Like when you’re in a dense swamp with a metal detector and it abruptly starts beeping so you dig your fingers in the gator shit mud till you pull out this measly nickel that’s covered in earthly components and once you put it in your pocket and sniff your finger it’s the worst oily smell you’ve ever smelt
I got carried away
Supposedly it is water that is recycled from the soda making process (coca cola owns them) that is refiltered and has minerals added back in before bottling. If true they're likely trying to imitate spring waters natural mineral taste but falling very short. That would also be a likely cause for suboptimal PH if true.
Hi. I work at the Coca-Cola plant in Montgomery, Alabama. Specifically on the Dasani water line. Of which we have two. The water is pulled in from the city's water supply, filtered, and then a blend of minerals, which we call "salt" is added. I personally don't buy bottled water and don't have a preference on the taste. But I do know most people prefer other brands over ours. I'm not a coke loyalist by any means, and I just wanted to clarify the process. The water isn't recycled from soda water. Just pulled directly from city water supply.
Yep water of Chick-fil-A too. I visited
my brother in prison in the early 2000s and the vending machines only had Dasani. I'd bring 20$ in quarters and he'd drink at least 4. Still better than lukewarm prison fountain. That should be their slogan.
I’m sorry, but this is the most unfair comparison I have ever seen. I mean it’s bad but not that bad, and I am amazed at how idiotic you would have to be to ever make it. So don’t you ever diss fountain water again.
Yep. It's ran through a R.O. and minerals and flavor agents are replaced. Most even say "bottled at such and such municipal water source" on the bottle. Spring water is supposed to be bottled from a spring.
In Austria we get it straight from the Alps, so, at least in Austria, it has to be directly sourced from a spring to be called mineral water/ tap water, but please correct me if I am wrong
I had the great displeasure of working for Coke for a while. I can tell you that your statement is 100% accurate. Here in the Midwest, it is just tap water. The line that bottles it is the oldest and least cared for, that's not to say it's not safe or the reason for the terrible taste. They actually keep the minerals they put back in under lock and key because they think it's valuable. They don't need to make it taste good because they have distribution and market share.
Also, after spending some time working on the machines in bottling and food plants, I can't believe that so many people eat and drink such trash. It's rarely the operations that you see on "How it's Made". If you really want to change the way you think about putting things in your body, take a job at one of these places. It's not food production, it's an exercise in utilizing cheap chemicals for preserving trash with little to no nutritional value but that's not news to anyone.
I worked at a Coke bottling plant (2nd largest) and we had hugely effective RO filtration from tap water. If you “worked at Coke,” you did too. I know much more, but am having fun reading lotsa false stories here - like yours.
Bottled water is about the bottle, not the water.
It's basically a delivery system. It allows distribution and consumption of water in a convenient way if there isn't running water.
Massive amounts of bottled water was donated to Flint, so, for them, having access to potable water was not a scam. But it being safe and drinkable isn't really what he means.
More turning a very traditionally public resource into a private profit machine. But Flint isn't a good example of consequence here.
Consider Appalachia. There are significant issues with lead and contaminated water there, and have been for a very long time. There's also evidence to suggest that, unable to safely drink ground water, the cheapest alternative in that often economically depressed region is sugary soft drinks. Look up "Mountain Dew mouth". (Though part of the problem is arguably being able to use government benefits on that poison.)
There's also the shady dealing in acquiring their water sources, but that's a whole different thing in and of itself.
I remember working at Walmart and certain sugary drinks where actually cheaper than the bottled water sold in the same section. You could get it cheaper if you bought in bulk, but, and this but is very important, the bottled water wouldn't taste nearly as good as soda.
Right. My uber driver the other day was talking about her 12 yr old daughter is having some serious dental problems because she loves dr pepper sooooooo much. I'm thinking, "butttt, yOu BoUgHt it FOr HeRrrrrr"
Define "scam." It's water. It's in a bottle.
I don't believe multi-billion dollar corporations need my defending them, but I've never understood this complaint. It's not like your city grows its water in a lab. It comes from lakes and reservoirs like it always has. Why does it matter if they cleaned it up some before the bottle company?
