/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5694267
cause it says smart on it numbnuts

>>5694267
It's got what plants crave.

>>5694267
its sheeple water

>smartwater

That's exactly how I would name my bottled water if I wanted to rip off shekels from guillable idiots, kinda like Diet Water

>>5694267
more like dumbwater amirite?

I did some research on it and apparently it's just water with electrolytes.


I don't get it.

>>5694267
>Why is this shit popular?
Because it's gatorade minus the sugar and artificial color and flavors.

Maybe you never workout, don't get sick with diarrhea or the flu, but some people like this water. Since it's the same price as most other bottled water choices, why does it bother you OP?

>>5694314
gatoraid without the color or flavor
its for pompous cunts

>>5694322
No, this is for pompous cunts.

Superior water coming through.

>>5694326
You're correct on that.

>>5694318
Don't bother. The average person on this board weighs 300 lbs and makes minimum wage in some piece of shit local restaurant.
These are facts. Don't attempt to have intelligent convos with them.

>>5694331
ugh black water that makes my stomach turn makes me think of sewage backup

>>5694318
>>5694336
Fuck off, sheeple.

Enjoy your shitty filtered water with buzzwords.

>>5694326
Bet she throws that shit out too

>>5694336
>>5694318
So it's a complete placebo. There is no reason to drink anything with electrolytes unless you spend 8+ hours a day doing hardcore training without eating.

It's completely useless.

>>5694318
>>5694336
At least you're not drinking the mind controlling flourides in tap water, I guess

>>5694348
>there is no reason
I can imagine being so poor that the taste of things don't matter

I can't imagine wanting to keep on living though

>>5694348
Maybe one day you'll get a 15% tip and be able to enjoy how amazing smart water is.

>>5694364
Are you defending expensive water? Really?
its fucking bottled water with salt

>>5694364
>get water from tap
>add some salt

Fucking smart water. In before
>electrolytes aren't salt

>>5694381
>expensive

It's like 2 bucks. Get a job poorfag.

>>5694387
>salt

No, it's not salty water.

>>5694387
They aren't.

>>5694390
>>5694387
>inb4 autism and "all X is Y therefore all Y is X"

>All these plebs ITT that fell for gimmicky marketing.

kek

>>5694457

Down with all these corporations, MANNNN

>posted from my Asus™ Black™ series GameBook™

>>5694463
I bet you use Chrome.

>>5694364
>not infusing filtered tap water with desirable electrolytes or carbonating it yourself

are you even trying

>>5694467

Joke's on you, I'm using iceweasel

>>5694298

>wanting to restore electrolytes and rehydrate after strenuous exercise
>gets called sheep

no

>>5694331
>Contains Fulvic Acid
>Produced by biodegradation of dead organic matter
Fucking gross

I refuse to believe there isn't a coke shill in this thread. I have never seen anyone vehemently defend fucking bottled water with so much vigor on /ck/. It's like it's backwards day.

>>5694389
That's like 20 000 times more expensive than tap water from your sink versus some coke factory

>>5694563
You're forgetting the not being near the sink all the time, turbo NEET

>>5694570
What third world country do you live in that doesn't have a sink, fountain or something like that within a few hundred feet?

>>5694348
>. There is no reason to drink anything with electrolytes unless you spend 8+ hours a day doing hardcore training without eating.
OR you could have chron's, IBS or the flu, you know, shitting or vomiting, or people taking antibiotics or diuretics. Let's see about your theory of 8 hours of exercise needed? Nope.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9232555

>>5694579
The USA. And I don't like drinking from the public fountain

Go back to your soda thread, fatty.

>>5694557
I drink store brand bottled water.

I pay for the convenience.

>>5694582
>implying I was being literal
There is no reason for the everyday person to drink the shit. And guess what? If you are in a situation where do you need them you will almost always have an IV.

>>5694570
>not using a reusable bottle
environmentally unconscious amerifat spotted

>>5694645

I generally do bring a reusable bottle with me when my plans involve getting thirsty (like at the gym), but not everything can be autistically planned out when you have friends, a job, and so forth.

What country are you from where no one drinks bottled water? I was under the impression America lags in this area, since we mostly just drink HFCS soda. Muh munny's worth and all that.

