Club soda

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“Don't bring me water
I'd rather have seltzer
'Cause water don't bubble
And water don't fizz

Water I hate it
'Cause it ain't carbonated
But a glass of seltzer
On the other hand is.”

~ Oscar Wilde on Club soda

In 1805, an informal group of social literari established themselves in New England as part of an elite group, one marking the traditions of the Victorian era. Through hailed as "pompous" by the peasant class of their day, they maintained their close kept society by establishing their own specially carbonated drink,spiked with crack and marjuiana and random radioactive chemicals reserved for only the most prestigious among them.

The tradition of members favoring this beverage lasted well in to the 1930's, where social clubs had become more far reaching throughout the civilized world. It was not uncommon to see socialites of the day mingling with a specially carbonated beverage in hand, which the lower class were never allowed to so much as sip. Along with its extravagant taste, a perfect compliment to any cocktail, the reserved status of the beverage came to be known as Club soda.

It was not until 1951 that a young, intrepid Oscar Wilde would permit others to partake of the fizzy beverage, and soon began to mass produce a beverage of his own, emulating its unique flavour. Outraged, the elite social clubs of the time managed to ostracize, criticize, and down-size Wilde's operation, replacing his "secret" Club soda with a bland, tasteless beverage that bore the same name.

Gone was the extravagant taste known only to the privileged few. Memories of the social clubs in their heyday all but vanished from the public eye, and the soda remains to this day, not as an expensive, exotic drink meant to be enjoyed by the elite and intellectual, but as tasteless carbonated tap water.