Rhodie Ranch
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Or you go to twist off the top and the entire top quarter of the bottle starts to twist on itself!!
Funny, I wound up with some watermelon mint (teabags) on Tuesday. Must be a new trendy flavorI just got back from the store too. I found watermelon mint and cherry/strawberry tea. I haven’t tried either, but supposedly, you just drop the bag in a bottle of water.
I just still have LOTS and LOTS of Camelbacks from when I was still wandering. I found them quite sturdy, and, unlike many models not inclined to leak at the straw end. You might want to look into a few.I reuse soda bottles and refill them from my berkey.
No, they intentionally have made them flimsier in order to switch over to a more eco-friendly plastic. It's one of those half-hearted things they do when they are trying to get around the fact that there really IS no eco friendly way of transporting liquid (glass is too heavy and fragile, metal is too expensive and takes too many resources to recycle (since you have to coat it on the inside so it doesn't oxidize), Hard plastic is full of things that can leach out into the beverage and cause harm, laminated paper is again hard to recycle, and going back to the old day standards and having everyone bring their own containers to be filled at a central distribution point (like they used to do for things like whisky in pioneer days, bring your own jugs and get them filled) would raise SERIOUS hygiene issues. And those who say the real answer is to stop the concept of having perpetual access to something to drink at all times risk the wrath of anyone concerned about dehydration.)The water bottles they sell these days are so flimsy, you can’t even open one without spilling water all over the place. Maybe I’m just a moose in a china closet.
Particularly a problem with those few waters I knew that went for POUCHES with twist off tops. There's nothing firm to twist AGAINST.Or you go to twist off the top and the entire top quarter of the bottle starts to twist on itself!!
I just got back from the store too. I found watermelon mint and cherry/strawberry tea. I haven’t tried either, but supposedly, you just drop the bag in a bottle of water. I reuse soda bottles and refill them from my berkey. The water bottles they sell these days are so flimsy, you can’t even open one without spilling water all over the place. Maybe I’m just a moose in a china closet.