I’m going to guess it all tasted like water.

How refined is your palate? The answer is, most likely, “not very.” People generally think they’re better at tasting things than they actually are, which is how wine “experts” can misidentify white wine as red wine just because someone’s added a bit of food coloring.

All that is to say, I believe that this water tasting competition is entirely bullshit. This is the 35th annual Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting, which advertises itself as the world’s longest running competition of its kind. People rate water on a variety of different criteria, but, I’m sorry, I’m just not buying it.

The one exception I’ll make is that Aquafina tastes like shit. Amirite?