>>5694267
Camelbak masterrace reporting in. Fuck water bottled in soft plastic which people throw away. This piece of fine ass equipment lets you hold almost a liter of water. See how the straw gets thicker and has a little curve? Insert a cheap fucking filter in there and bam, garbage public tap water tastes glorious. Fuck your smart water.

>>5694657
Enjoy your BPAs

>>5694655
it's not exactly autistic planning to grab your reusable bottle before going out.

>>5694669
>what is bpa free plastic

>>5694680
Certainly not what you have posted.

>>5694674

Have you never gotten a text from a friend when you're at the office on a non-gym day? No?

Guess why:

>you don't have a job
>you don't go to the gym
>you don't have friends

Pick all three

>>5694689
maybe I take that bottle to the office??? :0

>>5694696

That seems unlikely. Also you haven't answered the question about what country you're from.

I never really understood the buying bottled water fad. I mean, everyone that buys it I assume lives in a place with a good tap. Even if the water is kinda shit, you're better off just getting a filter.

I can sort of understand if you don't like room temp water and want cold water immediately. But even then, just collect soda bottles and fill them with water and put em in ya fridge. That's what I did with the 10 soda bottles I had collected to recycle (this are not 2 liters but the 500 ml versions.) I just use those and some Aperture bottle I was given as a gift years ago. I don't really like portal, but the bottle is really nice and holds about 32 oz of water. Refill that nigga twice a day and you got your daily needs. Not to mention it's not that Voss shit that is glass and shatters if your dumb ass drops the fruit-filled piece of shit

no really what's up with that

>>5694699
Hungary. People will buy occasionally bottled water, but most people who regularly need outdoor hydration figured out to carry their own bottle.

why wouldn't I take one to the office? Or uni, because that's what I attend.

>>5694702

I lived in southern California for most of my life, the tap water is murky and awful; living in an apartment, installing an actual filtration system is out of the question, and a small tap filter/Brita filter isn't going to perform anywhere near as well as the RO water shop or vending machine for a quarter a gallon.

>>5694702
i only buy bottled water now because the water coming into my house is nasty as fuck and brown most of the time. My landlord is a piece of shit and wont fix it. Luckily im moving out next month because fuck that

>>5694713
>uni

How do you attend a kind of sea urchin roe?

Also, the reason you don't take an empty bottle to the office is that the office has water glasses, so why would you need that?

I'd rather "risk" spending a whopping 2 bucks on a water bottle occasionally than carry around a stupid empty bottle just in case. But then I have a first world salary whereas you live in a USSR-inspired socialist state behind the iron curtain. I hope some day you get freedom so you can wear Levi's and listen to rock and roll and drink bottled water.

>>5694726
it awfully seems like you asked about my country just to take the opportunity to google up some outdated info to insult with.

>>5694726
>How do you attend a kind of sea urchin roe?
hurrrrr so funny

>>5694743
>google

It's common knowledge that Hungary is behind the iron curtain. I saw Reagan talking about it on the television.

In any case, from my experience in the free parts of Europe, bottled water is extremely common. When communism collapses you may eventually get to enjoy these freedoms yourself.

>>5694584
Lel

Nalgeen master race here, fatso

>>5694689
>>5694726
Does it bother you that the only rebuttal you have to spending $2 on the most abundant resource on the planet is ad hominem?

>>5694768

You're the one who started slinging insults about my nationality. You dish it out, you get to take it in return.

In any case you can't stop me and billions of other people from drinking bottled water. I suggest you find another cause to get worked up over.

>>5694778
that's a different anon though

>>5694786
What are you saying? Only one person could ever possibly disagree with me or think I was stupid.

>>5694778
Know that you are paying more for water than petrol.

As far as water goes, do you guys know why water, of most brands and places, would taste like shit to a person?

I try to drink as much as I can but I haven't found a brand that I can't taste the metal or rusty flavor in, I attempted getting used to the filtered fridge water but that tastes like butt too

are my taste buds shot?

>>5694275
I love you

>>5695098

I don't pay for "petrol". Occasionally I grudgingly rent a deathcage for work, but then the company pays for it.

>>5694314
>electrolytes.
>I don't get it.

probably because you're a fatass neet

>>5694550
Cant you say the same for a ton of other naturally occurring things?

