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Title: What was Kali water?
Post by: grannyspice on April 16, 2010, 11:18:01 PM
I remember selling it when I worked in the confectioners. Mostly on a Sunday morning with the Lemon Sedlitz powders etc so I assume it helped a hangover but what was it made from and what did it taste like? Any one know?
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: four-stroke on April 16, 2010, 11:44:25 PM
Kali water was somewhere between distilled water and Tonic water. Whatever else it was used for, it was given to me as a child for stomach ailments and in those days before supermarkets it could only be bought in chemist shops.
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: homebird on April 17, 2010, 12:00:32 AM
My father still swears by it, just reminds me of sparkling water. Dad claims it cures all stomach ills!
 
HB ;) 
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: EllCee on April 17, 2010, 12:09:09 AM
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071120090804AAhk0rM (http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071120090804AAhk0rM)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/116578728.cms (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/116578728.cms)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/homeopathy_advice/Remedies/MATERA_MEDICA/kali-c.html (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/homeopathy_advice/Remedies/MATERA_MEDICA/kali-c.html)

Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: ravengirl on April 17, 2010, 12:41:46 AM
I remember selling it when I worked in the confectioners. Mostly on a Sunday morning with the Lemon Sedlitz powders etc so I assume it helped a hangover but what was it made from and what did it taste like? Any one know?

I quite like Kali water! My Gran gave it to me mixed with milk when I was vomiting as a child! I still would use it for the same purpose. It's full of potassium which is good for the heart!!! Maybe that's why I have angina!!!!  :( :( :air_kiss:
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: maggiemay on April 17, 2010, 08:02:05 AM
My Father always had Kali water in the house.He suffered from stomach ulcers
May
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: syriana on April 17, 2010, 10:46:14 AM
My mum has been drinking it for over 60 years.  You can still buy it.  I haven't a clue what's in it, I suppose it will tell you on the bottle label.
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: grannyspice on April 17, 2010, 05:29:41 PM
Thanks folks for all the info but anyone know where I can buy it? Ravengirl I suffer from low potassium but never realised that Kali water would be beneficial so will give it a go. Hope you are feeling better  :smile:
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: garrybeg on April 17, 2010, 06:19:05 PM
Very like tonic water/soda water.  My granny said it was good for upset stomachs :scratch_ones_head:
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: syriana on April 17, 2010, 08:34:52 PM
My mum buys hers in the wee Spar supermarket in Groomsport.  So it should be available at most Spars.  I get it for her sometimes - Cantrell & Cochrane - a big bottle is about £1.
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: mgwalsh55 on April 17, 2010, 10:46:43 PM
 ;) My lemonade man sells it. my we granny used to drink it she said it was good
a sore tummy, and nicer than a bottle of porter her words not mine.
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: rusty on April 17, 2010, 11:19:09 PM
the maine lemonade man sells it my mother in law gets it every week. Any time any of the family have a jippy tummy we send up for a bottle and it never fails. Tastes like soda water.
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: belle on April 18, 2010, 09:07:18 AM
my ma used to give it to us for bad stomachs. i think it's a mixture of soda water and tonic water.
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: olelad on April 18, 2010, 11:24:08 AM
havent heard of it in years
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: time4akip on April 18, 2010, 12:32:40 PM
flippen heck. .haven't heard the word or thought of it in eons. There was always a bottle knocking about in the scullery , never a full one ,always with a couple of inches of water in it. As kids we knew to leave it alone as it tasted flat and off. It was obviously a grown ups tiffle.
The recipe was probably brought back from overseas by the empire troops ,there is a region and river called Kali in India and the potassium based water is good for the old delhi belly.
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: Pennywhistle on April 18, 2010, 01:22:49 PM
 ;) What about it's mate,Sarsaparilla? Still can't pronounce it and haven't seen in in a shop since the sixties.
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: time4akip on April 18, 2010, 01:25:18 PM
remember Black Cat Cola from the 60s   ;)
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: Pennywhistle on April 18, 2010, 01:52:39 PM
 ;) Aye indeed! But do you remember that other stuff.It too was a medicinal sort of brew,must 2Google" it! ;)
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: syriana on April 18, 2010, 02:03:16 PM
I liked Cream Soda with icecream in it.  I'm also decrepit enough to remember the fizzy drinks coming in stoppered bottles. 'Rinse and Return' and money back.  We called all fizzy drinks 'Lemonade' even when they weren't lemonade.
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: time4akip on April 18, 2010, 02:13:47 PM
cream soda and ice cream gosh you's were rich  .remember the cans of Top Deck Shandy , and trying asprin and cola mix 'cause someone said it got you drunk ??? didn't
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: Kathleen2 on April 18, 2010, 02:21:48 PM
cream soda and ice cream gosh you's were rich  .remember the cans of Top Deck Shandy , and trying asprin and cola mix 'cause someone said it got you drunk :scratch_ones_head: didn't

 :D
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: garrybeg on April 18, 2010, 02:41:44 PM
;) What about it's mate,Sarsaparilla? Still can't pronounce it and haven't seen in in a shop since the sixties.
Hated Sarsaparilla ::) ::)  but my hubby loved it.   I liked cream soda and attaboy :smile:
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: Pennywhistle on April 18, 2010, 05:23:10 PM
cream soda and ice cream gosh you's were rich  .remember the cans of Top Deck Shandy , and trying asprin and cola mix 'cause someone said it got you drunk :scratch_ones_head: didn't

Fella offered us a wee exotic bit of brown stuff,(thirty bob), 4 of  us chipped in and I pulled the centre pages out of my wee sisters jotter.Sprinkled the tobacco in from some opened up fegs and added the brown stuff.We all near choked and all bar none,missed the big "High". One of the wee team "tasted" the brown stuff and announced that were were tying to toke on an "OXO" cube! 
 
