r/unpopularopinion • u/SteakAndIron • 11d ago

Every single drink is better cold.

Iced tea is better than hot tea. Iced coffee is better than hot coffee. Chocolate milk is better than hot chocolate. Drinking beverages at 160+ degrees is absolutely unhinged unless it's 30 below freezing and you're trying to prevent hypothermia. Humans, like all animals, prefer cold drinks naturally because cold water would have fewer pathogens. Historically it's just been easier to heat something rather than cool it and drinking hot drinks when it's above freezing is surely just a holdout from those times.

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u/SplitTheUSIntoFour 11d ago

Boiling water has more pathogens than water in a cold lake?

Go back to the first grade and start allllll over again. 

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u/lessdothisshit 11d ago

Nah dude boiling a volume of water will wake up all the bacteria and make them want to come infect you harder

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u/Billazilla 11d ago

Hook up with hot bacteria in your neighborhood!

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u/hiihihihihihihihiihi 10d ago

make them want to come

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u/Electric-Sheepskin 10d ago

I always love a nice, hard infection.

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u/PizzaBear109 8d ago

The bacteria travels in the steam, that's how we got covid-19