Next up US vs UK toilet paper, count and weigh the tissues, observe the softness, which brands are available where. Anything but come up with another show when this one is obviously out of steam.
Rumour has it that when the BBC tried to sell Only Fools & Horses to the States they chose the 'Peckham Spring' episode to show as the pilot and the American execs didn't get what was so funny about a perfectly legal tried and tested business plan
Fun fact, but Dasani briefly launched in the UK over a decade ago, and only lasted around 1 year before being withdrawn. Turned out, it was purified/distilled tap water, which was just unacceptable to the UK understanding of what bottled water must be - i.e.spring or mineral water. Edit: see its mentioned kn the video.
The thing that isn't mentioned in video is that at the time of dasani's launch much loved British sitcom only fools and horses aired an episode that saw delboy trying to sell tap water as Peckham Spring water which probably didn't help dasani's sales
@@Dog1818YT They also had a pretty significant scandal where an illegal amount of the carcinogen Bromate was found in their water, causing the recall of half a million bottles.
@@jonharvey6277 Mother natures son was released in 1992, Dasani water was launched in the UK in 2004. If had been any other show than OFAH then the public probably would had forgotten the reference.
I like the differences in the Voss tests: LA crew: "We have emptied one Voss bottle and filled it with another type of water." NY crew: "We have emptied a Voss bottle and filled it with water. Then we'll empty it again and fill it with another water." UK crew: "We poured water in two glasses."
When you compare prices I wonder whether you take into account the fact UK prices include VAT, whereas US prices don't include the sales tax (until you're at the checkout). This sometimes creates the illusion that things are more expensive in the UK when compared to North America.
@@stevemichael8458 It's a little more complicated than simply doubling the price. That doesn't take into account things like public services, wealth disparity and other general cost of living. Ultimately making any sort of fair comparison becomes very difficult given the amount of factors to take into account.
On the Scottish tap water thing. I distinctly recall two family holidays (Devon 1994 and Yorkshire 1996) when my parents loaded the car boot with bottles of our own central Scotland tap water to take with us because they didn’t trust the water down there. And they wanted to use “proper water” to make tea. 😂😂😂
That is because they got it wrong, purified water isn't distilled water. As someone that uses distilled water for certain tasks, I have to search for it. Purified water is typically municipal water that is well filtered and then has minerals readded for a consistent taste. That is how it has a consistent taste nationwide despite being bottled at several regional factories.
@@CoreyWBaker it didnt, Dasani was launched feb 2004, tests in march 2004 found the Bromate contamination Only fools was 12 years earlier, the press just used it after when the contamination was discovered,it was withdrawn because it was over the legal limit
In recent years, tap water has progressively tasted worse to me. I moved to Wales and now I only drink bottled. Their water is pretty purified but even then, didn’t like the taste there. It’s nice to know we *can* have it, but I’d opt for something that tastes better
@@jasminappleby779 Well yeah my example is a bit more extreme as I live in Finland and our tap water is basically the best in the world, I can't taste a difference to bottled.
In Sweden we have one of the best tap waters in the world it would be wild to buy a bottle of water if you’re not out & about where there are no taps. Everyone that comes to Sweden always talks about how amazing the water taste!
I agree… Would only buy a bottled water if we’re out and about or if we just need the bottle for school/work, lol. I’m Norwegian and at the cabin we have literally Voss water on our tap 😅 So it’s so funny that it’s a pricy water elsewhere!
I think here in the north of the UK we drink more tap water which explains the big difference in the gallons drunk per person. Every drink water/soda should be in a glass bottle.
In Scotland we have excellent tap water (it’s really noticeable how hard water doesn’t taste great when you’re used to soft water). I know a guy who lives in Perthshire whose village had a great wee water supply until Highland Spring plopped a bottling plant on top of it and their supply got worse. Also, Ochil Hills mentioned by Harry… the pronunciation is “Oh -Kill”. I have this knowledge from living directly at the foot of said hills.
@@ricequin Do you pronounce 'loch' as 'lock'?? I used to live in Rosshire, where we had our own spring, which was beautiful and clear. Then the regulations changed and we were forced to go onto mains water, which was brown and peaty.
US - “haha we have superior bottled drinking water” UK - ^turns on house tap^ “we have unlimited drinking water… well atleast if you’re Scottish. Get bent England”
@@toby.maximillian we know, until there’s a small drought in which case you have to preserve ever sip. With the amount of rain we get up here, we could leave the taps running and still probably no even make a dent.
@@reecedignan8365 Ah I haven’t had to preserve every sip yet. Pipelines take water from areas of water surplus like wales and the north down to areas of deficit in the south.
