Gettin’ Fizzy With It

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Food, History, Arts

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

‘Tis the season for a glass of bubbly—but this episode we’re not talking champagne, we’re talking seltzer. America is in the throes of a serious seltzer craze, with consumption of the bubbly stuff doubling in only a decade, from 2004 to 2014. But where does seltzer come from, and why is it called “seltzer,” rather than simply “sparkling water”? Is there any truth to the rumors that seltzer can combat indigestion—or that it will rot our teeth? Why are all the hipsters crushing cans of LaCroix, and what’s the story behind Polar’s ephemeral sensation, Unicorn Kisses? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've been drinking it for almost five years consistently on a daily basis.
0:07.1	Sometimes the way one might drink beers at a Patriots game, I usually pack like two,
0:14.2	three, four for work.
0:16.2	There was a time when I used to collect the caps to the bottles.
0:20.7	So I'm a pretty big fan.
0:22.6	I just, there's something about it.
0:25.6	I guess it's a mix of the carbonation, the different flavors they have.
0:29.5	In the summertime, I mean, I can like crack a polar seltzer and chug half of it in the
0:34.3	initial sip.
0:35.3	I don't drink soda, I don't drink juices.
0:37.8	It's either regular water or polar seltzer.
0:41.8	It's a New England thing.
0:42.8	Steve is just one of, I don't know, maybe millions of polar seltzer obsessed New Englanders.
0:47.2	And one of those obsessives wrote into Gastropod, Leah Brunetta.
0:51.4	She's born, bred and based in Boston.
0:53.2	So I had a very funny experience over the summer.
0:56.7	I had a cousin of mine from Los Angeles visiting me and she was, you know, just hanging around
1:02.1	the house and she said, oh, okay, I have a glass of water.
1:04.6	So I said, oh, sure, you know, go in the fridge, take whatever you want.
1:08.2	And she just kind of started laughing at me and said, well, you only have this like bottled
1:14.2	sparkling water.
1:15.2	Like, do you have any regular water?
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