I think bottled water business is a masterclass in marketing. Everyone is essentially selling the exact same product that most people in developed countries get for a fraction of the price from their own homes. Every product is the same, packaging and marketing is the only real difference. Edit: So many people keep replying about how their tap water is this and that. This is a general statement about water, not about just the water in your town. Also, brita filters are a thing and they work wonders if your tap water ain't that amazing. That said, the amount of comments proving my point without knowing it is amazing.
Imagine if the public were super educated and decided to boycott bottled water as an indirect way of to try to reducing cost push inflation, because less bottled water consumption means less fuel used to transport and produce bottled water
I had a Spanish teacher in high school who buys $200 of Fiji water at a time. He also has a reserve of cases of it in one of his classroom cabinets. Not sure why he liked it so much
In 6th grade my mom got me a bottle of Fiji water, and without knowing what it was other than water, I took it to school that day. Everyone kept making comments on how good it was and that I was a rich kid, and kids would always ask me for a swig lol. I ended up using the same bottle and just refilling it at home for the rest of the year. Gave the fellow classmate snake oil
if you think about it, it's interesting that it's a "luxury" water brand, but all bottled in plastic, isn't it? sure, you wouldn't want to transport glass across the ocean, but they could ship it in tankers and bottle it in the country of sale. I guess the main reason is that most people who want the "luxury water" are still not willing to deal with heavy glass bottles.
@@thealterlion7163 lol i think he want to rant but not to incite anger from ppl who actually value clean drinking water as something really important. ppl like these are privileged with clean and safe drinking water, not knowing other ppl in different country fare with water
@@lqfr8813plenty of places in the US have not so good water, whether it's unsafe or just doesn't taste good due to an abundance of certain minerals. To say all water is the same is wild, unless you distill it then compare it
The neighborhood I grew up in, my house had the best water I've ever tasted, other houses were stained orange because of the iron. We were all tapped into the same water source, the difference just came down to where our wells were placed.
Lived in Fiji from 2019-2022, they don't even drink Fiji water there. There's another brand called Aquasafe which tastes 100% better. Also, you'll find that most of the time citizens choose to drink tap water that is actual Fiji water. Tbh, living in a tourist country sounded awesome at first but there is a tremendous difference between staying in a country as a tourist for a few days and actually living in the country for a few years. It gets incredibly boring after a few months as there really isn't much to do considering how simple the lifestyle is for the majority of the inhabitants there.
@@lone_angel97 you do understand that even in fiji we were quarantined and had a lockdown for years right? No shit i complained. There was nothing to do besides staying at some shit ass apartment there in this so called dream island of yours. You werent able to go outside and you had to stay indoors doing absolutely nothing. The whole point of a dream island is to go out to beaches and travel and all that but guess what you cant really do that when covid restrictions hit you like a mf.
Might be an odd theory, but in The Truman Show the main character talks about going to Fiji and how amazing it would be and that movie came out in 1998 which is perfectly timed to be a part of the reason Fiji became so popular.
once my ISP shut off my internet for pirating the truman show and i spent several weeks trying and failing to get another ISP before going back to the original one and saying 🥺which worked
i was also waiting for him to mention that but maybe he hasn't watched that movie. i am sure that movie has something to do with increased tourism in the 2000s
I've lived in Fiji for most of my life and it's just as amazing as everyone says it is. The people are amazing and nature is beautiful. If you can, please travel to Fiji to experience the paradise yourself. Also insanely good video I legitimately learned a lot and I have no doubt it will be shown in my old school to teach about fijian history
@@Jeremvy depends on where you are, in the most developed places in the world, the pipes are good quality and tap water is healthier, but in most places bottled is better
Peak capitalism: took the basic reason why life exists and make it moves around the world fueling the cycle of destruction we create tanks to the existence of water and its consequences.
I've heard of Fiji before as I was the mastermind in geography since around 3rd grade of elementary school in my native country of Croatia, then I slowly kept seeing Fiji water bottles in recent years and I was wondering like "The island miles away from Australia is making water? Dafuq" lol
As someone with a Fijian Indian background who regularly travels worldwide and visits family in Fiji, I love the fact that their tap water is probably cleaner and safer to drink than what we get in Australia sometimes. This whole bottled water scam is pure marketing gold though. I laugh everytime I see a $7 bottle of water being sold somewhere far away from Fiji.
Fellow Aussie here and basically any 1st world country has better tap water than us lol! But for real, when I first had Fiji water, it tasted much cleaner than Woolies spring water or the tap water at my house, hope I can visit Fiji and see if the tap water is as clean as you say it is.
@@sevenoxia7199 Lets put it this way, if you have a slightly weaker tummy and can't handle water or food in other parts of the world, go for gold with Fiji water. Even their tap water in a lot of the towns tastes and feels so much better than our Aussie tap pond scum.
@@shakeelali20 Thanks for the tip! I would assume I have a weak stomach as I have a peanut allergy so this will be helpful if (or rather when) I go to Fiji in the future.
@@sevenoxia7199 Be sure to enjoy as much of the landscape as possible and of course the beautiful tasting water! There's so much more to see to the country besides Nadi and Suva, try and get out to some of the islands surrounding Suva they feel so remote yet you can still just see civilization in the distance.