@emtheplant06 The water at my inlaws place in Ripon has had a large amount of chlorine in for about three years now. Guess there is some contamination that they either can't find the source of, or more likely won't pay to fix.
I worked in a lab, and Nestlé contacted us about testing their water. We declined because we tested human specimens only. Nestle kept calling and begging us to test their water at any price. My boss caved. We tested the water, and every virus possible came up positive in the water! Nestle waited six months to disclose information publicly about their contaminated water. Even so, they didn't state all the virus in the water.
The launch of Desani in the UK coincided with an episode of Only Fools and Horses where they were selling tap water as Peckham Spring which pretty much doomed the brand and it was withdrawn.
I worked in a lab testing water from numerous brands and filters. You always went more strict depending on EPA/FDA or the markets you sold in e.g. EU or Japan. We did tests for ammonia, formaldehyde, pH, total dissolved solids, turbidity, total organic carbon (under 10ppm was good but we were stricter with under 5ppm), trace metals and minerals (20+), volatile organic compounds (70+), chloride testing and others. I want to shout out Liquid Death for being one of the better brands, but their pH and TDS were way off. If you're in the UK and own Coldstream water filters they are expensive but they were legit one of the best products we tested. I don't think there was a specific brand that failed our tests but generally the quality was about the same for all. The pH/TDS and TOC is where they change the most.
I buy bottled water in the UK, as where I live the water is quite hard (so hard it even destroys kettles and irons). I never had a problem with bottled water until this one time when one bottle was incredibly sulphurous. It literally smelled and tasted of rotten eggs. No surprisingly I couldn’t drink it, I’m guessing it was bacteria? I emailed the customer care office on the label to inform them of the contaminated water and the reply I got back didn’t seem concerned. Just a generic cut and paste reply.
Just been to north wales and the water was awful, I moved from the mainland to the Isle of Man and the water here is miles better then any water I’ve tasted in 30 years in the uk
I remember a couple of years ago on zac efrons ‘down to earth’ documentary they did an episode about water and the water sommelier said not to buy purified water and as a brit I was like ‘what even is purified water?’ because ive never seen it sold anywhere. Makes sense after watching this
Here in Greece, there is actually a huge Market of bottled water. Either natural mineral water or table water as we call it. There is also spring water but is very rare. As for prices, 6 pack of 1,5 lt bottles are about 2€ for natural mineral water or a bit less than 1,50 for table water. Also the source has to be labeled, end the location of bottling of the table water
I live in the north west of England and drink a good 2-3 litres daily of just plain tap water and make ice at home to put in it. I honestly can’t taste a difference between that and bottled water, apart from I prefer my water with ice, therefore tend to take water out with me from home. I am one of those people that never drink tap water from other countries though.
Depends where you live in the UK. Some places have very hard water where you can taste the difference, it also wrecks my kettle and iron. Even the hot water tap scales up.
@@notmenotme614 yeah but it’s still safe to drink. I’d never go to any country and drink any tap water and I think it’d pretty standard for other countries to buy bottled water due to their lower water quality. You are right though, my kettle does scale up but it still doesn’t bother me lol.
The wife an I visited Iceland before the pandemic and the people in the hotel we were staying asked us if we had water bottles with us. Yes was the answer, good they said, don't buy bottled water from the shops fill up your bottles from the water fountain in the hotel, its from the glacier. Best water I have ever tasted. Sorry Scotland but Icelandic Glacier water is much better than Highland spring. But saying that I could probably buy quite a lot of pallets worth of highland spring for the cost of the Iceland trip :)
As someone in Scotland, I detest bottled water. It tastes so bad compared to the tap water, so I'm not surprised at all that the Icelandic water fountain tastes much better than Highland Spring.
London tap water is awful… it’s hard and you can smell the chemicals, same as the tap water in the south east. I recently moved to the Isle of Man from Kent and the Isle of Man is actually known to have one of the best tap waters in the world and it actually tastes great too.
Basically all bottled water is safe to drink and I just always buy the cheapest and any water is far better to drink than fizzy drinks But personally I have nothing against drinking my local tap water unless I am feeling ill and need the extra benefits and may have a lucozade
Well in the UK cold kitchen tap water is safe so we don't generally need bottled water, it's more for having it cold from the fridge, convenient bought out and about or wanting mineral water or spring water cos you're a Tory
Only issue i have with the tds taste test is that it didn't specify what the breakdown of the dissolved solids were, as the different types of ions affect the taste in different ways
Water. I’m fortunate. I live in South Wales and my tap water is fed from Taf Fechan reservoirs just north of Merthyr Tydfil, an old mining and steel town, and just inside the Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog) National Park. The water is mountain stream and rain water fed. The calcium level is so low it is regarded as very soft, no furring of water heaters here. If I leave my cold water tap running for 15 seconds then I get very cold extremely soft drinking water, better than any bottled water. I do but some bottled water. But its usually the little sports bottles just for convenience to take away for hospital visits, I always keep one or two in the fridge.
