I’ve heard that was rooted in the aftermath of WWII, infrastructure was destroyed and acquiring clean drinking water was difficult, so people started having a large reservation against tap water, sticking to bottled water, and it just stuck. Word-of-mouth history though, so grain of salt and all.
AFAIK it’s not about drinking tap water. Pretty much everyone knows that our water is high quality. It’s more that it’s not freely offered at restaurants and requesting it is sometimes even frowned upon. We went to a spot where a friend was rather rudely cut off after the second glass of water while the whole table was ordering the “expensive” drinks.
I’ve heard that was rooted in the aftermath of WWII, infrastructure was destroyed and acquiring clean drinking water was difficult, so people started having a large reservation against tap water, sticking to bottled water, and it just stuck. Word-of-mouth history though, so grain of salt and all.
AFAIK it’s not about drinking tap water. Pretty much everyone knows that our water is high quality. It’s more that it’s not freely offered at restaurants and requesting it is sometimes even frowned upon. We went to a spot where a friend was rather rudely cut off after the second glass of water while the whole table was ordering the “expensive” drinks.