I kinda disagree, Fiji water (and especially Vai Wai which doesn't ship internationally) has a kind of after-taste if you just let it simmer in your mouth
@@dannyygraf as someone with a sensitive palette the idea that all water tastes the same to me is lunacy. Even the receptacle the water was in emits a flavour be it plastic, metal, paper or glass.
@@walterroux291 1000% agreed. As a self-proclaimed connoisseur of H2O consumption, I can say with absolute confidence that the container holding the water imparts a strong taste. Cans in particular. I don't understand how anyone could think all water tastes the same. It's frankly beyond lunacy. It's downright insanity.
@@whirlwind872 I've gotten onto how the shape and size of the receptacle effects how we drink and feel about it. Like I tend to sip a glass whereas with a bottle I will "chug" or down a whole bunch when I'm thirsty, but I don't do that with a glass. Or another thing I noticed was that I have this very curved glass that I enjoy using for when I drink milk late at night, because it imparts a "soft" flavour with my psychology, not any real physical flavour present but still effects the taste. One that would be just a little different in a glass with more solid angles. The alcohol industry has obviously considered all this which is why we use wine glasses or champagne flutes or a tumbler etc for different drinks. The design imparts a flavour both physically and mentally... Anyways that's enough about the minutiae of water and about enough internet for the day.
I will never understand how water bottle companies got such a tight grip on people. I knew a guy in college that kept buying 36 packs of water bottles, instead of literally just filling up a single water bottle at the bubbler that was in every single building.
yeah, it think it's weird that anyone buys bottled water. the only use i've ever seen that makes sense is school field trips and sporting events. i was really surprised to learn that people just buy bottled water to drink it. like... storing it right next to their tap thay makes pretty much infinite water... even if their water tastes bad, they can get a filter
You have a good point. But I thought about it, and my family buys bottled water for a few reasons. 1. It's very cheap (we buy store-brand water) 2. It's colder. Just take it out of the fridge and you don't have to wait for ice to cool your glass of water, and have ice cubes obstructing your drinking flow 3. Convenience. You don't have to fill your own bottles of water. I know it's bad for the environment though, so I feel bad about that. Because of that, I do sometimes refill them and stick them back in the fridge. 4. They're easy to take with you on the go. Of course you could use refillable bottles, but then you have to plan ahead to fill one and stick it in the fridge at least a couple hours ahead of time. And that doesn't work for impromptu trips. Or just put ice in it, but again, that restricts the flow of water a bit. It all comes down to convenience and laziness in the end. We need to work on that. As for the expensive water brands, I have no idea why people waste so much money on them.
Today I tend to buy 1.5L plastic water bottles, and keep refilling those for a while and then grab another. Less wasteful than having every drink from a new 0.5L bottle but I know im still wasting plastic. My primary reason is that I struggle to motivate to keep up with things, so eventually I'll set my water bottle somewhere and get too lazy to clean it for a few days, and then I have to thoroughly wash it out and even still I feel gross drinking from it after. If I just use disposable bottles, then whenever I leave it somewhere and dont clean it, I can just toss it and grab a new one for a buck fifty.
One reason there are so few European tourists (outside the fact it's the literal other side of the world and beautiful paradise islands like the Maldives or the Comores are much closer): most French tourists when they go to the pacific don't go to English speaking islands, but to the French islands there: Tahiti, French Polynesia, Nouvelle-Calédonie. No reasons to go other places when you could be in your own country, but on the other side of the world.
I'm curious, is there something that makes Fiji stand out as a touristic destination above other archipelago nations like Vanuatu, Kiribati, Tonga or Tuvalu? Or is it just the water?
@@matroqueta6825 Not a Kiwi, but I guess, it's a matter of infrastructure and development. All those archipelagos are about equidistant to NZ and have similar tropical climates, but Fiji is by far the largest by population and land area, and is the most developed among them, making it the most attractive destination if you want a luxurious tropical holiday. The water is nice too I guess.
@@matroqueta6825 Fiji is the cheapest to travel to. Ideally I would want to visit Kiribati but it is nearly more than double the price. Vanuatu is also slightly popular but yeah can't beat Fiji.
Bottle water often comes from the same source as your tap water. So basically, you're drinking the same water you get from the sink, just with a bit of plastic! EDIT: Based on the comments, I see my assertion was too simplistic. In some places, bottled water is safer than tap water. I apologize.
That's not necessarily true, while tap water can be safe to drink, poorer regions that can't afford proper filtration will usually recommend against drinking it, here in Brazil for example most people have water filters at home and drinking tap water isn't generally considered to be a good idea.
Yeah people are essentially paying for the "idea" of what they think Fiji water is which is pretty interesting marketing. It reminds me of religion in a way lmao. The idea of a far away paradise that gives the water special properties 💧🏝
@@alerav4826 Yup Everyone talks about Cuba whenever the Caribbean is brought up. Doing DR would inevitably make such a video a longer one because you HAVE to do Haiti alongside it, though. The gap between the two is massive. I'd love to see him do Hispaniola, but I feel like the Caribbean always gets overlooked.
