Summer Drinks to Keep Cool

I almost faint when I see 2 litre and 4 litre bottles of sugared water being purchased. OK, they are cheap in a way and there are offers galore to lure you to buy them! But are you idiots or what? Why should you pay so much for sugar and water and colour?

I read somewhere that one of this drinks adds 12 spoons of salt -- may or may not be true. Then adds, tons of sweetness to mask the salt! Why? Because the salt will make you thirsty!

Time and again you have experienced it! You felt hot and thirsty. You drank the brown coloured liquid (which Baba Ramdev says is fit as a Toilet Cleaner)! Were you satisfied? NO! Yeh dil mange more! You drank more and more!

I am grateful to Aamir Khan for having lured me away from these useless, nutritition devoid, drinks. He said in an interview ages ago, that his children (then 5-10)were allowed this treat (some drink) only on Sundays! It was quaint that he was advertising for the drinks and not allowing his children to have it every day! For some reason, I stopped drinking them.

Confession time -- I did have it with Rum for a large number of years. Mercifully, now my all-time favourite is the bloody mary! And thanks to learning French and the health benefits bandied about, I am drinking more wine. A beer or two also now and then -- as it is good for the bones.

I am wondering why we drink some foreign imported sugared water, when we have hundreds of great, cool, summer drinks? Have been having some wonderful chaas for some days now! Tried kokum sherbet once! Plan to try out Kokum Kadi for dinner one of these days. Gajalee and Divya Maharastracha and Saayba have some fabulous Kokum Kadi.

If we begin counting, I am sure we can count a hundred summer drinks! Shall we start counting....