Water

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Depending upon where you live, you can drink refreshing water form the tap, so there's no need to buy bottled water. Manchester water is soft, pure and refreshing. The stuff we are expected to drink on the Yorkshire coast is so hard that you nearly break your teeth on it. Indeed, my Australian sister-in-laws found it so objectionable that the went outside to the water butt that collects rainwater from our roof, and boiled it to use in the teapot.

Tap water may also contain nanny-state sodium fluoride, a diluted ingredient of rat poison that may benefit resistance to tooth decay for those too lazy to clean their teeth properly.

Here nearly everyone has a water filter, which improves the taste of the water considerably, but still does not match unfiltered Cumbrian water. So I'm ashamed to say we buy bottled water.
Frau A favours sparkling Pellegreno water, but my favourites are Volvic and Fiji Water.

[french frank]

Depending upon where you live, you can drink refreshing water form the tap, so there's no need to buy bottled water. Manchester water is soft, pure and refreshing. The stuff we are expected to drink on the Yorkshire coast is so hard that you nearly break your teeth on it. Indeed, my Australian sister-in-laws found it so objectionable that the went outside to the water butt that collects rainwater from our roof, and boiled it to use in the teapot.

Tap water may also contain nanny-state sodium fluoride, a diluted ingredient of rat poison that may benefit resistance to tooth decay for those too lazy to clean their teeth properly.

Here nearly everyone has a water filter, which improves the taste of the water considerably, but still does not match unfiltered Cumbrian water. So I'm ashamed to say we buy bottled water.
Frau A favours sparkling Pellegreno water, but my favourites are Volvic and Fiji Water.

Water here is very hard, and I think has fluoride added, but I just drink it from the tap anyway

Edit: No, Bristol Water does NOT add fluoride and has no plans to do so (sorry for that error]. But the water is classified as hard or very hard.

[teamsaint]

Water here is very hard, and I think has fluoride added, but I just drink it from the tap anyway

Edit: No, Bristol Water does NOT add fluoride and has no plans to do so (sorry for that error]. But the water is classified as hard or very hard.

one of our cats does that, if you turn your back for a minute.....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Pennine water is lovely and soft straight from the tap - and the amount they charge me, I'm not paying extra for bottled!

[Padraig]

Cool (water) clear (water) water......... (water)

[jayne lee wilson]

Badoit for me, as for anyone with a fussy digestive system and a penchant for too much wine.... it is genuinely different, with a far higher bicarbonates content. Alarmed to see it in a bright red bottle on my last trip to Sainsburys, but - it was merely a slightly fizzier version of the same rock-dwelling essence...**

(**also rather good mixed with pure apple juice...)

[LeMartinPecheur]

I remember being taught in primary or junior school that hard water is the stuff for drinking and soft for washing.

A bit later teacher asks class which sort of water is best for drinking and gets told "soft". I still remember the look of utter loathing on his face: "NO-O-O-O, soft water tastes like....like....like...


...SOGGY BLOTTING PAPER!!!!!!!!!!!!" (You can see it left an impression)


Maybe that's a downside to moving from Hampshire to Cornwall???

[Alison]

My cats greatly prefer bottled water. They drink tons but will hardly go near tap water.

Marks and Spencer Scottish Mountain water is our favourite (still).

[jayne lee wilson]

My resident cat, and most of the visiting neighbourhood ones, show a strong preference for bird-flavoured rainwater...

[Nick Armstrong]

Pennine water is lovely and soft straight from the tap

It's one of the two drinks of which I have the fondest memories from my Huddersfield-Holmfirth grandparents - delicious water (makes right good tea, too!)

The other drink was Dandelion & Burdock (made wi't same watter)... but that was spoiled of late when they started to add aspartame and buggered up the taste

[Old Grumpy]

Northumberland water - perfectly good from the tap, not too hard, not too soft. Don't know whether it's fluoridated or not - don't care, really.

OG

[teamsaint]

It's one of the two drinks of which I have the fondest memories from my Huddersfield-Holmfirth grandparents - delicious water (makes right good tea, too!)

The other drink was Dandelion & Burdock (made wi't same watter)... but that was spoiled of late when they started to add aspartame and buggered up the taste

I don't know if London water is hard or soft, (although obviously it is revolting), but you can buy Yorkshire Tea specially for hard water.

I know because I recently bought some in our (wiltshire) village shop. (100% extra free).




and NO Aspartame. Unlike ALL the lemonade in Tesco.

[EdgeleyRob]

Buxton spring water,from the tap at St Anne's Well,after a long hike,fill yer own bottle for free,nothing better.
The dogs won't touch the stuff though,they prefer to drink from puddles,or the river.

[MrGongGong]

Buxton spring water,from the tap at St Anne's Well,after a long hike,fill yer own bottle for free,nothing better.
The dogs won't touch the stuff though,they prefer to drink from puddles,or the river.

Of course if you were foolish enough to BUY a bottle in Buxton
it will have been to Tamworth to be bottled

[Nick Armstrong]

I don't know if London water is hard or soft, (although obviously it is revolting), but you can buy Yorkshire Tea specially for hard water.

I know because I recently bought some in our (wiltshire) village shop. (100% extra free).

That has been the tea of choice here for a good number of years

For tap water, there is a filter jug here which softens/sweetens the taste considerably.