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Meet the water sommeliers: they believe H₂O can rival wine – but would you pay £19 a bottle?
(www.theguardian.com)
£19 for a Bottle of water? What is that shit
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2025
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This is peak troll.
That's a blatant scam for self-appointed restaurant critics and other food pedants.
Let them be scammed. Why not... I have nothing against taking money from fools, so long as they don't convince reasonable people to do the same.
I oppose it, mainly because it takes advantage from gullible people, and opens the door for companies making water expensive.
Food pedants aren't gullible. They know full well water isn't worth anything like the price it's sold when it's bottled. But they're pedants: it's their job to look sophisticated. They literally make a living out of talking bullcrap about food.
That's why I said: if they want to pay silly money for water, they're welcome to. What I oppose if ordinary people listening to them and getting taken for a ride next time they go out for dinner.
But I think reasonable people won't fall for that one. It's just too stupid on its face. And people who are too dumb to know water is just water, well... a fool and his money...
But that's the thing, grifters might earn a lot of money with the few gullible people, and then use their wealth for nefarious ends.
I agree with you that some people are just too dumb, but in this age I'd prefer to not let grifters get any chance.
Welcome to Planet Earth.
Capitalism at its finest. As alcohol is going out of fashion, people invent new product categories to profit from, and gullible people are brainwashed by marketing to embark on this trend.
Capitalism does breeds innovation. Innovation in creating useless and needless products.
Tap water here costs £1 per 1,000 L.
£19 a bottle (1 L) would amount to £19,000 per 1,000 L.
So, nope.
Yeah but your water has subtle notes of PVC and chlorine and their water has subtle notes of oak and pretentiousness.
Funny thing is that ours doesn't even have PVC in it. We don't have chlorine in our water either.
We mostly have trace sand, chalk, and minerals, but that's it.
You guys don't have the joy of micro plastics in your water due to PVC piping in your homes for water? Really missing out on that one.
And they only charge £0,001/L crazy.
It's been long established that what tastes good to one person, will not taste good to another person.
This is because taste buds are a two-way communication channel, they will call out for nutrients the body asks for, and provide reward chemicals to the brain upon receipt of said nutrients.
So if Buddy Boy thinks that a water with slightly higher mineral content in one way pairs best with pasta, it's because he's deficient in that mineral.
The whole concept of sommeliers needing to exist was blown to smithereens over 2 decades ago - I don't know why we're still having this conversation.
I prefer my water distilled
I get it, I will never buy in to it though.
Conceptually This doesn’t seem too different from Perrier or San Pellegrino who for decades have had expensive water. I think a 750mL of Pellegrino was $7 on a menu I saw recently and I’ve seen Fiji water (still) for around the same.
3-5X the price of gasoline. People is dumb.