Hm, what else is produced by biodegradation of dead organic matter?

Fucking fertilizer that they use to grow literally all your food.

>>5695110
Yeah, there's probably something wrong with you. I mean, I can understand not liking the taste of muni water, or not liking the taste of certain types of bottled, but to dislike everything?

>>5695132
Who fucking cares. Do you have to take every opportunity to blog about what a pompous ass you are?

>>5695233
I mean if you want to eat fertilizer you can be my guest.

>>5694267
>drinking tap water that hasn't even been to school
I bet you eat cows with GEDs, too

>>5694326
>I'll buy a water bottle and use up half its volume with filler, wasting a bunch of fruit in the process!

how the fuck did this ever become a trend

>>5695316
I prefer my meat to have at least a bachelors, but i will settle for an associates if i absolutely have to.

>>5695409
because women

>>5694340
Racist.

>>5694275
That's not Brawndo.

>>5694267

>>5695409
They don't eat the fruit after drinking the water? What's wrong with them?

>>5698042
"Pure Speculation"
Pretty much sums up the health benefits of 'smart water'. Someone in advertising should be fired for that one, then applauded.

>>5698103

What are these "health benefits"? You mean not being thirsty? You want a double blind peer reviewed study to show that drinking water makes you less thirsty?

It's a tall sturdy water bottle you can usually get on sale for a dollar. It's not worth 2.

>>5694267
It's cheap

I just finish it and continue using the same bottle for a month or two.

>>5694331
Lol it's not vegan.

>>5694267
cool, trip and hendy typeface, logo, and bottle design.

>>5698317
>trip and hendy
did you a stroke?

>>5694669
>>5694680
"Our bottles and reservoirs are 100% Free of BPA and BPS"

I had it once around when it first came into popularity in my area.

I had forgotten to bring my water bottle to college, had a long schedule that day, and smart water was the only bottle that came in a large size.

I think it tasted sort of nice compared to some other brands of bottled water but yeah nothing special.

>>5694267
Actually, it's distilled water with electrolytes. Beats the shit out of city water any day.

>>5694702
>just collect soda bottles and fill them with water
Don't do this, the plastic from soda bottles breaks down with continuous use or in dishwashers, blah blah blah, it's bad for you. If you look, soda bottles actually say "Do Not Reuse" on them now. Just buy a bottle or two that are dishwasher safe, or reuse glass bottles.

>>5694726
I am an American.
I have a full time job that pays well.
I bring a refillable water bottle with me to work nearly every day.

Buying water isn't a sign of freedom. The fact that you think that is absolutely terrifying to me.

I collect rain water fuck you and your bottled water

>>5701209
Why do you have to bring a bottle? Don't they have water glasses where you work? Are you a soldier or something? Thank you for the freedoms!

>>5701232
...You're welcome.

I have to get bottled water, my well water is poison. The source is near a fertilizer chemical plant/dump. We drink out of an office style water cooler.

>>5694267
Marketing. Same as any successful product. Fuck I buy it sometimes because I buy bottled water. I am never truly loyal to a brand but there are brands I wont buy.

>>5701281
If you're in the United States, you should write a letter to every sub-department of the EPA that you can find a mailing address for, about once every few weeks. Additionally, you should look into filing a class action lawsuit or whatever is appropriate.

>>5694341
>says sheeple
>makes fun of others for using buzzwords

ur a cheeky cunt arnt cha m8

>>5694655
>>5694689

Stop being a fucking jerk

I lick the morning dew from the supple stalks of wildflowers that grow in the hills o'er yonder, wetted by the cool breeze that carries the essence of the pure snow atop the majestic mountains' peaks, faggots. Enjoy your bottled tap water.

>>5701343

omggg im so hard

>>5694267
It's good and has decent bottle construction

>buying bottled water
>not saving yourself a few hundred dollars a year buying fancy shit water just cause someone/something told you too

Goddamn plebs

No idea, but all you really need is a decent water filter to get all the terrible shit out that's put in our water supply

>>5694331
i thought it was just the packing thats black...

