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- roostersheep, on 07/02/2009, -5/+405Which side is the back?
Yeah, wrap your head around that one. - JonTheGoose, on 07/02/2009, -6/+358Simply mind bottling...
- inactive, on 07/02/2009, -1/+328I once saw similar insanity on salt, which ironically is mankind's oldest food preservative. The spiel on the packet described how this particular brand of salt had been formed by ancient geologic processes in the heart of the earth millions of years ago. Next to this it said, 'use by Nov 2010'. What incredible luck for us that we mined it out of the ground just as it's multi-million year lifespan was coming to an end eh?
- craznar, on 07/02/2009, -6/+311The coating on the inside of the plastic goes off and can end up in the water.
That is - the bottle goes off. - ifruit, on 07/02/2009, -19/+256Bottled water is ***** stupid.
- cloudberries, on 07/02/2009, -8/+229Tap water or GTFO. That's what I say! On a daily basis. To random strangers
- GoldenChaos, on 07/02/2009, -3/+171The side with the nutritional facts, duh.
/s - benroy, on 07/02/2009, -8/+154Bottled water also has nutritional facts on the back.
Yeah, wrap your head around that one. - nahsrocketeer75, on 07/01/2009, -17/+124Now who would have imagined that it might be the government's fault?
- Misanthropology, on 07/02/2009, -1/+106Lewis Black sums it up nicely here,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNGWn-aWn5g - bombula, on 07/02/2009, -2/+95Water doesn't go bad? Well, that depends. Leave a glass of water - especially distilled water with no chlorine in it - on your desk for a month and see what happens.
As for bottled water, the warnings are partly due to leaching of plasticizers (usually phthalates) from the bottle into the water. PET, PVC and other polymers are not inherently durable or flexible, so they have to be modified to give them those properties. Unfortunately, there's mounting evidence to suggest that phthalates are leaching into our food and water from packaging in significant quantities, and that it's all kinds of bad for you. There's a shift toward alkyl citrates that are supposedly safer, but they are more biodegradable so there are drawbacks in terms of packaging durability, etc.
Oh, and most PET is contaminated with arsenic, which also leaches into bottled water (and soda, juice, etc).
Enjoy! - db0255, on 07/02/2009, -0/+90I mean, honestly, water they thinking??
- bstew22, on 07/02/2009, -3/+81i'll just bring my tap with me...thank you.
- inactive, on 07/02/2009, -1/+77the one parallel to the front
- tacojohn48, on 07/02/2009, -4/+72Since we are dealing with a cylindrical object this can get messy. First let us define the front to be a plane that is tangential to a point at the center of the logo. The back is then easily defined as the plane that is parallel to the front that is only tangential to one point on the cylinder, so long as it is not the point that defined the plane of the front.
- tgc1, on 07/02/2009, -6/+73Except when you live on something like well water, and it tastes like it came out of a sewer. Would you drink brownish water? I don't think so. Bottled water is not stupid, until you need fresh water. Not everyone has the luxury of being on a municipal supply that is fed by clean rivers and lakes.
- inactive, on 07/02/2009, -8/+57bottled water has bacteria growing in it. If it sits to long in warm places, it could grow bacteria.
- inactive, on 07/02/2009, -0/+38@retral. I'm well aware of all that. My point was that this particular 'up-market' brand of salt WAS a mined variety of ancient sea salt (not from a modern evaporation process), where it had lain undisturbed for millions of years.
In either case, putting a use by date on a substance that does not go off is the height of nuttiness, that said they put use by dates on honey too, which doesn't go off either. Honey recovered from ancient Egyptian burial mounds is still edible. - inactive, on 07/02/2009, -3/+41This article makes two assumptions:
1) Bottled water does not go bad
2) The NJ law is the reason behind the expiration dates
Both of which may be false. - steste, on 07/02/2009, -3/+41as Billy Connolly once said. "There are 2 things in life I will never pay for: pussy and water."
- calon9, on 07/02/2009, -0/+37I love dry humor.
- kierskoe, on 07/02/2009, -0/+37We got a little rule back home: if it's brown, drink it down; if it's black, send it back!
- sinrtb, on 07/02/2009, -1/+36It will but it will not be able to hold water. It will not decompose but it will break down to little plastic poison pellets.
- inactive, on 07/02/2009, -5/+39Well, Evian IS naive spelled backwards...
- avions, on 07/02/2009, -1/+35Over time the plastic bottle degrades and leeches plastic particles into the water making it unsafe to drink. This process is accelerated by sunlight and temperature.
