Bottled drinks?

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:36 pm

It just dawned on me that when I was growing up in the 70s and 80's when coke, sprite, 7up etc was produced in glass bottles they actually tasted better.

I also remember drinking milk from a bottle and not a carton. It also tasted better than it does today.

Anyone agree?

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:43 pm

Yep. The soda eats away at the plastic and it tastes like crap. Soda can't eat away at glass, and the wax lining on cans is highly resistant to soda. Therefore cans and glass bottles taste far better.

Neat trick my chem teacher did in sophomore year: take two soda cans and empty the contents of one of them. Take a pen or something and scrape along the inside of the other, and let it sit with the soda inside for a while, then dump out the soda. Invite a friend over (preferably a very muscular one) and hand him the normal can and tell him to twist the can so that it splits in half. It should take 10 or 15 seconds to split it and separate the halves. Now do the same to your can, except it will split seamlessly almost immediately.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:56 pm

Didnt someone dissolve a human tooth in coke in under a week?

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:39 pm

Funny; I always thought that soda tastes better out of plastic bottles. I get too much of the aluminum flavor when drinking out of cans.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:47 pm

Cans and glass bottles are better.

Birdseye · Post by **Birdseye** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:36 am

cans taste like ★■◆●, glass is ok, plastic bottles are the best next to fountain soda

Bonz · Post by **Bonz** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:11 am

Nothing like an ice cold Mountain Dew out of a bottle
ahhh the good ole days.
But boy did I destroy alot of lighters opening those things.

Boo · Post by **Boo** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 3:47 pm

Fountain and glass bottles are best IMO.

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 4:46 pm

I used to have glass bottled coke all the time in Mexico- I thought it tasted better, but at the same time they loaded them down with like double as much caffine, so I was probably just addicted to the caffine.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 4:58 pm

Bonz wrote:Nothing like an ice cold Mountain Dew out of a bottle
ahhh the good ole days.
But boy did I destroy alot of lighters opening those things.

What do lighters and bottles of Dew have to do with each other?

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:24 pm

You used to use lighters to open beer & pop bottles.

You've just aged yourself Dcrazy

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:32 pm

Heh... my vision of opening a glass bottle without twist-off comes from Back To The Future.

Perediablo · Post by **Perediablo** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:38 pm

I remember getting a coke in a 12oz bottle for a quarter. You put your $.025 in the slot, opened the door and pulled like hell to get it out. Most of the time resulting in a scrape or cut from the bottle top. This was at my local hardware store. You had to drink it there or pay another dime to the register to cover the bottle deposit. Man, that was great. If you had a dollar you were the king. A coke, candy bar, and about 20 pieces of gum for under a dollar! Not any more

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:56 pm

snoopy wrote:I used to have glass bottled coke all the time in Mexico- I thought it tasted better, but at the same time they loaded them down with like double as much caffine, so I was probably just addicted to the caffine.

Mexican coke is made with real sugar instead of corn syrup. That's why it tastes better.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:57 pm

Hm, I bet it would taste less um....syrupy then too.

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:02 pm

I don't know about Coke, but real sugar Dr. Pepper just tastes a bit lighter and sweeter. It's more expensive for those little 10 oz bottles though, so I don't really care that much.

While we're on the subject, here's a conspiracy theory for you. "New Coke" was just a ploy to get the American populace to forget the taste of real sugar coke so that when "Classic Coke" was reintroduced with corn syurp people wouldn't complain.

And it's not made with sugar because trade embargos to "protect" the American sugar industry drive the price higher than the alternatives. That's just a fact though.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:11 pm

Avder wrote:Didnt someone dissolve a human tooth in coke in under a week?

I doubt it. But try putting a human tooth into stomach acid and see how long it lasts! This tired old-wives tale is boring in the extreme. There's NOTHING you can eat or drink in a normal diet which even comes close to being as acidic as stomach acid.

roid · Post by **roid** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:28 pm

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cokelore.asp

coke urba.... bah you all know what snopes is.

the tooth thing is there, and false.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:17 pm

1. STFU Mobius, your opinions, while further corroborated by Roid, are psychobabble.

2. Thank you Roid for clearing that up.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:27 am

Perediablo wrote:I remember getting a coke in a 12oz bottle for a quarter. You put your $.025 in the slot...

You are aware that $.025 is two and a half cents, right?

/Just my two cents

Fezzik · Post by **Fezzik** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:45 am

This is one of the reasons they stopped making the 2-1/2 cent piece. It was about the same size and weight of a quarter, and people were ripping off vending machines left and right.

Right, Pere?

DCrazy wrote:Just my two cents

I'll see your two cents, and raise it a ha'penny.

Perediablo · Post by **Perediablo** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 10:07 pm

DCrazy wrote:
Perediablo wrote:I remember getting a coke in a 12oz bottle for a quarter. You put your $.025 in the slot...
You are aware that $.025 is two and a half cents, right?

/Just my two cents

OOPS. that should be $0.25. LOL ya know..2 bits