[Sandwich]

Ok, so bottled water is common. Brings to mind words like "pure", "fresh", "crystal", etc. But, c'mon - for real! Bottled water?!? It's..... WATER!

And the big companies know it, too. After all, did you ever realize what Evian, a major "producer of mineral water from the French Alps" - really means?

Spell it backwards.

[DragonClaw]

Well, water from different locations contain different mineral compositions. Some people can taste the difference.

I myself have gone to Brazil on a missions trip and I got sick from the water that was available. Luckily they had bottled water though.

But for all intents and purposes, buying bottled water is entirely stupid unless you're going to another continent. Especially if you have your own water filter.

[Styxx]

You came here... and you drank water from a tap?

* points and laughs *



Sometimes bottled water is a necessity. Some filters work, but most don't do much.

[Turnsky]

actually, i used to buy bottled water when i walked home, 'cause it's cold, wet.. and suited my purposes perfectly.

[an0n]

I, for one, can taste a difference between tap water and Evian.

Not 50p worth of difference, but a difference nonetheless.

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by Turnsky
actually, i used to buy bottled water when i walked home, 'cause it's cold, wet.. and suited my purposes perfectly.

Yeah. Sometimes you just feel like water - it's always colder than the stuff that comes out of the tap, and at least you know it's healthy. I'm not sure If I can actually taste the difference between brands, but I can definitely taste it between bottled and tap.

[kode]

Originally posted by Black Wolf


Yeah. Sometimes you just feel like water - it's always colder than the stuff that comes out of the tap, and at least you know it's healthy. I'm not sure If I can actually taste the difference between brands, but I can definitely taste it between bottled and tap.

In sweden you usually can't. unless it's mineral water.

[kasperl]

Yeah, I can taste a tap-bottled difference. As an0n said, generally not worth 70 cents, but since you can't really trust teh school taps, and the fact that it isn't luke-warm, makes you buy the stuff anyway.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]I'd have to agree with an0n, tap water here tastes like there's 'crap' in it. naivE tastes relatively fresh by comparison and from what I've read it is actually spring water.

Still nothing beats Ballygowan water, it's proper H2O.
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[Rictor]

This one time in band camp....ok, it wasn't band camp, but it was camp. Anyway, it was in Hungary, and they told us not to drink the tap water, cause it was brown, which is not a natural colour for water to be. They had a big cooler with bottled water.

But normally, I'm of the opinion that tap water is just fine. I drink it all the time. The fact that these companies are able to convinve a large number of people to shell out $1.50 for WATER, is a testament to the power of marketing. I'm sure there is some yuppie code, as to which water is richer in Vitamin Z, so if you're cought with the wrong water bottle, you'll be ostraziced by your elitist friends.

I can't convince my family that buying bottled water is essentially throwing money away. We already have a Brita filter, which I would imagine fills the "pure, cold water" department. I can taste a difference, but its just not something I'm willing to spend money on.

[Bobboau]

I can taset a diference bottoled water usualy tastes horid,
it's all bull****
(second half of that)

[Turnsky]

actually, our tapwater here is pretty clean.. you can tell the difference.. (i.e the slight metallic taste from the pipes)

but the bottled water i buy is just an el-cheapo brand that costs me about a third of evian or some ****e like that.

i mean.. it's... water, the fact that it comes in a bottle is the only real difference..

remember that fubar over coca-cola's bottled "spring" water?

[Taristin]

Water... ordinary water...




...ordinary water, lased with LSD...

[StratComm]

Bottled water can be justified if you live in a city, where they put all sorts of chemicals into the stuff to make it "safe to drink".  Truth be told, the only reason it's justified then is that the stuff in "tap", i.e. city, water tastes horrid by comparison.  I personally get my water out of a well, and it's plenty cold and pure to suit my tastes.  It's the best stuff I've had bar none, and that includes the yuppy bottled water too.

[phreak]

my tap water tastes better than bottled water

[diamondgeezer]

I've lived in three differnt buildings in two different cities, and each had a distinctive taste to the water. Mineral water is distinctive as well, perhaps for the abscence of the chlorine they favour round these parts. Couldn't tell two brands apart, though.

Why did you start this thread Sarnie? Is bottled mineral water a new phenomenon over there?

[aldo_14]

If you chill tapwater, and bottled mineral water, then there's no real difference in 'taste'.  Because i did this to me dad (refilled a mineral water bottle with tap water without telling him), and he never noticed.  And he was working for a mineral water company at the time.

[Tiara]

I want to see you guys try and drink tap water in let's say... Spain, Marocco or any other hot country for a week and still say bottled water is useless.

You'll probably be too busy getting an enema.

[diamondgeezer]

Sound like fun

[Liberator]

My parents shelled out for one of these monstrosities.  I have to say, after drinking water from this thing and then having to go back to unfiltered city water... I couldn't do it.  It just tasted awful.  The only trick is you have to buy salt to go into the filtration for it to clean itself.