Why you can't buy Dasani water in Britain
čas přidán 8. 03. 2020
Coca-Cola's brand of bottled water, Dasani, was a flop in the UK after the public realised it was just filtered tap water. But the story's a bit more complicated than it might seem. | Drinking Dasani with Ashens: • 15-year-old UK Dasani ...
Thanks to Sally Le Page on camera! / @sallylepage
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Thanks to Sally Le Page on camera! / @sallylepage
I'm at tomscott.com
on Twitter at tomscott
on Facebook at tomscott
and on Instagram as tomscottgo
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If you wish I'd drunk some of this: so do I! And you're in luck, because Ashens and I did just that over on his channel: cs-tv.org/tv/video-c6VhcpwFZJM.html
Tom Scott how was this pinned a day ago?????????????????? Came out litro 5 mins ago
Timezones.
Tom Scott be like: *_T H E L A W S O F T I M E A R E M I N E_*
@Kizo Stuntin’ He's a time traveller.
@NikoLiberty No, in some videos the comments are up to one month older than the video
pov: you're slowly backpedaling away from a psychopath talking about water
Hmm. I wonder where you got the idea to write this?
@BWA Daniel I’ll help you, G Pll
Almost made the EXACT same joke! Haha nice
I agree
999th like
You make some very elaborate videos, but I cannot imagine how difficult it is to shoot all of this in one take. The fact that you were able to line up the destination with your punch line. The fact that you were not distracted at any moment by the world going around you. The fact that you remembered every word you were planning to say. I would love to see a Tom Scott blooper reel one day!
Almost like he's a professional. Sure, a youtube pro but still.
@jayw900 he most certainly is a professional. I just forget sometimes the work that goes into these videos. He makes it look easy, that doesnt mean it is!
@jayw900 Lmao, thank you captain obvious
@jayw900 an intelligent one :P
He was using cue cards
There's a kind of pleasure in seeing a corporation as big as Cola-Cola completely failing at something, even if the media outrage was over nothing.
It wasn't over nothing. Adding a few minerals (which you could probably do at home) to regular ass (free where I live) tap water doesn't justify bottled water prices. Clearly people didn't think it was tap water. Yes it's all water, but that doesn't give the company the right to mis-sell it as something it's not.
@Person Oisels it was far from nothing.. Totally agree. Feel like a Coke exec was trying to dismiss the issue.
@wrije Incorrect. Legally, they did nothing wrong, obviously. But the "dense" thing would be to claim that companies don't play upon cultural perceptions of things in order to imply their product is something more expensive or desirable than it actually is. Which is exactly what they did. They know how UK consumers take the words to mean, not because they're dense but because that's what it literallly always means in that market, and they use that to sell a cheaper to make product for the same price, or at least not adequately cheaper. Corporations won't date you.
That's all the media does, if one doesn't overreact another one will
It's absolutely incredible how Tom can not only remember his 10 minute long script, but do it in a single take AND get to the plant the second his script tells him he should point at the plant. Incredible. He doesn't even lose focus once. Ps. Cudos to the camera person for walking backwards that whole time and not stumbling.
He nearly lost it when he almost dropped the bottle...
He had to walk REALLY slow to time it right
@Reece Deyoung I can see that. Thank you.
Likely has a teleprompter with timing cues. No reason not to.
He told us in other videos he uses a teleprompter! But of course. Because memorizing 10 minutes straight of data and the right words would be very tough.
This video is a certified masterpiece. Its one straight near 10 minute take full of info and facts about something you didnt know you wanted to know, and the walk was perfectly timed with the speech to end up at the bottling plant. Absolutely perfect
What is the character in your pfp called?
@ALittleKitten Niko, from OneShot
Well, to be fair, he was actually taking baby steps next to the bottling plant for the entire 9 minutes, so the timing really wasn’t that hard.
Based Niko enjoyer
its called rehearsing. good christ.
