All my tap water goes through a Pura filter.
Tomorrow is the first day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere.
Any water I drink tomorrow will be filtered natural Spring tap water.
Bottled moon water! Now THAt I’d buy. Is it expensive?
Not really. They freeze-dry it, d’ye see . . . saves a bundle in shipping costs.
Ours sure as hell doesn’t, not even Brita or Pur filters help. But that’s mostly because the idiot who drilled the well went through an iron vein. You know the sad irony here? We buy bottled water to drink because the tap water tastes like blood but before this property was divided into three residental lots it used to be a state park, which people would travel to so they could…get spring water! :rolleyes:
I drink Dasani water and I’ve read the bottle before I purchased. I was never misled and it tastes better than my tap water. I’ve also tried Arrowhead and a few others. I find Dasani is the least nasty tasting of the bottled stuff I’ve tried. I would love NOT to buy water from the store but even with a filter on my tap, it tastes so disgusting. I won’t even use the ice cubes my mother makes from her tap water (same city)… I mean, UUUUUURRCK! She uses her tap water to mix her flavored tea mix and whatnot but I still can’t stomach her ice cubes. Dasani water at room temp isn’t pleasant (better still that the damn tap) but I need my water ice cold anyway, you know, putting it in the freezer until it’s mostly chunks of ice. I live in Hellizona, btw, and I freeze water for when I drive in the car. Lukewarm or hot water makes my stomach hurt… that’s a family thing.
Oh pish-tosh. You complain about tap water?
Try some NEWater instead. Let’s see how you like that.
Coincidentally, last weekend I went to the Museum of Science and Industry here in Chicago, where they had a tap vs. bottled exhibit. Both waters were provided cold out of small drinking fountains, and there was in fact a taste difference. I don’t think it was extreme by any means, but it was quite noticeable.
Run for the hills. those extra 3 parts per billion of bromite will surely kill off all europeans who consume the poison. Dasani is pretty good, as water goes.
Someone mentioned the terrible episode of Penn and Teller: Bullshit! where they proved there is a noticable taste difference between tap and bottled. It was a test in New York between New York City tap and a bottled variety which went unnamed. The tap won in a survey handily.
This shows that tap DOES taste different than what you get in bottles. Period. Fuck you.
Perhaps the brand they chose was bad, perhaps it was even unusually GOOD. Either way, people tasted a difference. When two things taste differently there are going to be preferences that aren’t based on the psychological value of the bottle.
Water tastes differently depending on its mineral content and the content of the chemicals in it. Anyone who thinks all water tastes the same is welcome to come drink St. Paul City water when the ice goes off the lakes (‘yum, fishy’). Actually, they changed how they get water and its a lot less fishy now. I used to live on the lake that formerly was a St. Paul City Water Department Lake. They didn’t really pump it from the lake, but from wells under the lake - the same “springs” that feed the lake system - so St. Paul Water was “spring” water - Minneapolis water came out of the Mississippi (which is a spring way back up in Itasca). My parents had an old artisean well in their backyard that the water department had installed in (IIRC) the 1920s, that brought water up. We used to drink that all the time growning up - that well ran deeper than our house well and the water tasted better (our house well also required power, when the power went out, the artsiean well kept running - it was pressure that brought that water to the surface.
In the Twin Cities, Minneapolis city water tastes very different from St. Paul city water - or at least it used to - I don’t drink a lot of tap water between cities anymore. It also used to be that both cities would have water that tasted differently at different times of year. That distinct fishy Springtime taste. The “no taste at all because its nearly frozen in the pipes” taste at winter. A muskier mineral taste in the fall and summer.
I drink Dasani because its consistant. Some “spring water” is ok, but it varys a lot by brand (i.e. what “spring” they got it out of and what the mineral content of the aquafur is). We’ve been trying to find a bottled water around our house that we enjoy the taste of that isn’t “treated tap water” but Dasani tastes best to us. And home filtering doesn’t taste as good to use either.
Yep, I, of course, agree with Dangerosa. I don’t buy bottled water. I only drink water when I’m just looking to slake some thirst. Still, I know some people who are most certainly not morons or gullible fools who buy bottled water for their taste preferences. I dislike the implication that these people are idiots because they have properly developed taste buds.
