>Not so different from the U.S. :o) Except that we never got the idea into our heads to give our children beer instead of water :o) One thing I noticed though in Germany which was much different than the states, almost everyone I knew didn't drink anything with their meals while here in the U.S. (not anymore but it was true back in the 80s) we drank milk or water

Back in the day: "boddrrrrr milk"! :-)

>with all of our meals. Now naturalists are claiming that no liquids should be taken with meals to promote digestion and when they are, they should always be tepid. Nowadays I think bottled water is probably the most common liquid taken with meals.
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>For a year I lived in a rural community about 2.5 hours away and there was an extremely high iron and sulfur content in the water.

People pay good money to wallow in that sort of stuff in spa towns! :-)

>I had a special water filtration system for the house. I only realized it had broken when the water smelled like iron and it turned my hair orange in the shower! Where I am now the sand filters the water from the wells and it is very clean and loaded with minerals.


>The city water though smells like chlorine out of the tap (which is why I don't like it). It smells like you are drinking bleach.

We get that sometimes. Isn't that the fluorine though, which they add to strengthen teeth?

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