[Magdalen] Recovery query.

[Jay Weigel]

Iced tea.
Water with lemon or lime slices.
Coffee (iced coffee in the summer).
Tonic water with lime (hot weather only).
Sparkling water with citrus juice added (no sugar).

Helpfully(?)
Jay

On Saturday, January 9, 2016, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> Anything to get away from discussion about varying experiences of AA, eh?
> :-)=
>
> Query:  From the purely "oral fixation" aspect of alcoholism, what do some
> of you substitute for alcohol?  And don't say, Well, Mike, just about
> anything.  (Anyone who's been to AA knows the obvious answer is caffeine
> and nicotine.)  But when you've lived with 40% for 13 years, substitutes
> can be a mystery.  My first guess is my favorite substitute for sugary
> sodas:  seltzer water.  The carbonic acid that results from the combining
> of H2O and CO2 has a nice flavor, I think, and is greatly superior to club
> soda, and certainly superior to tonic water with its quinine-ishness.
>