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yeah I eat rear end posted:I've never heard an actual explanation of what makes the water so "good". Just bullshit about "there's something in the water". I think you're just falling for the city's advertising campaigns about their lovely water. Their pizza and bagels aren't that much better than anyone else's, it just seems that way if you only compare them to the local pizza hut or whatever. I don't have a scientific explanation but the tap water in NYC does indeed taste very good. I don't know what else you need, explanation-wise.
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Probably nyc sources from some large spring that needs minimal treatment, thus using less or no chlorine, which is what gives bad tap water a bad taste.
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Oct 17, 2018 23:17
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It's awesome when you can live in a place that has good tap water without having to filter it to hell or just buy it because it tastes bad
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Oct 17, 2018 23:19
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NYC’s water is all from the Catskill mountains and flows through an insanely massive delivery system down to the city. All Upstate NY has very good water, which I totally didn’t appreciate until I started traveling. I never understood why so many people elsewhere drink bottled/heavily filtered water until I left NY and tasted how awful other areas’ tap water tastes.
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Oct 17, 2018 23:25
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Plus the wooden parts of the water system add a certain nuance
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Oct 17, 2018 23:27
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Grand Fromage posted:I don't have a scientific explanation but the tap water in NYC does indeed taste very good. I don't know what else you need, explanation-wise. Well I mean, in switzerland there's like a matterhorn or something on the bottle and you have to pay 7 bucks for it at a restaurant, so that was pretty convincing. I don't get the same fresh from the mountains vibe from new york city sink taps. Even if it does taste good I still believe it is 95% ad campaign, 5% fact and nobody would ever be able to tell in a fair blind taste test which pizza/bagel/bread was made with nyc water consistently.
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Oct 18, 2018 00:01
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Grand Fromage posted:I don't have a scientific explanation but the tap water in NYC does indeed taste very good. I don't know what else you need, explanation-wise. A lot of water's "natural" taste is generally down to the magnesium content as I remember it. So it may just be naturally very magnesium-rich.
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Oct 18, 2018 00:08
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Even if it does taste good I still believe it is 95% ad campaign, 5% fact and nobody would ever be able to tell in a fair blind taste test which pizza/bagel/bread was made with nyc water consistently. I don't because I had NYC tap water as a kid without ever knowing there was an ad campaign and thought it was awesome enough that I mentioned how good it was. Then I found out it's supposed to be famously good or whatever. I don't know about the pizza/bagel thing, I'm just talking the water straight up. I presume pizza and bagels are good in NYC mainly because there are a fuckzillion places to get them so if you serve poo poo people aren't going to give you money and then you do not have a restaurant anymore.
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Oct 18, 2018 00:18
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The one time I went to NYC the tap water did not taste good so if that's like the best tasting water in the US then y'all have some sad loving water It's possible the hotel I stayed at had lovely old pipes
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Oct 18, 2018 00:25
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Water in plastic bottles always has a bitter sharp astringent aftertaste for me that ruins the whole experience. Like I would literally rather drink the water I grew up with, which came out of a well under my family's house, and which often had rust and mud in it, and we generally kept a pitcher of it in the fridge, uncovered so it absorbed all the weird fridge smells.
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Oct 18, 2018 00:49
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http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/31/drink-up-nyc-meet-the-tiny-crustaceans-not-kosher-in-your-tap-water/
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Oct 18, 2018 00:57
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Tunicate posted:http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/31/drink-up-nyc-meet-the-tiny-crustaceans-not-kosher-in-your-tap-water/ the smallest of pastries...
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Oct 18, 2018 01:57
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theghostpt posted:Maybe it's just me, and this is probably not anti food porn, but it looks so IHOP should have only extremely old people grumpily eating plain waffles and fish in the background of their commercials. Instead they choose to lie to sell product.
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Oct 18, 2018 02:47
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One of the communities I spent my summers as a kid in had awful water, it was very sulfurous with flakes of rusted metal and who knows what in it. That's life on a Canadian rez though. 
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Oct 18, 2018 03:03
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My Grandma lives on a Rez that has no land border with Canada but is technically in Canada somehow. She won't even touch the sink.
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Oct 18, 2018 03:07
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It was...um good.
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Oct 18, 2018 05:15
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What is that??
