Fuck Vitamin Water

[angry.bob]

My wife won't stop buying this stupid shit and it's really pissing me off. It's fucking tapwater, corn syrup, and some ground up vitamins. The whole bottom quarter of our fridge is full of this shit. I tell her it'd be healthier to drink Kool Aid and take a OneADay. And the shit is expensive on top of everything else.

And fuck 50 for putting this stupid shit out.

[Yoru]

Actually, you can thank the Coca-Cola Company. They own the company that owns the brand.

[Signe]

Pepsi finally admitted that their Aquafina water is just tap water.  So is Dasani from Coca Cola. You're probably right about most vitamin water, too. 

That Yoru is a quick little rascal.

[Der Helm]

Ah, Bob living up to his name again ... 

[sigil]

For the time being, Glacieau is still a separate company.  My company is still distributing it for our neck of the worlds, and will continue to do so until the  folks from coke drop by to pick it up, but we'll flood the market to maximize our total sales in the weeks before that, just so we can maximize our profits.


Fuze, which is about the same thing. just got transferred to Coke this past week. We sold so much in the last three weeks that they' wont be delivering  to stores any time soon.

I am so glad I don't work on that side of my companies business.

[WindupAtheist]

Signe, never change your avatar again.

[Selby]

Pepsi finally admitted that their Aquafina water is just tap water.  So is Dasani from Coca Cola.

If  you look at the bottle it has said where it comes from for years.  I always figured they were just tap water especially considering some of the places they bottle it.  If it tastes good, I don't get offended.  I sure don't expect it to somehow be healthier or better for me, except by not having floaty shit in it like tap water in the town I grew up in did...

[Sky]

I can't believe people don't read labels. We buy almost no products with corn syrup, especially the 'high fructose' variety, though it's getting harder since they put it in everything. And as Selby said, the labels for bottled water have said for a long time that it's from a municipal supply.

My fiancee is a bottled water nut, and I'm inclined to agree for different reasons. I think our municipal water is fine, it's the pipes within my crappy old apartment I don't trust. If I owned the place I'd get it tested and fix any problems and drink tap water. Growing up we had sulfur in the water, you could literally get gouts of flame from the tap.

[MisterNoisy]

you could literally get gouts of flame from the tap.

I'd pay good money to see the expression on visitors' faces when this happened.  Also, filter pitchers are a hell of a lot cheaper than buying bottled water. :P

[Signe]

Pepsi finally admitted that their Aquafina water is just tap water.  So is Dasani from Coca Cola.

If  you look at the bottle it has said where it comes from for years.  I always figured they were just tap water especially considering some of the places they bottle it.  If it tastes good, I don't get offended.  I sure don't expect it to somehow be healthier or better for me, except by not having floaty shit in it like tap water in the town I grew up in did...

Oh... it said in the story I read that they used an an acronym, PWS, Public Water Source, or something like that and no one really knew what that was.  Maybe I read it wrong or something.  Anyway, I drink bottled water because the water tastes horrible here. 

[SnakeCharmer]

Get a Brita water filter? Or have one installed on your water lines.

[Trippy]

Get a Brita water filter? Or have one installed on your water lines.

Sometimes a Brita water filter is not enough. There was a period of time when my tap water, which comes from the Sierras, was being heavily chlorinated for some reason and even filtered you could still smell it and so I switched to drinking bottled spring water for a while.

[Signe]

I can't have anything installed on anything here. It doesn't belong to me.  I've tried a Brita filter and water around here, and in NJ, still tastes awful.  Even the cheap Acme water, $4 a case for 24 16.9s, is a million times better.

[schild]

Fiji water or bust, bitches.

Short of that, we have water delivered. You have to in Arizona. Tap water here is the devil.

[Yegolev]

My wife won't stop buying this stupid shit and it's really pissing me off. It's fucking tapwater, corn syrup, and some ground up vitamins. The whole bottom quarter of our fridge is full of this shit. I tell her it'd be healthier to drink Kool Aid and take a OneADay. And the shit is expensive on top of everything else.

And fuck 50 for putting this stupid shit out.

Quiet you, and take your medicine.  I have a mortgage to pay.

[Nonentity]

Fiji water or bust, bitches.

Short of that, we have water delivered. You have to in Arizona. Tap water here is the devil.

I pay extra for Fiji, because it has a pretty picture of a waterfall on the bottle.

My standard drinking water is Aquafina, however. They say right on the bottle it's pretty much just filtered tap water. I'm okay with that, it's nice and cold when I buy it from 7-11.

[Dren]

For the most part, I believe the draw of bottled water is from the convenience, not so much that it is any healthier for you or not.  I've seen very few people actually buy and use nice little bottles they fill themselves.  That would make sense, but then you would have to clean them and keep track of them, etc.  We all like the flexibility of just throwing the bottle away or leaving it behind on accident with just a shoulder shrug.

The vitamin water thing is just a way to feel like you are doing something proactive about your health while not really doing anything out of your normal schedule.  Tons of people hate taking pills/vitamins, so compared to that, this is heaven for them.  They are also popular in that, they have flavor.  I'm one of those that really doesn't get off on water alone.  It does nothing for me.  In fact, I avoid it even though I shouldn't.

