Something that I always remember fondly from the first-generation Pokémon main series games is giving the guards of Saffron City some drinks in order to be then granted access to the city at will, which only could happen once a Trainer was able to get to Celadon City and buy the drinks from the Department Store (and is thus a plot device). It also represents one of the innate desires of people, both real and imagined, which is to be able to drink liquids in order to refresh oneself. The embodied desire is also intricate in terms of its connections.
The three drinks that could be used to refresh the guards are the Fresh Water, Soda Pop, and Lemonade, though it most likely will be the first of these. Beyond their ability to refresh people, they're also "refresher" (that is, healing) items for any possessed Pokémon, healing a certain amount of their HP. It's apparent that Pokémon also need to refresh themselves, and the drinks are appropriate for that. Even so, their functions overlap with those of the usual healing items, though it's clear that those are rather medicinal while the drinks are just restorative.
What may be construed from the inclusion of the drinks in the games is that Pokémon species need them for their well-being just as much as humans desire about having something to keep them soundly fresh. The drink types above are very much able to function as such, even if what humans (and Pokémon species) really need is the most basic out of the three, Fresh Water. The other two options of Soda Pop and Lemonade are still interesting choices for refreshment some way and somehow for humans and creatures alike.
It cannot be denied that refreshment is an important matter for both, especially now with uncertain health challenges - though mostly for people rather than Pokémon. That may just be something poignant in the memory of any person regardless of what the person is doing then, now, and later. But the representation in the old games, at least for me personally, still holds fondness, which translates into keeping in mind the desire to keep myself refreshed.
And now, I think I have to do just that with a drink that I can access right here and now.
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