Thanks Britain for thwarting the invasion. At one point in my life I was locked in a ship with only Dasani and its Pepsi counterpart Aquafina, and it felt like drinking nothingness, which managed to make me even thirstier. Even the tea brewing in it felt lacking.
Yeh both are disgusting; the only thing worse is Evian which is so base I use it only to induce vomiting.
It's all just overpriced water
@Frank Furter arrowhead water use to taste like boiled weenie water…
Agree! It literally doesnt quench your thirst, horrible water.
@Symphony & Serenity Yes! I swear it even dries my mouth out, somehow.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate this monstrous 9 minute single take with many facts, names, and quotes
and so well timed with the lorry as well, hauhauahua
don't forget the annoying horn at 2:50
I assume he’s got a portable auto cue setup being carried by Matt.
Yea and all that just to record it next to a noisy, annoying road
@Jasper Janssen Doesn't sound like Matt at the end
I love your genuine wholesome reactions at the end when you nail it in one take or talk about something else that was happening in the background. It's authentic and adds to your already great delivery of clearly well researched and planned out content.
I loved it too.
it's part of his manipulative editing that he talked about in another video. the unnescessary intros and outros that can be easily edited out are left in on purpose to create an illussion of authenticity and relatability. Have to admit it works and is probably a huge part of his success.
@Squall Leonhart I mean, sure, it's framed. But the joy is genuine. Tom keeps improving at his craft, and you can see it through his years of videos, historically catalogued here.
During a trip to the US I was like "hmmm what the hell is that purified water they sell in bottles ?" And it was just that. What you can do at home with a water purifier, they do sell to you in a bottle... France, like the UK, never had such a product, and like the UK, has many mineral water brands, exported all over the world (Evian, Vittel, Volvic, Perrier...). There is no way such a product would have worked once people would have known what it was in France, because they would have had the same reaction as me : "why the hell would I pay for that when tap water is so cheap?".
Not every place has nasty tap water like the US though. When I lived in Florida, even a PUR filter didn't do anything for the water - still tasted like drinking warm swamp water.
You pay for the convenience and transport, plus the receptacle, what's inside is the least important part, people know and it still has a market, especially considering the alternatives in the fridge have sugar and other additives I'll pay for the comparatively clean option.
@Landon P I live in Detroit, and Detroit city water is highly regarded. Gotta remember how massive the US is, there are thousands of water treatment plants for all different areas.
@ZbabyG It's not always an issue with the city water - it can also be an issue with pipes as well. Frankly, when I drink water it has to be spring water like Icelandic Glacial, Fiji, or Evian. Purified bottled tap water leaves a chemical aftertaste that is horrible - and most tap water I have drank just has off-putting taste to me.
PFAS goes right through
I cant tell if im more impressed by the information being told to me, or the commitment and sheer cool factor of your walking start to the cocacola plant, amazing video as always
Allow me to 1 up that, for the entire 9 minutes and 50 seconds, there is not a single cut in the video
@Lone Beast Tom is awesome
I'm thoroughly impressed with how you are able to articulate yourself so well in one take like this. Something like this would take me weeks to put together in terms of delivery and pacing. Incredible!
When I talk I sound like a bumbling bufoon.
@ohtrueyeahnah incredible
I'm amazed you were able to do this video in a single continuous take without cuts. I can only imagine how difficult it was to perfect this video
He does use a teleprompter though. He admitted it in a recent interview.
Are u also amazed about the Rainbow?
The fact that this video is one take, no stuttering and no teleprompter makes this video truly amazing.
+
He's amazing
There could be a prompter..