I'm from Fiji and I just want to correct some of the pronunciation of the words. C is pronounced as a 'th' sound, all a sounds sound like the A in the word car and u is pronounced as an 'oo' sound. This is the first time I've seen a video about Fiji and its good someone is talking about at least a little bit of our history. As we would say it in Fiji, Vinaka. (thank you)
i like fiji water mostly for the bottle. i reuse it (1.5l bottle) and its got a taller cap which is easier to grip and doesnt get crushed so easily unlike those cylindrical bottles. also not to mention that you get more water because of the square design
Hey there, I am a hydration specialist. I teach about why people lack energy due to cellular warfare; and how work is being done to the cells, I teach how to preserve the cells.
You're just putting more plastic into your body than everyone is already getting. We already know that ingesting plastics disrupts endocrine(hormone) function and I'm sure there's more health consequences that we don't understand yet. Use a metal or glass instead if you want a reusable bottle.
haha i did a blind tasting of various bottled waters with a few friends and there is absolutely a difference in the taste of different brands of water. i think it depends what minerals are in the water, because water is not really just h2o
One time my family and I were driving somewhere in the rural United States, and we stopped by a small town which had a pure water mountain spring. It was claimed to have “no minerals” (so probably just very few). I tried it and it tasted really interesting. But the lady who showed it to us had false teeth; my mom put it together that she likely got no fluoride from the water, so her teeth weren’t very protected and she lost them.
@@MaxS1871 no, especially since you can’t drink it since it’s a mineral in water, not a liquid. But it DOES help your teeth, so completely forgoing it can hurt if you aren’t really on top of your dental care. It’s like iron; it’s in our food, and good for us in small doses, but trying to swallow iron nails is bad www.nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/fluoride
Hey! I live in fiji and I'm so happy that a video like this and with this quality exists so thanks for making it! Also in fijian c's and pronounced like d's
Depends on where you live. The tap water in my hometown is disgusting. Most people who live there refuse to drink it. It is high is certain minerals that give it that taste. They just announced that they are making a new place to process it because the water currently has to much calcium in it and people are getting kidney stones as a result. The water where I live now though is fine.
Here's the thing. I got a sample of my municipals lead level and the thing is, it's barely under regulation of being too toxic to drink. The house I live in is old, built before the 1950's and I have no doubt there's lead pipes under there, on top of the cities almost toxic level of lead. The US water problem is a real deal. Look at Flint, Michigan. If I got to pay a little more to not drink poison, I will pay a little more.
Really love your channel i know some of the subject you treated on some but i keep watching juste because its way mote funny than the traditionnal covering lethld of an event like the last one on mexico. really love your content ! Pls never stop !
And I, someone who has travelled to USA a couple of times with family members living in it, never had heard about Fiji water in my entire live until now
its been around awhile in NA. I'm 23 and I think ive seen it around most of my life, at least for all my teenage years. Fiji was a huge trend at one point on socials when i was younger.
It would be super easy to miss, it’s really nothing huge, purely just something that exists here. Nearly everyone knows what it is, most have at least tasted it, very few people actually buy it with any regularity. Looks like based on these comments fiji just has a small portion of diehard fans who buy shitloads.
It definitely benefits the country for ppl looking for a tropical travel destination, they look at some online list of island travel destinations, see fiji, and are like "oh like the water" its the very principle of advertising, when you see an ad, they dont expect you to go and buy the thing, they hope that when you one day need to buy the product, their brand will be more familiar than the competitor's, making you choose it.
When people can see a place they go. CZcams sent me all my over the world. Saw an El Nido video of a guy kayaking in the most beautiful place and thought about it for 4 years until I made it there. Loved it.
I remember a few years ago Fiji water actually did have a taste. I pretty sure it did cause I remember not liking it and saying it tasted like water that had a rock dunk in it. I recently had it again since it was free and it tasted like normal bottled water.
As someone who really cares about the taste of water, Fiji water tastes good, I'd say it really is among the best tasting waters available, but that doesn't justify the price. There are some waters that taste almost the same or different, but just as good, that cost less than half of what Fiji costs. And shipping water bottles around half the world makes little sense from an environmental perspective.
This comment right here it tastes good cold man I don’t buy it like that because of the cheaper options like zhills spring water where I live it’s not as good but it’s close enough but if someone offers me a Fiji hell ya that bitch crisp that’s the only way to describe it. People drink soda then tell water drinkers they don’t see a difference yuh cause all they drink is sugar 😂
Imsdal from Norway tastes better imo, I live in Sweden but I still feel bad about buying water from Norway when the tapwater here is perfectly fine to drink, so I try to buy it as rarely as I can
Hey there, I am a hydration specialist. I teach about why people lack energy due to cellular warfare; plastic bottles, etc. and how work is being done to the cells, I teach how to preserve the cells.
I remember being a kid and telling other kids I’m from Fiji, and they wouldn’t know what or where that is, so I’d ask them if they knew what Fiji water is and of course they knew what that is 😂
It's amazing how "being able to sell bottled water" used to be a joke. The only time I ever buy it is when I'm out somewhere and wind up getting fleeced for it, and I usually keep a case of it in my emergency supplies. But it's the cheap-ass Walmart brand, not any "luxury" crap. For the most part, I drink water from the tap that I carry around in an old Powerade bottle lmao.