Flavored water gives me the water I want with some added flavor.  The added nutrients go towards excusing myself of indulging in the sweetness and makes it look like I just came from a workout (why else would I need to replenish my electrolytes??!)

Don't get me wrong.  I rarely buy it anyway.  I drink coffee and beer.  In that order.  Not together.

[sinij]

Slap her few times, show who is the man in the house. She probably does it just to piss you off.

[Signe]

I love Fiji water.  I've been drinking it forever.  I even had it as an avatard once.  BUT... I feel silly pouring it into my coffee maker at those prices. 

[Ookii]

I started drinking Vitamin Water after reading that Glacieau sold it to Coke for $4.1 billion, with 50 Cent making $400 million dollars in the process.

It's pretty good, but it is sweetened with fructose (not of the HF variety, but fructose none the less) so it's off limits (although I remember it only has something like 14mg of sugar, half that of soda).

Oh and Fiji water is the devil, SMARTWATER FOR LIFE (which is manufactured by Glacieau, suprise suprise).

[Sky]

Slap her few times, show who is the man in the house. She probably does it just to piss you off.

Better yet, fill all the bottles with tap water.

[cmlancas]

Don't forget food coloring, vitamin water is colored.

I'll admit, I drink the stuff quite a bit at work.

[Furiously]

The one I don't get is the "Energy Water" with 0 calories...

I'm no scientist, but 0 calories means 0 energy to me.

[cmlancas]

The universe is at an end. We have found infinite energy!

But yeah, it's a big scam. But I buy into it, so I happily drink the kool-aid.

[voodoolily]

Okay, two things: as aforementioned, Vitamin Water does not contain HFCS, just crystallized fructose (which is just sugar from fruits, and easier on you than sucrose). It is tasty and refreshing and only 50 cal/serving instead of 100. I wish they just sold the powder though, because I get sick of my recycling bin getting filled up with those wasteful bottles (I am not a hippie, but I don't condone wasting valuable resources. Maybe I shoulda been born in the Depression).

Fiji water is the devil, because it comes from a company getting rich off an aquifer that no Fijian has access to. In general, Fijians have very little access to clean drinking water, because rich white motherfuckers pay to drink all their water.

Pur water filter ftw. Plus Portland tap water is ridiculously clean anyway because it comes from the Bull Run watershed, which is completely forested (by law). All you ever hafta worry about is the quality of your plumbing.

[schild]

Fiji water is the devil, because it comes from a company getting rich off an aquifer that no Fijian has access to. In general, Fijians have very little access to clean drinking water, because rich white motherfuckers pay to drink all their water.

Don't be a hippy.

[CmdrSlack]

The one I don't get is the "Energy Water" with 0 calories...

I'm no scientist, but 0 calories means 0 energy to me.

My guess is that it's of the caffeine, guarana, ginseng, taurine variety, which I guess would have no calories.

Water Joe == the awesome.

[SnakeCharmer]

Imma newb.

This guy made 400 million dollars of the Vitamin Water sale?

[CmdrSlack]

Imma newb.

This guy made 400 million dollars of the Vitamin Water sale?

He has "his own flavor" and is someone who endorses the product.

Here's the 50 Cent Vitamin Water site.

In Chicago, that same flavor is sold as "54" and talks about Brian Urlacher in the label blurb, IIRC.

[SnakeCharmer]

Goddamn....Not a bad days work...

[Yegolev]

On the flip side of that, I strongly suspect that our purchase of Glaceau for $4.1 beeeeellion will have some impact on my bonus.

[Merusk]

Bottled water. Pft.  Weaklings.

[Hayduke]

I just buy a couple of those 5 gallon jugs from two different local sources (well one is actually a local company, one is from a local source but in an inspiring display of efficiency is bottled a few states away)  I'm not such a pre-diabetic fatty that I need to walk around everywhere with a canteen everywhere though.

That vitamin water shit just seems like a scam though.

[naum]

Like stated, in AZ, one must drink bottled water though we have a RO system at work here (and friends have RO systems where the water doesn't taste too objectionable) that seems to work OK… …but generally speaking, drinking tap water is not advised…

…I've always refrained from "purified water", instead forking out the extra cash for "spring water", though you have to wonder if there's rampant violation of "truth in advertising" there too…

[Murgos]

Of course there is.  Define 'spring' and you'll see where the problem lies.

I grew up drinking tap water and so generally I don't have a problem with it.  Unfortunately the building I live in is so old that the water coming from the taps comes out cloudy unless you let it run for a few minutes first.  So, I bought a Brita pitcher to filter it, works fine.  The pitcher I use has a digital monitor on it that is supposed to tell you when to change your filter.  Uh, yea.  It's just a timer.  I've been using the same filter for several months more than indicated, I figure I'll change it when I either notice a change in the taste of the water or it stops filtering out the cloudy particulates.

If I'm out and about though it's Aquafina all the way though.  Simply because it's just water, with no flavor, and doesn't have sodium added to it like Coke does with Dasani.