Common food you will not eat
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Re: Common food you will not eat
A small bottle of the locally bottled water will cost me 1.50 QAR/AED. A similarly sized bottle of Evian will cost me 4.50 in the shops. So it's only three times more expensive, not ten.
Not all water taste the same. Evian has a very clean, rounded taste that does remind me of drinking from mountain springs. The best water I ever had was the water from the mountain streams and waterfalls in the New Zealand Alps (they don't recommend drinking in without purifying it in case there's a dead animal floating in the water further upstream but I took the risk and survived. You could practically get drunk on that water, that's how refreshing and pure it tasted.
Local water is either desalinated and / or has sodium added to it. Neither particularly bothers me but it does taste more metallic than the bottled imported spring water. I drink a mixture of Evian, the local water and Highland Springs. Prefer the European exports by a good margin.
Not all water taste the same. Evian has a very clean, rounded taste that does remind me of drinking from mountain springs. The best water I ever had was the water from the mountain streams and waterfalls in the New Zealand Alps (they don't recommend drinking in without purifying it in case there's a dead animal floating in the water further upstream but I took the risk and survived. You could practically get drunk on that water, that's how refreshing and pure it tasted.
Local water is either desalinated and / or has sodium added to it. Neither particularly bothers me but it does taste more metallic than the bottled imported spring water. I drink a mixture of Evian, the local water and Highland Springs. Prefer the European exports by a good margin.
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Re: Common food you will not eat
Local water is either desalinated and / or has sodium added to it. Neither particularly bothers me but it does taste more metallic than the bottled imported spring water. I drink a mixture of Evian, the local water and Highland Springs. Prefer the European exports by a good margin.