Pretty accurate information loved the video, oh just a tip, if you're traveling to fiji you might get confused by the pronunciation of names like the alphabet c makes a d sound ☺️
It doesn’t come from an artisan aquifer as hoser pronounced it @ 1:00. It is Artesian water which means accessed through a bore hole. I.E they drilled down to the aquifer a.k.a it’s not a natural spring
Can’t believe the water is so good they made a new country for it
Fiji (is)land
Definitely the country of all time
I honestly never paid attention to it and thought it was just some random brand name for overpriced water
They even surrounded the country in its water
@@DeltaHydrixianyeah
I think bottled water business is a masterclass in marketing. Everyone is essentially selling the exact same product that most people in developed countries get for a fraction of the price from their own homes. Every product is the same, packaging and marketing is the only real difference.
Edit: So many people keep replying about how their tap water is this and that. This is a general statement about water, not about just the water in your town. Also, brita filters are a thing and they work wonders if your tap water ain't that amazing. That said, the amount of comments proving my point without knowing it is amazing.
Imagine if the public were super educated and decided to boycott bottled water as an indirect way of to try to reducing cost push inflation, because less bottled water consumption means less fuel used to transport and produce bottled water
Usa citizen should wake up
Tap water is not the same and I wouldn't drink it unless boiled. Quality depends on location and when I tried, it leaves a metallic aftertaste
I wouldn't say the exact same product, mineral water tastes completely different from bottled water that is made from filtered tap water like dasani
@@AmraithNR why are you still living in ohio
I had a Spanish teacher in high school who buys $200 of Fiji water at a time. He also has a reserve of cases of it in one of his classroom cabinets. Not sure why he liked it so much
What's his salary
volcanic rock addiction
Whoa 😲
@ public high school teacher in the US, not high at all
Was his name possibly belcher
In 6th grade my mom got me a bottle of Fiji water, and without knowing what it was other than water, I took it to school that day. Everyone kept making comments on how good it was and that I was a rich kid, and kids would always ask me for a swig lol. I ended up using the same bottle and just refilling it at home for the rest of the year. Gave the fellow classmate snake oil
Did you just pull a one-man Fiji Water by selling something so common yet branded as something exotic?
I did the same and it was hilarious
Ah yes the universal posterboy for plastic water.
They're all wrong it's actually this
czcams.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/video.html
Oh yeah right I'm also not a bot
I just can't make jokes
or as someone who could speak french would say (fyi. my french is terrible): _~l'eau de plastique~_
if you think about it, it's interesting that it's a "luxury" water brand, but all bottled in plastic, isn't it? sure, you wouldn't want to transport glass across the ocean, but they could ship it in tankers and bottle it in the country of sale. I guess the main reason is that most people who want the "luxury water" are still not willing to deal with heavy glass bottles.
I can't decide if this actually a documentary about Fiji, or just a thinly-veiled rant about bottled water 😂
ikr? You can immediately tell he's from somewhere with good tap water.
I only drink tap water if there is no other option, it tastes terrible
Seriously 😅
@@thealterlion7163 lol i think he want to rant but not to incite anger from ppl who actually value clean drinking water as something really important. ppl like these are privileged with clean and safe drinking water, not knowing other ppl in different country fare with water
@@lqfr8813plenty of places in the US have not so good water, whether it's unsafe or just doesn't taste good due to an abundance of certain minerals. To say all water is the same is wild, unless you distill it then compare it
The neighborhood I grew up in, my house had the best water I've ever tasted, other houses were stained orange because of the iron. We were all tapped into the same water source, the difference just came down to where our wells were placed.
How to become rich in a nutshell:
Sell "luxury" stuff to US.
Americans will literally buy anything if you say it's better than what you could get for free/cheaper
Murica and her$$$😂
America is a business, not a country.
Watch it fall in about ten years.
@@LexlutherVII dolla dolla bill
same thing happened with Pabst Blue Ribbon in China, they claimed it was a luxury product.
Lived in Fiji from 2019-2022, they don't even drink Fiji water there. There's another brand called Aquasafe which tastes 100% better. Also, you'll find that most of the time citizens choose to drink tap water that is actual Fiji water.
Tbh, living in a tourist country sounded awesome at first but there is a tremendous difference between staying in a country as a tourist for a few days and actually living in the country for a few years. It gets incredibly boring after a few months as there really isn't much to do considering how simple the lifestyle is for the majority of the inhabitants there.
I prefer Island Chill water
Vai Wai was so good
Dude got to live on a dream topical vacation island for the entirety of covid and still complains
@@lone_angel97 “Noo it’s boring I wanna go back to shitty designed houses and concrete forests!!!”
@@lone_angel97 you do understand that even in fiji we were quarantined and had a lockdown for years right? No shit i complained. There was nothing to do besides staying at some shit ass apartment there in this so called dream island of yours. You werent able to go outside and you had to stay indoors doing absolutely nothing. The whole point of a dream island is to go out to beaches and travel and all that but guess what you cant really do that when covid restrictions hit you like a mf.
Might be an odd theory, but in The Truman Show the main character talks about going to Fiji and how amazing it would be and that movie came out in 1998 which is perfectly timed to be a part of the reason Fiji became so popular.
once my ISP shut off my internet for pirating the truman show and i spent several weeks trying and failing to get another ISP before going back to the original one and saying 🥺which worked
i was also waiting for him to mention that but maybe he hasn't watched that movie. i am sure that movie has something to do with increased tourism in the 2000s
Hoser don't miss. Banger vids consistently
He made a story about bottled water interesting.
