O/T What I like

John B. · Mar 31, 2013

The company I work for Prairie Farms Dairy, we make ice cream or shake mix they call it just for Steak n' Shake and shipped nation wide. The plant was built back in the mid 1940's.

What I like is the taste of the water there. It's all piped in with old iron pipe and of course filtered. Sure beats the plain water taste from water gone thru copper plumbing.

Maybe it's just me or has any one else ever noticed this somewhere??

Royse · Mar 31, 2013

I put in my current well about 12 years ago.
It is in the same water vein as the well my parents had when I was a kid.
Just can't get better tasting water.
I'm not sure the piping material makes the difference, but the old iron
pipe was sure easier to thaw out when it froze!

ShadetreeRet · Mar 31, 2013

I think that each type metal tends to impart its own "flavor" to water, depending largely on mineral content. As you know, there is different mineral content in different areas of the country. When I was young most houses were plumbed with galvanized pipe, which after time began to rust which gave water its own particular "flavor". But I agree, I believe that copper is faster to react with chemicals and minerals. I don't know how it is elsewhere, but around here most plumbing is done with plastic pipe, and it seems to be the least affected. But now,the best water you will find is from the spring down the hill and scooped up with either a dipper made from a gourd, or an aluminum dipper!

IrvIA · Mar 31, 2013

We had a shallow dug well on the farm back in the 50's with a community tin can hanging on the pump and the neighbors would stop in sometimes just to get a drink. It was really good, with absolutely no odd taste whatsoever. I wish I could have one now........

BIG RUH · Mar 31, 2013

I had a Great Uncle & aunt that lived on 177 between Belleville & Mascoutah. Best tasting water ever. course you did have to pump the water by hand

NEKS · Apr 1, 2013

Had a neighbor that had a rusty can hanging on the windmill. At haying time that was the best tasting water. Had a touch of salt in it.

John B. · Apr 1, 2013

IrvIa,
When I was in my 20's back in the 1980's I would hear the 60 yr olds talk about days just before their parents died. Many said their parents especially their fathers would say, "I want to get a drink from the old well" or "I want to go down to the spring for a drink".

Back home and down the road about a 1/2 miles there was a spring about 4ft to the side of the little creek. I stuck my arm down in the spring and it was so cold I pulled it out very quickly. Some time later I told my uncle that and he told me there use to be a well there and a woman jumped in it one time. It was a true story and gave me the creeps after that. That spring is still running today.

AG in IN · Apr 1, 2013

Property down the road was inherited decades ago by some "city folk". They would come out on weekends with a trunkfull of empty gallon Gallo wine and milk jugs to get a weeks-worth of that "tasty drinking water". They would fill these jugs out of a hand driven well that surely wasn't 15 feet deep and wasn't more than 8 feet from the outhouse door. They said that the taste was so much better than city water. When the well point plugged, we all joked that the _______ and tp from the outhouse floated over and buggered it up.

I've drank from some springs. Some are great, some are like swamp water.

AG

JRSutton · Apr 1, 2013

I was in Rome a few years ago and really liked the taste of the water that runs out of some of the ancient drinking founts.

... course, I'm pretty sure that's mostly LEAD plumbing and not iron - but what's a few dead brain cells, it tasted good.

Mike (WA) · Apr 1, 2013

In my experience, ANY cold water tastes great at haying time!

Had a woman come in one time, complaining that she got her water from a spring, it was brown and tasted awful, and landlord wouldn't do anything about it. She finally found her way through the brush up to the "spring", and found it was more of an open pond. I commented on the leaves floating in it- she said "Those aren't leaves, they're salamanders!"

Landlord was balking at letting her out of her lease- needless to say, I was able to "convince" him to just let her go quietly.

OH Boy · Apr 1, 2013

I know a fellow that has a spring that flows out of a coal vein and that is some really good tasting water - carbon filtered!

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