I buy UK bottled water because I have a sensitivity to the chemicals used to purify our tap water. I can taste it from the tap so I buy bottled water for a more neutral taste. Also, I found that the more expensive options for bottled water like evian and volvic tend to work better with squash and allow the flavour to spread better. That might be me tho...
Born and bred in a hard water area and loved the taste, moved to a soft water area and like the taste even more. A few years ago I was out hiking and ran out of water. I refilled my bottles from a natural spring, it was very refreshing
Me, bro, parents and grandmother drank from a Welsh mountain spring. We all had nausea and diarrhoea, one after the other. Forgot that rain will drive sheep poo into the streams.
Volvic is actually quite decent for coffee brewing if you're into your V60s or Chemexes Poland Spring is kinda funny cause Poland doesn't sell any water at as low as 30ppm. The lowest I remember are around 200ppm, that said you can easily get "medicine spring water" going upwards of 20.000ppm and recommended to elderly people as treatment for malnutrition in their diets etc.
Why on earth is everyone happy that water comes in single-use plastics? Put it in recyclable cartons or better still glass bottles. We used to only have glass bottles. You took them back to the shops where the manufacturer collected, cleaned and sent them back out. Zero waste, zero plastic entering landfills and seas.
You could have used Scottish tap water for the comparison for UK, we literally have THEE best tap water there is 🤣 (you may have later on in the video, I'm only 8 mins in so, not a criticism, just a stupid observation 🤣)
Quick fact check for the pH section: very strong acids can actually be below 0, i.e. negative pH, and very strong bases can be above 14 - so its not just 0-14, although majority will be
The real food wars comparison should be the taste of water at different tempuratures and work out which degree is the tastiest. The only difference I've ever really noticed in water is drinking from soft water areas (where the water tastes stagnant to me) and that has been the only time where I've understood the need for bottled water instead of just drinking from the tap. But, fortunately, my own tap water is great and my work has a filtered water cooler that has it chilled to perfection and I would choose over even the fanciest water brand. I feel like in the UK bottled water has always been more about convinience rather than necessity. And now that refillable water bottles are becoming more of a standard part of people's lives (especially with free refill stations popping up everywhere, even in my rural town centre with barely any shops left) that even that convinience is lessening.
i use a britta filter for tap water, so when im out and bout ill start out with my metalic bottle with the britta filtered water and then fill up with a bottle of smartwater, transfering the water to my bottle and crushing the plastic bottle and putting it in my bag, crossing town we have a water station (which is free filtered water) so i get a top up with my bottle there. yes the plastic bottle ends up in the recycling when i get home. my go to for bottled water is either highland spring or smartwater.
Harry, cans are lined with microplastics! I’ve seen experiments where they dissolve the can and the liquid is still contained in the thin plastic liner!
Highland Spring, although based in Scotland, is actually owned by a billionaire from Dubai. Hence, the reason everywhere you look there's a Highland Spring stand in the malls.
Man these water sale statistics got me SUPER happy I got a SodaStream and a water-filter on our house's main line. Tap water plus SodaStream and I've got much cheaper and eco-friendly sparkling water on the regular.
just realised aren't the price comparisons inaccurate since the UK price is vat included as that's how there sold but the US products use their listed price which doent include VAT.
I used to buy water when I lived in Portland (Victoria Portland, in Australia) because the tapwater had between 600-900ppm of minerals comprised mostly of salt in it. Haven't bought water since I moved though.
previous airport retailer here....Airport rent for the shop alone can be 25~40% of the retail sales...you then need the cost of the product on so that's why you get the high retail price
This was a cool one! I would recommend maybe shorter episodes with fewer products to compare, though. That way, you guys won't run out of things to compare.
