Aw, Crap! They Switched Products on Me!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Hubby and I get five-gallon jugs of water delivered for our home water cooler. We’ve been with the same company for about five years now, and we’ve always been really pleased with it. The water was distilled and fresh-tasting, delievered promptly to our door. No nasty chemicals for me, by gum!

While I was filling up my iced tea maker, I would sometimes read the lable (being a person who has to read every chance she gets) and feel good about a product that was guaranteed to be free of chemicals and bacteria. Bacteria is why we started getting bottled water in the first place. (I read our local EPA report, and after that, I didn’t even let the dogs drink tap water.)

Well, I made a pitcher of tea the other day, and noted that it didn’t taste as good. It tasted . . .old. That’s the best way I can describe it. It tasted old.

I had some more water delivered today, and made another pitcher. Same thing-- that weird taste. It wasn’t so bad that I didn’t want to drink it. It was just different. “Less good” as my neice would say.

I was filling up a glass of water when I noticed something. My jug had a paper lable on it. They’ve never had lables before. I twisted the jug around on the cooler and discovered why my water tastes funny. It ain’t the same product.

This is “Premium Drinking Water” that’s purified by a carbon filter. It’s bottled in Indiana, which, no insult to the folks of that fine state, doesn’t exactly make me think of crystal-clean mountain springs.

I called the delivery company, and they confirmed that, yes, they had changed to the new brand. Now I have to look for a new company to deliver my water. Crap.

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Blech. I feel your pain.

I’ve been perceived as a water snob because I will not drink some brands of bottled water. Aquafina and Dasani: yuck. Evian, Dannon, and Nicolet: OK. I haven’t investigated, but I suspect the difference is between spring water (good) and “filtered” water (bad).

Now some water expert will come along and tell me I’m full of shit. I still won’t drink Aquafina. It tastes like ass.

Fortunately our home well water is yummy, and I just refill water bottles for drinking at home.

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Doesn’t matter.
unless you like depends-flavored water
It all comes out of the bathtub of an elderly couple in Detroit.
out of a garden hose, no less
Bwhahahahahahaha!
TREMBLE BEFORE ME, WATER SNOBS!!!
Filtered water, indeed!!!
mmm…is that a hair in my Evian? Wonder where that came from…

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When I pictured their “processing plant” I imagined a pole-barn stucture beside a Tractor Supply store and across the street from a cornfield. Inside, half a dozen employees fill Brita water pitchers from a tap and wait for the finished product so that they can bottle it and go home to watch “King of the Hill.”