Favourite Bottled Water?

TCamen · 13-04-2004 10:45PM #1

What's yer favourite brand of bottled water?

They do all taste different. I like Volvic myself :cool:

Doctor Funfrock · 13-04-2004 10:50PM

drinking bottled water is stupid, ITS WATER HELLO?????

EVIAN = NAIVE

vorbis · 13-04-2004 10:50PM

just have to say that I still can't get over the fact that people buy bottled water in Ireland. Like selling snow to the eskimos.

silverside · 13-04-2004 10:51PM

Vittel, or River Rock, but i can't really notice much difference.

Tesco Value usually does me fine.

ixoy · 13-04-2004 10:53PM

My favourite brand is Dublin City Council, poured into an empty bottle that I have. DCC - yer only man.

silverside · 13-04-2004 10:53PM

You wouldnt say that if you saw the colour of the tap water around here, its almost white and tastes mank

TCamen · 13-04-2004 10:56PM

EVIAN = NAIVE

I don't care for Evian really. The dog likes it though. Go figure.

spongebob · 13-04-2004 11:05PM

de Lidl stuff is just like Volvic (acidic and no icky lime in it )

less than half de price

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Woden · 13-04-2004 11:07PM

there blatantly is a taste difference i don't like the ballygown stuff myself, i'd go with volvic also

Explosive_Cornflake · 13-04-2004 11:09PM

I'd have to say riverrock, still always mind you.

Johnny_the_fox · 13-04-2004 11:11PM

tap water...

does the same job in any bottle...

Giblet · 13-04-2004 11:11PM

Or fill a bottle with tap water, y'know whatever.

Woden · 13-04-2004 11:12PM

that depends on the tap water some tap water is minging like the stuff in the houses up in blanch full of crap, thankfully tap water in my area is ok

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40crush41 · 13-04-2004 11:12PM

Fiji Water! pure taste and nice bottle

forget snapple, thats the greatest stuff on earth.

~beth

OfflerCrocGod · 13-04-2004 11:23PM

Originally posted by Dataisgod
that depends on the tap water some tap water is minging like the stuff in the houses up in blanch full of crap, thankfully tap water in my area is ok

I live in blanch and the water is just fine - stop besmirching my area!!!;).

Gaz · 13-04-2004 11:25PM

Watched a programme on TV awhile ago and they where showing just how much of a rip off bottled water really is. I havnt bought bottled water since.

What you pay for one bottle , the company gets the equivalent of an olympic size swimming pool of water. Thats like a million gallons or something.

Tap water left in the fridge is just as nice , or get yourself a water filter.

TCamen · 13-04-2004 11:28PM

I thought it was funny about the Coke bottled water Desani, that it really was just tap water in a bottle

Had it once, it was horrible.

niallith · 13-04-2004 11:36PM

ballygowan tbh

Winters · 13-04-2004 11:45PM

Originally posted by TCamen
I thought it was funny about the Coke bottled water Desani, that it really was just tap water in a bottle

Had it once, it was horrible.

Possibly as it was dangerous and had to be taken off the market, their "purifing" system actually added a dangerously high level of cemicals. Hence the "horrible" taste.

DrunkLeprachaun · 14-04-2004 12:25AM

I actualy preffer tap water. Only reason I buy bottle water is for a container to put my tap water in, I often thow out most of the water I payed for,

Agent Smith · 14-04-2004 12:37AM

volvic is pretty nice!

Puck · 14-04-2004 01:12AM

Refilled from a water filter I keep in the fridge, it's the only way to go really. Occasionally though I do have to buy a new bottle so I have something to refill. In that case I buy a 750ml bottle of Riverrock. The bottle is a handy size and a nice shape, a lot of bottles are either too big or too small or the plastic feels a bit flimsy but those ones are just right.

Zaphod B · 14-04-2004 01:23AM

Tap water my way is pretty clear; I have empty bottles lying around. You've got all the scares about bottled water being left around for years before it's shipped to you etc. Plus it's just one more way to waste money. Plain old tap water for me.

blobert · 14-04-2004 01:42AM

i much prefer my tap water to bottled. perhaps its all the lead in the pipes but it has a much better taste!

i don't know if you've ever tried the tap water in london or new york but it is beyond terrible. the secret to making even the most manky tap water drinkable is to add a lot of ice or refrigerate. it all tastes fine when very cold.

why am i talking about water???

DRakE · 14-04-2004 03:51AM

food and drink board

AdMMM · 14-04-2004 08:45AM

It's amazing just how muxh of a rip-off bottled water is.

I mean you can get a litre of petrol which comes from Saudi Arabia, a heavily taxed and finite resource for about 90c. While a litre of bottled water costs about €1 (Ballygowan, Volvic etc).

In saying that I often buy the stuff, but Tesco Value often does me fine...

Sleepy · 14-04-2004 09:11AM

Volvic is definately the nicest of the bottled waters. In Galway there's no real choice about it, if you want to drink water you either buy bottled or you put in a filtration system of some kind. The water is laced with Chlorine and so is absolutely mingin!

Rabies · 14-04-2004 09:18AM

Just fill up a water filter jug at night and use it the next day. Simple.
I will buy bottled water at times, usually if i have a hangover

][cEMAN** · 14-04-2004 09:18AM

Ballygowan for me. If you saw the condition of most of the water i've had to drink from taps here you'd understand. When the pipes are so bad that the water comes out brown - i've haven't drunk tap water since!

Kalina · 14-04-2004 09:36AM

I don't buy bottled water- unless I'm feeling guilty about my intake of Coca Cola & lucozade!!

dudara · 14-04-2004 09:54AM

I only drink water and milk, so i get through a lot of water, and I can't say I notice any difference between the bottled brands. I just but a litre bottle and refill it from the dispenser at work (Ballygowan I think), or the tap, until it start to go green on the inside, which is when I get a new bottle.

The tap water at home is perfect, no chlorine taste, but I have found that some places in Dublin and elsewhere I can't drink the tap water due to horrible chemical tastes. My parents have their own well at home and the water there is always freezing cold and crystal clear, even in the middle of summer, now that's the business.

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