@Rushil Kaul yep
Not to mention the camera operator walking backwards all the way...unless there was a guide keeping him on the path.
when I was in Ireland this year, I noticed one of the brands of bottles of water I bought somewhere was produced by Coca Cola (Deep River Rock), and was shocked because it actually tasted like normal water instead of disgusting like Dasani. Clearly they can do it, they just choose not to in North America... bleh
They don't have to worry about it tasting good if half their contracts force it be the only option
@TheDeadOfNight37 Bleh
river rock is made by Coca Cola?!
tastes vary fam, I like dasani 🤷 I also like candy corn and those chalky valentines hearts ...I feel like dasani haters probably like cilantro 🤢
i rather drink water with flavor you can put in it
Riveting! Tom Scott, you make the Dasani story so much more dramatic than my former business school marketing case studies of product launches that failed disastrously. Thanks for the research, and fascinating storytelling. Have never bought Dasani here in the US, because we know it’s tap water. Apologies to my friend, who had a 20-year career in Coca-Cola marketing.
I don't consider filtered tap water to be the same as tap water. It becomes high quality water.
After finding out about this, my school decided to stop adding Dasani in the water vending machines and replace them with actual "clean" water
the diffrence is negligable at best, i promise you if you blind tasted It you wouldnt notice a difference, and you body also would see no difference between the two
I hope that they just went with whatever was cheapest as that is actually probably best for the environment and exactly the same for the users. Second of course to making it easy to just get water from a tap
This is insane, I've been living in the US for the past 3 years and I'm just now realizing that I've been drinking glorified tap water the entire time...
I can’t believe people would buy it knowingly.
you... JUST realized it's just tap water? it's not a big national conspiracy or something. As an American, i find this so weird that people didn't realize bottled water is just tap in a bottle.
@FScotsman4472 Because sometimes it's actual spring water.
@FScotsman4472wheatly
I've known this forever. Does no one read the label? Unless it says "spring water" it's tap water.
I remember when restaurants here in Italy (a land of extremely good mineral waters) tried to sell "purified water" at the same price of mineral water. It lasted a couple of years then people started to refuse to pay.
Posting to call out the fact that this was nearly ten minutes in a SINGLE TAKE and aside from the car horn, it's basically perfect. How Tom hasn't been snapped up to present major TV or film documentaries yet is amazing to me. It takes serious talent to deliver like that, for that long, entirely from memory. Bravo, sir!
It's better with the car horn anyway
Yeap, the second one take I see and I am so amazed by it. This is incredible hard.
He's making far more money presenting on youtube - he's probably turned down a lot of TV offers in his time.
@hellobitch my revenue has gone down by about 75%. Views and clicks have not gone down at all... In fact views and clicks have gone up.... Yielding a lower paycheck. It's not like I was living off CS-tv... But it was a good fund for my hobbies. Not anymore.
Unlike BBC and MSM reporters, Tom is intelligent, articulate and telling the truth, after researching well.
That was really well done! For nearly 7 minutes I was thinking 'he sure is covering some ground in this video', then he arrives at the place he's talking about as he's introducing it! Must have worked out how long it'd take to present and how far he'd have to walk for it to line up like that, it's a great idea and very well executed!
A few have commented on that. If you notice though, once they reach the Coca Cola plant their pace does pick up. Still nicely timed however
Its a British work
One of my coworker's brothers was an executive at Coca Cola. We were talking about how Dasani is just filtered tap water and he said that his brother actually said that bottling Dasani was more expensive than Coke because of the extensive filtration process. I'm not surprised as I think that they spend more on marketing than on the actual product. To be honest, I'm much more bothered by seeing Fiji, San Pelligrino, or Evian shipped halfway around the world than the idea that Dasani is just well-filtered water.
Only fools and horses is one of the best and one of my favourite tv shows! It was hugely popular in Croatia and today is still considered cult classic.
