You guys drink Fiji water?
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If it matters, New York City tapwater is the best tapwater I've ever had. It's spectacular.
Nylan
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I'm telling you, it's the bottle.
MagisterCultuum
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I'm not sure if I've tried Fiji water or not. If I have, it wasn't particularly rememberable and so not worth getting over cheaper brands.
Tap water around here (especially on campus) doesn't taste very good. The pipes are rather old, and they overcompensate by using too much chlorine. Atlanta area water isn't as bad as the water near the Georgia coast (which is taken from aquifers that are somewhat contaminated by sea water and the high sulfur water of the marshes), but it is worse than the tap water I've tasted in any other state (not that I've traveled that much).
I used to always drink distilled water, but for the past couple years I've been using Brita or Pur filter pitchers instead.
I tend to think I use more than enough salt to make up for the electrolyte loss from using distilled water (and since I pretty much only use sea salt that give me more minerals than just halite).
I prefer my water to have no taste. Distilled water actually does have a slight taste though, which seems to go away in water than has a little added Calcium.
Tap water around here (especially on campus) doesn't taste very good. The pipes are rather old, and they overcompensate by using too much chlorine. Atlanta area water isn't as bad as the water near the Georgia coast (which is taken from aquifers that are somewhat contaminated by sea water and the high sulfur water of the marshes), but it is worse than the tap water I've tasted in any other state (not that I've traveled that much).
I used to always drink distilled water, but for the past couple years I've been using Brita or Pur filter pitchers instead.
I tend to think I use more than enough salt to make up for the electrolyte loss from using distilled water (and since I pretty much only use sea salt that give me more minerals than just halite).
I prefer my water to have no taste. Distilled water actually does have a slight taste though, which seems to go away in water than has a little added Calcium.
Mad Man
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I totally drank Fiji water before it became fashionable
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Marl
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Does Angela Merkel drink Fiji water?
Thorvald of Lym
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It's all you're really paying for anyway.
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Fiji water is different from other bottled waters though. I can't easily explain it, there's something smooth about it, like it's thicker or something. Hard to explain. It's definitely better than tap water (here anyway) and definitely better than those other bottled waters which are the exact same thing as tap, only bottled.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was the bottle though! The bottles are contaminating the water.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was the bottle though! The bottles are contaminating the water.
It's corn syrup.
Lillefix
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Funny, but no.
Correct answer is:
"Ordinary water. Laced with nothing more than a few spoons full of LSD."
ParadigmShifter
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Even the bloke who invented LSD only had a spoonful, and he was tripping for days.
Irish Caesar
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I tried it once, and didn't think it was all that good. For what it's worth, I don't think Dasani is wonderful, either.
I'll second that. I've had iodine-treated water on camping trips that tasted better than campus water.
I'll second that. I've had iodine-treated water on camping trips that tasted better than campus water.
Genocidicbunny
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Tap water can vary in taste quite a bit. Around these parts, the pipes are all old (40 years and counting) and thus the water is very hard, very metallic and very chlorinated. As such, I refuse to drink it, because even after it passes through the Brita filter, its still pretty vile. I mainly drink bottled water, but never in my life would I pay as much as people do for Fiji.
At Trader Joe's here, we sell the stuff like hot cakes. The order writer who orders soda/water can't keep up. Yet, imho, the stuff I drink, costco's brand water, Kirkland signature tastes just fine.
At Trader Joe's here, we sell the stuff like hot cakes. The order writer who orders soda/water can't keep up. Yet, imho, the stuff I drink, costco's brand water, Kirkland signature tastes just fine.
Ansar
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Yeah...I'm not too sure what is this obsession with bottled water about. I heard a company in England once just filled their bottled water with tap water and marketed as such...forgot how they got caught, though.
I bet if it was something about German and souding powerful or some other positive adjective, you wouldn't be complaining.
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I bet if it was something about German and souding powerful or some other positive adjective, you wouldn't be complaining.
I would instantly recognize Leitungswasser [tap water] as something I wouldn't pay $4.75 to drink.
Formaldehyde
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I can't wait for someone to start selling canned air. From Madagascar.That's bottled water, right? so what's so great about it? It's water. In a bottle....
If you live in a area with a decent water supply you're never going to need bottled water
