you want me to pay what now?
diaryland entry 9:29 a.m. - 2005-03-17
There are a variety of beverage options at work. But I don't understand the bottled water.
For $1.00, I can get a bottle of chocolate milk. Someone grew, roasted and processed cocoa beans into cocoa powder, and someone else grew sugar cane or sugar beets and refined it into sugar. Then in another country, someone squeezed a cow and pasturized and homogonized the milk, separating the cream out to make 1% milk. And then they blended in the cocoa and sugar. And I can get all this for a dollar.
For $1.25 I can get pop. Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew, Root Beer and sometimes even Orange Crush. A factory produced artificial flavoring from chemicals and natural ingredients. Someone either grew and processed sugar, or made artificial sweetener. They blended this with filtered and carbonated water. And I can get all this for $1.25.
Then there's the bottled water. For $1.25, someone filtered some water and stuck it in a bottle. It's not even spring water. It's one of the brands where it's basically tap water from the bottling plant. They didn't bother to flavor it, sweeten it, or even carbonate it, yet they want the same amount of money as they charge for an equal amount of root beer! For less money, I could be drinking milk. For that price, it comes out to about $8 a gallon, for tap water. It comes out of the faucet for free, but they want me to pay $1.25 for it. People are complaining about gasoline being over $2 a gallon, but they're paying $1.25 for a bottle of tap water. I've seen them do it.
I don't understand people. And I know water is supposed to be good for you, but dammit, I can't do it. Not for $1.25 a bottle. I'll be drinking root beer, pepsi, and chocolate milk at work.
Alana
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