I only want to point out, with great satisfaction, this news story .
Their target market was for idiots with more money than sense, the whole idea of ‘treated tap water’ is moronic, and Coca-Cola has really got their just rewards here.
Why is the idea of treated tap water moronic? (Why wife drinks this sort of thing all the time.)
It actually tases much better than any tap water or “regular” spring water I’ve ever tried. It won’t cause me to not buy it.
Oh, wait, I get it. Just because it’s a Coca-Cola product, right? :rolleyes:
Here’s an idea for Casey1505, and anyone else who thinks it tastes better…
- Fill a bottle, any bottle, from the tap.
- Put in a fridge for a few hours.
- Drink.
OMFG IT TASTES BETTER!!! WHAT A SURPRISE!!!
Drink Dasani at room temperature, and it tastes like tap water.
Amazing what paying for water and drinking it out of a fancy bottle can do to convince your taste buds.
No, it’s because it’s effectively the same product as Coca-Cola, without the flavouring and a higher price. They think we’re mugs and sadly they may be right.
Plus; it must be the most expensive and enviromentally obscene way of supply as basic a substance as water.
So it gives me particular pleasure to see it all go wrong for them.
Yeah, but the bottle’s prettier.
Now that’s funny.
So it’s tap water, except that the “purification” process adds carcinogens.
Sweet.
Selling tap water in bottles to gullible consumers … well, even Coca-Cola couldn’t bring themselves to do this to the public. They felt they had to add something so they weren’t just selling plain ol’ tap water.
The board was stumped. How would they justify selling tap water to the masses?
Then, a lone voice of reason from the back of the room …
“Bromate”
Jesus fucking Christ on a pogo stick with cherries on top.
Here is a newsflash:
ALL BOTTLED WATER IS TAP WATER
This is not, and has never been, a secret. If you honestly thought the clear stuff in plastic bottles is special, then you’re a fucking idiot, and you are probably pissed off for looking like a moron, rather than having any actual righteous indignation about the product.
Do you really think anybody would go into the wilderness and suck up purty little streams of water when anybody can turn on a tap and get water that’s regulated to some of the highest standards of clenliness in the known universe for fractions of pennies a gallon? Use your fucking brains, folks.
Sorry to burst your pretty bubble, friedo.
“Spring Water”, in the EU, has to come from…wait for it…A SPRING!!! ie a NATURAL SOURCE OF WATER!!!
Dasani does not call itself Spring Water. So it doesn’t need to do what every water so far has done.
There’s an episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! with your name on it.
I´ve seen water being bottled straight from the spring, then again my country´s motto is “Uruguay, natural country” 
I´ve heard that brand was being exported to the USA, so if you see “Salus” bottled water, rest assured, it´s the real thing.
Now if you´ll excuse me I´ll go and get my comission. 
Where the hell do you think tap water comes from? The moon?
Underground reserves, reservoirs - pretty much anywhere there’s a body of water. There’s no pickiness.
I assure you that no one would bottle and sell the tapwater from my town.
Yeurrrch.
But that’s what filters are for.
Julie
Obviously, you have never tasted the tap water in my city.
I buy water at the water store. I take my 5 gallon bottles down there and fill them up. Yeah, it’s tap water, but it’s been run through the filters and the reverse osmosis whatchamacallit and BANG, it has no taste.
Unlike the tap water, which tastes like a lead pipe…
Water quality has been an issue in Scranton for as long as I can remember. While it has always been potable, it hasn’t always been drinkable. You can sometimes smell the chlorine before you taste it.
Tell you what, next time your in the area, look me up, and we can sit around my kitchen table, discussing the other ways my taste buds have been screwing me, while we enjoy a pitcher of Scranton’s finest tap water. And to demonstrate further my hospitality and as a show of good will (as well as help you get the aftertaste from the water out of your mouth), I’ll light the grill, throw on a few steaks, some corn on the cob, we’ll have a few Yuenglings, and then we’ll go to a ball game.
Spooge can pick up what I’m laying down. You come up for steaks, too, pal.
And spooge, would you mind swinging by and picking up **spooje[b/]?
Thanks.
sigh Must be something in the water…
Don’t be an ass. When I visit the coastal region I find the local tap water to be repulsive. It may be “clean” but for my taste and experience it is far removed from what I consider good water.