Dasani sucks!

[torpid]

Weird... I really like the taste of evian but can't stand dasani. I guess salt is not affecting the flavor one way or another.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: moshquerade
Get one of these, fill with tap water, and save some $$ on buying commercially bottled water which is likely tap water also.

Theres a few ad campaigns flying around that most bottle water is no good because like 80% of it doesnt come from glaciers or some shit.

Which is absolutely true, it is tap water originally, but then its distilled 2-8 times (depending on the company) and pure to the level that impurieties are measured parts per million, then salts and minerals are added artificially for taste.

Would you say there's ANY proven benefit to drinking bottled water rather than tap water?

Incidentally, the quality of your tap water is more than like FAR more tightly controlled than that in bottled water

EDIT: Not that I care if you want to buy bottled water, but it's somewhat like buying Monster cables

Like i said, i live in an old house that has galvanized steel pipes. The water tastes terrible.

I just wanted to quell the "bottled water is just tap anyway" thing.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: moshquerade
Get one of these, fill with tap water, and save some $$ on buying commercially bottled water which is likely tap water also.

Theres a few ad campaigns flying around that most bottle water is no good because like 80% of it doesnt come from glaciers or some shit.

Which is absolutely true, it is tap water originally, but then its distilled 2-8 times (depending on the company) and pure to the level that impurieties are measured parts per million, then salts and minerals are added artificially for taste.

No, that's what most bottling companies claim. Bottled water is regulated by the FDA, not the EPA. The EPA holds potable drinking water in the US to an extremely high standard. The FDA is already overstretched and does little to no verification of what is actually in bottled water.

As long as your pipes are okay (is true of 99%), your tap water is just as healthy as your bottled water, costs less, and produces less taste. I'm pretty sure that I could swap around bottled water from different companies and tap water and nobody would be able to tell the difference on a consistent basis.

Bottled water is a 30 billion dollar per year drain on the US consumer.

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
Bottled water is a 30 billion dollar per year drain on the US consumer.

true. but i wouldnt call it a "drain" if people are not forced to buy it... a "scam" is more appropriate

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
As long as your pipes are okay (is true of 99%),

untrue. houses are on avg 30 years old? lets see you pull out 30 year old pipes and see what it looks like

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman

Originally posted by: Sureshot324
Bottled water is so cheap these days that you don't save much by using tap water. I buy 24 packs for about $6, which comes out to about 25 cents per bottle. My tap water usually tastes fine but occasionally it has a metallic taste to it, so I just stick with bottled water.

Cheap compared to other bottled water maybe. But that $6 in bottled water is about $ .06 in tap water.

yup
never mind the carbon outputs of trucking around.. WATER!
most absurd use of resources ever.
just buy a filter people...

 

[uclaLabrat]

Distilling water gets rid of the oxygen dissolved in it, which is supposedly what gives it its bad taste (I read this somewhere about camping). Sloshing the water dissolves more oxygen in it and brings back the taste. I don't think the salt adds much, cause my friend brought some nanopure water home from his lab that was essentially absolutely pure, and it tasted awesome.

 

[KMFJD]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman

Originally posted by: Sureshot324
Bottled water is so cheap these days that you don't save much by using tap water. I buy 24 packs for about $6, which comes out to about 25 cents per bottle. My tap water usually tastes fine but occasionally it has a metallic taste to it, so I just stick with bottled water.

Cheap compared to other bottled water maybe. But that $6 in bottled water is about $ .06 in tap water.

yup
never mind the carbon outputs of trucking around.. WATER!
most absurd use of resources ever.
just buy a filter people...

Yep drinking Fiji water is like driving a Motorhome for your daily commute while towing your Hummer behind you....

 

[MyThirdEye]

I drink ~180 fluid ounces of Dasani a day. I don't taste the salt :$

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: LS20

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
Bottled water is a 30 billion dollar per year drain on the US consumer.

true. but i wouldnt call it a "drain" if people are not forced to buy it... a "scam" is more appropriate

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
As long as your pipes are okay (is true of 99%),

untrue. houses are on avg 30 years old? lets see you pull out 30 year old pipes and see what it looks like

Okay, I definitely made that up. Like others have said, if you have pipe concerns, a filter at the tap will take care of that and be much, much cheaper than bottled water.

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber

Okay, I definitely made that up. Like others have said, if you have pipe concerns, a filter at the tap will take care of that and be much, much cheaper than bottled water.

agreed.

(tho im guilty of buying the LOCAL store-brand water bottles...theyre cheap cheap, bottled locally (from tap, they say that on the label). i like the convenience of carrying around small bottles and tossing them away)

 

[intogamer]

Originally posted by: uclaLabrat
Distilling water gets rid of the oxygen dissolved in it, which is supposedly what gives it its bad taste (I read this somewhere about camping). Sloshing the water dissolves more oxygen in it and brings back the taste. I don't think the salt adds much, cause my friend brought some nanopure water home from his lab that was essentially absolutely pure, and it tasted awesome.

Can't imagine water tasting that good. Can you send some

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: Howard
Distilled water does taste like crap.

Different strokes, different taste buds. Distilled water tastes best to me and Dasani tastes close to it.