Gothamist: Bottled Water Discarded for Purified Tap

Chimbles

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:27:34 -0500

Snoopy, I bet she found that Pellegrino bottle in the garbage somewhere and fills it up with tap just to look sophisticated. You should have acted all impressed and asked her to for a sip.

Snoopy

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:18:35 -0500

I was at a local pub today for brunch and some a'hole broad came in with her own quart bottle of Pellegrino bottled water and every two minutes she would screw off the cap, take a sip and screw the cap back on while jibbering away with her "fiance." I was ready to throw her out, but I didn't because I don't work for the place. What next bring your own wine and scotch? The whole bottled water craze started with Perrier and its association as being "so European." It SUCKS! We use bottled water at our weekend place in farm country out in PA because of all the possibility of contamination by the raw manure and chemicals spread on the surrounding fields, but not here in the city because the water is fine except for the occasional flush backs the DEP does when they fuck up.

andoman

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:28:20 -0500

I don't understand why people can't just refill the bottles until they are too beat up to re-use.

TKaisen

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:22:45 -0500

I never got the bottled water thing. However, if you pay $5 for a glass of tap water, you're retarded.

pissyrabbit

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:28:53 -0500

I demand that restaurants do not filter the run off anti-depressants out of my water!

blablanyc

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:58:18 -0500

I can't believe people are afraid to use tap water. There isn't anything wrong with it.

Chimbles

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:56:48 -0500

How convenient, now I can pay Pellegrino price for tap water... now I just hope they do something about all that free air I'm getting at a restaurant... maybe a little surcharge is in order!

Rolltide23

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:37:59 -0500

Save the polar bears...dont drink bottled water. I pollute as much as possible, and I use as much energy as possible. And perhaps someday, when people stop flying on private planes, like all the liberals pushing this bs down our throats, I will cut down. Until then, I couldnt possibly pollute as much as they do, no matter what I do. We all have to sacrifice, except air travel.

juniper19

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:19:24 -0500

Unfortunately my favorite local pizza place, Pizza 33 on 33rd and 3rd, didn't get the memo and has recently started refusing to serve tap water.

cucarachita

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:24:44 -0500

I have had my own filter at home for the last five years, since I realized how much money I was wasting on bottled water. Not to mention how much carrying bottles home from the supermarket made my back ache. When you don't have a car, and have to carry your own groceries home, bottled water seems stupid very early on.

sinisterteashop

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:44:22 -0500

Makes me very happy... as does every environmental trend that saves me money.

Nick S

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:43:19 -0500

some more business owners making a buck off of well-meaning people. when the "environmentalist" fad dies off, everyone is going to point back to stuff like this to prove that the main motivation behind the movement was greed.

fakenewyorker

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:01:05 -0500

evian is naive backwards ooooh

Dirk

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:56:35 -0500

$5 or $6 dollars a glass Is this a typo? Wow... that's not right at all...