Posted on 08/09/2015 6:28:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
This week, shoppers at Whole Foods in Brentwood, California spotted the new health drink, priced at $5.99 (£3.85) per bottle on the shelves. For just under four pounds, you got a bottle filled with water and three stalks of asparagus.
Was this the new maple water? Could Whole Foods get any more ridiculous? Are they becoming a parody of themselves? There were so many questions.
Alerted by bemused customers on Twitter, Eater called the store to investigate. They were initially told by an employee that the product was indeed new to the store. ‘We’ve had them on the shelf for the last few days,’ he said.
He elaborated: ‘It’s water, and we sort of cut asparagus stalks down so they’re shorter, and put them into the container.’
Asked to what purpose, he clarified: ‘Well, it’s… to drink. The nutrients from the asparagus do transfer into the water.’
Cue a barrage of WTAF on social media.
But, don’t worry, it was all just an innocent mistake. Honest.
Whole Foods’ senior media relations specialist Liz Burkhart was quick to nip the whole thing in the bud overnight. ‘We looked into this right away and found that this item was being carried in just one of our stores in California,’ she said.
‘It was meant to be water with the essence of vegetables and/or mushrooms to be used as broth (similar to a bone broth), which are typically made over a long period of time soaking in water. The product was made incorrectly and has since been removed from the one store where it was carried.’
Phew. The world hasn’t gone completely mad then. Or has it?
——Dasani water is just filtered tap water. It’s owned by Coca Cola.-——
They do add minerals into it....
So its reverse osmosis filtered tap water with minerals added....
The only real waters that are actually not from a open spring or tap water is Fiji water which is pumped from an underground aquifer deep in volcano rock....never is exposed to the environment above ground....
“why would anyone be willing to PAY for such an item?”
A classic from Penn and Teller’s BS program...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFKT4jvN4OE
If that wasn’t irradiated, it could have killed some of the customers who bought it. In order to be shelf-stable without refrigeration, vegetables and fruit must be irradiated (aseptic) or properly pressure cooked and properly sealed.
I went into this dump once just to see the overpriced products....got to love this scam though & only $5.99:)
my local market juts started selling Water....from Norway.....
Hey, I saw a WHOLE MOVIE that was about Water from Norway.
The Heroes of Telemark.
The Whole Paycheck Markets...for people with more dollars then sense...
Maple water is good..
My old roommate and his now ex-wife were exactly like those couples... every few weeks we would go out for dinner as a large group... they would regularly want to go for sushi... or a snobby Italian joint nearby... and they would just fawn over anything expensive just because it was expensive.
Every time the Prententious Foods for Pretentious People writeup that Carlin did in Brain Droppings came to mind.
Just thinking of "Wolf Noodle Soup" cracks me up... and who can deny their love of Candied Goat Anus?
Ah, yes... I'll have the grilled cheese sandwich.
I didn’t know there was such a thing. Maple water even sounds good. Does it taste at all like maple syrup? LOL
Dam, that would get you to fart up a storm for sure.
The asparagus water in the bottles look like a biology experiment from school.
PT Barnum would be proud. There’s a sucker born every minute.
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Now you’ve done it. You just dissed everyone who shops at Wholefoods and pays exhorbitant prices just to show how liberal and nerdy they are!
Did you see the article a week or so back that stated the Whole Paycheck’s mislabeling the “organic” foods and is really buying a lot of their stuff from China?
LOL!
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