I remember when the Dasani story broke in the UK. People were at that time somewhat sceptical of bottled water anyway, since the tap water in most of the UK was very high quality (before Thatcher privatised it). I can assure you, nobody had to have seen the OFAH episode to be outraged at the concept of Dasani: selling our own water back to us that we we already paid a tax for.
what they sell is a bottle, the water is just a bonus gift out of their goodwill. it was intended for people who was in the public and couldn't be bothered to tap into the nearby sewer to drink some water
On this side of the pond, Dasani actually started as an experiment to see if they could turn wastewater (yes, from a sewage treatment plant) could be turned into drinking water. Started at the Atlanta Metro Wastewater treatment plant. Never realized how badly it was handled on that side of the pond though.
It was just one gaff. Had it not been for _Only Fools and Horses,_ Coca-Cola probably could have survived this
Pov: ur going for a walk and some stranger starts following you and lecturing you on a story about bottled water
I mean better than walking alone
Don’t even have to say anything?🙏
hide what?
Lmao
I dunno why that made me laugh so much lmaoo
Dasani existed here in Colombia, but they didn't sell still water, but flavoured water. Probably because there are more established brands of bottlef water
Always so interesting, I love the snippets of history like this that you bring up for us to learn about, thank you. And these single takes are incredible pieces of art. Nice
This may be one of my favorite Tom Scotts, it’s something I genuinely care about (DO NESTLE! SAVE B.C. LAND!) Plus this is soooo well done in regards to the acting, composition, and cinematography! Everyone else has already said what I could on this so… cheers!
Its always funny to see Tom so excited over a one take video
I was booked to promote this product in the UK from a branded van and was overjoyed when it got pulled just before I had that cancer-wagon outside my house as I was still paid the full fee. 😁
It always makes me happy to see Tom's "one take" celebrations, but what really impressed me was the camerawork. Not only did they keep Tom in centre frame while moving backwards for the full 9 minutes (and particularly while crossing the driveway), they made space for the graphics to appear when Tom mentioned them.
The panning shots were nice too. Well done, to both of them.
It could also be done stabilization like in his one video
*some
Pikana well of course, but it’s still tough to do
could also be shot in 8k and re-framed to 4k in post. But its still a really good shot. Love the 1 take continuous clips.
I love that 1) there are a bunch of random pieces of paper on the ground just before all the newspaper clippings start covering the screen and 2) there's a crushed Coke can on the ground just after all those (bad publicity) clippings disappear. Considering how well this video is timed, I wouldn't be surprised if those items were planned. Then again, it could be just happy randomness.
5:00 and 5:40
I remember watching a UK spokesman for the brand, trying to defend it. The interviewer asked him, : " so what makes Dasani different, after all it's just tap water?" , he replied : " It goes through an incredibly technical filtration system " ,' the interviewer countered with : " 'So that's it, it's just filtered?" And about 2007, I was in Chicago, on the CTA, I saw a bottle of Dasani on the floor, and just shook my head! HOABL
I love how excited Tom is about getting it all done in one take :D
If that was really a single take, that's insane. I do like the camera angle change when he introduced the plant - that was a great buildup.
I literally remember my mum telling me about how coca cola tried to sell tap water when I was a kid, and her just sounding so completely outraged and implying that it was this disgusting scam that coca cola had pulled. British people did NOT take it well!
It’s a miracle that Dasani didn’t fail everywhere, literally the only water you will hear people call bad
Aquafina is garbage too
Nestle is bad
@Marty Halloway Nestle is the least offensive.
Very interesting info and extremely well delivered. No pauses, cuts or errors. All the names and quotes memorized. Excellent.
I truly think this might be the best video on CS-tv and for several reasons. Informative and remarkably Filmed in one take! And an insanely ironic story. I have too many questions.
Something I find amazing about Tom's videos is the way he includes small bits of criticism of the media he shows and references on his videos so the usage of clips and fragments of the media he puts on screen fall under fair use (at least that's what i believe he does that for partially)
I remember one of the UK water companies doing a marketing stunt where they bottled regular tap water and filled a supermarket aisle with the bottles. I think the whole aisle of water cost about 5 pounds or something. I never looked at bottled water the same way again, it truly is one of the greatest cons of our age.