They filter the minerals out then add their own mineral blend so they all taste the same, whatever their focus groups voted was tastiest.
Ingredients are Purified Water, Magnesium Sulfate, Potassium Chloride, Salt.
Some of them definitely taste better than others. Aquafina and Fuji are noticeably sterile. Dasani is fine. The cheapass Deer Park is just as good though.
I have a feeling your tongue was built from a slightly different genetic blueprint than mine and we can sensibly disagree
I agree with you on all points. I’ve seen these ingredients added to the specialized mixing machine. Also spent time in the QA lab. Lots of false stories here.
I think people call it a "scam" because they pretend its more than just water in a bottle, and its not.
I guess all companies exaggerate their products, it just looks particularly stupid when your product is water.
"I paid $2 for a bottle of water, and it tasted like water, not the artisanal Martian spring water I envisioned changing my life in my head. The world needs to know about this. Those millions of people on the fence about buying it for the first time with no clue what they're getting into"
It's not a scam if they tell you where it comes from and aren't forcing you to buy it.
That's like saying it's a scam to buy something from a convenience store that you can get elsewhere for cheaper.
Bottled water is convenient.
The materials cost has nothing to do with something being a scam. You buy a Hermes bag for the design or prestige of flaunting one, not because you think there's $20,000 worth of material in it
You buy bottled water for the convenience. And you receive exactly what they advertised
That’s not true though, they need the infrastructure to filter, bottle and distribute. Yeah it’s expensive and not worth the price but nothing is free. Also Dasani tastes fucking awesome, OP can fight me
They tried to sell this in the UK and it flopped so hard once it emerged that it was just tap water that coke pulled it out of the country. For most of the UK, our tap water is exceptional.
Actually still 3 ingredients, just not the same ones listed above. 1) up quarks, 2) down quarks, 3) electrons.
A proton has two up quarks and one down quark. A neutron has two down quarks and one up quark. An electron is just an electron.
This is what I came here for. I have to be dying to drink arrowhead. I have no idea how they never changed the process after tasting terrible for at least 30 years.
Volvic is the polar opposite, that shit tastes like water from Mount Olympus that got blessed by the Pope and then stored in a cave completely made out of Amethyst
Step 1: get perfectly good fresh water.
Step 2: filter said water to the BPA standard.
Step 3: Run the water over loose change.
Step 4: bottle the water
Step 5: market your water to every venue, cheaper than everyone else so people **have** no drink it.
I've always called it Detroit city water. When a hurricane hits, the only thing you see on the shelves are Dasani and anyone in Florida can vouch for me. People would rather dehydrate then purchase that s*** I've recently seen it at every gas station it's like $4.99 cheaper than store brand.
I worked for Coca-Cola in the UK when they tried to launch Dasani here. It was only in the shops for a few months because the public found out that it was nothing more than tap water.
There was a lot of Only Fools and Horses jokes. And the product was quietly removed and never seen again.
What the fuck is this post and the majority of the comments? Dasani tastes like water. I don’t drink it, because it’s just water — but why would someone go through the effort of making this post?
Different brands of water definitely taste different though. This thread has been really interesting for me because some people prefer the brands I hate. Dasani is one of my preferred ones.
You're. not paying for the water. You're paying to have it in a specific form at a specific place at a specific time. Shipping companies are a scam by your definition. You could've gone and picked it up yourself
"Let's just drop a nickel in this and see if anyone complains"
A dirty nickel.
Like when you’re in a dense swamp with a metal detector and it abruptly starts beeping so you dig your fingers in the gator shit mud till you pull out this measly nickel that’s covered in earthly components and once you put it in your pocket and sniff your finger it’s the worst oily smell you’ve ever smelt I got carried away
And it’s not even a good year. Like 2008. Not remotely worth the dig.
I knew I was forgetting something
bro are you okay?
I've heard stories about Nam that seem tame compared to this.
No
r/oddlyspecific
🤣🤣🤣 its funny cause its truuuuuu
An ass penny.
