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Ricci.Wright
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I bought myself a case of Evian water. I drink a lot of water mostly cheap bottled stuff and keep a gallon of it here beside my office chair. Evian is much better even though to say bottled water has a "taste" maybe pushing it. I first drank it in Atlantic City in 1986 when Franky Valli of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons sent a large metal tub filled with bottles of Evian and ice water backstage and have liked it ever since. Not cheap for water but much less costly than bourbon.
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Like you I drink a lot of bottled water but usually settle for the stuff I buy for less than 5 bucks for a case of 40 at SAMS. Occasionally I splurge for the good stuff and I can tell the difference but not enough to often warrant the extra expense.
One question though - How can water that comes in a plastic bottle be carbon neutral? I just hate deceptive advertising. Bob
No really sure what "carbon neutral" means and never cared enough to look it up.
I remember way back when it started showing up
My thoughts Who the heck would buy bottled water
Skip ahead many years I found I am one of the goof balls buyiny bottled water
They have to be making a fortune no flavoring ,sugar or secret ingredients Just filtered water
We use it Mostly for back up or going on trips but still here i am buying bottled water
A lot of it is just city water filtered again and bottled
I can tell the difference also in the brands but the cheap stuff what we buy 99 % of the time
naive is evian spelled backwards
I read once that there is more profit to be made in selling bottled water than any other product. People have told me the water from or well taste good, I might be sitting on a gold mine.
We like Ozarka bottled water out of Texas - Walmart carries it. Use it for drinking and coffee. Our well water is fine for everything else - bathing, brushing teeth, ice, etc.
I knew two people who were in on bottled water plant start-ups. One in Bland County, Virginia and the other in Monroe County, WV. Both worked at the industrial plant where I worked.
While they did well with the venture, they were by no means rich. Bottling and packaging costs, transportation, etc. was expensive. In the large chain stores they have to pay for shelf space.
Where they made out was when they sold their interests in the businesses.
I prefer my well water, thank you very much.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
I drink and use our well water for everything water is meant for. I do filter what I drink in a Purr pitcher that I keep in the refrigerator.
Our 'City' water comes from one of six wells. The water is so clean and pure it is not treated whatsoever.
I am on a county wide water system . The water comes from deep wells drilled in the castle hayne aquifer. Good stuff
I knew a man that had a company that sold the 5 gallon jugs of pure water to businesses and a few residentials.He had a good thing going and did well for himself. We were going fishing and I stopped by his home to pick him up.He was filling the water jugs from the garden hose in his back yard.
I'll just stick to our well water. I know where it comes from, and everyone who has tried it like it. Our daughter keeps two 5-gallon glass jugs of it at her home in the city to drink and cook with. I can't stand to drink the treated water in town.
I have found that even good tasting water that has been stored away in plastic containers for a long time develops a funky taste. I know I'm fussy but hey! Fresh cold H2O isn't hard to come by living on a peninsula surrounded by the biggest fresh water lakes in the world!
I too mostly drink bottled water........well, pretty much only bottled. I haven't had a glass out o the tap in decades.
But I read an article awhile back that said most bottled water was bottled straight out of city treatment plants.
Somewhere, in New Jersey, a guy is sitting on his toilet reaching over, filling water bottles from the sink.
That's funny ^^^ True too
when this bottled water fad first came out, we got a water machine installed in the back room of the store. it was just a plexiglass square about 4x4 and had some type of filter and some elecric ozone purifier. we would have to go inside and fill gallone jugs about 40-50 one at a time, cap them then go fill the shelf. it was hooked up to the incoming city water. only thing when you turned it on the whole back room smelled like just after a summer rain storm. This was Krogers in the mid 80's and we sold this as drinking water, though it did make me wonder where the spring water came from. people came in and bought it by the gallons and bragged about how good it was and they would never drink the city water again, the few folks I told never did believe me when I told them it was just electrocuted city water.........
I did a taste test a while back and Voss won out, followed by Fiji. I think I posted about it here.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Give me diet water over organic ice cubes
Speaking of Diet Water, I tried some of that Ranch Water Hard Seltzer- Yuck.
Ranch Water Hard Seltzer...
Sounds like stud horse piddle with the foam farted off.