Do you have a link for that?
In what sense is it a con?
there are places where the tap water isn't drinkable, and many more where the tap water is technically drinkable but unpleasant. i live in such a place, and i'm grateful for bottled water.
I usually buy it when I'm far from a trustworthy tap and need a single serving of water with a snack, sandwich or medication. But I'm also grateful it's available when there's a rare tap water contamination emergency in my home area.
They sell bottles, not water
I lived in Eastern France and after drinking water from a local source for years it was declared unusable because of the cattle urine in the water.
That’s what gives it it flavor 🤤
I'll bet you were pissed
Wow, I'm super impressed that they timed an almost 7 minute walk to be able to turn the camera and have a shot of the factory at the exact right time.
They actually hired Christopher Nolan and filmed it all backwards :D
*practice* . no but seriously look at the way he's walking.
@ianism oh i didn't notice
@ianism lmfao
@ianism One take though?
Tom Scott is honestly so good at what he does.
I still can't wrap my head around people happily paying as much or more for a bottle of tap water as they do for a bottle of fruit juice. Most bottled water isn't close to being as pure and clean as the water coming out of my own kitchen tap. And yet, I've even purchased it occasionally. It's insanity.
Bottled water still contends for the most outrageous, absurd cash grab (and most environmentally damaging) ever perpetrated.
I remember the launch. They were laughed out of the country for having the audacity to think they could literally bottle tap water & sell it at a premium 😂😂😂
Yet, you have Italian Lete Acqua Minerale (Not to be mistaken with PepsiCo AquaMinerale) or Nestle's Vera, which are exactly that
I love how excited you get when you crank out these one-take wonders!
I just love it when Tom gets excited about doing 1 take.
Wow thanks for ruining a surprise
@Scott King it’s not really a surprise just a cool thing
@pizzabob yuh
@Scott King 🤓🤓🤓
Austin Farley.. ur a witness huh?
The problem is that my family only buys Dasani and Aquafina. I’m not sure how water could taste different. I’m already gulping multiple bottles of Dasani every day, and I’ve recently came back from a trip in Deutschland. Das Wasser sind gleich. Ich habe Leitungswasser in Deutschland versucht, aber es hat gut geschmeckt.
I came from a part of the US where the tap water was actually delicious and safe. We all thought bottled water was stupid when you could get it for free on any street corner or water spigot. Now those same people are convinced they must buy bottled water or they will get poisoned. I now live in a desert where the water isn't so good. I filter the heck out of it and travel with bottled water because it's relatively cheap for the convenience.
There used to be a bottled water brand by the Coca-Cola Company in Germany called BonAqa. They only stopped selling it after 30 years in 2018. Germans have a weird obsession with bottled mineral water, so maybe that's why it was easier to get a foot into the market. I grew up without any clue of what it actually was, though you'd only buy it in places that were contractually bound to sell Coca-Cola products only.
8:17 they kinda did the same thing in germany, they sell purified water, but without the added minerals as the region they get the water from has enough minerals. It's also called Vio instead of Disani
The fact that Only Fools and Horses could be called back on because of Dasani water is hilarious 😂
Some people praised 1917 for it's long shots, but Tom Scott showed us all how it's done.
This wasn't faked either.
And the story actually makes sense unlike this nonsensical film written by a lady who is obviously clueless about how things go in war.
its*
@zwete You mean they didn't actually send a cameraman back to ww1?
It looks nice on CS-tv, but hey, London is big and Tom Scott is still just a human. It could have been done on multiple takes, which reminds me of that brilliant video of CS-tv IDs, which was supposedly done in one take.
I had a bottle of this like 20 years ago. It was aweful! I vowed to NEVER drink that crap again. I didn't know why or HOW a bottle of water could be SOOO bad.
