Can you taste the difference?

[Smithy]

When it comes to bottled water?

I honestly don't get why there's so many different types, I only drink volvic and evian cause the big bottles are always £1 but I can't taste any difference at all :conf2:

[Glenn.]

I don't drink bottled water :idc:

[Benjamin]

None at all :laugh:

[Kate!]

Nope.

[GypsyGoth]

Nope, but I think water is meant to be pretty tasteless, so in a way that means the bottled water companies have got it right.

[Smithy]

Tap water tastes different :hmph: (only slightly though)

[joeysteele]

I never drink bottled water unless I have bottled it myself from the tap. I know when I am given bought bottled water.
I personally would never buy it because I don't like the idea of it on the shop and store shelves, not refrigerated even.

[Glenn.]

Water is tasteless though Smithy :suspect:

[MTVN]

Yes, I definitely think there's a difference between the better brands like buxton and evian and the cheaper ones like the Iceni bottle water, and tap water is generally quite noticeably worse imo

Evian I think is the best

[Drew.]

The more expensive bottles of water taste purer and are more refreshing than some of the cheaper ones.

[Shaun]

can only taste the difference between tap water and filtered water. But that's because south-west water is quite hard.

[Livia]

I can't tell the difference. I hate fizzy water though... it tastes like some kind of indigestion remedy.

[Kate!]

I quite like the flavoured waters. Lemon n lime or strawberry.

[InOne]

I can't tell the difference. I hate fizzy water though... it tastes like some kind of indigestion remedy.

The worst thing is when you open a bottle of water and half down it then you realise it's fizzy and gag.

Some very misleading water bottle labels out there :nono:

[Livia]

I quite like the flavoured waters. Lemon n lime or strawberry.

Do you find lemon and lime flavoured water makes your mouth dry? Or is it just me?

[Vicky.]

Cant tell the difference, tap water tastes exactly the same as bottled water too if you leave the tap running for 20 secs or so first.

HATE flavoured waters and fizzy water with a passion

[Benjamin]

Sparkling water is just vile.

[Sophiee]

I always think bottled water tastes nicer than tap water but if I weren't to know which was which one then I probably wouldn't know, it's just the imagination. and I love sparkling water :D.

[Jords]

Nope.

I like flavoured water and fizzy water too.

This is juiced but >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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[Kate!]

Do you find lemon and lime flavoured water makes your mouth dry? Or is it just me?

It can do yes, it's probs the citrusy taste? Maybe. The strawberry ones are sweeter. Not keen on the peach ones.

[Tom4784]

Not really, I do like flavoured water though. Peach flavoured Volvic is divine.

[Niamh.]

No, if I'm buying bottled water I always go for the cheapest own brand one but I can taste the difference between bottled water and the tap water from home, and I prefer the tap water

[Jake.]

Some taste like plastic

[Jessica.]

Yes, I think all of them taste quite different, if you get a glass of tap water and buy a Tesco every day value water and a bottle of Evian and did a blind folded taste test it would be extremely easy to tell which is which.

[lostalex]

all bottled water tastes like plastic to me. I don't touch the stuff.

give me tap any day of the week.

[MTVN]

Yes, I think all of them taste quite different, if you get a glass of tap water and buy a Tesco every day value water and a bottle of Evian and did a blind folded taste test it would be extremely easy to tell which is which.

Don't those supermarkets basically just use tap water for their really cheap value stuff

[Marc]

Sparkling water is just vile.

Is that the same as Soda Water?

[Jessica.]

Don't those supermarkets basically just use tap water for their really cheap value stuff

No, they're not allowed to do that, I remember there was a scandal about ASDA doing that last year or something.

[Jesus.]

Tell you what I have noticed, that water out of the bathroom tap tastes better than water out of the kitchen tap. :suspect:

[MTVN]

No, they're not allowed to do that, I remember there was a scandal about ASDA doing that last year or something.

