Turin wrote:I know people like to mix the two up out of some kind of misplaced sense of class-warfare, but there's a big difference between the tastes of gourmands and the tastes of rich idiots who just are throwing money around.
It's gourmets, the word "gourmand" means "glutton".
Gil Hamilton wrote:People will claim that bottled water tastes vastly superior to tap water simply because it is sold to them, even if both come from the same municipal source.
Funny, most bottled water tastes like plastic to me. I only drink it if it's the only thing available, or the tap water is likely to give me a bad case of the runs.
Turin wrote:I know people like to mix the two up out of some kind of misplaced sense of class-warfare, but there's a big difference between the tastes of gourmands and the tastes of rich idiots who just are throwing money around.
It's gourmets, the word "gourmand" means "glutton".
It means both.
m-w.com wrote:
1 : one who is excessively fond of eating and drinking
2 : one who is heartily interested in good food and drink
Turin wrote:I know people like to mix the two up out of some kind of misplaced sense of class-warfare, but there's a big difference between the tastes of gourmands and the tastes of rich idiots who just are throwing money around.
It's gourmets, the word "gourmand" means "glutton".
Adrian Laguna wrote:Funny, most bottled water tastes like plastic to me. I only drink it if it's the only thing available, or the tap water is likely to give me a bad case of the runs.
I don't know. I can't really tell the difference unless the bottled water has something done to it, like flavor added (at which point I can't drink it because flavored waters almost universally seem to have aspartame in them).
However, most studies I've seen show that people can't really tell bottled water from tap water in any sort of rigorous study. Most of it is just headology. On the Penn and Teller episode, people even preferred New York City municipal water over bottled water on their test and wouldn't believe it came from a NYC tap when told.
Interestingly enough, tap water is also generally safer, since it has a whole slew of people regulating it for safety (at least in America), while bottle water has very little at all in the way of safety testing.
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