On 09/08/2012 11:44, tim..... wrote:
"Martin Brown" wrote in message ...

On 09/08/2012 07:57, Steve Firth wrote:
MM wrote:

It probably IS tap water at that price.

Ah, Miserable Mother****er is an expert on everything, again.

There is nothing wrong with tapwater in this country. A shade too much
chlorine in it at the weekends when they double the dose that's all.

London water is pretty hard and bad for kettles, but ion exchange
filters are commonplace now so there is not problem fixing it.
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It's what you are used to. Having drunk almost nothing else for the
first 20 years of my life I like it and dislike anything else.

The first time that I went to Manchester I couldn't believe what came
out of taps - I thought that the hotel had wrongly routed the water
softener to the drinking taps. Completely undrinkable (as it is in
Birmingham)

Manchester has some of the softest mains water in the country. I think
it tastes great (since I grew up with it). I do get caught out almost
every time I return there using too much soap to wash with though and
end up spending ages washing off the excess soap afterwards.

There is a lot of truth in preferring "what you are used to".

How else would you explain the success of rancid vomit flavoured brown
fat Hershey Bars masquerading as chocolate in America. I was told in all
seriousness by an American that local Japanese chocolate was rubbish and
to bring plenty of supplies beacuse "proper" chocolate was very
expensive. In fact the Japanese learnt chocolate making directly from
the Portugese merchants. Their chocolate is gourmet quality.

It amused me that you had to pay so much more for the specially imported
Hershey Bar rubbish than for top quality chocolate.

Regards,
Martin Brown