I'm not talking diet, just totally unsweetened. At my local student store I was reduced to buying a plastic bottle of Perrier, which said "Now Portable!" in exciting yellow letters. At first I thought it said "Now Potable!"

Ha, I just bought fruit-flavored, unsweetened sparkling water today by mistake. I thought it was sweetened.

There's usually club soda in the cooler at convenience stores.

Sometimes they'll also sell lemons or limes.

Instant cold, carbonated, refreshing, unsweetened beverage!

I made the mistake of looking at a vending machine last summer which contained nothing but bottled water. It was hot, I was thirsty, and everything else around was soda, so the water looked good. I think it was Aquafina brand (Pepsi product), but all the bottles had different fruit flavors listed, so I thought, "Ahh. Nice cold water with a twist of lemon/lime/orange/cranberry/whatever." So I purchased one, and realized after one sip that it was not just a twist of whatever, it was sweetened to a ridiculous degree with Splenda® sweetener, which to me tastes worse than licking a rusty tailpipe. Blech! Bring on the unsweetened fruit-flavored beverages, I say!

Because if it was easy, you wouldn't have to traipse past the quick foods area, the salty snacks section, the magazine rack, the auto supplies area, and the ice cream pit/dairy case. What would be convenient about a c-store that didn't try to help you not forget what you didn't come for?

I've just discovered Adirondack Raspberry-Lime seltzer, sold in cans in the vending machines at work. VERY refreshing, and totally not sweetened. And deadcowdan, those Dasani flavored waters are NASTY... some are drinkable, like the Fruit-2-0 ones (which are only lightly sweet), but the Dasani grosses me right out.

The don't sell Topo Chico everywhere?

One reason you do not find unsweetened (or even all that much sugar-free beyond Diet Coke and Diet 7-up) is because people who buy unsweetened do not tend to buy anything else, just the drink.

Yes, Topo Chico is the shit, but at least around here, it's not available much beyond the Mexican-centric stores over on the West side.

Topo Chico sounds like something I'd like. I don't think I'll ever find it in Canada though :(

Hah! I buy the unsweetened, *plus* a bag of M&Ms or chips or something.