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A thorough meditation about Sparkling Water

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The Origins of the Irish Slums

Early Irish immigrants bought glass bottles of sparkling water and to treat them almost like luxury objects in their homes. This is how archaeologists in America now tell if they dig up an area whether it was an Irish slum or not because of this fetishization of bottle of sparkling water. The theory that when they got to America and drank the sparkling water they believed it to be to be healing like the wells at home but the thing is they sparkling water that they were drinking in America That was the fake shit that was the stuff that was just made by a chemist by mixing marble dust with sulfuric acid so it didn't contain the mineral richness that what they would have been looking for at the thousand year old

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