Comments on: Mencken was right: US consumers are daft

By: seagull

seagull — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:29:57 +0000

Not all bottled waters are glorified tap water. According to law, there are different grades. Dasani and Aquafina are the lowest grade – straight from the spigot. But other brands are given the legal label “spring water.” This, in law, means actually water pumped out of a spring, not dung run-off purified with chlorine. Google it. Spring water is worth buying; Coke’s frauds aren’t.

By: Ian Fraser

Ian Fraser — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:12:48 +0000

[...] Misdemeanours that Thomas failed to mention include that the company continues to mislead American consumers about the true source of its best-selling bottled water, Dasani. The label states this is “purified water”, but does not make clear what this means. In fact, as UK consumers discovered sooner than their dumber counterparts across the pond, the product is little more than tap water. As a result, Dasani was given an award by the Consumers International Bad Product Awards for pushing marketing “into the realms of the ridiculous”;. (To read an earlier post on Dasani, click here). [...]

By: Ian Fraser

Ian Fraser — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:41:42 +0000

[...] Mencken was right: US consumers are daft [...]