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Subject: Re: Question on restaurants in Europe Posted on: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:00:20 GMT

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:33:23 +1100, Paul Dwerryhouse
wrote:

>Erick T. Barkhuis writes:
>
>>Mabe there's something I'm missing here. Why would you ever order tap
>>water in a restaurant?
>
>Because bottled water is so damned expensive. It's beyond me how, here in
>Melbourne, a bottle of water can cost most than a bottle of soft-drink - and
>more than a litre of petrol!

It's beyond all of us, especially since blind tasting has frequently
shown public tap water to be better tasting and purer than the bottled
stuff. It's called marketing.