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What's your favorite bottled water?

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What's your favorite bottled water?

  • Fiji

  • Arrowhead

  • Aquafina

  • Dasani

  • Deep River Rock

  • Fruit2O

  • Poland Spring

  • Other please specify


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John Connor

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When I was living in Riverside, CA you couldn't even drink the tap water at night, it tasted like shit!
 

Silver Prime

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Scooby Doo

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LOL... why bother having a steak... macdonalds is meat too :p

Anyways... water around here taste blahhh... even after those filtering kits.
Danasi is good, aquafina is a little too bitter.
 

Charlie98

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Because I work out of my truck all day, I carry bottled water as a convenience; I tried the water jug and the 'refill the bottle' trick and it was just gross. We get cases of Sam's water at WalMart (one of the very, very few reasons I will go into WalMart) for about $3 a case.

At home we drink tap water out of a Brita pitcher.
 

lxskllr

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Nov 30, 2004
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Because I work out of my truck all day, I carry bottled water as a convenience; I tried the water jug and the 'refill the bottle' trick and it was just gross. We get cases of Sam's water at WalMart (one of the very, very few reasons I will go into WalMart) for about $3 a case.

At home we drink tap water out of a Brita pitcher.

I fill a few small bottles, and keep them in a cooler. For something different, I add flavor extracts. I especially like peppermint, but lemon and fennel is good too. About 1/4tsp per liter.
 

Charlie98

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I fill a few small bottles, and keep them in a cooler. For something different, I add flavor extracts. I especially like peppermint, but lemon and fennel is good too. About 1/4tsp per liter.

I will run through 10 bottles in the heat of the summer, if I have my daughter with me X2... it's just too much of a pain vs .15/bottle.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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To all those who said Tap Water, I sure hope you're using some kind of filter. :colbert:

Why? Some tap water's pretty damned good, and other tap water is unfixable without a huge amount of money. My tap water's good, but I've had some that tasted like it was filtered through a carp. The other side of town tastes like it was transported through a hot garden hose. My second apt I ever had was the best water. It was taken from a ground source, and tasted great; as good if not better than most bottled water.
 

momeNt

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Jan 26, 2011
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Smartwater.

I'm actually surprised that Smartwater is not a poll choice tbh! Shame I had to choose "Other".
 

brianmanahan

Lifer
Sep 2, 2006
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To all those who said Tap Water, I sure hope you're using some kind of filter. :colbert:

lol filter? my family has straight drank tap for 50+ years and are fine. for 60 years before that they drank well water in a well that was 100 feet or so from the pasture and manure pond. and that was fine too.
 

zinfamous

No Lifer
Jul 12, 2006
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I thought it was bottled in New York?

Either way, to be fair, the municiple water is not Dasani...you need to add some salt to it.

eh...do you think I actually meant that they were opening bottled water and pumping it into the municipal supply? :D

No, the municipal supply in Raleigh is pushed through RO, and final chemical composition out of the tap is pretty much identical to what you find in a bottle of Dasani. In any real direct comparison--that is exactly what you are drinking.

remember, Dasani/Aquafina is nothing more than the municipal supply coming into the Coke/Pepsi factories pushed through RO, nothing more.

it is purchased and consumed by suckers.