Bottled drinks?
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Bottled drinks?
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?
I also remember drinking milk from a bottle and not a carton. It also tasted better than it does today.
Anyone agree?
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.
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.
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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
Mexican coke is made with real sugar instead of corn syrup. That's why it tastes better.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.
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.
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.
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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.Avder wrote:Didnt someone dissolve a human tooth in coke in under a week?
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cokelore.asp
coke urba.... bah you all know what snopes is.
the tooth thing is there, and false.
coke urba.... bah you all know what snopes is.
the tooth thing is there, and false.
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