I live in Scotland our tap water is great so bottled water isn't a big deal. In the south of England though you have "hard" water which has more calcium and causes limescale and stuff on appliances, and it isn't as nice to drink.
definitely get what harry's talking about with geographical loyalty, as a scot if i can i will buy highland spring. it comes from just up the road from where i live, i got that brand loyalty
I buy the water bottles but ones with the sucky tops like the sports drinks have i.e lucozade or powerade (gatorade in US). I re-use them and drink squash ( concentrated fruit juices that you dilute with water) using tap water. I prefer the 1L bottles as it's easier to work out how much you've had. They say 2-3L is recommended in the UK per day. Xx
The Tetra Pak ‘bottles’ are not easily recyclable as they have a layer of plastic bonded to the card to make them waterproof so plastic would actually be better but the best would be glass as a glass bottle can theoretically be reused 25-30 times before being recycled.
They ran out of things to compare 😂
right? lol
Alcohol is next and will end with someone passing out
Nah it's pretty interesting though
Next up US vs UK toilet paper, count and weigh the tissues, observe the softness, which brands are available where. Anything but come up with another show when this one is obviously out of steam.
Real
Next episode
UK vs US: Oxygen
I think you mean US vs US Oxygen
I would so watch that!
😂
@@hongcte Oxygen, Fire and Earth maybe.
@@walking_sketon Sex related products :) UK vs US
Lol they're the only thing keeping this channel alive, so they thought "F it, let's do water!"
Would’ve been great for April 1st!
I think you meant UK vs US
Yeah
Jesus loves you so soooo much ❤️ Please REPENT now and turn to Him and receive Salvation before it is too late.
@@romanhussain3085 Jesus loves you ❤️
@@L17_8'ppreciate the love. Since he's not a fan of idolatry, I simply return the love and wish him well.
rookie mistake
Why you can't buy Dasani water in Britain by Tom Scott is a good vid to explain why there's no Dasani in the UK
Rumour has it that when the BBC tried to sell Only Fools & Horses to the States they chose the 'Peckham Spring' episode to show as the pilot and the American execs didn't get what was so funny about a perfectly legal tried and tested business plan
Ummm you missed the joke in the episode all together the joke is its contaminated
RUMOUR HAS ITT OOOOOOO RUMOUR HAS IT OOOOIO
Mother Nature's Son.
@@demonic_myst4503 you missed the point
@@demonic_myst4503 No, the joke was the ridiculousness of selling tap water as premium water. The contamination was the consequence
US Vs US. Didn't realise harry gained American Citizenship
😂😂😂
"You're an American, Harry!"
"I'm a what?"
😂😂😂
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well cant really trust americans with knowing who is and isnt american ask trump and apparently kamala isnt american
Fun fact, but Dasani briefly launched in the UK over a decade ago, and only lasted around 1 year before being withdrawn. Turned out, it was purified/distilled tap water, which was just unacceptable to the UK understanding of what bottled water must be - i.e.spring or mineral water.
Edit: see its mentioned kn the video.
The thing that isn't mentioned in video is that at the time of dasani's launch much loved British sitcom only fools and horses aired an episode that saw delboy trying to sell tap water as Peckham Spring water which probably didn't help dasani's sales
@@jonharvey6277 as well as coca cola (who owns desani)'s bottling plant being fairly close to Peckham. which just further added to the comparisons.
@@Dog1818YT They also had a pretty significant scandal where an illegal amount of the carcinogen Bromate was found in their water, causing the recall of half a million bottles.
@@jonharvey6277 Mother natures son was released in 1992, Dasani water was launched in the UK in 2004. If had been any other show than OFAH then the public probably would had forgotten the reference.
@@Dog1818YTit was bottled in Folkestone if I remember correctly
This is the healthiest food wars video yet
I like the differences in the Voss tests:
LA crew: "We have emptied one Voss bottle and filled it with another type of water."
NY crew: "We have emptied a Voss bottle and filled it with water. Then we'll empty it again and fill it with another water."
UK crew: "We poured water in two glasses."
Commonsense isn't common.
Needed some Peckham Spring water 🙃
When you compare prices I wonder whether you take into account the fact UK prices include VAT, whereas US prices don't include the sales tax (until you're at the checkout). This sometimes creates the illusion that things are more expensive in the UK when compared to North America.
Theres no VAT on the majority of food in the UK. Although you are right for this video as bottled water does have VAT on it.
More importantly, median income in US is double that in UK so for affordability comparison, double the UK price.
@@stevemichael8458 It's a little more complicated than simply doubling the price. That doesn't take into account things like public services, wealth disparity and other general cost of living. Ultimately making any sort of fair comparison becomes very difficult given the amount of factors to take into account.
