First café serving only water opens in NYC

First café serving only water opens in NYC. It’s name is Molecule, and its water supply is pure NYC tap but the restaurant justifies charging $1 and up per serving because their water is filtered through a custom-built $25,000 purifier that “uses ultraviolet rays, ozone treatments and reverse osmosis in a seven-stage processing treatment.” And also because some people will believe anything.

This post was last modified on January 26, 2021

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  • Once again proof positive some people will believe anything. When I was a kid on the farm We drank well water, unfiltered and from the hose the same one we watered the animals with. Sounds gross but that hose was kept cleaner than us kids. look you guys take up space, eat yourselves silly and can't be sold. the animals get sold for cash money this was My uncles favorite saying

  • Hey, it's NYC. Can we expect sanity? I don't drink most city water without running it through a filter, because it doesn't taste good. But yes, the machine in front of WalMart does the same thing.

  • "Corporate Greed" as I'm sure jockstrap has referenced, is impotent without its counterpart, consumer gullibility. And who are almost always the gullible ones? The "smart" people, of course, who know that bottled water, electric cars, and organic free range arugula are the things one MUST have -- you know, the suckers who bought that "Hope & Change" scam, too.

    • It's the perfect full circle of control. Corporate Greed keeps brainwashing Consumer Gullibility into buying their crap and Consumer Gullibility keeps blindly supporting Corporate Greed's evil plan.

  • After it drips and oozes through their seven-step $25,000 purifier they pour the sparkling H2O into a glass washed in two-day-old dishwater by a minimum-wage-earning high school dropout who hawks loogies into the dishwater as he works because he's mad about corporate greed. Bon appetit, New Yorkers, and too bad you can't buy the water in size large.

  • Rmember when we were kids and playing outside? We'd get hot and then drink water right out of the garden hose and no one ever got sick from it.

    • Yep, and we had well water, so there were no county or state monitoring of the purification process, it was left up to Mother Nature!

  • Actually it is Unicorn piss. Thus the justifiable high price. Who wouldn't pay big bucks for that?

    • Unicorn piss?? This is worse than I thought. I figured it to be latrine water (or "head" water as you guys in the Navy say). Either way, we have to go back to the old saying, "there's a sucker born every minute".

    • No, retarde people trying to scam equally stupid cutsomers. And it will work, becasue like you, the customers are morons.