I’ve written about it before, but it’s a topic that just keeps cropping up. The tap water in (most districts in) Vienna comes from the mountains and is wonderful, not only safe to drink but also delicious. (My Viennese father used to say with pride, “We flush our toilets with the water other people buy in supermarkets.”)
Even some of our closest neighbors, the Germans, who can certainly drink their own tap water without any worries, aren’t in on the secret, as this story from today’s Kurier shows. When Dirk Stermann, German TV personality and longtime resident of Vienna, met the parents of his then girlfriend at dinner in a restaurant, he ordered still mineral water. The girlfriend’s father, apparently an otherwise quiet sort of man, shouted, “We don’t drink that here!”
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