I live out in the desert, and the water they pull out of the ground here is horrible. There is salt crusting on the sidewalks from the sprinkler systems. It dissolves concrete. Even running it through a filter doesn’t remove the majority of the taste. I can only drink the stuff if it is filtered and cold.
Dasani I can drink cold or lukewarm or several days old. So yeah, you may point at me and laugh, but I’m hydrated and happy.
Here in New Orleans a couple years ago, when the now-current mayor was elected, he presented a special gift to everyone at his inauguration: bottled New Orleans tap water under the name “Crescent City Clear,” I believe, in the hopes of actually marketing it.
Riiiight. Water pulled straight from the Mississippi after it’s traveled over a thousand miles, full of heaven only knows what, with a little chlorine added to kill off the worst of the whatever-it-is. Yup. I’d pay extra for that in a heartbeat. :rolleyes:
I actually do enjoy a few spring waters that have actual mineral taste. The only one I can get down here is imported from Canada, Whistler Water. In California, I used to drink Yosemite (brand) bottled water. Yumm!
Dasani tastes like tap water to me. Which is what I usually drink, from the tap, maybe run through a Brita filter but often not even that. So why should I pay to put it in a bottle?
Of course not all water tastes the same. And I don’t doubt that some people live in areas where the local supply isn’t the most paletable.
But the idea of taking tap water, ‘purifying’ it to take the minerals out, then putting your own back in to “enhance the pure taste” is either stupidity or marketing deceit. The end product is no purer or more natural than the initial raw material and this mess just proves the point.
If you’re going to buy bottled water you may as well buy a spring water, not this nonsense. Plus, it has to be said, that for the majority of the UK the tap water is perfectly ok. So where was the market for this product to come from? This is creating a need where none exists, it has very little to do with the quality of the water and people were mugs to buy it.
Here in the DC area, our public water supply comes from the Potomac. It usually isn’t very foul after treatment. Sometimes in the winter after a big blizzard when the snow and ice melts, we get from our taps the runoff meltwater with the salt that had been put on the roads. That salt must have some nasty chemical mixed in with it, because it makes the tap water smell and taste absolutely horrible for a couple days. There have been autumns when some kind of growth in the reservoirs resulted in a musty aroma in the tap water, like a stagnant pond in the woods.
I have been using a Pur filter for a few years now, and I have gotten so used to the clean taste of filtered water, I cannot bring myself to drink unfiltered tap water any more, because I can smell in it a faint whiff of sewage.
What’s the price that Coca-Cola plans to sell Dasani water at, compared with the usual British mineral water brands?
I have noticed something strange about the “table water” that Coca-Cola sells in Germany under the Bonaqua brand: It sells at about 0.47 EUR per litre in my supermarket.
By comparison, most regional mineral water brands are in the 0.20 EUR/l to 0.42 EUR/l price range when you buy them by the case, also in my supermarket. There are some premium mineral water brands (marketed nationwide) that are more expensive than Bonaqua, but not many.
So why can Coca-Cola sell treated tap water in PET bottles at a higher price than the the variety of mineral waters in glass bottles (which I much prefer) and apparently still make a profit?
Because in many stores, they own the refridgerator units, and so can dictate what products are stocked in them. They’ve even ordered Dasani to replace bottles of Buxton water, in Buxton :rolleyes:
I don’t go out of my way to buy bottled water: I’m perfectly fine with it filtered right out of the tap, and pouring that into bottles I’ve saved at home.
I do this is because I can’t stand the taste of bottled spring water.
Just my own opinion, but water shouldn’t taste, and I find that most bottled water does.
Because of this, I’ve come to appreciate Dasani as ‘normal’ water that you can buy when desperate (otherwise it is more cost-efficient to just bring your own filtered water around with you).
It has nothing to do with the bottle - just the taste.
Okay, but the fact that they sell it for a higher price than products of theirs that contain just as much water (soda, etc) is despicable.
Hence the ‘buy when desperate’ bit.