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[Driver Nate]

I thought for a second they were out of the plastic bottles of Coke at the grocery the other day so I briefly entertained the thought of buying the old style glass bottles. Unfortunately I've become spoiled by the resealable plastic bottles but ever since then I've been craving the real thing. There's few things better than an ice cold Coca Cola in a glass bottle.



Jonathan

[bizaleth]

Soda is so much better out of a glass bottle. Even as recent as the early '90s you could still buy the glass long-neck bottles in Iowa. Whenever I was home from school I would buy some. But the worst part of the glass long-neck bottles? Banging then on your two front teeth. Just thinking about it sends shivers up my spine.

What have I been drinking lately? This morning coffee and orange juice. I'll have water at lunch (and for the rest of the day).

[Driver Nate]

Those old glass bottles used to keep me in beer money when I was younger. Thank goodness for country stores and returnable bottles.

Jonathan

[bizaleth]

Driver Nate said:

Those old glass bottles used to keep me in beer money when I was younger. Thank goodness for country stores and returnable bottles.

Jonathan

It was beer money and gas money for my friends and I.

Since we were in Iowa we could also return cans for a refund, but we got more for glass bottles.

[Driver Nate]

For a while you could return beer bottles too but not to the country store. We also saved cans but they fetched much less. Seems like we took those to the salvage yard, who also accepted old car batteries. Anything we could scrape together for cash.

Jonathan

[bizaleth]

In Iowa you get 5 cents back on cans. They started the program in teh late 70s/early 80s to try and combat the litter problem. It worked. Within a year there are very few, if any, cans littering the landscape.

[Internet Legend]

Around here, you can not only get Coke in glass bottles, if you shop in the right stores, you can get it made with the original recipe - with sugar instead of corn syrup.

They say it doesn't make a difference in taste. It does.

[bizaleth]

Internet Legend said:

Around here, you can not only get Coke in glass bottles, if you shop in the right stores, you can get it made with the original recipe - with sugar instead of corn syrup.

They say it doesn't make a difference in taste. It does.

Are they the long-neck bottles?

[Driver Nate]

I can get Coca Cola here in glass bottles, I just opted for the plastic ones recently because of the resealable option. Not sure about the original receipe thing though.

As for what I've been drinking lately:



Well, the Quik's not as old as the above package but I thought that was a pretty cool Google image find (even though it was the first hit).

Jonathan

[Internet Legend]

bizaleth said:

Are they the long-neck bottles?

They're just what I think of as the "regular" bottles - not as squat as the modern ones, but not the really tall ones, either.

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[AgainstAllOdds]

Hot chocolate, with marshmallows, whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles...mmm

[nanne]

tea tea tea, and some more tea. Japanese and English both.

[jimmy09]

Green Tea

[AgainstAllOdds]

Red wine...

[Driver Nate]

I jokingly ordered a "Buschwieser" the other evening which the barmaid mistakenly heard as "Bush Light". She fucked up twice in a row which earned me a beer on the house on the third go 'round. I used to run into the same thing in the 80s when asking for quarters for the foosball table. I always ended up with a "Coors" instead.

[genera seven]

Diet Pepsi Jazz Black Cherry and Vanilla

also

Diet Pepsi Jazz Strawberries and Cream

[nanne]

beer and beer

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[nanne]

again Japanese Sake.

[Tuppenny]

diet cola with cherry!
And red wine, of course.


Not at the same time. Although now I think about... *back to laboratory*