Served us right!
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: syriana on April 18, 2010, 05:29:09 PM

Fella offered us a wee exotic bit of brown stuff,(thirty bob), 4 of  us chipped in and I pulled the centre pages out of my wee sisters jotter.Sprinkled the tobacco in from some opened up fegs and added the brown stuff.We all near choked and all bar none,missed the big "High". One of the wee team "tasted" the brown stuff and announced that were were tying to toke on an "OXO" cube! 
 
Served us right!

 :D You were stocktaking.
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: Pennywhistle on April 18, 2010, 05:36:00 PM

 :D You were stocktaking.

 
 :clapping: I truly wish I had the wit to reply with a "one-liner" like that!  
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: belle on April 18, 2010, 05:47:24 PM

 :D You were stocktaking.
now thats funny! :D
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: robertnoel on April 18, 2010, 05:53:43 PM
 :smile:
I remember selling it when I worked in the confectioners. Mostly on a Sunday morning with the Lemon Sedlitz powders etc so I assume it helped a hangover but what was it made from and what did it taste like? Any one know?
We used to use it to refill car batteries!
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: belle on April 18, 2010, 05:54:59 PM
did anyone ever hear of kalen and morphin? my daddy used to  take that for a bad stomach.
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: Bread Basket on April 19, 2010, 12:43:01 AM
did anyone ever hear of kalen and morphin? my daddy used to  take that for a bad stomach.
Yes Belle, Kaline & Morphine was taken to settle an upset stomach or the "backdoor trots" .apparently it can no longer be bought over the counter as it was being taken as a substitute by drug addicts....
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: Bruce Wayne on April 22, 2010, 11:54:36 PM
I remember my granny getting Kali water from the Great Northern lemonade man. I think it tasted rather like soda water but a bit more medicinal!  I can also remember sarsparilla and appleade.   .those were the days!
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: Giannineo on April 22, 2010, 11:58:57 PM
kali water could be bought in corner shops as well as chemists before supermarkets appeared ::)
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: jmac on April 23, 2010, 12:05:47 AM
I get 2 bottles of Kali water from the Maine lemonade man every Tuesday (CARBONATED WATER & BICARBONITE SODA) according to the label, tastes great with a drop of whiskey :smile:
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: grannyspice on April 24, 2010, 08:16:45 PM
I get 2 bottles of Kali water from the Maine lemonade man every Tuesday (CARBONATED WATER & BICARBONITE SODA) according to the label, tastes great with a drop of whiskey :smile:
Would it be the same as Soda water then do you think?  Thats what I put in my whiskey JMAC
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: jmac on April 24, 2010, 08:27:29 PM
Would it be the same as Soda water then do you think?  Thats what I put in my whiskey JMAC
I think it's just an old name for soda water, I can't taste any difference :smile:
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: garrybeg on April 24, 2010, 08:29:28 PM
jmac I think you might be right ;)
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: BigAgiesMan on April 24, 2010, 08:49:06 PM
Are you sure it's not Potassium bicarbonate. Kalium is the latin name for Potassium.  Potassium and Sodium are  elements with very similar properties and are members of the alkali metals family in the Periodic Table.
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: grannyspice on April 24, 2010, 09:03:07 PM
Are you sure it's not Potassium bicarbonate. Kalium is the latin name for Potassium.  Potassium and Sodium are  elements with very similar properties and are members of the alkali metals family in the Periodic Table.
Sounds very technical. Hopefully its good for the body never mind the whiskey  :smile: :smile:
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: jmac on April 24, 2010, 09:42:40 PM
Are you sure it's not Potassium bicarbonate. Kalium is the latin name for Potassium.  Potassium and Sodium are  elements with very similar properties and are members of the alkali metals family in the Periodic Table.
your spot on BAM, I must have had too much whiskey with my kali water the night I read the ingredients, it is potassium bicarbonate & canbonated water :drinks:  jmac  :smile: 
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: nicf on January 06, 2019, 02:50:40 PM
Anyone tried making this with a Sodastream?

You would need to know how much Potassium Carbonate to add.
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: gismo on January 22, 2019, 12:09:34 AM
I worked in the new city mineral water factory kaili water is soda water some people liked kaiie water so when we filled the syphens we would put soda water on so many and kalie water it was all the same thing gismo
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: river rats on January 27, 2019, 07:09:09 AM
Granny kept a bottle in the sculllery under the  jaw box next to the big jar and the vim.
Title: Re: What was Kali water?
Post by: Bigali on January 27, 2019, 09:36:07 AM
did anyone ever hear of kalen and morphin? my daddy used to  take that for a bad stomach.

Used to get that occasionally as a child if you had a bad dose of the skitters ! I think it's banned now because of the morphine , apparently addicts used to buy it just to try and get high.

Kali water was administered for an upset stomach, to me it was an unpleasant tasteless fizz , we got ours , if required, from the "Maine mineral man" along with the weekly bottle of brown lemonade for my Dad and fizzy limeade or American cream soda or on special occasions a bottle of Portello for us kids  :)