On the Scottish tap water thing. I distinctly recall two family holidays (Devon 1994 and Yorkshire 1996) when my parents loaded the car boot with bottles of our own central Scotland tap water to take with us because they didn’t trust the water down there. And they wanted to use “proper water” to make tea. 😂😂😂
Imagine bringing water to Yorkshire instead of drinking Yorkshire water. 😂
Surprisingly more interesting than i thought it would be
Funny with America selling distilled water to drink, in the UK, people use that stuff in car batteries and irons 😬
yah to me distilled water is what you buy to put in your car, not what you'd drink
I use RO water for my fish tanks 😂
I grew up drinking RO water, and now it's the only water I can drink. Spring water tastes dirty to me and tap water isn't safe to drink in my city.
Being from the Uk, I only recognise distilled water from the science labs in highschool which always had the label “distilled water, DO NOT DRINK”
That is because they got it wrong, purified water isn't distilled water. As someone that uses distilled water for certain tasks, I have to search for it.
Purified water is typically municipal water that is well filtered and then has minerals readded for a consistent taste. That is how it has a consistent taste nationwide despite being bottled at several regional factories.
Really disappointed that Harry didn't bring up Only Fools and Horses
Or the Tom Scott video
Peckham spring 🤣
next UK air vs US air 😂
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Paying over 1,80$ for 1 liter of water is diabolical. Here in Czechia you pay around 1$ but if it's on sale it closer to 0.5$
The tiny shrimp fact has blown my mind
Same here, I never considered water can be non-vegetarian or non-vegan
@notmenotme614 I don't think microorganisms really count or it'd literally be impossible to be vegetarian 😵
peckham springs, only fools and horses episode was a key to Disani being pulled.
I’ve never gone through only fool and horses. How did this cause disani to be pulled from our shelves?
@@CoreyWBaker it didnt, Dasani was launched feb 2004, tests in march 2004 found the Bromate contamination
Only fools was 12 years earlier, the press just used it after when the contamination was discovered,it was withdrawn because it was over the legal limit
It makes me happy our tap water is so good it never even crosses my mind to buy a bottled water if I don't have to.
How old is the pipes in your house? Also what they made of? That’s were you need to be concerned
@@citrixacidyou’ll live. Don’t worry
@@citrixacid I'm from Finland, I think I'm good.
In recent years, tap water has progressively tasted worse to me. I moved to Wales and now I only drink bottled. Their water is pretty purified but even then, didn’t like the taste there. It’s nice to know we *can* have it, but I’d opt for something that tastes better
@@jasminappleby779 Well yeah my example is a bit more extreme as I live in Finland and our tap water is basically the best in the world, I can't taste a difference to bottled.
Only ever bought 2 bottles of Voss water. They make great fridge bottles to fill up from my filter.
My mum does the same! I’ve never had a bottle of Voss but I’ve used the one we have in the fridge 😂
Bruh it’s a whole business out here. People be selling them empty bottles
In Sweden we have one of the best tap waters in the world it would be wild to buy a bottle of water if you’re not out & about where there are no taps. Everyone that comes to Sweden always talks about how amazing the water taste!
I agree… Would only buy a bottled water if we’re out and about or if we just need the bottle for school/work, lol. I’m Norwegian and at the cabin we have literally Voss water on our tap 😅 So it’s so funny that it’s a pricy water elsewhere!
I think here in the north of the UK we drink more tap water which explains the big difference in the gallons drunk per person. Every drink water/soda should be in a glass bottle.
In Scotland we have excellent tap water (it’s really noticeable how hard water doesn’t taste great when you’re used to soft water). I know a guy who lives in Perthshire whose village had a great wee water supply until Highland Spring plopped a bottling plant on top of it and their supply got worse. Also, Ochil Hills mentioned by Harry… the pronunciation is “Oh -Kill”. I have this knowledge from living directly at the foot of said hills.
It's amazing in the highlands. Norh east of England is good but Highlands is amazing @@ricequin
@@ricequin Do you pronounce 'loch' as 'lock'??
I used to live in Rosshire, where we had our own spring, which was beautiful and clear. Then the regulations changed and we were forced to go onto mains water, which was brown and peaty.
Crew thinking “yeah, we filming food wars today so we eating good, what’s the episode about?”
“Water”
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Funny thing. I currently have CKD so I have to watch my water intake..... this episode was a pain to watch.
1:58 Coca Cola would disagree with that one
This was a great video. Comparing a simple item such as water was so complicated. I never knew.
When Harry was talking about the legal side of bottle water all i could think was "Peckham springs"
TITLE: US vs Us bottled water.
LMAO.
US - “haha we have superior bottled drinking water”
UK - ^turns on house tap^ “we have unlimited drinking water… well atleast if you’re Scottish. Get bent England”
England has drinking tap water lol
We have nice water in the North too!! Yorkshire has some delicious water. I mean Harrogate water is very delicious
@@toby.maximillian we know, until there’s a small drought in which case you have to preserve ever sip.
