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When did we start drinking so much bottled water? Must have been about 25-30 years ago I remember noticing it and wondering why would I want to pay for water,

• dredmorbius 7y ago
  Hint: Drinking bottled water was a subtle "they're gay" punchline in the film Heathers (1988). https://moviechat.org/tt0097493/Heathers/58c74f926b51e905f6764540/What-is-mineral-water https://moviechat.org/tt0097493/Heathers/58c74f926b51e905f67... Google's Ngram viewer shows a consistant uptick of print mentions since 1985: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bottled+water&year_start=1960&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cbottled%20water%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bottled+water&... And sales volume since 1996: https://douglashicton.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/bottlegraph.png?w=466&h=503 https://douglashicton.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/bottlegrap... For myself, until the mid-1990s, it simply wasn't a thing. I would occasionally buy a bottle on road trips in the 1990s (I now carry a reusable drink bottle, those are going on ten years' use for me). If you view conference videos online, you'll note that pitchers and glasses in earlier videos were replaced by plastic bottles later. Those are now starting to disappear in some cases, though tetra-pack water also sometimes appears. An interesting sort of incidental meta-commentary on late capitalism.