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Thursday, October 11,1 979
Weekender
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Carson not w i t h st an ding,
bottled waters flow freely
By DINITA JAMES
When Johnny Carson does a spoof
of a product's commercial "the way
we wish it were done just once4 the
promoters of the product know their
item is in vogue.
, So, when the Tonight show aired a
take-off commercial f or
"Perriyeech from the toliet bowls of
America' no doubt, the person who
engineered the media blitz for Perrier
mineral water was sitting by his TV set
grinning like the Chesire Cat.
Bottled -mineral water is usually
associated with the "California
Mellow" lifestyle, but it also has
become quite a fad in less
metropolitan areas. Many stores in
Chapel Hill stock a modest supply of
domestic and imported mineral
waters, and it Is a rare occasion when
dust collects on the bottles.
Is there a difference between
bottled waters and vintage-University
Lake water?
"Papa" Nash Collier, a professor in
the UNC chemistry department, says
maybe. -V .
"Water, flows over areas where
minerals in the soil are dissolved
Collier says. "This imparts a different
taste for different waters.
"If a city's supply come from a river
with a number of manufacturing
plants upstream, pollutants can
contaminate the water, give it an
unpleasant taste and introduce
dangerous chemicals even
carcinogens into the water."
Chapel Hill's water does not have
these undesirable contaminates,
Collier said.
"Chapel Hill's water isnicejnthatit
is runoff from a controlled land
area an area with few septic tanks,"
he says. "It has a moderate mineral
- content which makes it not really
hard." v . ;
Bottled water is taken from a place
that has" desirable minerals or is
purified and removed of all minerals,
Collier says. If the water is purified,
; pleasant-tasting minerals are added
' to enhance the flavor.
To determine whether bottled
water is more pleasant-tasting than
Chapel Hill water, seven UNC
students, well-versed in the taste of
beverages, were asked to sample six
types of water, one of which came
from a tap in the Carolina Union.
After everyone burped and
thought it over, each taster identified
the sample which came from the tap.
The majority of the tasters
preferred tap water to any of the
bottled varieties. The favorite among
bottled waters was Ramlosa, a
Swedish mineral water which
advertises itself to be "free from iron,
free from limeslightly carbonated
and contain no calories."
Others selected as tasty were
Apollinaris, & West German water
"bottled and carbonated with its own
: natural gas" and Perrier, France's own
"naturally sparkling mineral water."
Comments ranged from "That's
good," "This has no taste at all. It's
like dring wet air' and "No bitter
aftertaste," to "That's the pits," "I
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The following list contains bottled
waters available in the the Chapel Hill
area. The list is in no way complete.
Prices are approximate and subject to
change, and they vary by store.
Apollinaris (West Germany), $1.50 a
quart.
Canada Dry Club Soda (U.S.), 50
cents a quart.
Gerolsteiner Sprudei (West
Germany), 90 cents a quart.
Perrier (France). 89 cents for 23
ounces.
Ramlosa (Sweden). 69 cents for 1 31
ounces.
San Benedetto (Italy), 55 cents a
liter.
Sangemini (Italy), $1.10 a quart.
San Pellegrino (Italy). $1 for 30
ounces.
Staatl Fachingen (West Germany),
Celestine Vichy (France), $1 for 31 , 90 cents for 12 ounces.
ounces.
Crodo (Italy), 90 cents for 31
ounces.
Fiuggi (Italy), non-sparkling, $1.30 a
quart.
Schweppes (U.S.), 75 cents for 28
ounces;
Dinita James i Weekender editor.
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