In Popular Culture
The Labour politician Josiah Wedgwood is said to have staged a filibuster in Parliament, sustaining himself with barley water and chocolate, in 1913.
In the film Mary Poppins, the children want their "perfect nanny" never to smell of barley water.
In the Tortall books of Tamora Pierce, Beka Cooper asks for barley water or raspberry twilsey (fruit vinegar in water) in bars instead of alcoholic drinks.
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