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[–] noxy@yiffit.net 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months 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Dasani was withdrawn from the UK after just a few weeks.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 2 months ago

Mmmmm... silica.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 points 2 months 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Coke is secretly tap water + carbonated syrup.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Noooo! The secret recipe!

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

Liquid candy.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago

The plastic taste is real

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] finkrat@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

Or Arrowhead

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago
[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

now read the name backwards

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

Use S.Pellegrino or get out!

[–] Pheral@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

Where is the Topo Chico master race??

[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Even worse, Ozarka!

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