With the amount of rain we get up here, we could leave the taps running and still probably no even make a dent.
@@reecedignan8365 Ah I haven’t had to preserve every sip yet. Pipelines take water from areas of water surplus like wales and the north down to areas of deficit in the south.
@emtheplant06 The water at my inlaws place in Ripon has had a large amount of chlorine in for about three years now. Guess there is some contamination that they either can't find the source of, or more likely won't pay to fix.
I worked in a lab, and Nestlé contacted us about testing their water. We declined because we tested human specimens only. Nestle kept calling and begging us to test their water at any price. My boss caved. We tested the water, and every virus possible came up positive in the water! Nestle waited six months to disclose information publicly about their contaminated water. Even so, they didn't state all the virus in the water.
Hope this was their water not "Buxton" 😂
The launch of Desani in the UK coincided with an episode of Only Fools and Horses where they were selling tap water as Peckham Spring which pretty much doomed the brand and it was withdrawn.
Loved this episode! Compare butter or cheese next aha
I worked in a lab testing water from numerous brands and filters. You always went more strict depending on EPA/FDA or the markets you sold in e.g. EU or Japan.
We did tests for ammonia, formaldehyde, pH, total dissolved solids, turbidity, total organic carbon (under 10ppm was good but we were stricter with under 5ppm), trace metals and minerals (20+), volatile organic compounds (70+), chloride testing and others.
I want to shout out Liquid Death for being one of the better brands, but their pH and TDS were way off. If you're in the UK and own Coldstream water filters they are expensive but they were legit one of the best products we tested.
I don't think there was a specific brand that failed our tests but generally the quality was about the same for all. The pH/TDS and TOC is where they change the most.
I buy bottled water in the UK, as where I live the water is quite hard (so hard it even destroys kettles and irons). I never had a problem with bottled water until this one time when one bottle was incredibly sulphurous. It literally smelled and tasted of rotten eggs. No surprisingly I couldn’t drink it, I’m guessing it was bacteria?
I emailed the customer care office on the label to inform them of the contaminated water and the reply I got back didn’t seem concerned. Just a generic cut and paste reply.
Missed out on Welsh water, the best in the UK
Just been to north wales and the water was awful, I moved from the mainland to the Isle of Man and the water here is miles better then any water I’ve tasted in 30 years in the uk
Scottish water is the best water in the UK by far.
Honestly as someone trying to drink more water, I’m into this episode 😆
I remember a couple of years ago on zac efrons ‘down to earth’ documentary they did an episode about water and the water sommelier said not to buy purified water and as a brit I was like ‘what even is purified water?’ because ive never seen it sold anywhere. Makes sense after watching this
Here in Greece, there is actually a huge Market of bottled water. Either natural mineral water or table water as we call it. There is also spring water but is very rare. As for prices, 6 pack of 1,5 lt bottles are about 2€ for natural mineral water or a bit less than 1,50 for table water.
Also the source has to be labeled, end the location of bottling of the table water
This entire channel is literally being supported by Food Wars and Tourist vs Local at this point
Reviewing water. It's like an SNL sketch.
I live at the foot of the Ochil Hills in Scotland, which is the source of Highland Spring. Highland Spring is my tap water.
Harry: London has some of the best tap water in the world.
Scots: 🤣🤣🤣 thames water stop it 🤣🤣🤣
Are you Scottish?🤔
@@splodge561 no I'm spainsh of course I'm Scottish
@@Anthony_15 well that went over your head
@@Anthony_15 wooosh
In the uk you can also get cristaline water you can find it in B&M for 89 pence for a pack of 8
Cristalline water in France is French and #1 brand in France. Cristalline water in UK is British.
Their team is getting more creative nowadays 😂
On the question of free water, in the UK anywhere that sells alcohol legally has to provide you free tap water if you request it.
free tap water at any place that sells food and drink
@@juliaperry2812 Also at nightclubs and bars which dont sell food
@@watcherzero5256Probably why they stated: 'food *and drink*' in their comment, eh champ?
Harry and Joe are the only things keeping this channel alive
Can't wait for them to compare UK and US air in the next episode! 🙌
I live in the north west of England and drink a good 2-3 litres daily of just plain tap water and make ice at home to put in it. I honestly can’t taste a difference between that and bottled water, apart from I prefer my water with ice, therefore tend to take water out with me from home. I am one of those people that never drink tap water from other countries though.
Depends where you live in the UK. Some places have very hard water where you can taste the difference, it also wrecks my kettle and iron. Even the hot water tap scales up.
