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[–] noxy@yiffit.net 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

imagine even jokingly having brand preferences for ~~stolen~~ bottled water

[–] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Have you tried Fiji? It tastes like boiled rocks. You can absolutely have preferences

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Weird. Fiji is one of the few that tastes like absolutely nothing to me which is what I want my water to taste like. Nothing. Don't like it's price though. It's fucking water. I ain't paying that much for water.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

...twenty-five years ago fiji tasted heavenly, then something changed around 2003 and it's never been the same...

[–] noxy@yiffit.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I've been handed a bottle at some point when being sold something. If it tasted like anything it wasn't enough to have been memorable.

It's fucking water.

[–] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well some people are more sensitive to certain tastes. People who don't like peanuts can taste it when they eat m&Ms. I personally am very opinionated on water. It happens

[–] luves2spooge@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Dasani was withdrawn from the UK after just a few weeks. I tried it and it was truly disgusting.

https://www.mashed.com/193457/the-real-reason-you-cant-buy-dasani-water-in-the-uk/

[–] joenforcer@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

Mmmmm... silica.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago

I don't have any strong preferences for bottled water when I have to purchase it except Desani somehow tastes absolutely disgusting

[–] nul9o9@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I found out that the taste of Dasani changes depending on where you are.

In California/Nevada it tastes like I'm sniffing an open sewer. Up north, it's perfectly inoffensive.

[–] Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s fancy tap water. Amazing that Coke makes so much money off it

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Coke is secretly tap water + carbonated syrup.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Noooo! The secret recipe!

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Coca-Cola is an evil company. But it’s still fucking crazy to me that the company became so successful that it’s product at one point was the most recognizable/understood word in the world behind OK is just selling bubbly sugar water at an absurd markup.

I also have complicated feelings about their old antique merch because I know it’s effectively propaganda, but I think it looks really cool and my grandmother had a lot of it around her house

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m from Atlanta, trust me I know all the terribleness, doesn’t change that I think it aesthetically looks cool and it’s tied to my memory of a nice lady I never really got to know because Alzheimer’s

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

some terrible things have great aesthetics, of course. and coca-cola spent a century engraining itself into nostalgia, not surprised it clicks.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The fucking nazis actually come to mind, Hugo Boss knows how to cut fabric

Edit: to be clear I’m not saying wearing SS uniforms would be acceptable but I also think there’s a bit of space between that and having an antique coke machine for the look

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i thought of the same example but thought it would steer discussion into politics somehow.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Eh everything is political in one way or the other, but you can appreciate the craftsmanship that workers put into building or designing something like a coke machine or antique phone without validating Coca-Cola or AT&T(formerly Bell along with every other phone company) as good forces.

They influenced and defined parts of our culture for good or ill, I myself tend to think it’s the latter in the macro sense, but it’s still interesting as a piece of history that someone imagined, someone else built, and countless other people used. It’s not like confederate statues or something else akin to monuments which were purposefully put in place to try and define and frame history, they are parts of our living history and that will always be kinda cool.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Liquid candy.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

its literally just tap water straight from a water main, that they basically don't pay for.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Where I live, the taste has that sort of La Croix thing going on where it tastes like the bottle sat open adjacent to a sewer. Smells alright, but when I taste it it makes me ಠ_ಠ

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Any water snobs out there who have a favorite filter?

Tried something like this and it was absolutely godly:

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Tap

I used marketing magic on my own brain by convincing myself I could taste the plastic in bottled water

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

The plastic taste is real

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

👏 lucky

I already filter and it just ain’t the best I’ve ever had and it’s hard to forget that fact

[–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Reverse osmosis with a remineralization alkaline post filter. Best water I've ever had, installed one in the kitchen for cooking/drinking

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[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I use ZeroWater filters with the pitcher. Even warm tap water tastes godly.

[–] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Out where I am they have primo. So I just take jugs to fill up. They're my favorite by default though they don't really have any other options where I live

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[–] Delphiantares@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] finkrat@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Even worse

It's Nestle Pure Life

Which maybe tastes okay

But shits on your soul because Nestle has now sustained you

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Or Arrowhead

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago
[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is Evian not good? I usually don’t buy bottled water and just have a hydro flask with me but thought Evian was decent?

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

now read the name backwards

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

The authorities don't want you to know this but the [Evian is free and you can take it home](Source Cachat https://maps.app.goo.gl/hqpG1mSmynr3D93d9?g_st=ac)

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Use S.Pellegrino or get out!

[–] Pheral@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Sparkling waterboarding. I knew I wasn't the only one with this idea!

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Do you reckon humour is ever used as an advanced torture resistance tactic? A very morbid thought, but I now wonder if anyone has ever made their torturers crack up to make them fond of their victim, in order to escape.

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Where is the Topo Chico master race??

[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Even worse, Ozarka!

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