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Bottled water in glass bottles is a luxury good for yuppies in America. Store-brand seltzer water bottled in plastic is about $1 per liter.

yamtaddle 4y ago
What I buy's usually Mexican (hard to find it much cheaper, at least around here) and I don't think they're only putting it in glass for US yuppies. Seltzer often tastes gross, I'll get canned club soda if I want cheap bubbles and just don't give a fuck about plastic or whatever at the moment (cans are lined in plastic). Trouble is, the bubbly-water fad has made that shit a lot more expensive than it used to be. Could get it for like $0.20/can for a long time, now it's a lot higher and you have to hunt to find the plain version without a bunch of artificial flavor in it.
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- stametseater 4y ago
  Seltzer and club soda are different products; club soda has sodium added (if it naturally has a high mineral content, then it is called mineral water instead of club soda.) Seltzer on the other hand is simply carbonated tap water. Personally I used to prefer seltzer but now drink plain tap water. For each their own though.
tablespoon 4y ago
> Bottled water in glass bottles is a luxury good for yuppies in America. Store-brand seltzer water bottled in plastic is about $1 per liter. I think in some countries, water in glass bottles not a yuppie luxury product because they actually reuse (not recycle) the bottles. Sort of like what they used to do with milk in the US.
- woodruffw 4y ago
  And with seltzer! You can still get it delivered in glass bottles where I live[1]. (It's more expensive than store-bought plastic bottles but about the same price as store-bought glass, with the added advantage that I know they reuse the bottles.) [1]: https://www.brooklynseltzerboys.com/ https://www.brooklynseltzerboys.com/
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  Used to do it with soda in the US, too. I remember pint bottles lined up by the door to return to the grocery store to be refilled, which system survived some places at least into the early '90s (I know because some relatives were still doing it that late). Glass = yuppie... shit, I guess it's because I'm getting old and remember a time when glass was just for everyone, but that's a really weird sentiment to me. Is Coors yuppie if it's in glass bottles? Seems like this is a selective application of that notion.
  - stametseater 4y ago
    > Glass = yuppie. Bottled water in glass specifically.

yamtaddle 4y ago

What I buy's usually Mexican (hard to find it much cheaper, at least around here) and I don't think they're only putting it in glass for US yuppies. Seltzer often tastes gross, I'll get canned club soda if I want cheap bubbles and just don't give a fuck about plastic or whatever at the moment (cans are lined in plastic). Trouble is, the bubbly-water fad has made that shit a lot more expensive than it used to be. Could get it for like $0.20/can for a long time, now it's a lot higher and you have to hunt to find the plain version without a bunch of artificial flavor in it.

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stametseater 4y ago
Seltzer and club soda are different products; club soda has sodium added (if it naturally has a high mineral content, then it is called mineral water instead of club soda.) Seltzer on the other hand is simply carbonated tap water. Personally I used to prefer seltzer but now drink plain tap water. For each their own though.

tablespoon 4y ago

> Bottled water in glass bottles is a luxury good for yuppies in America. Store-brand seltzer water bottled in plastic is about $1 per liter. I think in some countries, water in glass bottles not a yuppie luxury product because they actually reuse (not recycle) the bottles. Sort of like what they used to do with milk in the US.

woodruffw 4y ago
And with seltzer! You can still get it delivered in glass bottles where I live[1]. (It's more expensive than store-bought plastic bottles but about the same price as store-bought glass, with the added advantage that I know they reuse the bottles.) [1]: https://www.brooklynseltzerboys.com/ https://www.brooklynseltzerboys.com/
yamtaddle 4y ago
Used to do it with soda in the US, too. I remember pint bottles lined up by the door to return to the grocery store to be refilled, which system survived some places at least into the early '90s (I know because some relatives were still doing it that late). Glass = yuppie... shit, I guess it's because I'm getting old and remember a time when glass was just for everyone, but that's a really weird sentiment to me. Is Coors yuppie if it's in glass bottles? Seems like this is a selective application of that notion.
- stametseater 4y ago
  > Glass = yuppie. Bottled water in glass specifically.