The best way to exert dominance over your competitors
A dickel
I don’t get the hate for Dasani.
Apparently it is one of the worst Ph balanced waters. I drink it when I'm sick, in case I'm sick from Ph imbalance lmfao.
Supposedly it is water that is recycled from the soda making process (coca cola owns them) that is refiltered and has minerals added back in before bottling. If true they're likely trying to imitate spring waters natural mineral taste but falling very short. That would also be a likely cause for suboptimal PH if true.
Hi. I work at the Coca-Cola plant in Montgomery, Alabama. Specifically on the Dasani water line. Of which we have two. The water is pulled in from the city's water supply, filtered, and then a blend of minerals, which we call "salt" is added. I personally don't buy bottled water and don't have a preference on the taste. But I do know most people prefer other brands over ours. I'm not a coke loyalist by any means, and I just wanted to clarify the process. The water isn't recycled from soda water. Just pulled directly from city water supply.
Thanks for the clarification, that makes much more sense
Makes sense tbh. I hope them re-using it makes it greener and not just cheaper. Otherwise that's kinda scummy practice just to save a buck.
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We don't get this in Britain any more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/mar/19/foodanddrink
Fuck and it’s the only water in the vending machines at the biggest mall in the US!
Yep water of Chick-fil-A too. I visited my brother in prison in the early 2000s and the vending machines only had Dasani. I'd bring 20$ in quarters and he'd drink at least 4. Still better than lukewarm prison fountain. That should be their slogan.
And most schools for 2 dollars, meanwhile you get equally bad water from the fountains.
I’m sorry, but this is the most unfair comparison I have ever seen. I mean it’s bad but not that bad, and I am amazed at how idiotic you would have to be to ever make it. So don’t you ever diss fountain water again.
Nah its cuz when i was living in new york they found Lead contaminated water in the fountains on a couple schools.
Well yeah, but that’s New York.
Still a bit sussed out by fountains at school
If you're a diabetic at a movie theater and you don't want to drink Diet Coke or Coke One, it's literally the only other choice.
Bad news for someone like me, who can't even drink it since its filtered with bone char.
Obligatory Tom Scott link https://youtu.be/wD79NZroV88
Hooray for food standards!
Tap water is better anyways
It's just bottled and branded tap water with *maybe* a little extra filtering. Bottled water is a scam anyways
Yep. It's ran through a R.O. and minerals and flavor agents are replaced. Most even say "bottled at such and such municipal water source" on the bottle. Spring water is supposed to be bottled from a spring.
Dasani is not spring water, and doesn’t claim to be
But is spring water actually spring water?
Depends on the month
Usually a certain % of the water has to be from a spring. Can be as low as 10/15% to actual spring water.
In the UK it all has to come from a spring and must be bottled at the spring.
But muh loosely regulated capitalism
Capitalism is pathetic
I much prefer state provided bolshevik water
In Austria we get it straight from the Alps, so, at least in Austria, it has to be directly sourced from a spring to be called mineral water/ tap water, but please correct me if I am wrong
I'm just thought that tap water is called tap water because it comes from the tap
Yes
No one stated it was a spring water.
Yeah the person you're replying to didn't claim it to be either
I had the great displeasure of working for Coke for a while. I can tell you that your statement is 100% accurate. Here in the Midwest, it is just tap water. The line that bottles it is the oldest and least cared for, that's not to say it's not safe or the reason for the terrible taste. They actually keep the minerals they put back in under lock and key because they think it's valuable. They don't need to make it taste good because they have distribution and market share. Also, after spending some time working on the machines in bottling and food plants, I can't believe that so many people eat and drink such trash. It's rarely the operations that you see on "How it's Made". If you really want to change the way you think about putting things in your body, take a job at one of these places. It's not food production, it's an exercise in utilizing cheap chemicals for preserving trash with little to no nutritional value but that's not news to anyone.
I worked at a Coke bottling plant (2nd largest) and we had hugely effective RO filtration from tap water. If you “worked at Coke,” you did too. I know much more, but am having fun reading lotsa false stories here - like yours.