@@nathanseper8738any subject can be interesting with the right person/creativity
ah yes 4 weeks to 12 days to today
the glazing is crazy
In time we shall see h0ser videos get better with age. I look forward to the fine wine that this will age into.
I've lived in Fiji for most of my life and it's just as amazing as everyone says it is. The people are amazing and nature is beautiful. If you can, please travel to Fiji to experience the paradise yourself. Also insanely good video I legitimately learned a lot and I have no doubt it will be shown in my old school to teach about fijian history
Fijian government propaganda
Pft, I can spot a Fiji Tourism board employee anywhere 😤
fr tho it looks nice
@@orion10x10 hahahaha
Nice try Mr FBI Agent, you won't get me out of this basement so easily!
I doubt it's as great as it looks.
Nothing is ever as great as it looks there's always something wrong.
When I went to Fiji, everybody was like “…just drink the tap water and save your money” and it was so good
@@Jeremvy I read Poptarts as Poopfarts lmao
@@user-xi5ej4ox5s 5 year old
@@Jeremvy and plastic bottles break down in the water.
@@nesquix926 Boring nolife
@@Jeremvy depends on where you are, in the most developed places in the world, the pipes are good quality and tap water is healthier, but in most places bottled is better
It actually comes from Fiji? Damn they ship that halfway round the world to Europe, plenty of time for the water to infuse with the plastic. Yum
I love microplastics ❤️
Peak capitalism: took the basic reason why life exists and make it moves around the world fueling the cycle of destruction we create tanks to the existence of water and its consequences.
@@h0ser Actually, you are a little bit wrong in this video, these indians weren't slaves. They were contract workers.
@@user-xi5ej4ox5s indentured servitude is basically slavery
yeah i was wondering if it was just their branding but guess it's really fiji
I've heard of Fiji before as I was the mastermind in geography since around 3rd grade of elementary school in my native country of Croatia, then I slowly kept seeing Fiji water bottles in recent years and I was wondering like "The island miles away from Australia is making water? Dafuq" lol
pozdrav iz Splita
Поздрав од Македонија.
@@jakovvodanovic9165 I ja sam iz Splita wooo
@@heavenlanes5598 Zagrepčan ovdje
Bruh I’m quarter Fijian and quarter Serb
I mean they also got a really damn good rugby 7s team. Got their first Olympic gold medal in rugby at the 2016 games.
As someone with a Fijian Indian background who regularly travels worldwide and visits family in Fiji, I love the fact that their tap water is probably cleaner and safer to drink than what we get in Australia sometimes. This whole bottled water scam is pure marketing gold though. I laugh everytime I see a $7 bottle of water being sold somewhere far away from Fiji.
Fellow Aussie here and basically any 1st world country has better tap water than us lol! But for real, when I first had Fiji water, it tasted much cleaner than Woolies spring water or the tap water at my house, hope I can visit Fiji and see if the tap water is as clean as you say it is.
@@sevenoxia7199 Lets put it this way, if you have a slightly weaker tummy and can't handle water or food in other parts of the world, go for gold with Fiji water. Even their tap water in a lot of the towns tastes and feels so much better than our Aussie tap pond scum.
@@shakeelali20 Thanks for the tip! I would assume I have a weak stomach as I have a peanut allergy so this will be helpful if (or rather when) I go to Fiji in the future.
@@sevenoxia7199 Be sure to enjoy as much of the landscape as possible and of course the beautiful tasting water! There's so much more to see to the country besides Nadi and Suva, try and get out to some of the islands surrounding Suva they feel so remote yet you can still just see civilization in the distance.
No kidding bro...its almost like we are ripping the world off and getting away with it 😂
1:17 "Fiji water tastes exactly like water" thank you hoser for enlightenment, without you I would've never known that
I kinda disagree, Fiji water (and especially Vai Wai which doesn't ship internationally) has a kind of after-taste if you just let it simmer in your mouth
@@dannyygraf as someone with a sensitive palette the idea that all water tastes the same to me is lunacy. Even the receptacle the water was in emits a flavour be it plastic, metal, paper or glass.
@@walterroux291 Agreed, also I feel Fiji water actually has less taste then normal water, and I perfer tap.
@@walterroux291 1000% agreed. As a self-proclaimed connoisseur of H2O consumption, I can say with absolute confidence that the container holding the water imparts a strong taste. Cans in particular. I don't understand how anyone could think all water tastes the same. It's frankly beyond lunacy. It's downright insanity.
@@whirlwind872 I've gotten onto how the shape and size of the receptacle effects how we drink and feel about it. Like I tend to sip a glass whereas with a bottle I will "chug" or down a whole bunch when I'm thirsty, but I don't do that with a glass. Or another thing I noticed was that I have this very curved glass that I enjoy using for when I drink milk late at night, because it imparts a "soft" flavour with my psychology, not any real physical flavour present but still effects the taste. One that would be just a little different in a glass with more solid angles. The alcohol industry has obviously considered all this which is why we use wine glasses or champagne flutes or a tumbler etc for different drinks. The design imparts a flavour both physically and mentally... Anyways that's enough about the minutiae of water and about enough internet for the day.
