so i looked in our fridge today, and took stock of all the water bottles in our fridge. propel, gatorade, evian bottles, all emptied of their original contents, replenished by the tap. while pulling out one of the sporty evian bottles i noticed that if you read “evian” backwards, it was “naive” which immediately brought a smile to my face, as bottled water is a pretty ridiculous concept in the country.

of course i thought i couldn’t have been the first person to notice it, so i took my case to google, which immediately brought me to snopes.com which informed me that it was just a straight up coincidence, where the water is named after the area it is bottled in, Evian-les–Bains, somewhere in France.

it was a fun little mystery though. i certainly sleuthed that one out.