I was somewhat shocked when I went to the UK last summer and everyone said they just drink straight from the tap. I dare anyone to do that in Florida 🤣🤣🤣
Every cold water tap MUST use drinking water in the U.K. by law. Even if it's an outside tap, or one that's only for hand washing in bathrooms and the like MUST be drinkable.
@Ash Holiday im not 100% sure about that, as i have seen taps at sinks (in a toilet) with signs next to them saying “NOT DRINKING WATER” (maybe because the taps at the sinks are fed from a tank?), however there was a water fountain nearby (which i think did have a sign saying “DRINKING WATER”)
When i went to Greece i was kinda surprised that there was no “purified water” just mineral and spring, to me i can feel the difference between purified and spring/mineral. Unless they are both ice cold, then it’s just cold water
you might be the chosen one , what a superpower you got there..
@X I’ll only use it for good, don’t worry.
In Greece there is purified tap water but it's sold in LIDL, which is a german store! :P
@IliasLive yo, i forgot there was a Lidl there, they have those back in my hometown in america
I think it is crazy that in places with good tap water it is legal to sell plastic bottles of water I’m not worried about paying a lot for tap water I’m worried about how much plastic people are using when they have clean water already
What do you expect us to do if we're thirsty and there's no convenient tap? If you're going to legislate I'd rather legislate to make tap water more widely available, not to take away bottled water. Bottled water is no worse than any other bottled drink.
@Jim Harding So do you think it should be illegal to sell plastic bottles of water but legal to sell plastic bottles of cola or ice tea? What should the minimum strength of tea be?
You can get good water out of a spring in pristine territory, but after you run any water through all those pipes and pumps, it's not going to be clean or healthy.
I'm always blown away by your preparation and execution in these videos. Almost 10 minutes in a single take and a perfectly timed reveal! Well done! Oh and also the story was cool too.
I am weirdly impressed by the timing of the monologue with the panning reveal of the bottling plant. That would have been way too easy to mess up
It took 34 hours of filming to get it right ;)
@Baron von Limbourgh how do u know that?
@Sachin Majotra what?
@Baron von Limbourgh I said how do u know it took 34 hours
@Sachin Majotra i don't, it was a joke.......
Great job with the single take. Amazing work from you all
Dasani was originally intended to be sold in a glass bottle, but bacteria thwarted that plan if I remember correctly.
The main reason why bottled water was and still is selling good in Germany is because much of it is sparkling water. btw we had Bonaqua (tap water, so called table water) for years which was a water trademark from Coca Cola. Today there is Apollinares and Vio (both mineral water) which belons to Coca Cola.
Germany is the only place I've been where if you ask for a glass of water they by default assume you want sparkling.
Bottle water (wether is processed tap water or mineral water) is quite working well in Hong Kong because we folks might used up all the water in our bottle while wandering around or hiking and do need some ice cold refreshments when near a store.
I buy it because it's one of the few waters left that come in good, solid bottles (not the crinkley kind!) that can be refilled and used again and again!
Toms trying to flex on us with his one take 9 minute walking monologue but we're all here marveling at how the camera person walked backwards and even crossed a road without falling over and kept a good shot
Walking backwards can be easy, but only if the path is clear and predictable. I would have to assume there was a third person involved with this video. Tom Scott, his cameraman, and then a third person walking ahead of the cameraman and making sure the path is clear and there is no traffic, etc, on the roads they were crossing.
There are also ways to mount and hold the camera so that you film behind you and don't have to walk backwards.
Notice how they are walking in sync?
Let's not overlook the perfectly placed pair of gloves at 9:10
Also they roads they crossed were access roads to the factory, so there's a whole lot less traffic on them, so it's much easier to do it safely (bar that one truck in the outro)
You know if you ever really want Dasani but are in a place that doesn’t allow/provide it you can always just drop a couple of nickels in a regular water bottle and boom good to go
That was super interesting. I have never been a fan of Dasani water because they add Salt. I get bad heartburn if I drink it.
