{"id":797,"date":"2008-07-17T02:37:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T09:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/?p=797"},"modified":"2013-02-23T04:32:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T04:32:13","slug":"glaceau-smartwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2008\/07\/17\/glaceau-smartwater\/","title":{"rendered":"Glaceau smartwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Safeway was running a sale &#8212; 10 for $10.  So I don&#8217;t feel as stupid as I should&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>From the bottle:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the water with all the answers<\/p>\n<p>is it just us or do clouds get a bad rap? while we admit they&#8217;re not as great to have around on a beach day, as say, the sun, clouds are unsung heroes because they contain nature&#8217;s purest source of water. meanwhile, spring water comes from the ground and contains random stuff and whatever else the animals that swim in it leave behind. that&#8217;s why we copied our white puffy friends by creating smartwater. it&#8217;s vapor distilled so it is in its purest original state. it&#8217;s a difference you can taste&#8230;unless, of course, you have no taste buds (then you&#8217;re on your own). but, we don&#8217;t stop there. we one-up the clouds by adding electrolytes just in case you do decide to hit the beach. unfortunately, we can&#8217;t fix the whole men in thongs thing.<\/p>\n<p>ingredients: vapor distilled water + electrolytes (calcium chloride, magnesium chloride and potassium bicarbonate)<\/p>\n<p>made for the center for responsible hydration (aka glaceau) whitestone, ny 11357<\/p>\n<p>Nutrition Facts<br \/>\nServing Size 8fl oz (240mL)<br \/>\nServings Per Container about 4<\/p>\n<p>Amount Per Serving<br \/>\nCalories 0<br \/>\nTotal Fat 0g<br \/>\nSodium 0mg<br \/>\nTotal Carbohydrates 0g<br \/>\nProtein 0g<\/p>\n<p>enjoy the inside, recycle the outside<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I paid a dollar [two, actually, since I got two bottles] for 33.8 FL OZ of &#8216;smart&#8217; water with a label that was typed by someone who couldn&#8217;t find the shift key while they weren&#8217;t fact checking&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The water we drink, bottled or tap, usually does not contain &#8216;whatever animals leave behind&#8217;.  And clouds?  Pure?  What, were these people asleep during that Earth science class, or did they just disregard it in favour of marketing?<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know, clouds are formed when the moisture in the air condenses around something called &#8216;condensation nuclei&#8217;.  That&#8217;s <i>dust<\/i> in advertising-speak.  Dust.<\/p>\n<p>So, smart water is dust water.  With those same random groundstuffs that might be in the regular water.<\/p>\n<p>Smart water is not smart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but, at least I only paid a dollar for it.  And now I&#8217;ve got this big bottle that I can refill.  So yay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safeway was running a sale &#8212; 10 for $10. So I don&#8217;t feel as stupid as I should&#8230;. From the bottle:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,139],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-people-are-stupid","tag-products"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-cR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}