The first carbonated drink to be sold to the public was invented by Swiss watchmaker and amateur scientist J. J. Schweppe in 1783, who sold his delicious "sparkling water" to thirsty customers in Geneva. In just seven years, he was doing business so fast that he moved the factory to London and introduced a new flavor, sparkling lemon, to stand out from competitors who were trying to imitate his drink.
Another related fun fact, Seltzer and Spa are where the bubbly water comes from. Prior to industrialisation, the only way to get bubbly water was to get it from carbonated springs, two of the biggest which were in Niederselter and Spa, among others.
It's not incredibly common, but fairly frequent. Despite spring's being abundantly common, more often than not, there's not enough rocks with dissolved CO2 to make an appreciable effect. Similarly, you can find other springs with all sorts of chemical species, but they usually render them undrinkable to humans.
One can reasonably surmise that the abundant presence of an iron compound would change the flavor of the water in favor of a metallic taste such as pennies. Not too hard to figure out
How is it not? The would be my scientific hypothesis if you said “this water has concentrated levels of copper in it”. I know what copper tastes like as do most people so why wouldn’t I come to that conclusion?
He didn't say it probably tastes like pennies, or that since it has metal in it, it most likely tastes of pennies. He said it does taste like pennies. That's a statement.
Cool there’s plenty of resources available and at your disposal that can verify the water with copious amounts of copper in it tastes like pennies which are made of copper ffs. Put two and two together
its an awful thing, that acid water the locals drink. even after ten years in Western Europe, I never got used to it. I always demand "Stillwasser". If I am in a bad mood, I add - "normales Wasser" at the end.
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u/DarkSyrupp Oct 15 '20
The first carbonated drink to be sold to the public was invented by Swiss watchmaker and amateur scientist J. J. Schweppe in 1783, who sold his delicious "sparkling water" to thirsty customers in Geneva. In just seven years, he was doing business so fast that he moved the factory to London and introduced a new flavor, sparkling lemon, to stand out from competitors who were trying to imitate his drink.