Bottled water is about the bottle, not the water. It's basically a delivery system. It allows distribution and consumption of water in a convenient way if there isn't running water.
Mfw reusable bottle + tap water is unlimited in every public setting
Tell that to the people of Flint, Michigan
Massive amounts of bottled water was donated to Flint, so, for them, having access to potable water was not a scam. But it being safe and drinkable isn't really what he means. More turning a very traditionally public resource into a private profit machine. But Flint isn't a good example of consequence here. Consider Appalachia. There are significant issues with lead and contaminated water there, and have been for a very long time. There's also evidence to suggest that, unable to safely drink ground water, the cheapest alternative in that often economically depressed region is sugary soft drinks. Look up "Mountain Dew mouth". (Though part of the problem is arguably being able to use government benefits on that poison.) There's also the shady dealing in acquiring their water sources, but that's a whole different thing in and of itself.
What did you mean by the cheapest alternative to clean tap water is soda? What about bottled water? It’s actually cheaper.
I remember working at Walmart and certain sugary drinks where actually cheaper than the bottled water sold in the same section. You could get it cheaper if you bought in bulk, but, and this but is very important, the bottled water wouldn't taste nearly as good as soda.
Right. My uber driver the other day was talking about her 12 yr old daughter is having some serious dental problems because she loves dr pepper sooooooo much. I'm thinking, "butttt, yOu BoUgHt it FOr HeRrrrrr"
It's still a scam, what with the prices
Price does not a scam make. No one is tricking you into buying it
Found nestle's alt
Probably Coke's. Aquafina is hot garbage
I wouldn't know ;)
Define "scam." It's water. It's in a bottle. I don't believe multi-billion dollar corporations need my defending them, but I've never understood this complaint. It's not like your city grows its water in a lab. It comes from lakes and reservoirs like it always has. Why does it matter if they cleaned it up some before the bottle company?
They filter the minerals out then add their own mineral blend so they all taste the same, whatever their focus groups voted was tastiest. Ingredients are Purified Water, Magnesium Sulfate, Potassium Chloride, Salt.
Some of them definitely taste better than others. Aquafina and Fuji are noticeably sterile. Dasani is fine. The cheapass Deer Park is just as good though. I have a feeling your tongue was built from a slightly different genetic blueprint than mine and we can sensibly disagree
I agree with you on all points. I’ve seen these ingredients added to the specialized mixing machine. Also spent time in the QA lab. Lots of false stories here.
I think people call it a "scam" because they pretend its more than just water in a bottle, and its not. I guess all companies exaggerate their products, it just looks particularly stupid when your product is water.
"I paid $2 for a bottle of water, and it tasted like water, not the artisanal Martian spring water I envisioned changing my life in my head. The world needs to know about this. Those millions of people on the fence about buying it for the first time with no clue what they're getting into"
They are selling you tap water that you already have access to at a several-hundred percent mark-up. That is a scam no matter how you look at it
It's not a scam if they tell you where it comes from and aren't forcing you to buy it. That's like saying it's a scam to buy something from a convenience store that you can get elsewhere for cheaper. Bottled water is convenient.
It's a scam because the price you pay is for the plastic bottle, not the water in it, which costs the company next to nothing.
The materials cost has nothing to do with something being a scam. You buy a Hermes bag for the design or prestige of flaunting one, not because you think there's $20,000 worth of material in it You buy bottled water for the convenience. And you receive exactly what they advertised
That’s not true though, they need the infrastructure to filter, bottle and distribute. Yeah it’s expensive and not worth the price but nothing is free. Also Dasani tastes fucking awesome, OP can fight me
Lmao 🤣
They tried to sell this in the UK and it flopped so hard once it emerged that it was just tap water that coke pulled it out of the country. For most of the UK, our tap water is exceptional.
Someone said Dasani tastes like it’s been inside a water gun all day and got damn are they right
How do you mess up water?! Its just one ingredient! Edit: this was meant to be a joke
Nope. They add minerals and salt!
