Thread: Agua
View Single Post
  #18 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
Wayne Boatwright[_1_] Wayne Boatwright[_1_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 4,620
Default Agua

Oh pshaw, on Mon 16 Oct 2006 12:36:50p, Little Malice meant to say...

> One time on Usenet, "Nancy Young" > said:
>> "denise~*" > wrote

>
>> > What's yer point? Water is water...IMHO
>> >
>> > I filter at home & fill-up a container if I leave. Much cheaper &
>> > tastes the same, sorta like....Water! :-)

>
>> You kidding, many places have horrible tasting water
>> coming out of the tap. Some people buy drinking water for a good
>> reason.

>
> Well, she did say she filters hers. I'm lucky, we have a semi-private
> well and the water tastes fine. But I'll still buy Aquafina or Dasani
> when I'm away from home -- it's a lot cheaper and I don't care if it
> didn't come from a natural spring or not.
>
> When we moved here via car and trailer from the East Coast in '89
> (I'm a native of WA, but Miguel is from PA) we were poor and had
> an old car with a funky radiator. Some nice folks from CA ran across
> us in Idaho, overheated and out of water. They not only dumped the
> melted ice from their cooler into our radiator, but put in some
> fancy Swiss bottled water as well. Good people... :-)
>


Some folks really are nice. You were very fortunate.

We generally buy Arrowhead Spring Water for drinking. We'll either have an
RO filter in the new house, or we may subscribe to Arrowhead's delivery
service of 5-gallon jugs and a cooler/dispenser. I'm not too fond of what
comes out of our tap, although I've tasted worse elsewhere.

--
Wayne Boatwright
__________________________________________________

We don't know who discovered water, but we're
pretty sure it wasn't a fish.