drink; I just eat. Even in a restaurant, I'll order water with lemon just in case the food is really late in arriving (to have something to do), but once it does, the drink -- which, if other than water, is always ridiculously overpriced in a restaurant anyway -- sits untouched.
It enhances your meal. It's okay with me if you have a beer with whatever you're eating.
I rarely need a drink to wash down my food. I like the taste of the food and don't need "enhancement".
What I do like is coffee with my dessert. But that's just me.
Same here; I enjoy coffee with dessert, beer or soda with chips or some other salty snack, but when eating a whole meal, I don't feel the need -- or seem to have the time or the room -- for a 64 oz. (or whatever it is) beverage. The drinks included with those fast food "extra value" meals and buffets are always wasted on me.
Another thread brought to my awareness that I virtually never drink when I eat. I have plenty of water throughout the day and enjoy a beverage on its own or with a snack, but when it's a meal, I concentrate on food and never drink anything with it... Is that unusual?
Well, the simple fact that when you eat in a restaurant, it's a given that there is a drink order (and often involves refills throughout the meal), that seems to suggest that food without drink is unusual.
Well, the simple fact that when you eat in a restaurant, it's a given that there is a drink order (and often involves refills throughout the meal), that seems to suggest that food without drink is unusual.
And that's in addition to "super-sized" meals. No wonder people's stomachs are all stretched out.
I suppose so. As well as the fact that table settings, since time immemorial, have included glass wear, although that could be just a reserve water in case of choking or something unsavory being served (to wash it down). The cups and saucers could be for dessert coffee, which I'd go along with.
Some types of foods are well complimented by a properly paired drink:
Rare steak with red wine
Waffles and maple syrup with milk.
Burgers and fries with soda.
Otherwise, I prefer water, sparkling or still.
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