I always thought seltzer and club soda were the same thing. Whenever Sparky orders seltzer and the bartender looks confused, she says, "club soda" and then he gets it. Maybe, I figured, it was a regional thing, like subs and hoagies, soda and pop, because I only see club soda in the stores, never seltzer. I'm really big on Mendota lemon-flavored "sparkling water," which I guessed was the same stuff too. But today at the grocery store, I found Super Chill brand one-liter bottles of seltzer and club soda next to each other on the shelf, and I bought one of each so I can perform a taste test. Do you think they'll be different? The ingredients of the seltzer: carbonated water. The ingredients on the club soda: carbonated water, potassium bicarbonate, potassium citrate. What will that mean in terms of taste?
But it seems like a silly thing to do alone. I want somebody else here I can blindfold and hand a Dixie cup of one then the next. I want it to be formal.
i want to take the seltzer challenge!
Posted by: Betty | 30 June 2009 at 07:03 PM
If you have vodka... I'm in.
Posted by: Peter | 30 June 2009 at 07:42 PM
If we used vodka in the Seltzer Challenge, wouldn't the results invariably be: "Who cares!"
Posted by: Sweet | 01 July 2009 at 06:43 PM