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Originally Posted by Thor
I could give you a taste test, 10 different 'brands' and tap water. You would not be able to figure out which is tap.
So accept you sillyness and stop wasting your money on bottled water.
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I doubt that very much, at least not if you used Calgary tap water. It definitely has a chemical undertaste, nothing blatant, but there.
There might be some bottled water with that same taste, I suppose, but neither Evian nor Aquafina have that taste; Aquifina doesn't really taste like anything except water, Evian has a faint metallic tinge to it but I don't always notice it, probably depending on what other crap has gotten in my nose that day.
I'm sure there are many people who can't tell the difference. That doesn't mean that nobody can. I agree that anyone who drinks bottled water because it is safer, or healthier, or more natural, is crazy, but I couldn't care less about any of that, I just dislike the taste of chlorination.
Tomorrow I will do a blind taste test and see if I am right or wrong. I'll mark the bottles, then get my gf to pour me a glass out of each out of my sight, then have her bring me the glasses and I will tell her which is which. 6 trials should be enough to determine if I am crazy or not; I will need to get all 6 right, which has a 1/64 chance of happening at random.
PS - Also, the study that showed people preferred the NYC municipal water cannot be used to show there is no difference between the tastes of different waters; if that was so, then NO preference would have arisen thru the tests, not a preference for one type. Taste being partially subjective, it also doesn't mean that a particular person can't prefer the taste of a particular brand over other brands or the finest municipal bouquets, either.
PPS - I used to have a filtration system when I owned a condo; now I live in an apartment and while you can get countertop systems or install them under the sink, I am not spending my money to upgrade my landlord's water system. Maybe if I wasn't being gouged every 6 months to pay more and more rent in a building built back in the 60's...