If you never had the “pleasure” of drinking Dasani water, let me tell you what it is like: the more you drink it, the more you’re thirsty. I’m not kidding, it’s exactly like I said.
the beauty of capitalism
they put hydrophilic substances on it that do just that. not sure how true is it since i read it years ago.
I worked in a supermarket at the time and I remember it being literally poured down the sink.
I’ve seen firsthand how three different brands of bottle water were all filled with the same municipal water supply.
This should be #1 on trending. The research and effort that Tom puts into his content puts many CS-tvr's to shame. Keep up the excellent work
Yes robbo
Especially his ability to do it all and recite everything verbatim without a script. I could've done without the busy road, but his well timed passing by the plant was a bravo moment
No the godzilla music video holds that spot rightfully so
No it shouldn't🤣🤣 I like his videos but definitely not a #1 trending I mean cmon fanboy calm down
Also trending based on a spike of views based off the average a video usually gets on the channel.
This reminds me of the story of how Walmart failed in Germany, only Walmart actually did a string of things wrong...
My grandparents swear by Dasani water and refuse to drink anything else, claiming it’s the best tasting water. Most cities near LA have very contaminated tap water. My city in the past year finally put out mail telling us to NOT drink any tap water unless filtered. The tests for the tap water is publicly shown online for anyone to see. If you looked at the test results a lot of the harmful contamination is a higher % than what the acceptable amount should be. Some by over 300%, they’ll even tell you which ones cause cancer. I would NOT feed my pets tap water either unfiltered. Like- America’s tap water is really bad here, obviously other states are worse than others tho. Tap water is something I think a lot of people don’t think about, at least not in the “is this safe?” Way.
I thought this was common knowledge. Years ago I was wondering why Dasani was cheaper than the other bottled waters in the store, so I read the bottle and instantly knew it was purified tap water. I wasn't outraged by it because that's what you're paying for, the extra purification process. If I remember correctly the bottle said they use a reverse osmosis process.
Did you actually watch the video? They had a 3000% markup on tap water.
@Josh E A 3000% markup on free tap water. Well let's do the math, a 3000% markup on 1 cent would be 3 dollars. Still cheaper than a bottle of spring water
I live in the US and almost everyone I've had the conversation with hates our local tap water. Some of us have grown sensitive to the taste of the carbon filters used in distilled bottled water. And even the faucet/pitcher filtration systems. Nowadays I have to have water that has no taste at all. (A water snob, I guess) But I found three bottled waters that I love: Fiji water, Icelandic water, and most recently Waiakea water from a well of Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii. I recommend all three.
2:31 I’m glad you brought that up because praising tap water standards in the U.S was done to discourage people from drinking bottled water more recently. Now we know to filter that and that our pipes don’t always follow those standards.
People are talking about Tom's "one take" ability but nobody's mentioning his ability to wear a red shirt and grey hoodie for the past 5+ years.
ONE OUTFIT. There we go! XD
ohh well you right hes still doing that.^^ Im just notecig im kinda doing the same :D
Tom released a video about his red shirt a couple of years ago, so nothing left to talk about :)
And the not aging at all.
plot twist, the shirt was white originally
You structured this story incredibly well.
How the hell did this guy do this in one take! Also timed it perfect for the factory.. Bravo sir!
you are the only youtuber i know who doesnt do a new shot every 4 words, it's amazing how you can just say everything within a take.
Respect on the one take, but double respect on having it paced perfectly to arrive at the destination right on time. Very cool.
The way the water companies in this country are being allowed to dump sewage into rivers we'll all probably have to hook up a water purifier to our taps
Not only did the cameran walk backwards for 9 minutes and not only did Tom remember the entire script perfectly but they timed the "there" bit with the coca cola factory so perfectly. (6:28)
Could it be and that what was said was on a prompter or actually written so it could be repeated as the speaker walked? THINK ABOUT IT!
