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Meet the water sommeliers: they believe H₂O can rival wine – but would you pay £19 a bottle?
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2025
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Food pedants aren't gullible. They know full well water isn't worth anything like the price it's sold when it's bottled. But they're pedants: it's their job to look sophisticated. They literally make a living out of talking bullcrap about food.
That's why I said: if they want to pay silly money for water, they're welcome to. What I oppose if ordinary people listening to them and getting taken for a ride next time they go out for dinner.
But I think reasonable people won't fall for that one. It's just too stupid on its face. And people who are too dumb to know water is just water, well... a fool and his money...
But that's the thing, grifters might earn a lot of money with the few gullible people, and then use their wealth for nefarious ends.
I agree with you that some people are just too dumb, but in this age I'd prefer to not let grifters get any chance.
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