Ok, now this definitely counts as torture

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noxy@yiffit.net · 20 pts · 2y (11 replies)

imagine even jokingly having brand preferences for stolen bottled water

CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 2y (7 replies)

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

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 10 pts · 2y

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.

noxy@yiffit.net · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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 pts · 2y

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

myrrh@ttrpg.network · 5 pts · 2y
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luves2spooge@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Dasani was withdrawn from the UK after just a few weeks.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/

Landless2029@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
joenforcer@midwest.social · 2 pts · 2y

Mmmmm... silica.

Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 2y

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

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)
noxy@yiffit.net · 2 pts · 2y

wah'uh! pure wah'uh!

nul9o9@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y (13 replies)

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 pts · 2y (10 replies)

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

Num10ck@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y (9 replies)

Coke is secretly tap water + carbonated syrup.

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

Noooo! The secret recipe!

cmbabul@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (6 replies)

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 pts · 2y (5 replies)
cmbabul@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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 pts · 2y

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

PunnyName@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Liquid candy.

Num10ck@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y

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

A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

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 pts · 2y (14 replies)

Any water snobs out there who have a favorite filter?

Tried something like this and it was absolutely godly:

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 18 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Tap

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

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

The plastic taste is real

brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y

👏 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 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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

brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Nice, RO seems tops. Gotta sacrifice some water of course. Remineralization, interesting. Pricey? Evaluate a lotta brands? curious which one you went with.

LordKitsuna@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I went with this https://www.homedepot.com/p/Express-Water-Reverse-Osmosis-Alkaline-Water-Filtration-System-10-Stage-RO-Water-Filter-with-Faucet-and-Tank-100-GPD-ROALK10D/307338928

Just shy of $200 which isn't bad, although I did also buy the booster pump to maintain the most efficient water pressure

brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y

Thank you! Will evaluate this one.

And they even got a nice shot of you setting it up!

PunnyName@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

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

CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

That’s delicious water too

Flaky@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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moon@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 2y

I just use a Brita and keep refilling that and store it in my fridge. I don't notice a the difference tbh

brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

Brita should be sufficient!

And if you know a friend with a membership - cheap equivalent:

constantokra@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 2y

I have a berkey and I really like it. Makes my water taste like water. Not much different than running fresh mountain stream water through a katadyn or something.

Delphiantares@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (6 replies)

Worse it's evian

finkrat@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y

Even worse

It's Nestle Pure Life

Which maybe tastes okay

But shits on your soul because Nestle has now sustained you

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 4 pts · 2y

Deerpark

Hayduke@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Or Arrowhead

TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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 pts · 2y

now read the name backwards

Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

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 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Use S.Pellegrino or get out!

Pheral@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

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

MisterFrog@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

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 pts · 2y

Where is the Topo Chico master race??

therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y

Even worse, Ozarka!