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[Guy King]

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Dasani

Ah, yes. Wonder who thought they were going to get away with flogging
filtered tap-water for long. Stories like that rarely stay secret for
long.

 

[James Sweet]

At least gas/petrol is still less expensive than bottled water. Bottled
water is at least $8 per gallon if you buy it in 16 oz bottles. When
you think about it, it is amazing how cheap gas/petrol is. It must be
found, wells drilled, crude oil pumped, transported thousands of miles,
refined, and delivered to the pumps. For the bottled water they can
just put a filter on a city water spigot.

Oh yes, that's certainly true. I rarely bitch about the "high" price of gas,
I don't like to pay more than I have to for anything and neither does anyone
else, but it costs what it costs and it'll continue to go up.

 

[James Sweet]

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Ah, yes. Wonder who thought they were going to get away with flogging
filtered tap-water for long. Stories like that rarely stay secret for
long.

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Indeed, there was a whole episode of Penn & Teller Bullshit on that topic,
quite funny actually. They had a taste test of a whole variety of absurd
(and expensive) bottled water, all filled from a garden hose in New York,
every one of them people claimed had a unique flavor and were better than
tap water, hilarious.

 

[jOn]

Indeed, there was a whole episode of Penn & Teller Bullshit on that topic,
quite funny actually. They had a taste test of a whole variety of absurd
(and expensive) bottled water, all filled from a garden hose in New York,
every one of them people claimed had a unique flavor and were better than
tap water, hilarious.

Was that the first series or the second?

 

[Martin]

What was that CocaCola bottled water that crashed so spectacularly in the
UK?

Peckham Spring?

 

[Nik&Andy]

UK?

Peckham Spring?

LOL - That was a classic episode

Andy

 

[Stephen Henning]

UK?

Don't think that Dasani is the only one. Look at the labels of the
others. Nothing is hidden. It is right there on the label. Tests have
shown that in general New York City water is better than most all
bottled waters in actual taste tests and in analysis, so spring water is
not what it is cracked up to be. I will admit, that people in the UK my
be better off in some areas with spring water.

 

[Clive George]

I will admit, that people in the UK my
be better off in some areas with spring water.

We've got good old well water

Every couple of years it gets tested and we get told there are too many
nasties in it (faecal cauliforms - to do with the sheep nearby I suspect),
but we don't care - it tastes lovely, and nobody seems to be suffering.

cheers,
clive

 

[Guy King]

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I will admit, that people in the UK my
be better off in some areas with spring water.

Depends on the springs. Where I grew up the water came straight out of
the Noth Downs chalk. Till I was about five there wasn't any treatment,
either - it just went straight into the pipes. Smashing stuff, but
furred the kettle up in a few days. So hard babies cut their teeth on
it.

 

[James Sweet]

Was that the first series or the second?

First. I have an MPG of it, if you have an FTP site I'd be happy to upload
it for you but it's combined with another episode and pushing on 200mb.

 

[James Sweet]

We've got good old well water

Every couple of years it gets tested and we get told there are too many
nasties in it (faecal cauliforms - to do with the sheep nearby I suspect),
but we don't care - it tastes lovely, and nobody seems to be suffering.

You probably build up a resistance to whatever nasty stuff is in it, not
sure I'd want to drink it though.

 

[Bev A. Kupf]

You probably build up a resistance to whatever nasty stuff is in it, not
sure I'd want to drink it though.

There are lots of faecal coliforms in just about everything we eat
(vegetables, and especially meat). The goal of the meat processing
industry is to get them below an acceptable level.

Some of these coliforms are actually needed to repopulate the gut, so
that food is properly digested and absorbed.

Beverly

 

[Stuart Gray]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the


What? Are you on witness protection or a old rock star?

LOL, no, It was the job I was doing at the time, mainframe stylee. Something
to do with insurance, as my employer put it.