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Thank goodness people are catching on to this. I've always asked for tap water in restaurants but have seen friend's faces contort with shame when I do, as if I'm asking for the waitron to wipe my arse for me. In places like India, China and even Turkey, I'd go for bottled water, but in western Europe and the US, Canada, Oz etc chilled tap water is fine. To me, buying water is the same as throwing money away. And as for this idea about needing to be constantly rehydrated, well, that is baloney. It's base marketing and the drones fall for it. Maybe if your a dipsomaniac, E'd up marathon runner with only one, partially-working kidney, then you do need to take in water constantly. Otherwise, you'll get lots from tea, milk, apples, oranges, even the odd pint of beer. Sheesh. Nero
buying bottled water when you are out and about is simply down to being organised - fill a bottle with tap water and take it out with you and you're sorted, if not you have to buy one. Buying it in a restaurant is down to psychology - we are uncomfortable with a waiter thinking of us as a skinflint, so we buy the bottled water. There is a degree of psychology in the whole business. There is a kind of snobbery regarding second-hand things. Bottled water appears new whereas tap water appears used.

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> Have you tasted English wine?


Sorry *Bob* but you are showing your ignorance here. Denbies near Dorking is quite good, 3 Choirs (available in both The Herne and the Palmeston) is excellent, their sparkling is available from Sainsburys and is much better than an equivalent priced champagne. Sharphams from Devon is wonderful and a medal winner. Camel from Cornwall has such good sparkling wine that it was drunk by Queenie and her cronies at the Millennium Dome on Millennium night. There are dozens of excellent vineyards in the south of England and although obviously their wine is more expensive due to economies of size than the big players - why not support a local vineyard.


The whites are superior to the one dimensional Sauvingnons from New Zealand, and are far more food friendly than an oaked (or in my opinion any) Chardonnay. I would recommend them to anyone who likes something a bit different.

Totally with you on that Cassius (though I suspect *Bob* was being flippant -gasp- for comic effect), there are some excellent English wines out there, well worth a try.


Also with you on the ridiculous number of lazy, flabby, overoaked chardonnays dominating the supermarket shelves.


Can't agree that there aren't any. Most Burgundy wine such as Chablis or Pouilly Fuiss?, is exclusively chardonnay and is responsible for some of the best wines ever produced.

I've managed to make myself salivate, right I'm off to bankrupt myself

I do have to admit to being on a bit of a mission when it comes to English wines - so many people write them off it is hard to know whether someone is being 'flippant' or not. I do remember Concorde British wine and it was totally disgusting but things have changed so much in the past few years.


However it is obviously still rare for people to order English wines. My partner and I ordered a bottle at the Herne just before Christmas and the chap who sorted out the wine list actually came and asked us what we thought of it as so few people order it.


Take the point about Chablis and Pouilly Fuiss?, though.........

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