Meet a "Water Sommelier" - Neatorama

If you're not certain which bottled water goes best with your dinner, you may need to draw upon the expertise of a water sommmelier.

Rainwater is being served, rainwater that has traveled 16,000 kilometers (9,950 miles) from Tasmania to be sipped by a dozen guests sitting in club chairs in a timber-framed house in a Hamburg suburb. In front of the guests stands a man who is on the short side, wearing a suit and glasses. Jerk Martin Riese, 34, is the maître d' at the Michelin-starred First Floor restaurant in Berlin. There, he created a water menu with 40 different selections -- something for the bored diner to peruse if their partner is monopolizing the wine list.

Link. Photo credit Gregor Schlaeger.

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I think its cool what he is doing. I googled his name and he is pretty famous in Europe. Water tast differnetly, why not have a Water Sommelier....

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I thought this was the kind of BS job the recession was supposed to help wipe out. This guy should be laughing all the way to the unemployment line.

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Yeah, I figured it's a perfectly legitimate name, but really?

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ted, it's a Swedish variant of "Eric."

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He's German, Ted, so presumably Jerk has no negative meaning there. Similarly, we British snigger at anyone called Randy because here it means 'horny'.

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Obligatory reference to Penn & Teller's show on bottled water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfPAjUvvnIc

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There's a sucker born every minute. That guy probably laughs all the way to the bank when he goes to cash his paycheck.

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Thanks Andrew I was just going to link that. I wonder what one of these toolbags would say about drinking hosewater.

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His parents named him Jerk?

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He's German, Ted, so presumably Jerk has no negative meaning there. Similarly, we British snigger at anyone called Randy because here it means 'horny'.

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ted, it's a Swedish variant of "Eric."

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Yeah, I figured it's a perfectly legitimate name, but really?

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I thought this was the kind of BS job the recession was supposed to help wipe out. This guy should be laughing all the way to the unemployment line.

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I think its cool what he is doing. I googled his name and he is pretty famous in Europe. Water tast differnetly, why not have a Water Sommelier....

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