Wednesday morning’s D.C. Council breakfast with the mayor featured your typical buffet spread with one snazzy feature: pricey Voss brand bottled water, which sells for a few bucks per bottle. Is this part of the council’s effort to be more civil to one another?
According to a quick Google search Voss sells 24-packs of the 12-ounce bottles for $41. There were at least 40 bottles on the table (they looked like 12-ounce to this reporter’s eyes) making that at least $100-worth of bottled water on the table for breakfast. And Voss isn’t American-made, either — it hails from Norway.
Interestingly enough, when yours truly Tweeted this fun fact, responders took issue with the fact that council was using bottled water instead of pitchers (and their own marked cups, as the Brightwoodian’s Rebecca Mills, suggests).
At any rate, council could cut a few costs by ditching the fancy stuff and subjecting their tastebuds to more primitive thirst quenchers like Poland Springs or (heaven forbid) tap water on ice. And while they’re at it, they can ditch the fruit on the table, too. The healthy stuff is always the last to go at these things and there was plenty left Wednesday as only a few people obligingly picked at it.
