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When I saw Liquid Death on the shelves of WFM, I thought maybe it was targeted at health-nuts and non-alcohol-drinkers wanting something to drink in social situ
by neilv 3y ago
When I saw Liquid Death on the shelves of WFM, I thought maybe it was targeted at health-nuts and non-alcohol-drinkers wanting something to drink in social situations when people were drinking beer, without "just water, thanks".
With what people are conditioned to pay for drinks at bars and restaurants, paying for water substitute is easier. (Not everyone wants to burp club soda.)
As for bottled water in general, I never would've considered it until a few years ago, since city tap water used to always be fine for me... but personally I'm now drinking and cooking with bottled water exclusively, after repeated pipe incidents in my old apartment building made my usual Pur tap filters inadequate.
Also, based on how quickly stock of 2.5gals of Poland Spring and other brands seem to move from local store shelves, in neighborhoods of student doctors and scientists living in dodgy old buildings... I suspect I'm not the only one who decided that plastic byproducts (and the occasional injury from shuffling around 2.5gals) seemed safer than drinking out of some of these old building pipes.
(Also, there's conditions like Detroit's tragic lead problem. Even the local water authority for my HCOLA recently had a problem with PFAS.)
- kshacker 3y ago> I suspect I'm not the only one who decided that plastic byproducts (and the occasional injury from shuffling around 2.5gals) seemed safer than drinking out of some of these old building pipes. We decided on an RO (Reverse Osmosis) system along with a filteration system. Based on what we spend annually maintaining the system, sometimes I wonder if we would not be better off just going bottled water (bulk, from Costco) with less of an overhead, and it is a close call ... although I do not know what it will cost to buy water in bulk, and I guess I still may need a filteration system for bathing.