Try This At Home

I saw something on the news last week or so about how bottled water is bad for the environment. Not because they're sucking up all the water out of the clear mountain springs, but because all the plastic bottles are cluttering up the landfills. Plus, how environmentally friendly is it to bottle water in France and ship it all the way to California? Like French water is somehow molecularly better than American water. It's all H2O people. The same stuff that comes out of your ordinary tap. Unless you live in some hovel with nasty rusty pipes that shoot out chunky brown water. I wouldn't want to drink that. But still, water is water.

So anyway, rant over. We have homemade bottled water. We just take empty soda bottles and fill them with water and stick them in the freezer. Then when we go somewhere we have ice cold water. You have to be careful when you fill them up that you don't fill them too far because water expands when it freezes. If you fill them too far they might explode. But there's something weird about freezing bottles of water. I don't know if it's something about the water here at Casa Del Cud, so I'd like to get somebody that doesn't live here to try freezing their water like that. I'm looking at you, Mom.

The weird thing is if you get impatient and take a drink when there's only about a tablespoon of ice thawed out it tastes salty. If you wait until there's a good few glugs thawed out it tastes fine, but if there's only a tiny bit of water it's salty. I thought I was just going senile, but The Girl backs me up on this. And it's just the first sip. If you drink all the water that's thawed out and then wait a second for more water to thaw the later sip is fine. What the heck?