The other day at work, we did a story on bottled waters, and this woman came in with a whole bunch of various bottled water. Amongst them was a big bottle of perrier. Feeling like something carbonated, I poured myself a class, and took a swig. From the second the liquid touched my lips till I had completely swallowed it, my head spun, my stomach turned, and my vision went all funny. As soon as I swallowed it, I was fine. Thinking it was a fluke, I took another sip. Same results. Thinking it was kinda funny, I took another. That finished the cup, and I had no desire to drink any more. So, I’m curious, is this a perfectly normal reaction to drinking perrier? Has anyone else out there had this same reaction or drink perrier on a regular basis? What could cause this?
Maybe you got a batch that was contaminated with benzene.
Nothing to add but that was a pretty funny thread title. 
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I think I’ll move this on over to IMHO. And no, I never had that problem with Perrier.
I like Perrier.
Perrier taste like used bath water to me.
I LOVE Perrier with a twist of orange. Of course, nothing screams “Grateful Recovering Alcoholic” quite like drinking Perrier at a bar. And, no, it doesn’t do that to me.
Robin
How often do you drink used bath water?
I just got back from a trip to France and spent some time at a friend’s house in the tiny town of Vergeze, home of Perrier. Or la Source as it’s refered to there. Pretty nice when your tap water is essentially uncarbonated Perrier.
Ugh. That stuff is foul. How is it possible to turn water into something that tastes like that??
When I first tried Perrier, I did the same thing I do when I take Buckleys cough syrup… Take a bit, then – Aaarrgh! Check the bottle!! It must be a cleaning solvent! Turns out, it’s exactly what you thought it was. Water. Only worse.
I’ve got your back on that one, El Elvis Rojo…
Perrier just opened a huge bottling plant here in MI over the objections of a whole lot of people. Keep in mind you may not be drinking French water when you pay for it.
Bizarre reaction, El.
Although I like sparlking water, I prefer the Italian goodness that is San Pellegrino, chilled.
I neither know nor want to know what sparlking water is.
sigh…
I meant, of course, sparkling.
Our French teacher had a bottle of Perrier that is probably 15 years old. One of the kids on my class drank the bottle. No bad things happened to him. (Not as if we would be able to tell.)
Used to drink it with a dollop of flavored extract (lemon or orange usually, although creme de menthe was good) once in a while. It was the National Lampoon ad for Terrier that ruined it for me. Never again.