@@notmenotme614 yeah but it’s still safe to drink. I’d never go to any country and drink any tap water and I think it’d pretty standard for other countries to buy bottled water due to their lower water quality. You are right though, my kettle does scale up but it still doesn’t bother me lol.
The wife an I visited Iceland before the pandemic and the people in the hotel we were staying asked us if we had water bottles with us. Yes was the answer, good they said, don't buy bottled water from the shops fill up your bottles from the water fountain in the hotel, its from the glacier. Best water I have ever tasted. Sorry Scotland but Icelandic Glacier water is much better than Highland spring. But saying that I could probably buy quite a lot of pallets worth of highland spring for the cost of the Iceland trip :)
As someone in Scotland, I detest bottled water. It tastes so bad compared to the tap water, so I'm not surprised at all that the Icelandic water fountain tastes much better than Highland Spring.
in the uk we drink tap water.Tap water is safe to drink in the uk.
I'm a Brita filter water guy too, have been for over 30 years now. Filtered water makes a superior cup of tea.
London tap water is awful… it’s hard and you can smell the chemicals, same as the tap water in the south east.
I recently moved to the Isle of Man from Kent and the Isle of Man is actually known to have one of the best tap waters in the world and it actually tastes great too.
I really like Liquid Death personally. I was just at a concert and those flavored varieties make a hot day out much easier
Dasani water reminds me of the Only Fools and Horses episode when Del and Rodney bottled tap water and called it Peckham Spring.
This was the video I didn't know I needed
no ones water beats Scotlands water
Scotland has the finest natural water
Basically all bottled water is safe to drink and I just always buy the cheapest and any water is far better to drink than fizzy drinks
But personally I have nothing against drinking my local tap water unless I am feeling ill and need the extra benefits and may have a lucozade
Well in the UK cold kitchen tap water is safe so we don't generally need bottled water, it's more for having it cold from the fridge, convenient bought out and about or wanting mineral water or spring water cos you're a Tory
7:14 Aquafina mineral value is 4.
Joe was shocking and laughing for biggest fail.😂😂😂😂😂 7:17
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Only issue i have with the tds taste test is that it didn't specify what the breakdown of the dissolved solids were, as the different types of ions affect the taste in different ways
this is an episode i never thought i'd see. water bottles very unique.
How weird, the Coop shops in the uk used to sell Just Water, I haven’t seen it here in a while though!
I think they ran out of places to compare
Water. I’m fortunate. I live in South Wales and my tap water is fed from Taf Fechan reservoirs just north of Merthyr Tydfil, an old mining and steel town, and just inside the Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog) National Park. The water is mountain stream and rain water fed. The calcium level is so low it is regarded as very soft, no furring of water heaters here. If I leave my cold water tap running for 15 seconds then I get very cold extremely soft drinking water, better than any bottled water. I do but some bottled water. But its usually the little sports bottles just for convenience to take away for hospital visits, I always keep one or two in the fridge.
I buy UK bottled water because I have a sensitivity to the chemicals used to purify our tap water. I can taste it from the tap so I buy bottled water for a more neutral taste. Also, I found that the more expensive options for bottled water like evian and volvic tend to work better with squash and allow the flavour to spread better. That might be me tho...
Born and bred in a hard water area and loved the taste, moved to a soft water area and like the taste even more. A few years ago I was out hiking and ran out of water. I refilled my bottles from a natural spring, it was very refreshing
Me, bro, parents and grandmother drank from a Welsh mountain spring. We all had nausea and diarrhoea, one after the other. Forgot that rain will drive sheep poo into the streams.
Volvic is actually quite decent for coffee brewing if you're into your V60s or Chemexes
Poland Spring is kinda funny cause Poland doesn't sell any water at as low as 30ppm. The lowest I remember are around 200ppm, that said you can easily get "medicine spring water" going upwards of 20.000ppm and recommended to elderly people as treatment for malnutrition in their diets etc.
To be fair we drink squash a lot in this country so thats why we grow up drinking more tap water but also because it tastes good
Why on earth is everyone happy that water comes in single-use plastics? Put it in recyclable cartons or better still glass bottles. We used to only have glass bottles. You took them back to the shops where the manufacturer collected, cleaned and sent them back out. Zero waste, zero plastic entering landfills and seas.