Don't underestimate the appeal of the squared bottle itself. I personally love how much more easily it packs with other items.
Understandable
I will never understand how water bottle companies got such a tight grip on people. I knew a guy in college that kept buying 36 packs of water bottles, instead of literally just filling up a single water bottle at the bubbler that was in every single building.
yeah, it think it's weird that anyone buys bottled water. the only use i've ever seen that makes sense is school field trips and sporting events. i was really surprised to learn that people just buy bottled water to drink it. like... storing it right next to their tap thay makes pretty much infinite water... even if their water tastes bad, they can get a filter
marketing, societal pressure... same reason why apple is so much more popular than android despite being the same and more expensive
You have a good point. But I thought about it, and my family buys bottled water for a few reasons.
1. It's very cheap (we buy store-brand water)
2. It's colder. Just take it out of the fridge and you don't have to wait for ice to cool your glass of water, and have ice cubes obstructing your drinking flow
3. Convenience. You don't have to fill your own bottles of water. I know it's bad for the environment though, so I feel bad about that. Because of that, I do sometimes refill them and stick them back in the fridge.
4. They're easy to take with you on the go. Of course you could use refillable bottles, but then you have to plan ahead to fill one and stick it in the fridge at least a couple hours ahead of time. And that doesn't work for impromptu trips. Or just put ice in it, but again, that restricts the flow of water a bit.
It all comes down to convenience and laziness in the end. We need to work on that. As for the expensive water brands, I have no idea why people waste so much money on them.
Today I tend to buy 1.5L plastic water bottles, and keep refilling those for a while and then grab another. Less wasteful than having every drink from a new 0.5L bottle but I know im still wasting plastic. My primary reason is that I struggle to motivate to keep up with things, so eventually I'll set my water bottle somewhere and get too lazy to clean it for a few days, and then I have to thoroughly wash it out and even still I feel gross drinking from it after. If I just use disposable bottles, then whenever I leave it somewhere and dont clean it, I can just toss it and grab a new one for a buck fifty.
It will give you cancer though. Also reusing the plastic bottle will put plastic in your water.
One reason there are so few European tourists (outside the fact it's the literal other side of the world and beautiful paradise islands like the Maldives or the Comores are much closer): most French tourists when they go to the pacific don't go to English speaking islands, but to the French islands there: Tahiti, French Polynesia, Nouvelle-Calédonie. No reasons to go other places when you could be in your own country, but on the other side of the world.
The longest domestic flight in the world is from Paris to Tahiti.
And the other Europeans who aren't French?
"I guess I can experience the magic of Fiji through this water bottle instead."
Should've followed this with the "insufficient funds" clip again 😆
In New Zealand, Fiji is a by far the most popular vacation spot, and is an amazing place.
I'm curious, is there something that makes Fiji stand out as a touristic destination above other archipelago nations like Vanuatu, Kiribati, Tonga or Tuvalu? Or is it just the water?
@@matroqueta6825 Not a Kiwi, but I guess, it's a matter of infrastructure and development. All those archipelagos are about equidistant to NZ and have similar tropical climates, but Fiji is by far the largest by population and land area, and is the most developed among them, making it the most attractive destination if you want a luxurious tropical holiday. The water is nice too I guess.
@@matroqueta6825 Fiji is the cheapest to travel to. Ideally I would want to visit Kiribati but it is nearly more than double the price. Vanuatu is also slightly popular but yeah can't beat Fiji.
Never expected hoser to make a video of my home country 💀
Bottle water often comes from the same source as your tap water. So basically, you're drinking the same water you get from the sink, just with a bit of plastic!
EDIT: Based on the comments, I see my assertion was too simplistic. In some places, bottled water is safer than tap water. I apologize.
it taste different tho
That's not necessarily true, while tap water can be safe to drink, poorer regions that can't afford proper filtration will usually recommend against drinking it, here in Brazil for example most people have water filters at home and drinking tap water isn't generally considered to be a good idea.
Yeah people are essentially paying for the "idea" of what they think Fiji water is which is pretty interesting marketing. It reminds me of religion in a way lmao. The idea of a far away paradise that gives the water special properties 💧🏝
idk what about recycled bottles makes tap water for me better but i can't stand using cups for some reason
The source may be same.... but tap water is transferred by old pipes which is not that clean
Another informative video as always! Because you are covering islands, I would love to see your take on Caribbean nations too
Cuba could be cool
@@RedPandaJack Cuba is kind of boring, everyone talks about it all the time, imo Dominican Republic would be more interesting
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@@Animegirllover837 BOT 🤖
@@alerav4826 Yup
Everyone talks about Cuba whenever the Caribbean is brought up. Doing DR would inevitably make such a video a longer one because you HAVE to do Haiti alongside it, though. The gap between the two is massive. I'd love to see him do Hispaniola, but I feel like the Caribbean always gets overlooked.