@Vere Absolutum Are you mad? 😄
@Asia B probably jealous abt his memorization skills
Honestly the cameraman probably held the camera backwards. I would too
@Asia B i mean it’s possible it’s on a prompter
It’s crazy how much influence film and television can have
2:50 also due to both previous and (sadly) current public infrastructure failures or natural disasters, tap water in many places can be fairly dangerous to the human body without a lot of preparation. 2 years ago, large packs of bottled Water were under ~8 Euros (or about $5) in most places. I haven't kept up with the current prices so I can't say how bad it is now. This bottled water, for several places in the United States, is quite literally a lifeline for entire towns and cities relying on it. For the most recent and ongoing disaster in the state of Ohio, it will probably be staple until locals believe the water is safe again. The government is saying the water is safe, but almost nobody believes them and thinks they were bought out.
Legend has it that Tom Scott is still walking with an empty bottle of Dasani
I walked right into an episode of The West Wing and nobody noticed.
I remember the double page spred in my mother's favourite paper, The Daily Mail, with a through diagram of the bottling process and just how scathing everyone I knew was of 'stupid fools' who 'got ripped off' by buying bottled tap water. Their actual language was much more colourful.
A former colleague of mine lived in a small village with its own water supply which was fantastic for them until Highland Spring stuck a bottling plant on it and they were stuck with the same Scottish Water stuff as the rest of Perthshire, which apparently was nowhere near as nice.
Even in America Dasani is viewed as one of the worst bottled waters. If you get Dasani you are either at a movie theater where they only sell Dasani or it’s the only choice at a gas station in the middle of nowhere.
Dasani, the water brand where every bottle tastes like it has a nickel in it.
so true.
I work at a Walgreens and there are customers who actually come in and buy Dasani willingly... Cases of the stuff. Rare, but they're there.
I only ever heard of it when people were panic buying and someone from the U.S posted on twitter a photo of the shelves being empty except at the end there was a big stacked pile of Dasani water untouched 🤣
Dasani and Aquafina are the two best water bottled brands imo
During the beginning of corona there were people buying all the TP and bottled water. And there were pallets of Dasani untouched.
Informative, straight to the point, not asking for a like or subcribe and well shot in one nice recording. Well done 👍
It's also important to mention that the idea of bottling and selling municipal tap water is still plenty controversial over here in the United States. While it's certainly true that people in the States are more comfortable with the idea, the main complaint is not the origin of the water, but the idea that some company can put tap water in a plastic bottle and then sell the resulting product at a 3000% markup. It's the same sort of complaint as a small water stand at the top of a mountain hiking path selling bottled water for ten dollars. The anger isn't about whether they're selling tap or mineral water, it's about the absurd sale price because they can get away with it.
I'm from the US and never knew this happened. I've never liked the taste or price of Dasani. Very interesting video!
Your statement at the end is prophetic in itself - considering 'Smartwater' is the exact same thing and ultimately owned by CocaCola.
It's really interesting to hear that they tried to change the flavor to match a British palette because Dasani is some of the worst tasting bottled water you can buy in the US, and it would not be a far cry to assume that they did not care about taste at all.
Fed Smoker scary part is it’s different and very bad for you
I had to by desani bc it’s all my store had left, drank two of the 24 & felt thirstier = ended up using the rest on my house plants & they ended up dying (seriously!)= think too much sodium in it or bad sodium?!
I get a case and just leave it in the bed of my truck so when I get it I just assume it’ll taste bad cause usually it’s been there for weeks and I’m just really thirsty
@Marcus Richards I was initially disgusted but upon reading this for a 34th time you might be onto something here
i bet it's intentionally bad
"can't live without spunk" is going to be my new life motto
Tom, you did not mention the number one issue with tap water: the last mile. The voyage water takes to your tap varies with the type and age of municipality's system. Older pipes contaminate the water with lead and other metals. Sometimes minor cracks will permit untreated ground water. Even if the water is uncompromised your building's local plumbing may be faulty.