Today I happily started adding some Woolworths still spring water to my Barocca vitamin drink and to my disgust this streaky dark colour stuff starts appearing. It turns out the dark streaky stuff was a reaction to the vitamin pill and was an added bonus inside the bottle which you would expect to contain clean water.
I have two sealed bottles containing this stuff, whatever it is?. The really disturbing part is that I drank 4 bottles out of the pack of 6 already. Ugghhhh.. I’m pissed off.
Surely they must at the very least filter water like this? wtf? How do Woolworths allow this bad quality water on their shelves?
The best-before date seems to be”BB 25/01/08″, Batch: 07025 07:57″.
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Yup, that’s nasty. Happened to me in Jan.
I just kept quiet thinking “hey this brown stuff isn’t so much berocca as some sorta frog spawning accelerator” and switched to buying Pellegrino instead .. summing about the carbonation seemed ‘cleaner’.
Thanks for posting this dude, taking my mac to woollies tonite to show them the pics
Carl,
Happy to help. Give them hell. Demand a year’s supply of water.
This reminds me of a Janes Addiction concert where he was telling the crowd, a bit sarcastically.. “next year we’ll have an Evian sponsorship and you can all have free water”.
Funny at the time.
But if you pay for something as simple as clean water, you want it to be frikkin clean.
if you drank normal water that came out the tap, instead of fouling up the world with all your empty PET used water bottles, we may have some sympathy for you..
.. but we don’t.
Hi “Drink normal water”
You must like Janes Addiction then.
Yeah, they were good. But now I think I only like the “Jane Says” song. They were promoted as the savior of Rock and Roll. But that was all it bit short lived.
I guess PET is bad. I actually know what the PET acronym stands for.. a blessing from the chemical engineering classes. My favourite tongue twister from those days is Polytetrafluoroethylene.
Mineral water in glass bottles would be best, as Mr. Bateman advocates.
Enough jabbering, I just want clean water.
I suggest you stay away from their dogfood too. Apparently there was some coolant found in the Woolworths dog food.
right on, use Glass. that does not pollute..
hell, it is just glass..
it has ZERO carbon footprint..
and, oh, No water is used in the manufacturing of glass bottles…
( methinks more water is used making a glass bottle than the glass bottle can hold )
I have a water filtration thingy, the water is sharp.
Have to agree with ‘Drink normal water’. Bottled water is a huge con and problem. Sitting for weeks/months in plastic, no matter how pure it was to begin with, doesn’t do it any good. Also, check out who the owners usually are – Coca Cola, etc. Best is to filter (or distill, the jury’s still out) your tap water.
Well people, seeing I work for a company that desalinates water for drinking purposes you would think that we would desalinate or purify our own water… But we don’t and we but bottled water like anyone else. Except…
We can monitor the water we receives quality quite accurately seeing the business we’re in. And you’d be amazed what you’d find in the so-called ‘spring water’. Not spring water at all actually but usually desalinated water that might and probable does come from the tap. So if you have your own little unit at home, it’s as good as bought water. And if you don’t want to believe me…
Which brings me to a bottle we received the other day for our dispenser. We could taste it was ‘off’ and tested it. There were more particles in the water than water sampled from the tap. Called tham in and they aknowledged that they’re desalination unit must be faulty (not ours by the way (:) So now they’re trying they’re best to get the best out to our company as thay know we test it.
So what are you drinking? I would have to have a look at your sample Joe to see what it might be. Best guess is that it came with the bottle rather than the water as they do have to filter the water before bottling. But it might also come from an old filter membrane that’s fouling and giving particles off. That’s Woolies for you!
Georg
I’ll give you a bottle to test. Would be interesting.. since I think I actually drank some of that crap.
Thanks.
Just purchased a bottle of mineral water from Woolworths.
Tasted like chemicals or plastic.
Took it back and the next bottle tastes the same…
I think I should get it tested!
Does anybody know if the plastic bottles in which Woolworth water is sold contain Bisphenol A (BPA)? That is a real health hazard, especially for children and young people.
I wish i had found this before i had right now just finished 750ml of woolworths water
yukkk!!!!