g’s Corporate Management S-List, Instalment 2. Here we have another company that doesn’t get it.
Email from g to Dasani, via (yes, their website is in fact) makeyourmouthwater.com:
“The new softer 20oz Dasani bottles that appeared a couple of months ago leak easily. You should revert to the old bottles with the harder plastic. Those never leaked. I can’t and won’t deal with leaky bottles in my backpack, where drinks cohabitate with my laptop. It would be a shame if I had to switch brands, because Dasani tastes the best of all bottled waters I’ve ever had.”
Coca-cola, do you get it? Skimping on plastic is penny-wise and dolla-foolish.
19 September 2006 at 4:11 pm
Funny you say that because in my opinion dasani kind of tastes like toilet water after a partial flush. Ozarka or Aquafina is where my money is at. Though sometimes a good Fiji water is better (though much more costly) than all of the above.
19 September 2006 at 10:24 pm
Fiji’s great, but, as you say, i could go broke drinking that shit.
I’m not really a water snob. I like aquafina just fine. I like pretty much all of them.
Except Evian. That shit tastes fucking terrible. The water has a texture. It feels cottony or something. Minerals, I guess. Whatever, Evian nasty.
G is right, however… the new dasani bottles are both harder to open and more leak prone because of the softer plastic, and new design. That’s lame.
19 September 2006 at 10:25 pm
Different strokes for different folks — Aquafina to me has the aftertaste of water from a warm garden hose. I’ve tasted both and I’m not lying.
But I can sympathize with people who prefer more natural-tasting water than Dasani. Dasani, after all, is actually runoff that wasn’t lucky enough to be mixed into Coke or Grape Fanta, or unlucky enough to become Pibb. It was created from distillation (I think) and contains additives (for sure).