Old Thick Coke Bottles

[Sixpence]

Do they still sell those somewhere? When I was 19 they used to sell them in St. Pete, Fl. Coke just seemed to taste so much better in those glass bottles, couldn't get along w/o them. We used to buy the 16oz 8 packs. It's been almost 20 years since, do they still have them in Florida or anywhere else?

[Dago]

They still sell coke in small glass bottles.  Not sure of the size, I would guess 8 or 12 oz.

I agree, softdrinks taste better in glass.


dago

[Estes]

In Amarillo, at the Pak-a-Sak I always go to before work. They have a big cooler, icebox lookin' thing. With coke in the glass bottles. It's a little smaller than the plastic bottles.

[Hawklore]

In Franklin, Indiana, there is a sandwhich shop that still sells the small 5oz. bottles for 5 cents..

Yumm, tastes so good!

[midnight Target]

There is a small market here in So. Cal. that specializes in stocking and selling every kind of soda and bottle available. They even have a bottler making some of the old bottles... like the old Dr. Pepper with the 10-2-4 on the lable.

I'll try to dig up the name. I think they're doing internet sales too.

[Lizking]

If you go to a Mexican Taqueria, they will have the Coke you remember from your childhood.  The bottle is not the defining thing, though they do use them; it is the fact that they use sugar instead of fructose.

[Eagler]

they still sell the small glass bottles of Coke here in Tampa

[rpm]

Lizking is right. The difference is the lack of high fructose corn syrup. Real sugar tastes better and is healthier. You can also get Dr.Pepper made with real sugar from Dublin Dr. Pepper.

[NUKE]

Originally posted by Sixpence
Do they still sell those somewhere? When I was 19 they used to sell them in St. Pete, Fl. Coke just seemed to taste so much better in those glass bottles, couldn't get along w/o them. We used to buy the 16oz 8 packs. It's been almost 20 years since, do they still have them in Florida or anywhere else?

I buy Coke in  bottles from Mexico and they taste like the old American Coke. Want to know why? It's not the bottle, I have been told that it is the sugar cane used. Mexico still uses the original while we use "sugar"

[Dune]

Off-topic, but the title on thick bottles reminded me of my high school days.

We would take Corona bottles (because they were thicker than US beer bottles), fill them with gas and jam the cap back on.  Then we would set them in the fire.  The gas would begin to boil and come out from under the lid under pressure.  It would catch fire and rush back into the bottle.

Which would then explode out of the bottle and make the coolest 10-15 ft firebottles.




....and yes, Dr. Pepper and Coke taste better in glass bottles.

[Seeker]

Originally posted by NUKE
I buy Coke in  bottles from Mexico  

Why are you exporting jobs?

[AWMac]

Ft. Bragg, NC just as you come in from Spring Lake, take your first right...look to your left and the are 2 white 2 story wooden Barracks..WWII type. 2nd building from the left inside is an old Coke Machine.... Really old!

Been there for years...Old Soda machine, Just 15 cents a soda, the old light green thick bottles.

 The old saying went that one old 82nd Airbourne soldier that went from Bragg and dropped into St. Mere Eglise on D-Day and into Germany eventually came home and remembered his time at Bragg.  He donated big bucks $$$$$ upon his death to keep that machine and pop in the barracks at the same price.  But at the time it was a nickel...but an additional ten cents has been donated by an unknown and Coke~Cola has kept the dream going, just as long as the bottles are returned... Same old wooden cases too..

Best Coke~Cola I have ever had.  Last one I drank from that machine was back in 1983.

Caps up front, pay and slide one out... Mmmmm memories.

[Lizking]

Because they have a better product.