>>5694715

1.25 for a five gallon jug or 1.50 for a 20oz bottle that tastes the same

fuck yeah california

>>5694267
Cuz it's 75 cents at my LGS and if I really need a drink/didn't brig one with me I rather have water of sugar?

>>5694326
That looks delicious though

>>5694634
>There is no reason for the everyday person to drink the shit. And guess what? If you are in a situation where do you need them you will almost always have an IV.
Huh? Who has an IV handy everytime they go running or get sick for half a day?

"Studies estimate IBS affects 3 to 20 percent of the adult population, with most studies ranging from 10 to 15 percent."
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/ibs/
That's almost "everyday person" level chunk of the population to make this quite popular. Hard for you to understand if you haven't walked the walk.
10% of the population are "runners" or athletics of any regularity/seriousness. That's also a big demographic in the market of buying water.

Look outside yourself and your small world of hating hipster things and judging the world from outside the perspective of the consumers who participate in the market by having a job and living a real life.

>>5694702
>But even then, just collect soda bottles and fill them with water and put em in ya fridge.
Dude. This isn't unsanitary. Water isn't sterile you know unless treated, same as your bottle.

If you don't have wide mouth glass bottles, and sanitizing that in bleach, or your dishwasher, you shouldn't be using it day after day and storing it even a day at a time, even if you arent putting your mouth on it. To that end, it's something Voss does have going for itself, it's glass and reusable, but never ever reuse a disposable bottle more than say a day or two. You can't clean that porous surface plastic well, and it was DESIGNED to break down, like in a landfill or be recycled. It was not designed to be reused. The cap size and shape was designed for durability in shipping, and sipping, not for cleaning.

>>5694702
>Not to mention it's not that Voss shit that is glass and shatters if your dumb ass drops the fruit-filled piece of shit
Yea, maybe talk to a neurologist about your nerve disorder if this is a constant problem. You shouldn't be dropping things, or worrying about it, if you are older than age 5.

>>5695110
>As far as water goes, do you guys know why water, of most brands and places, would taste like shit to a person?
>I try to drink as much as I can but I haven't found a brand that I can't taste the metal or rusty flavor in, I attempted getting used to the filtered fridge water but that tastes like butt too
>are my taste buds shot?
It might be that there are fresher brands locally that have a shorter time in the bottle. Keep trying.
A confusing thing people don't realize is that the more pure the water, the grosser it tastes. You need the right mix and right percentage of dissolved minerals to taste delicious. This means buy "spring" water, not "filtered" or "purified" or distilled water, assuming your labeling is regulated, and is not a big fat lie. Try starting with an evian or pelligrino (if european), these brands are known for the right amount of minerals, and try getting a larger liter bottle if it means you get it in glass. If you still find that to taste off, then, yes, go see your dentist or doctor, something might be wrong there with you. If it tastes delicious to you, then branch out to save money here and there, or never buy from such and such store with old water, but rather stock up at the superbig high volume store occasionally, basically, just try to save money and tolerate what you can within your budget, from brita to generics to seeking out the bargain when it's on sale.

>>5694267
I buy it so I can look cool around de ladies

>>5702469

Is that your mom? She's not bad looking for an old lady

>>5694584
Your job/place of work doesn't have a filtered water fountain/tap?

Your life sucks.

>>5702483

I'm not buying bottled water at work. I have water glasses, seltzer, filtered tap water, etc.

Do you have a life outside of work and posting on 4chan?

>>5702335
People with IBS don't need Smartwater though. The amount of electrolytes in Smartwater is negligible.

>>5702482
Lo. She gets by alright

>>5694275
Toplol

>>5702425
I was with you until you started calling him a child. Fuck a duck faggot

kind of fringe-related, but does anyone reuse their glass alcohol bottles for drinking water out of? for some reason, i really like the way glass doesn't flavor the water, because even BPA-free plastic does.

>pic related
i have two bottles of henny, one MD bottle and (the most perfect water bottle, IMHO) the french-rose-wine-whatever-thing.

>>5703400
>implying BPA-free matters at all

>>5703400
Holy shit do you look like an alcoholic.
You know that they sell glass water bottles, right?

>>5703414
i don't know/care if it matters, as i'll never use it. if others care, i'm sure they'll find their reasons to.