I'm from Fiji and I just want to correct some of the pronunciation of the words. C is pronounced as a 'th' sound, all a sounds sound like the A in the word car and u is pronounced as an 'oo' sound. This is the first time I've seen a video about Fiji and its good someone is talking about at least a little bit of our history. As we would say it in Fiji, Vinaka. (thank you)
You forgot b
Thanks
the professionalism in your videos is top-tier! ️
Thanks for the awesome content and great videos!!!
Thank you Hoser so much. You videos helped me through my depression and one of the lowest points in my life. Truly thank you.
i like fiji water mostly for the bottle. i reuse it (1.5l bottle) and its got a taller cap which is easier to grip and doesnt get crushed so easily unlike those cylindrical bottles. also not to mention that you get more water because of the square design
I always pack some in my hiking bag when I go out to the mountains.
Hey there, I am a hydration specialist. I teach about why people lack energy due to cellular warfare; and how work is being done to the cells, I teach how to preserve the cells.
@@noceilingsjuststars sounds like cap ngl. A whole lot of pseudoscience. Can u explain what the hell u are talking about
I agree. I like to put soda in the bottles I think the type of plastic makes it taste more clean
You're just putting more plastic into your body than everyone is already getting. We already know that ingesting plastics disrupts endocrine(hormone) function and I'm sure there's more health consequences that we don't understand yet. Use a metal or glass instead if you want a reusable bottle.
Thanks for dropping the usual bg music. The channel is so good it doesn't need it.
But it has background music, it's just kinda unnoticeable
This channel is great for improving breadth of knowledge. 👍🏻
haha i did a blind tasting of various bottled waters with a few friends and there is absolutely a difference in the taste of different brands of water. i think it depends what minerals are in the water, because water is not really just h2o
One time my family and I were driving somewhere in the rural United States, and we stopped by a small town which had a pure water mountain spring. It was claimed to have “no minerals” (so probably just very few). I tried it and it tasted really interesting. But the lady who showed it to us had false teeth; my mom put it together that she likely got no fluoride from the water, so her teeth weren’t very protected and she lost them.
@@findingliospugolini8979that’s not how teeth work, i don’t think that you have to constantly drink fluoride to keep them healthy.
@@MaxS1871 no, especially since you can’t drink it since it’s a mineral in water, not a liquid. But it DOES help your teeth, so completely forgoing it can hurt if you aren’t really on top of your dental care. It’s like iron; it’s in our food, and good for us in small doses, but trying to swallow iron nails is bad
www.nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/fluoride
@@MaxS1871 I don't think he knows what brushing your teeth is.
I love how he put original Fijian music in the back ground I love it
Hey! I live in fiji and I'm so happy that a video like this and with this quality exists so thanks for making it! Also in fijian c's and pronounced like d's
Very informal and entertaining. Love it 🤙🏼💯❤️
Me who first heard about Fiji after watching the Truman Show:
*sometime in the future, probably*
UN: No more plastic is allowed to be used
Fiji: *bruh*
I love this channel, would never give a shit about Fiji history but he makes it very enjoyable
W video as always, love from Indonesia
Didnt watch the video yet but i know its a banger🔥🔥🔥
As a Fijian, Good video.
Merry Christmas from Fiji guys 🎄
I was sad when I saw the title but this turned out to be a gr8 vid
I'm Fijian myself Hoser thank you for this Based video on me and my People ❤
This is just what Big Water is bribing you to say
Love from fiji 🇫🇯
Love all the way from Fiji 🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯
Aquafina is a good beginners water if you must go bottle, but honestly room temperature tap water through a filter is the way to go.
Is this a prodz reference?
Depends on where you live. The tap water in my hometown is disgusting. Most people who live there refuse to drink it. It is high is certain minerals that give it that taste. They just announced that they are making a new place to process it because the water currently has to much calcium in it and people are getting kidney stones as a result. The water where I live now though is fine.
Our family boils the tap water cuz it kinda dirty😂
@@jordanjames2956 I just boil my tapwater
Here's the thing. I got a sample of my municipals lead level and the thing is, it's barely under regulation of being too toxic to drink. The house I live in is old, built before the 1950's and I have no doubt there's lead pipes under there, on top of the cities almost toxic level of lead.
The US water problem is a real deal. Look at Flint, Michigan. If I got to pay a little more to not drink poison, I will pay a little more.
even so, buying premium water rather than generic doesn't make a difference
Really love your channel i know some of the subject you treated on some but i keep watching juste because its way mote funny than the traditionnal covering lethld of an event like the last one on mexico. really love your content ! Pls never stop !
woohoo new hoser video!
And I, someone who has travelled to USA a couple of times with family members living in it, never had heard about Fiji water in my entire live until now
its been around awhile in NA. I'm 23 and I think ive seen it around most of my life, at least for all my teenage years. Fiji was a huge trend at one point on socials when i was younger.
It would be super easy to miss, it’s really nothing huge, purely just something that exists here. Nearly everyone knows what it is, most have at least tasted it, very few people actually buy it with any regularity. Looks like based on these comments fiji just has a small portion of diehard fans who buy shitloads.
Same...
Except that I never travelled to the USA
@@JooshMaGooshlmao yes i rmb when it was everywhere on instagram in 2017 😭
You cant know everything that exists. You learn new things every hour.
