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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 05:25 PM Original message |
How the hell does my bottled drinking water have an expiration date? |
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ghostsofgiants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
1. A way to trick morons into buying more water, I would guess. |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 05:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Aha! I have yet to buy more water. |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
3. It has to do with the plastic breaking down and leeaching into the water |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 05:34 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Put a friggin man on the moon, but we can't contain water properly. |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 11:54 PM Response to Reply #5 |
17. Glass bottles would last longer. |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-19-08 01:45 AM Response to Reply #3 |
24. As someone who was too cheap to buy glass bottles when I started homebrewing... |
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Mike 03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
4. That doesn't sound right. |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 05:34 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. So the consensus is the plastic. |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 05:40 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. PETE |
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Mike 03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 06:03 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Yeah, most likely. If you are right, I'm screwed, because I cycle my water bottles, and |
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Runcible Spoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 11:52 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. dammit ya beat me to it lol |
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gmoney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
7. might also be that bacteria multiply |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-19-08 04:56 AM Response to Reply #7 |
28. Not only bacteria, but anaerobic bacteria, which is just plain stinky and nasty. |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
9. Bacteria? |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
11. If that bottled water has been filtered of chlorine it has nothing in it to fight |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
12. After six months, it turns into wine |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 11:56 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. No, that's only if you buy it from Jesus |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
13. They all expire in Jan. huh? |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 11:20 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Ok, but I'm blaming my drinking on you. |
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Runcible Spoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 11:51 PM Response to Original message |
15. my spidey sense tingled and suggested... |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-18-08 11:56 PM Response to Original message |
19. It's the same date on all of them - |
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txwhitedove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-19-08 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
20. Why buy water? I save big bottles and fill with water the night before |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-19-08 12:14 AM Response to Original message |
21. spores |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-19-08 12:21 AM Response to Original message |
22. How? |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-19-08 01:44 AM Response to Original message |
23. The water we had left over after Fay came through, I froze |
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nadine_mn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-19-08 01:49 AM Response to Original message |
25. Its not the water... its the plastic |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-19-08 02:48 AM Response to Original message |
26. Perhaps water in glass bottles would be a better long-term choice. |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-19-08 05:03 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Botulinum and other pathenogenic anaerobic bacteria could build up. |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-19-08 12:25 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Hmmmm... |
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1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-19-08 03:18 AM Response to Original message |
27. Q: Does bottled water ever go bad? |
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