Yeah that was the story about Asda that I'd been thinking of, thought it might have just been general practice

[Marc]

I pray over my water and it tastes excellent

[AnnieK]

Tell you what I have noticed, that water out of the bathroom tap tastes better than water out of the kitchen tap. :suspect:

My mum always told me not to drink out of the bathroom tap. I have no idea why but she said if I wanted a drink I had to get it from downstairs. I think she was just being mean and making me run up and downstairs.

[Jessica.]

Bathroom water is recycled from the shower/bath/sink, it's not supposed to be for drinking.

[Jesus.]

That's not the case any more, unless you've still got an old set up storage tank without a combination boiler. I had a new boiler fairly recently and I asked them this exact question because bathroom tap has always tasted better than kitchen tap water to me.

[Marc]

I drink from all taps, puddles, drainpipes etc

[lostalex]

i like water to have a slightly metallic taste.

speaking of water, remember when people used to drink from water fountains? whatever happened to water fountains?? i haven't seen a water fountain in ages. like since the 90's. there used to be water fountains everywhere, and people would drink from them, sometimes there'd even be a line to drink from a water fountain.

https://www.drinkingfountaindoctor.com/images/thumbs/product/175x150/e/z/ezs8_a.jpg

[Niamh.]

That's not the case any more, unless you've still got an old set up storage tank without a combination boiler. I had a new boiler fairly recently and I asked them this exact question because bathroom tap has always tasted better than kitchen tap water to me.

We have a water tank in the attic, that's where our bathromm tap water comes from

[Josy]

My mum always told me not to drink out of the bathroom tap. I have no idea why but she said if I wanted a drink I had to get it from downstairs. I think she was just being mean and making me run up and downstairs.

Bathroom tap water isn't for drinking if you are in a house that still has a storage tank.

I was always told the same Annie but I think most houses have updated boilers these days and don't use storage tanks.

[Josy]

I still wouldn't drink from the bathroom tap though, just out of habit.

[Jesus.]

We have a water tank in the attic, that's where our bathromm tap water comes from

And suddenly that fight for independence has left you without clean water in your bathroom :hehe:

Come back to the motherland and we'll sort your boilers out for you.

[Niamh.]

And suddenly that fight for independence has left you without clean water in your bathroom :hehe:

Come back to the motherland and we'll sort your boilers out for you.

Why would I want a to have a drink in the bathroom anyway? :idc:

[Josy]

Also getting back to the thread topic, I can't taste the difference from bottled stuff no but there's a fresh water spring where we live and the water from there is the best water I have ever drank in my life it's just always so fresh and cold ahhhh I could drink some right now.

[Josy]

Why would I want a to have a drink in the bathroom anyway? :idc:

You wouldn't? Neither would I :laugh:

[MTVN]

i like water to have a slightly metallic taste.

speaking of water, remember when people used to drink from water fountains? whatever happened to water fountains?? i haven't seen a water fountain in ages. like since the 90's. there used to be water fountains everywhere, and people would drink from them, sometimes there'd even be a line to drink from a water fountain.

https://www.drinkingfountaindoctor.com/images/thumbs/product/175x150/e/z/ezs8_a.jpg

Think schools and gyms are the only places you get those these days

[Niamh.]

i like water to have a slightly metallic taste.

speaking of water, remember when people used to drink from water fountains? whatever happened to water fountains?? i haven't seen a water fountain in ages. like since the 90's. there used to be water fountains everywhere, and people would drink from them, sometimes there'd even be a line to drink from a water fountain.

https://www.drinkingfountaindoctor.com/images/thumbs/product/175x150/e/z/ezs8_a.jpg

They have a water fountain in one of the shopping centres near me actually, that's the only one I can think of now though

[MTVN]

I'm also not a fan of the water they have on the contintent, it has a bit of a weirder taste there especially from the tap, they often used to say not to drink the tap water in hotels over there but it generally seems to be safe now I think

[Marc]

Is it just me or can you really taste the difference with soft water and hard water areas?

[Niamh.]

Is it just me or can you really taste the difference with soft water and hard water areas?

Well I hate the tap water in my moms house, it tastes totally different to the tap water in ours but i don't know whether it's hard or soft water....just horrible water