What's the difference between Club Soda and Seltzer?

[Gothic Sponge]

I was thinking about it after i posted this poll.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=2108689&mesg_id=2108689

What is the difference? I'm not 100% sure.... I think club soda contains sodium, and seltzer doesn't. Am i wrong?

[azoth]

1. One would never put club soda down one's pants, I think.

[Gothic Sponge]

3. Speak for yourself.

That's one of my hobbies! :silly:

[azoth]

7. Somehow that doesn't surprise me. :) It's the sponge thing, isn't it?

[Gothic Sponge]

10. Yes, i'm a real soaker.

:)

[Hello_Kitty]

2. Club soda is sweetened for one thing

But I'm not sure what else is different.

[Gothic Sponge]

4. Club soda is not sweetened.....

Maybe you're thinking of tonic water.......?

[bettyellen]

5. or flavored club-- which is so common now.

[bettyellen]

6. they work equally well in egg creams. maybe the salt thing..

[phaseolus]

8. packaging & delivery

I believe both are simply carbonated water. Club Soda is either a "fountain beverage" or comes prepackaged in bottles or cans like any other soft drink.

Seltzer, I think, is more properly the stuff in those old-fashioned refillable glass bottles. Any elderly life-long NYC residents got something to add? I heard there used to be home seltzer delivery there...

Tonic Water contains quinine and maybe some other stuff.

[bettyellen]

9. and people used to make their own w/ chargers and plain water eom

[nmvisitor]

11. You are correct

Club soda has the salt. Tonic water is flavored with quinine (or it used to be, anyway). Seltzer is nothing but water and CO2. When I quit drinking booze I switched to seltzer, and I've been drinking two or three liters of it a day for many years.