[personal profile] napoleonherself
Oh, heck. I was drinking from the (super overpriced!) bottle of water I bought at Borders the other day, and suddenly I noticed the "best by" date... 060606.

DEVIL WATER

Date: 2004-09-19 06:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whitenoise.livejournal.com
...How the Hell does water expire? o_O

Date: 2004-09-19 07:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] napoleonherself.livejournal.com
Well, see, it's devil water. So it expires. Because it's evil.

I think the date for water is just before it starts tasting flat, or something, as opposed to going altogether bad.

Date: 2004-09-20 12:07 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] chess
Except it varies massively depending on if you keep it in the sun or in the shade and the temperature and so on and so forth. I suspect they've done some statistics to work out when all the little bacteria who live on sunlight in the water might possibly get dangerous, and put a date on it because they have to put a date on it as it's a consumer foodstuff.

Date: 2004-09-20 01:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wing-zero-ew.livejournal.com
Most bottled water is distillation filtered, or reverse-osmosis, or some other form of voodoo that only lets individual molecules and other very small items through after being boiled, filtered, treated, and what not. They're not worried about the bacteria unless they're doing something really wrong. I'm guessing that what they're on about with those labels is that water goes 'bad', or 'flat', over time. There's a taste difference that comes from the presence of dissolved gases in water, along with mineral content and so forth; my guess is that given enough time, even in a plastic bottle, the gases seep out, and the minerals settle. A variation on this is why campers so often don't want to boil their water, even though it's safer by far than drinking stuff you get in the wild; because boiled water tastes like crap. It's also very difficult to get people in Third World countries with severe water problems to drink boiled water, for the same reason. Damned Global Health class, coming in handy.

O.O

Date: 2004-09-20 08:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yansa.livejournal.com
zero EVIL zero EVIL zero EVIL

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