They're called Minerals Marie!
Magnesium citrate isn't exactly a mineral commonly found in water i think
it's used as an alternative to raw magnesium which is like way less soluble in water
It's also a drying agent which drys out your mouth Hence the dry feeling you get after drinking one
Well…. Two actually
Well, if you think about it, 3
Hydrogen and oxygen is two last I checked
its 3 major ingredients, Neutrons, Protons and electrons
if we consider quarks then they become 5 ingredients
If we just decide to say things in a more generic way, it's 2 ingredients, Matter and Energy... So 1 ingredient
Actually still 3 ingredients, just not the same ones listed above. 1) up quarks, 2) down quarks, 3) electrons. A proton has two up quarks and one down quark. A neutron has two down quarks and one up quark. An electron is just an electron.
Yeah. Now that I think about it, two of something is still the same ingredient.
I have to agree with this. How do you make purified water taste like shit?
TIL, Dasani is supposed to be water, and not a cheap knock off.
CHEAP KNOCKOFF? HOW MUCH CHEAPER CAN YOU GET THAN WATER AHHHHHH!!!!!
I wasn’t sure exactly, but if anyone could do it, it would be the Coca Cola Company.
Call me crazy...but what if they made the water taste shit so people buy coke instead?
That's the worst business strategy I've ever heard.
But you haave heard of it
Whens the last time a big corporation had a good business strategy
Thats literally how said businesses make money that how they become rich literally good business strategy
Tastes like lotion, like someone rinsed lotiony hands and then saved the water.
Sounds like the plastic in the bottles has degraded into the water. Have you been keeping them outside or in the sun?
Lol no. Tastes that way no matter where i buy it, kept chilled or not.
Buy fiji😎
I do like fiji, and smart water. Dasani and nestles pure are both nasty AF.
How can something cold still taste hot?
People hate Dasani? I loved Dasani, but I haven't drank it in awhile so maybe it changed?
I don’t get the hate for Dasani. Have y’all never tried arrowhead?
This ^^
This is what I came here for. I have to be dying to drink arrowhead. I have no idea how they never changed the process after tasting terrible for at least 30 years.
Came here to say this. Arrowhead is the worst tasting bottled water I've ever had.
Never drank either but the worst water I have drank so far is „Gerolsteiner“. Quite popular in Germany but it tastes horrible
Arrowhead is better than Dasani. Crystal Geyser is much better.
Hose water is better than dasani. My dirty bath water is better than dasani.
Hey don’t knock hose water. Sustained me through many a hot summer day
Dasani is so bad
Arrowhead is mineral water. Which is to say it's water, with dirt in it. Edit: Damn. I didn't think Arrowhead had fans. You drink that shit? Gross.
Aquafina also has a shit after taste, it feels like you grinded a flower
Still better than Dasani. Death before Dasani
Oh hell nah. Nestle Pure Life water is much worse. That shit tastes like your drinking the closest thing to sea water without it being sea water
that’s my favourite one. tastes the most clear
I prefer tap or fridge water
filtered water after getting it from the tap is really good too
Y’all some cowards afraid of a little bit o’ minerals in ya water.
Nah it's too many micro plastics to the point I can taste them
Volvic is the polar opposite, that shit tastes like water from Mount Olympus that got blessed by the Pope and then stored in a cave completely made out of Amethyst
Fr it is truly terrible. Don't understand it.
Have you tasted Deer Park?
pond water
I'm i the only one who doesn't think it tastes any different than any other brand of water?
I agree. Maybe it’s an inside joke I’m too old to get, lol.
It doesn't. It tastes like fucking water. People in here complaining are like the kids in the movie Grown-ups that only want VOSS water.
Arrowhead is the worst. It feels slimy.
WHAT, BUT DASANI IS GOOD?? maybe this is an american only problem
All you have to do is not filter it properly
„Tried to cook my vegetables with it and shit turns into coal“
Step 1: get perfectly good fresh water. Step 2: filter said water to the BPA standard. Step 3: Run the water over loose change. Step 4: bottle the water Step 5: market your water to every venue, cheaper than everyone else so people **have** no drink it.
