Best Water in the World?
Jul 14, 2016, 2:15 pm
#48
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Kansas water works for me.
I admire how much of Europe is "greener" than the U.S. in many ways, but the obsession with bottled water is one I don't understand. I find it strange and a bit ironic that it's served as the default in so many places that have perfectly acceptable tap water.
(I'm singling out Europe here in part because their water treatment facilities are modern. Other parts of the world who use a lot of bottled water for safety reasons are a bit of a different discussion.)
I admire how much of Europe is "greener" than the U.S. in many ways, but the obsession with bottled water is one I don't understand. I find it strange and a bit ironic that it's served as the default in so many places that have perfectly acceptable tap water.
(I'm singling out Europe here in part because their water treatment facilities are modern. Other parts of the world who use a lot of bottled water for safety reasons are a bit of a different discussion.)
Jul 14, 2016, 2:25 pm
#49
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That hasn't been my experience. Almost any restaurant I go to, I will be asked, "still or sparkling." Almost universally. I do go to higher end restaurants so maybe that's the difference.
Jul 14, 2016, 3:15 pm
#50
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In any case, if in a country with safe tap water, why not just drink the tap water?
Jul 14, 2016, 3:54 pm
#51
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I am fortunately left handed, and was never admonished for left-forking. None of this switch-hands business either. Makes dining in Europe a breeze. I am still having to work on killing the other-hand-in-the-lap habit.
Jul 14, 2016, 4:00 pm
#52
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I'm in Portland OR, US, where the tap water is fine, and bottled water is generally seen as a waste. I drink tap water wherever I go, unless warned by locals to avoid it. So far that includes the larger cities in Morocco, La Paz BCS MX, Tijuana, anywhere I've been in Europe.
Tijuana's tap water (at a small hole-in-the-wall restaurant) tasted much better than San Diego's.
Tijuana's tap water (at a small hole-in-the-wall restaurant) tasted much better than San Diego's.
Jul 15, 2016, 1:28 am
#53
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It´s not correct, you are always offered (paid) water, still or sparkling. Even with a wine accompainment you normally order a bottle of water. To say the truth it was the same since I visit Restaurants and that´s quite a while��
Jul 15, 2016, 3:37 am
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It always depends on what end of the scale you are looking at, but having water with a meal (in accompaniment of wine, for example) is absolutely standard behaviour.
Jul 15, 2016, 8:00 am
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Pure water is pretty well tasteless - it's the mineral content in water that provides the taste, which is why, in blind taste tests, so often tap water either wins or comes out very high - they know what they are doing in the purification plant.
If we are talking sparkling water, I'd definitely go with Badoit - not too much fizz and some, but not too much calcium. In flat water, in developed countries, it's definitely tap. However, in hotels, it's bottled ever since I saw a video of how the chambermaid cleaned the glasses.
If we are talking sparkling water, I'd definitely go with Badoit - not too much fizz and some, but not too much calcium. In flat water, in developed countries, it's definitely tap. However, in hotels, it's bottled ever since I saw a video of how the chambermaid cleaned the glasses.
Jul 15, 2016, 3:10 pm
#58
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I drink tap water 99% of the time. New York City tap water was great when I lived there. Portland ME tap water comes from Sebago Lake, which I believe is the second clearest lake in the country after Crater Lake.
Bottled water is a silly waste. I like sparkling water and will buy it from time to time, but mostly I'm happy with my SodaStream.
Bottled water is a silly waste. I like sparkling water and will buy it from time to time, but mostly I'm happy with my SodaStream.
