Bottled water in glass bottles is a luxury good for yuppies in America. Store-brand seltzer water bottled in plastic is about $1 per liter.
Seltzer often tastes gross, I'll get canned club soda if I want cheap bubbles and just don't give a fuck about plastic or whatever at the moment (cans are lined in plastic). Trouble is, the bubbly-water fad has made that shit a lot more expensive than it used to be. Could get it for like $0.20/can for a long time, now it's a lot higher and you have to hunt to find the plain version without a bunch of artificial flavor in it.
I think in some countries, water in glass bottles not a yuppie luxury product because they actually reuse (not recycle) the bottles. Sort of like what they used to do with milk in the US.
(It's more expensive than store-bought plastic bottles but about the same price as store-bought glass, with the added advantage that I know they reuse the bottles.)
Glass = yuppie... shit, I guess it's because I'm getting old and remember a time when glass was just for everyone, but that's a really weird sentiment to me. Is Coors yuppie if it's in glass bottles? Seems like this is a selective application of that notion.
Bottled water in glass specifically.