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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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The tap water here is not so good. I ended up buying a filtered water pitcher, and water through that is drinkable but still not as good as the typical bottled water that I've had.
 
Tap water passed through a Britta filter. Just to get the chlorine taste out. Practically free. I eventually want to install an under sink filter system though, and in the crawlspace I'd roll some pex line into a mini fridge to keep it cold. Would have a bypass valve as I would not really need to do that in winter. Continuous filtered cold water FTW. Maybe a project for this summer. Putting the britta straight in the fridge makes the water taste funny depending on what's in the fridge, so I end up filtering then putting in a big bottle, which is kinda a pain compared to if I could just go up to a mini faucet and get water right away.
 
If you discount tapwater (which is understandable)...it's still absolutely retarded to have a 'preference' for bottled water.

I buy what's cheap. It's clean, potable fuckin' water. If some brand is 'better' because it has something in it...it's not water. It's a really shitty, watery, overpriced beverage for suckers.

zinfamous said:
If you lived here you would be drinking Dasani from your tap.
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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.
 
lxskllr said:
I like sparkling water, so probably Gerolsteiner. I also like bottled flat water, but I'm a little resentful of spending money on unflavored, uncarbonated soda. The water many times costs more than processed beverages.
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I tried some Perrier one day, just to see why so many people seem to like it. Ugh, it made me sick. I had to shake it to flatten it just so I could drink it.
 
preferably tap water but if I'm out for the day I need a bottle:
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best bottled water I know, it's also naturally effervescent (the water source is already fizzling) so it doesn't taste like artificially gazeified water with too many bubbles.
 
Tap, essentially.
Fridge has a charcoal filter, we buy a few bottles of cheap water once a year, drink them & refill from the fridge, sometimes straight out of the tap.
Seriously, I can't tell the difference (unless our tap water has an "off" taste, as it has been this week).

I drink around 1 gal. water a day, I would hate to be addicted to $2 a bottle water!
 
People complain about the price of gas, but are perfectly happy to pay $1 or more for 20 oz. of water, a completely free resource. And most bottled water is just filtered municipal water.

Amazing stupidity.
 
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WilliamM2 said:
People complain about the price of gas, but are perfectly happy to pay $1 or more for 20 oz. of water, a completely free resource. And most bottled water is just filtered municipal water.

Amazing stupidity.
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So you don't drink anything but tap water for a soft drink and rubbing alcohol mixed with tap water for a hard drink then? 🙄
 
HybridSquirrel said:
Menehune Water
http://www.hawaiiwater.com/
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From the FAQ section,
Drinking proper amounts of water is vital to good health. In fact, water is second in importance to our bodies only to oxygen. Among water’s most important functions are:

Joint lubrication
Body temperature regulation
Body tissue and organ protection
Tissue moistening (eyes, nose, mouth)
Waste product flushing
Mineral & nutrient dissolution making them more readily accessible
Oxygen and nutrient transmission to cells

Guess what, ordinary tap water does all the same things, bottled water is the biggest marketing campaign ever hoisted on mankind, "it's in a bottle with a fancy name, it HAS to lot's better than tap water, tap water is for lowlife's"
 
Heh, this thread brought to mind when I was doing online surveys for a beverage company. I liked doing them as I was earning $10-$15 a month pretty easy. But then they got into a series of surveys about bottled water - like showing pictures of 15 brands and asking which are premium brands and which are low-end brands. Then asking if I liked Brand A better than Brand B. After a few surveys where I had to keep repeating I see no difference in brands and that the bottle shape is irrelevant to me, I got booted out of the surveys. Apparently I was not their target customer. 🙂
 
WelshBloke said:
So you don't drink anything but tap water for a soft drink and rubbing alcohol mixed with tap water for a hard drink then? 🙄
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Where did I say that?🙄 I drink Coke (25 cents a can in 12 packs), and I don't drink alcohol, but is there somewhere those can be had for free? Like water?

Amazing stupidity.
 
WilliamM2 said:
Where did I say that?🙄 I drink Coke (25 cents a can in 12 packs), and I don't drink alcohol, but is there somewhere those can be had for free? Like water?

Amazing stupidity.
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You don't get Coke for 25¢ anywhere when you're out. You have $1 to spend, and it can be for some over-sweetened tea, sugary soda, or water. Water tastes different by brand, and compared to tap, so people can have preferences.
 
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