A restaurant in the English county of Cheshire has launched a water menu, as have a number of US establishments. Is it really possible, though, to tell one terroir from another?
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…
That’s a blatant scam for self-appointed restaurant critics and other food pedants.
Let them be scammed. Why not… I have nothing against taking money from fools, so long as they don’t convince reasonable people to do the same.
I oppose it, mainly because it takes advantage from gullible people, and opens the door for companies making water expensive.
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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