I wonder if thats why the coffee always seems to taste bad there?Shorty82 wrote:Most of the water in the Orlando area is like that. I only drink filtered and bottled water down there. My brother and his wife who live in the area never drink from the tap and instead they buy bottled water at the store.
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Probably. That, or it's the fact coffee tastes nasty anyway and the sulfur taste to the water doesn't help any.GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:I wonder if thats why the coffee always seems to taste bad there?
I've heard the newer resorts and, I believe, DAK have filters and purifiers on their water supplies so the tap water from them isn't as bad as from the older resorts and parks. Also, for the most part the water out of soda fountains isn't bad as it is filtered.
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No, it's not the water that makes Disney coffee suck. It's the Nescafe concentrate!GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:I wonder if thats why the coffee always seems to taste bad there?
The best purchase that I made upon moving to CF was the new fridge with the built in water/ice dispenser in the door AND the extra large water filter built in!
It makes our crappy water taste pretty good.
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Hmmm Maybe I should sneak some ground beans with me next trip! And my camping water purifier!!Cranbiz wrote:No, it's not the water that makes Disney coffee suck. It's the Nescafe concentrate!
The best purchase that I made upon moving to CF was the new fridge with the built in water/ice dispenser in the door AND the extra large water filter built in!
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I think everyone else's water tastes bad. I guess I have only ever been drinking FL water and am used to it.
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Hey, now! Don't insult all of Florida's water! The water up here in the Panhandle is good. There's something about the aquifer that Central Florida uses that causes the sulfur taste that the aquifer up here doesn't have.kurtisnelson wrote:I think everyone else's water tastes bad. I guess I have only ever been drinking FL water and am used to it.
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I'll back you up on that, Shorty. We drink water right out of the tap here and it doesn't have that nasty sulfur smell or taste.Shorty82 wrote:Hey, now! Don't insult all of Florida's water! The water up here in the Panhandle is good. There's something about the aquifer that Central Florida uses that causes the sulfur taste that the aquifer up here doesn't have.
We had the same problem when we lived in Daytona Beach, though, and when we watered the yard it smelled of sulfur and it left stains on the concrete block foundation of the house.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Daytona Beach gets its water from the same aquifer that the Orlando area does. The fact it made the yard smell and stain concrete makes me doubly sure I will avoid ever drinking any unfiltered tap water in Central Florida.Whazzup wrote:I'll back you up on that, Shorty. We drink water right out of the tap here and it doesn't have that nasty sulfur smell or taste.
We had the same problem when we lived in Daytona Beach, though, and when we watered the yard it smelled of sulfur and it left stains on the concrete block foundation of the house.
The water from the aquifer here is very pure. Very little, if any, treatment has to be done to the water to make it drinkable.
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With all that, I think I would still go the bottled water route, for drinking and cooking!
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People in the 1800's used to pay money to come down here to specifically to soak in and drink the sulfur water, which was apparently was considered extra-healthy back then, and of course people still like to soak in mineral water but I don't know if you can do it around here anymore.
When I got here to go to Basic Training late on the night 1 August, 1989, I was astounded by the strong sulfur taste of the water at the Navy Base (where Baldwin Park is now). But after a day of marching around in Orlando in August I didn't notice the taste at all :)
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When I got here to go to Basic Training late on the night 1 August, 1989, I was astounded by the strong sulfur taste of the water at the Navy Base (where Baldwin Park is now). But after a day of marching around in Orlando in August I didn't notice the taste at all :)
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