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Dasani is the worst tasting bottled water
this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2024
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I'm so happy to see so many comments shitting on Dasani. I've sworn at random times to friends and family that Dasani tastes like garbage. Like wet dog runoff or water that was stewed with pennies. But nobody ever agrees. It actually tastes closer to my sulfur-y well water than any other normal bottled water.
My girlfriend's house has sulfur-laden well water. I find it absolutely revolting, taking a shower feels like I'm in a pot of hard boiled eggs, but she swears she's used to it.
I think it's subconsciously the reason she's always dehydrated.
Oh god, I don't know if I could do that. Our showers are softened and... something else that removes the smell. And we have an under-sink 5-stage filter for drinking or cooking with because if you use the well water for, say, stew or pasta, it just tastes "off"
You know how people say LaCroix tastes like carbonated water that sat open next to a bunch of fruit?
Dasani has that sort of deal going on but with a sewage plant.
I suspect it'll be the one mandated to be sold alongside the other Coca-Cola owned sodas.
The best(?) water I've ever had that wasn't from a tap is the mega cheap Kirkland Signature stuff from Costco. It's still largely the same taste as the tap water, though I am fortunate enough to live in an area with decent tap water.
Having good tap water is truly a blessing. I’ve never felt the need to have bottled at home
It's just tap water isn't it? It got recalled here and never came back.
No, tap water is palatable. Dasani is runoff from an over-exerted kiddie pool filter.
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Dasani has water in it.
Straight from the tap
No, they add sodium.
Do they really? That's actually really good for some of us with certain medical conditions. I have to add sodium and other electrolytes on my own.
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Ishbia’s purchase of the Suns was approved in Feb. 2023. Since he’s relatively new as majority owner of the team, I’ll give him some benefit of the doubt and assume in this situation he is working to make things better with his position and either only recently became aware of the price issue or was only just now able to change it, rather than simply making the change now for optics. You can be cynical about those who set the prices before him.
Now Im not in the US so I dont know ticket prices but seats are seats, maintenance on the stadium is largely a fixed cost. Empty seats generate $0 in food and ticket revenue.
If you can reasonably predict that a family of 5 can go have a great time for $50 + tickets you are going to get families coming, making it a thing the family does regularly which also sells merch and jerseys and creates life long fans, which creates a franchise that pays off in the long term. Its good long term business thinking. Nobody is going to the Basketball because the Hotdogs are amazing, your selling the experience not the food.
People can try and be the helpers at any point. Life can be like that. You don't have to accept it. But it don't hurt to try.
For the rest of the world, 16 oz is approximately 500 g so I guess that's equivalent to a 500 ml bottle.
$2 for that is actually pretty reasonable for an event.
It's confusing, but there are two different units: "oz" (ounces) and "fl oz" (fluid ounces). Ounces are a unit of weight and fluid ounces are a unit of volume. But it's not always written explicitly as "fl oz", sometimes it's shortened to just "oz" and you get from context they mean the fluid ones.
So 16 oz in that context means 16 fl oz, which is about 473 ml.
For water, they're actually equivalent, just like grams and milliliters. As the old saying goes, "a pint's a pound the world around, but mainly in the U.S. and Liberia."
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Word is that the nachos are stale, and come with pickles and cold cheese.
I'd much rather go to San Antonio, get some churros
Why? There'll be a Filiberto's mere minutes away. That's like a whole day of driving from Phoenix to San Antonio.
That's still more than I would pay.
$2 for a bottle of water is a robbery
It may be, but it's a standard price that you would find outside of a sporting event.
Mother of face fucking god, that's terrible pricing. We're buying 6packs of 1.5L bottles of carbonated water sometimes and it's like 2-3 Euros, and contains more than 24 times more water than this joke of a bottle o.O
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$2.75 at the vending machine at work.
Well of course, that's the point of being in a captive audience, like at the movie theater or airport. At least they aren't bleeding you for $8.50 for the same bottle. Makes it hurt a little less if one of your treats in life is watching a game, and someone needs to start the precedent of slowing down the momentum of overcharging for basic goods
Damn, imagine if you went to every game
If I was a fan I'd be sat wondering why they'd been happily talking a 75+% profit margin from me after I'd already bought a ticket to be there.
If they could just not, when they feel like it
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How is selling garbage for cheap supposed to be uplifting?
That's not cheap.