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Do you have any ideas/suggestions how to get that plastic taste out of a new Camelbag?!

Hi,
rince it, rince it and rince it again
I've left some water for about one week in my new bag then ...I've rinced it again, now it's OK.

An alternative: you can buy some activated charcoal and leave it (dry!) for a few days in the bag.

I would suggest "rinsing" it out.

What does rince mean?

rince, not rinse are you sure?

Why do the English speakers borrow all the the time the French words and change the spelling?

let's go for "rince" ! (fanks for ze correction)

English: Toss me my coat...
French: Throw me down the stairs, my coat...
Bass ackwards
English is indeed a strange language !
The french are indeed a strange people !

dirtbag wrote: English is indeed a strange language !
The french are indeed a strange people !

Different country - different habits...

Do you know what "80" means in french?

quatre-vingts (= 4 x 20)

There is no "eigthy" in french language. Also no "70" nor "90"
70 = soixante-dix (= 60 + 10)
90 = quatre-vingts dix (= 4 x 20 + 10)

But how will that sort out my "plastic-taste-problem"

Right, in Swiss, Belgian and some local French dialects they use septante for 70, huitante or octante for 80 and nonante or 90.
I think our version comes from the Celtic, ex: dek ha pewar ugent (10+4x20) in Breton language.

We say: jette-moi mon manteau (toss me my coat) the same way; the only difference is that actually we have to fill 6 or 7 forms before our administration allows us to toss the coat

BTW, it doesn't change the taste of the water

Stef wrote: I think our version comes from the Celtic, ex: dek ha pewar ugent (10+4x20) in Breton language.

I found a source that explained that in "early french", they had not the 10-system only, but a 20-system also. According to their coins. That´s why they count in 20 steps.


See this nice (french) page I found about:

http://users.skynet.be/ekurea/70_99/de70a99.html



If we keep talking about, maybe my water will taste like Evian...

Thanks for the link Housil, they say the people used to count with a stick and notches, a notch meant 20 and the use of counting by 20 remained.

Note that this notch system was also used in England: that's why "score" means either "a notch", "the count" or "20"

Nobody would buy 10 eggs or 11 or 13, always a dozen (12) or half a dozen (6). Shopping was certainly hard during the Middle Ages, before they invented the pocket calculator

Is this a real Camelbak? The real ones usually just need to be cleaned out with soap and water, and maybe a little household bleach (or one of their cleaning tablets) and then rinsed out throughly.

If it's some sort of copy that was made in China, I really don't know and wouldn't t trust the plastics they use, they often smell of petroleum residue (an odor much like gasoline.)

housil wrote:But how will that sort out my "plastic-taste-problem"