Your favourite brand of mineral water?

[geminisnake]

Bottled water is for suckers. I know sometimes you *have* to buy it, but if you buy it through choice you're a muppet. IMVHO.

To each their own my dear. I am a self confessed snob when it comes to the water I will drink. Water is my main drink and if I find the majority of english tap water inferior and undrinkable that is surely up to me??

Faced with a choice of spending money on something I will drink or being thirsty guess what? I'll buy the water

My money, my choice, do I criticise what you spend your money on??

 

[spanglechick]

i'll only drink tap water with squash (robinson's peach and barley, ta.) It varies but i've never lived anywhere where the water has tasted as nice as bottled. When I used to live in bexley you could smell if you'd left a tap running, because it smelled all chloriney (but i'm hyper sensitive about smells).

Anyway Evian for taste - (t's kind of sweet, almost), otherwise anything with a sports cap for drinking in the car / on the dance floor.

I hate fizzy water - it tastes salty.

 

[WasGeri]

I buy San Pellegrino because I like the bottle

I prefer sparkling to still. If I'm going to drink still water, I might as well get it out of the tap.

 

[blamblam]

To each their own my dear. I am a self confessed snob when it comes to the water I will drink. Water is my main drink and if I find the majority of english tap water inferior and undrinkable that is surely up to me??

Faced with a choice of spending money on something I will drink or being thirsty guess what? I'll buy the water

My money, my choice, do I criticise what you spend your money on??

Nah I'm just taking the piss you can spend it on what you like. The really funny thing mineral water is actually inferior to tap water, as more crap is allowed in it due to lower safety standards.

Re: the taste, I think water is one of those things like Cola - if you're used to Tesco own brand then Pepsi tastes shite, and vice versa.

Fizzy water is rank.

 

[nogoodboyo]

I was reading through this thread with increasing incredulity until I got to icepick's post.

Still no link to the wateraid website though. Sign o' the urban times?

 

[nogoodboyo]

My money, my choice, do I criticise what you spend your money on??

How would you feel if I spent mine on a Range Rover to take the kids to school?

It was all fields you know.

 

[blamblam]

How would you feel if I spent mine on a Range Rover to take the kids to school?

About that I couldn't care less. Unless you bought a Suzuki for £120,000,000.

 

[flimsier]

I was reading through this thread with increasing incredulity until I got to icepick's post.

Still no link to the wateraid website though. Sign o' the urban times?

Well said.

 

[nogoodboyo]

About that I couldn't care less. Unless you bought a Suzuki for £120,000,000.

I wasn't asking you! I was just that geminsnake's "my money, my business" seemed a slightly unusual sentiment in these parts, and not, for example, an argument that would cut much ice in the 4x4 debate.

I was just making trouble really.

 

[Stobart Stopper]

Evian is my favourite. Nothing compares to it when it comes to taste.

 

[nogoodboyo]

Well said.

It's worth a look, whatever you drink:

Water Aid

 

[blamblam]

I wasn't asking you!

I know - I just wanted another factor 4,000 example to do

 

[nogoodboyo]

Makes perfect sense now.

 

[pianistenvy]

nowt wrong with british tap water, puts hairs on yer chest - whether you want them or not. or makes you grow tits.

 

[geminisnake]

How would you feel if I spent mine on a Range Rover to take the kids to school?

It was all fields you know.

Is it still fields??

TBH if it's your money you can spend it as you see fit. I may not agree with how you spend your money but it sure as hell isn't for me to tell you how to spend it.
I don't even tell my kids how to spend their money, I can advise but it's their choice.

I think there may be a few of my sentiments are different from a lot here. Que sera

PS I sponsor a child in India, I can't afford to donate to WA too

 

[rowan]

It's where you're brought up isn't it. LQ dislikes London water, whilst I found the stuff in Mancunia all wooly tasting and stale. Don't even get me started on West Country water.

I love my Cornish water, much better than the stuff I had in Kent. Don't know about London though, I only ever drank real ale when I lived there

 

[Brixton Hatter]

It's where you're brought up isn't it. LQ dislikes London water, whilst I found the stuff in Mancunia all wooly tasting and stale. Don't even get me started on West Country water. I like the hard cockernee water stuff...

Me too. London water is hard water - nice, mmmm! Where I grew up in Gloucestershire, it's also hard and quite nice tasting. However, go down to Cornwall and the water is soft as fuck, it takes ages to even rinse the soap off your hands....and it tastes horrible!

 

[Rollem]

i heart london water

i do not heart bristol water

if i am forced to buy bottled water, i look for highland spring, coz its generally cheaper than the likes of evian, volvic (eurgh, taste like metal!!) etc, etc....

 

[nogoodboyo]

Ymm. Water tastes better with crap in it, which is why mineral water is popular and distilled water isn't.

 

[Spion]

Me too. London water is hard water - nice, mmmm! Where I grew up in Gloucestershire, it's also hard and quite nice tasting. However, go down to Cornwall and the water is soft as fuck, it takes ages to even rinse the soap off your hands....and it tastes horrible!

You're insane. London water is vile. It tastes like massively diluted skimmed milk. Yeeugh!

For tap water Yorkshire Water is difficult to top.

 

[nogoodboyo]

Except possibly with a cup of cold piss.

 

[perplexis]

My favourite mineral water is Vichy St Yorre, it's ridiculously full of bicarbonate and tastes well salty without being ultra-fizzy. It's great for settling the stomach and it just tastes so good.
I like to taste my minerals

 

[guinnessdrinker]

Don't know about London though, I only ever drank real ale when I lived there

no need for water when you get real ale!

 

[guinnessdrinker]

Evian is my favourite. Nothing compares to it when it comes to taste.

but you are giving your economic support to the dreaded french. what's wrong with the local water?

 

[Cadmus]

I only ever drink my own urine.

I hear it's fab for ur throat if gargled regularly.

Must be even better if u drink it.