Bottled Water
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Meh, I've been using the same bottle for the last year on my desk in work. I put new water in every morning and shake it around, thats about all the cleaning it gets!
Times like these that living in Scotland has benefits
Is that because you drink beer instead of water?
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ditto.
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San Pellegrino. Lightly carbonated mineral water. This is the best **** you will ever drink.
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Our house is fed from a natural spring up top, tastes lovely yum yum
Also from Fife & our water is really nice straight from the tap, we have one of those Brita filter jugs which I think just makes it even nicer.
It does annoy me when the mrs buys water for the kids, I guess it is more for ease though as they are really lazy little goits, filling a bottle would be way too much "hassle" for them.
Around 5 odd years ago i would agree with you that tap water tastes the same as bottled water however there is a vast difference these days .. its been almost two weeks since i touched tap water .. ever since my stomach has been acting dodgy ive been having mineral water .. the difference is a lot ... over the last few days ive been drinking Badoit due to the high magnesium count and my stomach pains have gone ....
and for tap water i don't trust it , **** knows what additives are added to it these days... same with most processed food i don't touch it either !
and for tap water i don't trust it , **** knows what additives are added to it these days... same with most processed food i don't touch it either !
If you can't taste the difference... there is something very wrong with your taste buds!
I can tell the difference between most bottled water, let alone the difference between tap water and the horribly over-chlorinated horrible tasting crap that comes out of the taps.
Sure I could survive on the tap water... but if you've got the money to spend a measly £20/week on bottled water and prefer the difference... why not?
My favourite is evian (and yes, i like what it says when you spell it in reverse - lol)... I can't stand the flavour of vilvic.
There are some really nice ones over here that cost next to nothing - I picked up a 6 pack of 2 litre bottles for £1.00 that doesn't taste too different from Evian
Also, especially in the south of the country... if you like tea... the water is TERRIBLE for it... so I use bottle water for my hot drinks too, massive difference.
tbh for tea you boil the water .. so whatever bacteria or any other crap in the tap water is gone ... though it has to be bottled milk.. i am not drinking tea with some bogus cheap milk!
also off topic however the other day i was out and about and i saw this guy selling kashmiri tea in a stand ... it was pink and it had nut meg in it .. also some raw type of sugar .. tasted heavenly .. only a quid for a cuppa
I can't understand people buying bottled water to drink at home either, it seems like such a waste of money.
I personally just have a couple of Brita jugs which I put in the fridge. The jugs make the water super cool and the filter helps neutralise anything that might impair the flavour of the water, which isn't really an issue anyway.
I know some people who drink bottled water exclusively and do claim its because tap water is full of Oestrogen. The water companies say this is nonsense, which I'm sure people will love to disprove, but at the end of the day, people have been drinking tap water for years, long before we had bottled spring and glacier water easily available.
I personally just have a couple of Brita jugs which I put in the fridge. The jugs make the water super cool and the filter helps neutralise anything that might impair the flavour of the water, which isn't really an issue anyway.
I know some people who drink bottled water exclusively and do claim its because tap water is full of Oestrogen. The water companies say this is nonsense, which I'm sure people will love to disprove, but at the end of the day, people have been drinking tap water for years, long before we had bottled spring and glacier water easily available.
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I doubt they would put it in nearly every tube of toothpaste if it weakened your teeth.
I never buy or filter water as we have soft water here that tastes pretty good. It's also always freezing cold due to the climate here, so get ready chilled water on tap.
It used to be there in high percentages... the issue was only discovered after people used it for a long time.
Like someone else said, i think in small quantities it negligable - but the quantity used to be quite a bit higher in toothpaste and was causing problems.
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I only drink bottled water, unless i am very thirsty and can't wait and have no choice then ill drink from the tap.
I drink all bottled water that does not have added fluoride, which is a lot of them. my favourite are evian and highland spring, you can taste the water comes from a mountain spring and when it is cold it is realy good.
I drink all bottled water that does not have added fluoride, which is a lot of them. my favourite are evian and highland spring, you can taste the water comes from a mountain spring and when it is cold it is realy good.
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Too sour for me, nice once in a while tho
maybe your taste buds have diminished over the years but tap water is rank ....
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I has nothing to do with the bacteria... it's all about the taste.
Tap water around where I had been living for the past few years always left a really nasty film on the top of the tea (even if you didn't brew for long).
The taste is completely different compared to tap water up north or bottled water... tea with tap water round the bedfordshire/herts area is disgusting, I thought I had gone off tea itself at first a while after i moved there - then I figured out it was the water when I had a business trip up north heh.
Over here it's wonderful... you walk into a supermarket and on the tea isle, they have leaf tea in a section like pick and mix - much broader selectiong & a heck of a lot better tasting.
I had to order my leaf tea off the web in UK.
Ah tbh i use three tea bags in my cups of tea ... a few spoons of sugar .. some glass bottled creamy milk and the taste is mind blowing ...
Tbh the best cup of tea i had was when somebody boiled the tea and water in a pan and added milk in the pan all at the same time... no idea what its called but it was the best cup of tea ive had ...
or i remember going into the provincial areas of pakistan and some tribe people made some special type of kavaa that was nice and refreshing...
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It also depends on what the water tastes like from your tap. Where I am the water is nice straight from the tap, in the past I had friends living in Oxford and the tap water was awful.