It definitely benefits the country for ppl looking for a tropical travel destination, they look at some online list of island travel destinations, see fiji, and are like "oh like the water"
its the very principle of advertising, when you see an ad, they dont expect you to go and buy the thing, they hope that when you one day need to buy the product, their brand will be more familiar than the competitor's, making you choose it.
Wow you just earned a sub!
When people can see a place they go. CZcams sent me all my over the world.
Saw an El Nido video of a guy kayaking in the most beautiful place and thought about it for 4 years until I made it there. Loved it.
I'm here wondering why 1% of their exports is airplane parts
I remember Fiji being mentioned as a tiny unheard of country in the Truman Show, weird how that turned around
great video, vinaka toso mai na viti!
I used to live in Fiji! I didn’t think you’d ever talk about them 😮
In Fiji we pronounce "c" as "th" so Cakubau would be pronounced "thacombou"
(Also there's a short m before the letter b )
I had a blind test with Fiji, Evian, Purified Water and Tap water. I could tell the difference. Its subtle but its there
Best summary ever!
From *Mexico* 🇲🇽 to *Lebanon* 🇱🇧 to *Fiji* 🇫🇯, I've formed a little Hoser Economics Nation-By-Nation Playlist Trilogy for myself.
Id say I’d saw Fiji everywhere about 10 years ago but I think SmartWater is the one I see everywhere these days
Yeah I’d have to say I’d agree, if you had told me Fiji water didn’t exist anymore I might believe ya.
I never understood imported water. Sure it makes sense in some places. But I live in a part of Canada where the water is clean a cheep.
Literally the best video to watch at 3 am
Let's go, my country!
I remember a few years ago Fiji water actually did have a taste. I pretty sure it did cause I remember not liking it and saying it tasted like water that had a rock dunk in it. I recently had it again since it was free and it tasted like normal bottled water.
Curious
ni hao, BING CHILLING!!!
Fiji really played the system and I love them for it xD ❤ 🇫🇯
Wake up New hoser upload
so cool hoser
More Oceania vids please!!
As someone who really cares about the taste of water, Fiji water tastes good, I'd say it really is among the best tasting waters available, but that doesn't justify the price. There are some waters that taste almost the same or different, but just as good, that cost less than half of what Fiji costs. And shipping water bottles around half the world makes little sense from an environmental perspective.
This comment right here it tastes good cold man I don’t buy it like that because of the cheaper options like zhills spring water where I live it’s not as good but it’s close enough but if someone offers me a Fiji hell ya that bitch crisp that’s the only way to describe it. People drink soda then tell water drinkers they don’t see a difference yuh cause all they drink is sugar 😂
It does taste good but I learned that arsenic is in the water.
Bruh I evaded the video for so long because I thought it was an ad 😭
Fiji's definitely always been my favorite water. Then the core water because i love the bottles
Voss water from Norway is also quite popular. I just bought it once to reuse the bottle.
That is the bougiest packaging I've ever seen for bottled water. Hell it almost looks like liquour packaging.
Imsdal from Norway tastes better imo, I live in Sweden but I still feel bad about buying water from Norway when the tapwater here is perfectly fine to drink, so I try to buy it as rarely as I can
Hey there, I am a hydration specialist. I teach about why people lack energy due to cellular warfare; plastic bottles, etc. and how work is being done to the cells, I teach how to preserve the cells.
Fiji created vaporwave too
Very interesting!!! I'm in Europe, so I've never bought this water, but I'll go to the US maybe next year, so I'll sure try it!
The shape and look of the bottle definitely changes the taste. You can’t change my mind 😤😤
God bless 🇫🇯
I remember being a kid and telling other kids I’m from Fiji, and they wouldn’t know what or where that is, so I’d ask them if they knew what Fiji water is and of course they knew what that is 😂
As a kid I did not even know about Fiji water as well 🤷♀️
LOL bula im From Fiji..i just saw your videos recently, how weird xD great job haha
babe wake up, new hoser video.
It's amazing how "being able to sell bottled water" used to be a joke. The only time I ever buy it is when I'm out somewhere and wind up getting fleeced for it, and I usually keep a case of it in my emergency supplies. But it's the cheap-ass Walmart brand, not any "luxury" crap. For the most part, I drink water from the tap that I carry around in an old Powerade bottle lmao.
For a Fijian I found your pronunciation on some of the names pretty funny. But keep it bro 👍🗿🇫🇯
I agree too.
Especially "K-Akobau"
Lol.
Pretty accurate information loved the video, oh just a tip, if you're traveling to fiji you might get confused by the pronunciation of names like the alphabet c makes a d sound ☺️
Great video
When I first heard about Fiji Water I assumed that it was a way to get rid of the shipping containers that bring imported goods to Fiji…
Soft power level : FANCY BOTTLES
This was an excellent video! Very well written!
i had a visit Australia ad during this video my life is complete
I imagine Tuvalu earns most of their revenue from Twitch because Twitch uses their net domain
"The water empire"
~ Drew Durnil
awesome video
God I love your shit Hoser
It doesn’t come from an artisan aquifer as hoser pronounced it @ 1:00. It is Artesian water which means accessed through a bore hole. I.E they drilled down to the aquifer a.k.a it’s not a natural spring
One correction. Right now the Fiji First party isn't part of government
yea I'm assuming he did the research before the recent elections
hey hoser, love ya bud
Good video.