You could have used Scottish tap water for the comparison for UK, we literally have THEE best tap water there is 🤣 (you may have later on in the video, I'm only 8 mins in so, not a criticism, just a stupid observation 🤣)
1:01 My man Harry had a dark life before Insider Food
Quick fact check for the pH section: very strong acids can actually be below 0, i.e. negative pH, and very strong bases can be above 14 - so its not just 0-14, although majority will be
The real food wars comparison should be the taste of water at different tempuratures and work out which degree is the tastiest. The only difference I've ever really noticed in water is drinking from soft water areas (where the water tastes stagnant to me) and that has been the only time where I've understood the need for bottled water instead of just drinking from the tap. But, fortunately, my own tap water is great and my work has a filtered water cooler that has it chilled to perfection and I would choose over even the fanciest water brand. I feel like in the UK bottled water has always been more about convinience rather than necessity. And now that refillable water bottles are becoming more of a standard part of people's lives (especially with free refill stations popping up everywhere, even in my rural town centre with barely any shops left) that even that convinience is lessening.
This is it! This is the comparison we were all waiting for.
US VS US thats the content we've been craving as a brit
i use a britta filter for tap water, so when im out and bout ill start out with my metalic bottle with the britta filtered water and then fill up with a bottle of smartwater, transfering the water to my bottle and crushing the plastic bottle and putting it in my bag, crossing town we have a water station (which is free filtered water) so i get a top up with my bottle there. yes the plastic bottle ends up in the recycling when i get home. my go to for bottled water is either highland spring or smartwater.
I went back to the UK for the first time in a long time this year, I was also perplexed by the bottle caps!
Harry, cans are lined with microplastics! I’ve seen experiments where they dissolve the can and the liquid is still contained in the thin plastic liner!
I've been waiting for this one.
Highland Spring, although based in Scotland, is actually owned by a billionaire from Dubai. Hence, the reason everywhere you look there's a Highland Spring stand in the malls.
Man these water sale statistics got me SUPER happy I got a SodaStream and a water-filter on our house's main line. Tap water plus SodaStream and I've got much cheaper and eco-friendly sparkling water on the regular.
just realised aren't the price comparisons inaccurate since the UK price is vat included as that's how there sold but the US products use their listed price which doent include VAT.
I used to buy water when I lived in Portland (Victoria Portland, in Australia) because the tapwater had between 600-900ppm of minerals comprised mostly of salt in it. Haven't bought water since I moved though.
I live in the lake district and its definitely the best tap water you can get in England for sure, the water in London gives me a bad stomach
previous airport retailer here....Airport rent for the shop alone can be 25~40% of the retail sales...you then need the cost of the product on so that's why you get the high retail price
This was a cool one! I would recommend maybe shorter episodes with fewer products to compare, though. That way, you guys won't run out of things to compare.
Funny thing about Highland Spring is it isn't actually from the Highlands, it's from the Ochil Hills between Perth and Stirling
I live in Scotland our tap water is great so bottled water isn't a big deal. In the south of England though you have "hard" water which has more calcium and causes limescale and stuff on appliances, and it isn't as nice to drink.
The 40 pack of Costco 500ml water is ALSO sold in the UK too at the UK Costco branches
Ssh, dont tell them we have civilisation here too! (if you can call Costco civilised).
definitely get what harry's talking about with geographical loyalty, as a scot if i can i will buy highland spring. it comes from just up the road from where i live, i got that brand loyalty
I buy the water bottles but ones with the sucky tops like the sports drinks have i.e lucozade or powerade (gatorade in US). I re-use them and drink squash ( concentrated fruit juices that you dilute with water) using tap water. I prefer the 1L bottles as it's easier to work out how much you've had. They say 2-3L is recommended in the UK per day. Xx
I just drink Tap water - still, carbonated, and carbonated with a touch of bi-carb (soda water). Usually accompanied by a single malt 🙂
Compare sparkling water next in a full video
who doesn't love abit of volvic flavoured water lol I love it
When i was about 5 or 6 (back in the 1980's) there was shrimp found in Thames water. Everyone had to boil all water before drinking.
The Tetra Pak ‘bottles’ are not easily recyclable as they have a layer of plastic bonded to the card to make them waterproof so plastic would actually be better but the best would be glass as a glass bottle can theoretically be reused 25-30 times before being recycled.
@2:52 American talking about source of spring water and pic shows up Buachaille Etive Mor, near Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands.
They’ve ran out of ideas now had to go to water 😅
not really. the deabte of water between EU and US is common. so makes sense for them to cover it.
@@AbigatorM you sound like fun
@@AbigatorM Debate of bottled water? LOL nobody in the history of the universe has debated bottled water quality anywhere.
@@mikaeleriksen2994 no but the need for it.
Do a sparkling water comparison next.
UK should just be called Scotland FOR THIS ONE AHAHA