Battle of the Beverages

You see stands selling it around your neighborhood. You listen to the Beyoncé album that’s named after it. You drink it during hot summer days. It’s lemonade, and it’s the best. The sourness of lemons mixed with sweetening to create a drink that satisfies all tastes. You just aren’t going to find anything as refreshing as lemonade anywhere else. There’s also a variety of amazing flavors:...

 No person can argue that water isn’t the purest and most refreshing beverage. Water surrounds us every day and can be used for more purposes rather than just drinking it. We use it to wash our hands, shower, clean our clothes and dishes, swim, make food, and go to the bathroom. Water is part of who we are, literally 60 percent of our bodies are made up of water. When it comes to actually drinki...

Since writing my acclaimed milk review in which I sampled several different milks and shared my thoughts on the substance, I’ve been labeled the KE’s go-to “milk girl” (kinda like the “horse girl” from elementary school but, you know, with milk), so I kind of have to write this review. So here it goes: When it comes to beverages, milk is about as American as it gets. With the average American...

Pop–by far–is the best drink choice of our generation. It can ease your digestive issues, is a great stimulant, can help stop nausea, and increase your energy. What’s not amazing about that? Nothing. Nothing is more amazing than taking a nice cold sip of a delicious pop at the end of the day. Soda is old fashioned–come into the twenty-first generation, people. It might be called a soda fountain...

There’s no discussion. The protein shake is the greatest drink of all time: just ask my biceps. The protein shake not only tastes good, is good for you, and is easy to use, but it makes you HUGE. Go to your local gym and scope out the ten biggest dudes there, I guarantee you every single one of them is either drinking a shake, just drank a shake, or is about to drink a shake. Take a look at Dwayne...

Delicious. Everyone enjoys soda. Soda is wonderful. It has an ever-growing number of options to satisfy anyone’s parched throat. “Soda”–yes, it’s called soda; the vast majority of America agrees–there are many debates on different brands and everyone has a favorite. My personal favorite is Coca-Cola. It’s tasty. The caffeine can help you stay awake to study for that crucial test, but...

Coffee is not just a drink; it is the powersource of all life. Or my life, at least. Any day without a cup of coffee is a painful day. It is the perfect beverage to start off the day refreshed and energized, and it is extremely versatile. Served hot or cold, black or flavored, there is a type of coffee for any prospective coffee-drinker. It has become ingrained in American culture; it is not just a...

Strawberries, blueberries, bananas, and almond milk: mix it all together and you know you’ve got the best of both worlds (for all the oldies, that is a Hannah Montana reference!) For starters, the health benefits of smoothies are immense. Smoothies can disguise “healthy” foods like spinach, chia seeds, etc. so they affect the body the same way, but the gross flavor is greatly overpowered by the...

Tea is the best drink. Ask Britain. It’s so important to them that they taxed us for it. That’s commitment. It comes both caffeinated and non-caffeinated, hot and cold, and it has a variety of flavors; there’s oolong, green, black, yellow, fermented (like kombucha, which is super great, just don’t smell it), and herbal flavors. It’s like water, but with a better taste! Coffee may be the most...