Cucumber Water – Are You Kidding Me?

I hate drinking my calories.  It is one of the reasons I don’t drink alcohol, that and I still have not found those underpants I lost in Miami in 1984, the last time I drank too much.

To my mind and stomach drinks do not register as food, even thick drinks like smoothies.  Well, maybe a milk shake might register, but I can’t figure that out now.

So I stick to non/low calories drinks, but not soda.  I drink tea and now to really give me variation I make regular tea and  ginger tea, which is just regular tea with a ginger root steeped in the water too.  I also drink water, both regular tap water and San Pellegrino.  That’s four big drinks.

This summer I discovered a new love, a taste so good that is practically feels like food, cucumber water.  Yes, water that has s few big slices of cucumber floating in it.  Actually I don’t even have the cucumber in my individual glass.  I just fill up a pitcher with cold water and drop about five half inch slices of peeled cucumber in and put it in the fridge.

In no time at all the water has taken on a crisp taste that hardly resembles water at all.  The best part…ZERO calories.  How can something so good have zero calories and I know exactly what’s in it.  In fact I grew what’s in it.

Drinking the cucumber water comes close to sipping a cool soup it’s that satisfying.  Have I lost my mind?  If you know me you know that this is a little out of character.  I must be so calorie deprived that I have started hallucinating.  There is no way that water and cucumber could bring me to such a state of nirvana.  I don’t really even like cucumbers alone that much.

Perhaps I have stumbled on the next drug craze.  The government is going to have to outlaw cucumbers because teenagers are going to sit around in groups drinking this and feeling some out of body experiences.

I guess I should have kept this secret to myself and just started bottling it.  If I marketed it as the next great tasting diet inducing high I could easily charge $10 a bottle.

So make it yourself.  Try it.  If you hate it you are only out a quarter of a cucumber, but if you love it, send me $9.  You get to keep $1 for buying your own cucumber.