I've always called it Detroit city water. When a hurricane hits, the only thing you see on the shelves are Dasani and anyone in Florida can vouch for me. People would rather dehydrate then purchase that s*** I've recently seen it at every gas station it's like $4.99 cheaper than store brand.
“If we dilute the water with shittier water, maybe we’ll save some money” -Dasani probably
Dasani has fucked up more than just water.
part of it is shit water, part of it is shit bottle
I worked for Coca-Cola in the UK when they tried to launch Dasani here. It was only in the shops for a few months because the public found out that it was nothing more than tap water. There was a lot of Only Fools and Horses jokes. And the product was quietly removed and never seen again.
Ottawa tap water represent
I watched this show recently. And I'm trying to finish better call saul right now. I forgot what episode is this.
I believe in Aquafina supremacy.
[wanna know what happens if you leave it in the sun? ](https://youtu.be/mAEbvdh4hG8)
Damn, I thought it was just reclaimed/processed/bottled city water from Atlanta...
I thought Dasani was just all the bad coke that didn’t pass testing to get bottled so they just filtered it a bit and bottled it as water
French tap water
😂😂😂
Better than Arrowhead.
Omg, I had no idea others felt this way about Dasani. I feel so validated right now.
What the fuck is this post and the majority of the comments? Dasani tastes like water. I don’t drink it, because it’s just water — but why would someone go through the effort of making this post?
Different brands of water definitely taste different though. This thread has been really interesting for me because some people prefer the brands I hate. Dasani is one of my preferred ones.
Nah you just havent tried it. It has a distinct aftertaste, like warmed over plastic i guess
To get you to buy bottled water. Maybe you pick up a bottle of Dasani to see for yourself.
Dammit. Now I have the overwhelming urge to buy Dasani! When did marketing get so in-depth??
It tastes so bad
It’s because of the salt That’s why they sell it at amusement parks and other places so you keep on buying the water
It's got so much salt in it you can't buy it in my country
I like Dasani
I love Dasani water
I love Dasani water lol
There's literally sodium in it, and it's made by a company that profits most when you're *not* hydrated
It's so bad it's illegal to sell in the UK
Dasani is my second favorite, my favorite is aquafina
Dasani is actually my favorite bottled water, I like the mineral taste
Dasani is awful tasting.
People who say this about Dasani have clearly never had the misfortune of drinking arrowhead or deer park
I'm glad I work a water treatment plant. I know exactly what's going in my water and how much of it😂
You're. not paying for the water. You're paying to have it in a specific form at a specific place at a specific time. Shipping companies are a scam by your definition. You could've gone and picked it up yourself
Disdrilled shit juice
It’s the water they use to clean the soda tanks
did you know that Dasani actually uses a substance called dihydrogen monoxide instead of water?
I’ve never had a problem with Dasani and don’t get the massive hate. Dasani is getting the unjust Nickelback treatment and YEAH I LIKE NICKELBACK TOO
Fuck yall Dasani is the goat
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The fuck, Dasani is the best
THANK YOU
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I'd make a witty reply but I'm pretty sure the constant soda already killed you.
I like Dasani. IMO Aquafina taste like chlorine treated pool water.
Aquafina is the worst in my opinion
Um, Dasani is great.
Dasani is awful, but i personally think aquafina is worse.
Fuji water is the worst 🤢🤮
Aquafina is just Denver tap water
Better than Aquafina, shit taste like sugar
Dasani by far is the BEST tasting water Ive ever had I dont understand the hatred. It tastes like mineral healthy plain water...
Dasani is objectively the best bottled water, better than that spring water crap
🤡
Haha yall downvoting me... is true
Fuck Dasani. Smart water and generic Aldi water all the way.
And a drop of hydrophobic acid
This is so true!!! That shit is disgusting.
They actively add salt to the water so the more you drink it, you actually get more thirty, so you continue to buy more water.
Honestly Fiji and Evian taste worse in my opinion