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28 Jun 02 - 06:57 PM (#739105) Subject: What does water taste of? From: GUEST Grateful for your thoughts |
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28 Jun 02 - 07:03 PM (#739108) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: Bullfrog Jones Depends where it comes from -- out of a spring on a Welsh mountainside or out of a tap after it's passed through half a dozen people on the way? BJ |
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28 Jun 02 - 07:09 PM (#739112) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: GUEST OK, how about the Welsh mountainside one? |
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28 Jun 02 - 07:26 PM (#739121) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: Bullfrog Jones It's easier to describe the other one -- flat, stale, lifeless. The mountain spring water is just the opposite. BJ |
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28 Jun 02 - 07:31 PM (#739124) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: GUEST So it's 'fizzy'? |
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28 Jun 02 - 07:35 PM (#739125) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: Gray D Note to non-UK people. The above refers to a study which allegedly stated that, being a long river, water from the Thames was pumped out of the river, filtered, fed into the public water supply, drunk, 'naturally' processed and fed back into the Thames so many times that anyone drinking a glass of tap water in central London was drinking a fluid that had already passed through seven other people on its way down stream. I have drunk London tap water and that is what it tastes like. The Welsh water tastes like, er, water. |
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28 Jun 02 - 07:37 PM (#739127) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: Bullfrog Jones All right then --- it's indes-fucking-cribable! How's that? BJ |
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28 Jun 02 - 07:42 PM (#739128) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: GUEST Gray D My initial post didn't (and doesn't) refer to such a study. I wasn't aware that any such study had been done, never mind become newsworthy. I was (and am) curious as to what water tastes like |
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28 Jun 02 - 07:44 PM (#739130) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: Gray D No chance, TrollGuest. My contribution ends h. . . |
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28 Jun 02 - 07:48 PM (#739133) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: GUEST 2o? oh well I think you need to read up on the word 'troll' (in the internet context) |
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28 Jun 02 - 08:20 PM (#739152) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: firínne Why assume mountain water tastes fizzy?? It would only be fizzy if you aerate it artificially. My water comes from an underground stream. The taste of water from mountains and streams would vary from area to area. It all depends on what minerals are in the ground. |
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28 Jun 02 - 08:21 PM (#739155) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: GUEST,Frogmore Kinda like chicken, I'd say. |
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28 Jun 02 - 08:25 PM (#739156) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: GUEST firínne I only assumed 'fizzy' as Bullfrog said it was the oposite of flat |
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28 Jun 02 - 09:52 PM (#739197) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: GUEST,Gorgeous Gary I'll have to ask my father. Back when he worked for Coca-Cola, his job was doing research into the taste of water! --Gary |
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29 Jun 02 - 05:28 AM (#739331) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: DMcG Water by itself doesn't taste of anything to speak of - try sipping some distilled water and the dominant sensation is temperature, not taste. But what people call 'water' is almost always chemically impure containing traces of minerals, gases, etc and those are what you taste. What the final taste is depends almost entirely on those impurities and they vary from region to region. (Chemistry lessions @ 11 years old speaking here!) |
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29 Jun 02 - 05:53 AM (#739333) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: Eric the Viking Excellently put. Water (H2O) de-ionised, distilled into a clean glass vessel, has no taste and no smell. When such things as nitrates,nitrites, carbonates,sulphate-salts of calcium, iron, sodium etc get disolved in water, they influence the taste.Also many regions add fluorides( tooth protection-they say!)- and chlorine gas during the cleaning, sterilisation processes.These have an influence on the taste. My water tastes of coffee-sometimes it tastes of single belended malt whisky.Strange to think, but worth considering is that there are only a certain number of atoms available on our planet, they are recycled in the various carbon, nitrogen etc cycles. We probably are drinking water and eating food and may be built of atoms that were previously in a dinosaur! |
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29 Jun 02 - 05:53 AM (#739334) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: Catherine Jayne Water taste of nothing, bland. Thats why we add something to it....tea, coffee, fruit cordial.......whiskey! cat x |
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29 Jun 02 - 05:55 AM (#739335) Subject: waste 'taters From: Mr Red |
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29 Jun 02 - 03:48 PM (#739498) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) I heard a story about a guy who bought some powdered water and didn't know what to add to it. Rich |
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29 Jun 02 - 05:32 PM (#739524) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: GUEST,Les B. Sounds like a pretty tasteless question to me. Oops, I mean answer. |
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29 Jun 02 - 06:16 PM (#739545) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: Stephen L. Rich "What does water taste of?" Wetness. |
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29 Jun 02 - 06:20 PM (#739547) Subject: RE: BS: What does water taste of? From: Eric the Viking Did you hear about the Irish water diviner, who always used a boat! |