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Let Them Drink Perrier . . .

Since the family is preparing for our trip to France (the first for our kids) in a week or so, this item caught my eye. France has opened its first sparkling drinking fountain — a quintessentially French idea in my view.

I know that this sound like an urban legend of who the streets of Paris run with chocolate and the public fountains bubble over with sparkling water, but it is true (at least half of it).

The French converted a former garden shed in the Jardin de Reuilly. They installed CO2 cannisters and iced pipes and . . . voilà, sparkling water for the masses. The water will be kept to 7°C/45°F.

Now if they can just get those public escargot dispensers to work . . .

Source: Secrets of Paris as first seen on Reddit.

13 thoughts on “Let Them Drink Perrier . . .”

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  2. Teji Malik
    1, July 11, 2011 at 11:45 am
    Although,Perrier is injected with C02 and so is Pellegrino from Italy, but there are many fountains in the world which produce naturally effervescent water also called Seltzer, which is derived from German meaning naturally carbonated water.

    One example that I have tried myself is called Lindoia water in Brazil which is a seltzer.
    ——————–
    I’m sorry to be so pedantic, but the English word “seltzer” comes from the name of a specific German town:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selters_(Lahn)

    but the origins as a naturally occurring substance is exactly right!

  4. catch22oy-

    In 1999-2000 Perrier submitted a well application to build a pumping facility and bottling plant in Big Springs, Adams County, Wisconsin. Governor Tommy Thompson (R) of course, was o.k. with that. The residents of Big Springs were not. Perrier’s well application proposed pumping (and bottling) 500 gallons of water per minute which equals 720,000 gallons every 24 hours. The hostility of the citizens and a 74% negative vote on a special referendum convinced Perrier to move the project to Michigan, which was more interested in it.

    “Waterkeepers of Wisconsin Responds to Perrier Bottling Plan”

    http://www.wsn.org

    http://www.wsn.org/water/Perrier4.html

  5. Navin R. Johnson: [upset about the escargot entre] First they didn’t have the bamboo umbrellas for the drinks, and now snails on the food, two boobs!

  6. Although,Perrier is injected with C02 and so is Pellegrino from Italy, but there are many fountains in the world which produce naturally effervescent water also called Seltzer, which is derived from German meaning naturally carbonated water.

    One example that I have tried myself is called Lindoia water in Brazil which is a seltzer.

  7. AY,

    You’re right..
    I never thought of it that way…

    “I hear the water is safer to drink than in Mexico….but what do I know…”

    Yep, safer to drink…. You just can’t swallow it.

  8. No Bud….that would mean that its bottled in Texas…..

    But personally I am partial to Merlot’s…..

    I hear the water is safer to drink than in Mexico….but what do I know…

  9. catch22oy 1, July 11, 2011 at 8:17 am

    Isn’t Perrier bottled in Northern Wisconsin?

    I thought it was bottled in Canada???

    That’s why it’s called “Perry eh.”

  12. Bud,

    🙂

    “Frustrating as all get out…
    but, it is moving along at a snail’s pace.”

    The progress has been sluggish…at best.

  13. “Now if they can just get those public escargot dispensers to work . . . ”

    Frustrating as all get out…
    but, it is moving along at a snail’s pace.

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