I miss the days when?

Question

Pop was manufactured in a glass bottle. . Any pop was great. Drinking pop from a tin can doesn't seem to be the same or have the same taste, let alone, I worry, what my pop contains sitting in a tin can. What are your thoughts of pop that was manufactured in glass bottles?

Answer 1

MMMMMM I remember orange crush back in the days of glass bottles. And do you remember HIRES rootbeer? Yes the glass of yesteryear was certainly better. I rarely drink any pop but when I do it is different in a can. Sometimes you can still find it in bottles at coffee shops etc. and then I will have one, but something is still different. Maybe the ingredients have changed too??? Did they use high fructose corn syrup 40 years ago? Anyway, just another thing to lament about days of old.
Oh, and do you remember the bottles were only 7 ounces? My grandmother always had 7 ounce bottles of 7up and my dads barber shop had the old pop machines with 7 ounce glass bottles.

Answer 2

You can get pop in glass bottles but it is expensive. The real thing you should miss is the sugar used way back when. Now they all use corn syrup as a sweetner and you can taste the tinge of the corn. Taste some clear Kayro corn syrup and compare it to how the pop tastes these days. Pop is in an aluminum not tin can. Pop was a pain in the old days to take back the empties and glass bottles were busted all over the streets. I remember how Detroit used to glisten in broken glass. When they changed to deposit cans the broken glass disappeared. If you ever worked in those days in a store the glass bottles and wood cases were heavy and sometimes really nasty. Cigarette butts, pee, bubble gum, spit, dirt, bugs, you name it were often in the bottles returned. The real thing I miss is the real cane sugar and clean taste from being in a bottle. If you can get over the nasty corn syrup taste go for the Coke in bottles once in a while.

Answer 3

Part of it is the can But the other part is that they are using corn syrup in place of cane sugar and it makes a huge difference. If you can get Coke from Mexico for some weird reason they still use cane sugar .
As far as the remark of not having bottles in vending machines , those of us of a certain age know that is not true. Coke in glass bottles was very common in vending machines.
What I really miss is real NYC candy stores w/ real soda fountains. Put in the ice , pump in some coke syrup, a little cherry syrup add some seltzer water stir and serve -Wow !

Answer 4

I well remember when a bottle of coke was 5 cents and it cost a dime to get in the movie show. A bag of popcorn was 10 cents so I could go see a double feature and a cartoon for a quarter. Gas usually hung around 16 cents a gallon and the milk man brought fresh milk every other day.
BTW, I couldn't afford the gas then either...

Answer 5

I know how you feel for some reason I want them in a glass bottle they taste good and looks better. Weird, huh?

Answer 6

I rember being a kid and my mom or grandmother would take the cap off of a glass bottle of either pepsi or 7-up... nothing tasted that good since

Answer 7

I agree fully, pop in aluminum cans gets hot too fast and is never the same as from glass, beer is even worse.

Answer 8

you must be from the north....minnesota?? just curious! and yes i definitely agree with you...it does NOT have the same taste...just like beer. beer in a bottle is better than a tin can

Answer 9

Some still are in glass bottles, I know coke does! cb

Answer 10

well they dont make them in glass anymore because its dangerous when they break!
And they cant go in soda machines because they would shatter!!

It would be cool if they were still in glass bottles!!