- moduc, on 07/02/2009, -0/+33No, bottle water can be contaminated with the bottle itself, especially exposed to heat or the Sun. So time is still an important factor.
- linagee, on 07/02/2009, -3/+36The government mind control drugs expire. *dons tin foil hat*
- LiquidIse, on 07/02/2009, -0/+29I'm from Poland Springs. I shower and flush my toilets with that water.
Yeah, wrap your head around that one. - SirReally, on 07/02/2009, -1/+29"Our water is sourced from the purest springs, where it has been flowing for over 400 years. But you have to drink it by Wednesday".
~ Dara O Briain (a very good Irish comedian) - PecanHead, on 07/02/2009, -0/+28I'm not much of a curse guy, but I'm pretty sure I'm not eating the honey some Egyptian put in his afterlife knapsack.
- DankBuddz, on 07/02/2009, -1/+28So can tap water in a jug.
- gkiltz, on 07/02/2009, -3/+303 possible reasons:
1) It's not really pure water.
2) The bottles are chemically unstable and react with it after a time.
3) Regulators have nothing better to do.
Take your pick! - vism, on 07/02/2009, -0/+25Like when things get so crazy that your thoughts get all trapped, like in a bottle.
- w3ber, on 07/02/2009, -10/+35can save your life in desert
- PityDaFool, on 07/02/2009, -8/+32But I was told that plastic bottle will still be in a landfill a bajillion years from now.
- DankBuddz, on 07/02/2009, -1/+25Well, most bottled water IS tap water to begin with...
- Theuderic, on 07/02/2009, -2/+25Didn't they compare various brands of bottled water to tap water and found the tap water was actually better/cleaner/safer? So your bottled water may be "teaming with little beasties" afterall and therefore the date might not be a bad idea, and please remember to boil it for 10 minutes before consuming.
- ahtu, on 07/02/2009, -0/+23I've done that, it.. evaporates?
- sexybobo, on 07/02/2009, -0/+23I looked to see if the bottle of water i am drinking had nutrition facts on it, which it does, and i looked at the source.
This water is Municipal supply Kansas City, KS.
Which is hilarious because I am drinking this in KC, KS.
I bought bottled local tap water that I am paying taxes for. - inactive, on 07/02/2009, -6/+2890% of bottled water is worse than city tap water. so yes. I had a jug of ice mountain taken to the state water testing lab here in WI because it had stuff floating around it in, and it had 800% more bacteria than what was considered safe in city tap water.
YUM. - borez, on 07/02/2009, -0/+22Oh that was you was it.
- tgc1, on 07/02/2009, -5/+26Water does not have a "taste." Impurities, however, do impart some semblance of what you might call a "taste." Water is also not a product.
Ie. The more metals and minerals in the water, the more off it's going to "taste." - Jordan117, on 07/02/2009, -2/+23The government's *fault*? You prefer the taste of bacteria and decaying plastic in your water?
- inactive, on 07/02/2009, -1/+22MM plasticized water...
- gidd, on 07/02/2009, -1/+22...as opposed to drinking clear, fresh water direct from miles and miles of antiquated, leaky, badly-maintained municipal water piping made from concrete, corroded metal, and yet more plastic, all the way from a treatment plant that is almost certainly not hermetically sealed itself.
Unless you're sucking it out of some all-natural volcanic spring, it's going to be tainted in some way. Even then, the all-natural Mother Earth is probably leaching god knows what heavy metals, poisons, bacteria, moss, stoat crap and so forth into it.
Your best bet is to drink water you've distilled yourself in a closed environment, or possibly a fuel cell or something like that. And if you've ever tried distilled water, it's tasteless and flat, and just makes you notice the taste of the container and surrounding environment.
*shrug*
Fair enough, though, sgtbutterscotch: it's just personal taste, really. You're used to the local tap water's taste rather than bottled water, and that's fine. However, don't think it's any more or less polluted by plastic and so forth! - ifruit, on 07/02/2009, -4/+23I grew up on rusty well water, it's tasty. I now live in the city and miss my well water.
- inactive, on 07/02/2009, -2/+21increase bacteria growth.
You twit - Royish, on 07/02/2009, -3/+22FTA: A 1987 NJ state law required all food products sold there to display an expiration date of two years or less from the date of manufacture.
- inactive, on 07/02/2009, -2/+19What the ***** makes you think it was tap water?
- juankovo, on 07/02/2009, -1/+17Why did you have your tin foil hat off in the first place? It only takes a few minutes for them to read your entire brain, you twit. Now you've been compromised. I am going to un-friend you on digg.
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