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From: jc@mit-athena.UUCP (John Chambers)
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Subject: Re: Pop vs. Soda
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> "Club soda" is the WASP term for seltzer.
...
> All of you who have been using the wrong terms now stand corrected.

There was a good article on both of these, as well as various bottled
waters, in a Consumers Reports issue sometime last year.  They made
it clear that there was a distinction:

Seltzer is highly carbonated but otherwise plain water, i.e., no
significant salt or minerals should be present.

Club soda is lightly carbonated mineral water.  Thus Perrier is
an expensive brand-name (naturally carbonated) club soda.

It was interesting that the taste test done by their blind panel
judged some of the cheapest club sodas (like Canadian Club) much
better-tasting than Perrier or other classy waters.

-- 

			John Chambers [...!decvax!mit-athena]

He who has made no mistakes has probably made nothing at all.