>>5703415
>what is DIY?
might as well get something you can use twice instead of once. ;)

>>5703415
wow 4 bottles of alcohol, he sure is a lush! unless by "look" you mean people will think he's drinking vodka or something, then ok

>>5703400

I've just got a few Perrier bottles that I use.

>>5703400
dude that's even more douchey than buying premium bottled tap water

>>5694267
Here's how to have an awesome glass reusable waterbottle for cheap;
Go to marshalls/ross/whateverdiscounteddesignerbrandstore
Buy a four pack of Voss glass water they're selling for 6 dollars which is $1.5 per bottle
Scrape Voss logo off (if you care that much what people think about you)
Reuse

it's a great cheap water bottle that won't leech BPA because glass, the top is big so it easily screws and stays on compared to other waterbottles with tiny ass caps that just don't want to shut. I have a britta plastic bpa free waterbottle with a filter that I use way less than the voss bottle because it makes awkward loud sucking sounds while trying to drink the water through the filter and has the tendency to spill either where the top screws onto the bottle or where the spout/filter attaches to the top from being just a tiny bit loose.

>>5703522
hghh, what? you call me douchey for reusing glass liquor bottles, then you suggest buying 4 (?!) bottles of "premiuim bottled tap water"?

shirley you can't be serious

>>5704238
Don't call me Shirley.

>>5704238
uh yeah. pretty much >>5703415
>Holy shit do you look like an alcoholic.

also
>I'm too cool for waterbottles I drink out of glass wine bottles

>>5704250
i really don't understand how my point is being lost on you, so i'll try to explain:
>be a free-blooded american
>decide that i want liquor
>drink liquor out of glass bottle
>keep bottle as vessel for water for weeks to come

your suggestions:
>buy an empty glass bottle
or
>buy a bottle of expensive water (which you disowned in your post as being douchey!)
>scrape off logo so people won't judge
>the above, times three?!

jesus, if i'm anything, i'm an economist

>>5704250
>hurr instead of making use of materials available to me I'll buy extra bottles that I don't need because I'm such a hard core consumerist sheep
Fucking kill yourself retard

>>5694557
It's hardly with vigor. They're presenting they're case calmly while you chimp the fuck out.

>>5694743
Face it he blew you the fuck out.

>>5695246
This is great. I don't even buy bottled water but this guy is shutting you people up who are against it so hard all you can come back with is

>A-ASSHOLE

>>5701733
Would boiling my tap water be enough?

>>5704387
i disagree—the hungarian was making common sense, while the other guy was hurling assholish ad-hominems about a place he's never even been.
>budapest is beautiful and very western

>>5704407
nope, but moving to oregon—where that shit is ILLEGAL—would be. also something something nascent iodine something?

>>5704412
The guy from Hungary provided no acceptable rebuttal that taking an empty water bottle is pointless if you have a job where water glasses would be available. He blew him the fuck out.

>>5704426
i think his point was more about having a bottle of water on you at all times, regardless of place; that is, be in control of your hydration.

also, what the hell is up with communal glasses? it seems so much more impractical than your own bottle. for example, spilling water all over your desk and keyboard like a dingus, because there's no cap.

>>5704442

Maybe for people like you a sippy cup is a better way to hydrate

>>5704443
aaaaaad hominem. this is why i love 4chan.

>>5704446

Do you talk like that in real life?

>>5704426
That makes no sense, of course there's a point to bringing an empty water bottle. The retard was saying he'd only need to buy bottled water if something unexpected came up, so bringing an empty bottle of water would prevent him from needing to buy something he already has. It is only seems pointless to you and him because you'd both rather waste money to protect your image instead of carrying around a "stupid" empty bottle. I don't know his transport situation, but assuming he is using a "deathcage" to get around, he can just leave it in the car and take it out only when necessary. Or he can just put it in his gym bag or backpack or something. The only real argument that was mentioned so far was taste. If he likes the taste of bottled water, I'm not going to stop him.

>>5704460
yeah, buddy—that's how i chat with hot babes all day. (p.s. that was another ad hominem)

>>5704467
>>5704342
>>5704249
man, i don't know if you're the same person, but i like all three of you. keep it up, friend

The same reason people by fiji water.
To feel special or some placebo effect.

>>5694275