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Oct 18, 2018 05:27
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I just got a knock off instant pot. So I've just been throwing whatever in it and seen what happened. About 6 chicken thighs, some hickory seasoning, two packets of Goya who knows what and two cuts of water. Cook it until beeps, take the thighs out and slowly add flour to the juice left until it's like a gravy.  Oh and all I had to eat it on was a tortilla
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Oct 18, 2018 05:33
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Grognan posted:I imagined kebab pizza ti be something wonderful, I am saddened at this 
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Oct 18, 2018 06:33
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DicktheCat posted:What is that?? Looks like one of those "gaming" keyboards where the keys light up and make loud "click" noises every time you press them.
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Oct 18, 2018 07:04
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Picnic Princess posted:One of the communities I spent my summers as a kid in had awful water, it was very sulfurous with flakes of rusted metal and who knows what in it. That's life on a Canadian rez though. What province was this? 70s or 80s?
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Oct 18, 2018 13:39
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ShortyMR.CAT posted:I really like Pizza flavored Pringles. Is that posh? Man, we're 2 for 2 on cat avatar/post combos in the last 2 days. About 20 years ago I had a white cat, Munch, who gave no shits about people food except for pizza flavored Pringles. Shrimp? Tuna? Other kinds of potato chips? Nah. But he went nuts for those Pringles, would fit his little munchkin head inside any unattended tube to get at them. No idea what kind of kitty crack they put in those, but he loved em.
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Oct 18, 2018 15:00
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Man, we're 2 for 2 on cat avatar/post combos in the last 2 days. About 20 years ago I had a white cat, Munch, who gave no shits about people food except for pizza flavored Pringles. Shrimp? Tuna? Other kinds of potato chips? Nah. But he went nuts for those Pringles, would fit his little munchkin head inside any unattended tube to get at them. No idea what kind of kitty crack they put in those, but he loved em. I have a cat that loses his loving mind over Cheez-Its  lookin' good, Tommy
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Oct 18, 2018 15:11
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The real crime of that trash casserole with the entire block of cheese and various chocolates was the lack of a finished product in the video. I kept watching and waiting, then nothing.
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Oct 18, 2018 15:51
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I was in Nova Scotia about a month ago and the tap water had almost a salty sea taste like they pumped it straight out of the ocean. It actually made really good coffee.
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Oct 18, 2018 16:26
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Harvey Mantaco posted:What province was this? 70s or 80s? 90s Alberta. Siksika.
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Oct 18, 2018 16:29
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Tiggum posted:Kebab pizzas are normally pretty good and look more like this: OH hell yes
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Oct 18, 2018 17:17
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Oct 18, 2018 17:18
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It looks like a failed quiche, but it appears to have bones
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Oct 18, 2018 17:26
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Iron Crowned posted:It looks like a failed quiche, but it appears to have bones chili rellenos, swimming in salsa verde
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Oct 18, 2018 17:37
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Ziv Zulander posted:chili rellenos, swimming in salsa verde chilies don't have bones though
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Oct 18, 2018 17:41
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Iron Crowned posted:chilies don't have bones though they have stems
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Oct 18, 2018 18:04
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Iron Crowned posted:chilies don't have bones though What kind of lovely weird chilies are you eating?
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Oct 18, 2018 18:11
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Looks like overly wetted pizza
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Oct 18, 2018 18:12
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Picnic Princess posted:Looks like overly wetted pizza overly wetted pizza would be a good forum handle
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Oct 18, 2018 18:13
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Only the wettest fish floating in a sea of grease for my palate, thank you very much.
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Oct 18, 2018 18:59
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Is it a pork chop smothered in a split sauce? The bone-end at the far right looks like a pork chop, and that sauce looks like scrambled eggs, which would also explain (some of) the wetness underneath.
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As a recently ex-New Yorker, I can safely say this: although it's possible there's a benefit to using NY water to make pizza, it's extremely more likely that a lot of restaurants in other regions are simply failing to get the flavors/ingredients right. Most of the bad pizza I've eaten hasn't been mysteriously bad, it was just very obviously not made with the right blend of spices or ratio of ingredients. The dough itself usually doesn't even crack the top 10 things wrong with it. (To be more specific, the sauce usually doesn't have enough flavor, there usually isn't enough basil/oregano in general, and the cheese is often just mozzarella instead of a blend including parmesan and others)
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