Does anyone recall the Coca-Cola in the 16 oz green glass bottles from the 1970s (and earlier)?

Question

Is it my imagination or did the coca-cola in those bottles taste better than the coke from cans today? If so, why?

Answer 1

I think before my time. I don't remember green coca-cola bottles.

Answer 2

Yep I love Coke in glass bottles, and you are right tastes way better in a glass bottle than in plastic or cans. I have a Drink Coca-Cola bottle opener on my keychain my dad gave me. Only kind of bottle I open with it now are the beer variety.
As for why, my guess is that sodas are acidic, a good example of this is dissolving a tooth that fell out in a glass of soda. The acid reacts with the metal or plastic and you get that aftertaste you don't have with glass.

Answer 3

Your right! The Coca-Cola's do taste better in the glass bottles than the cans!

Answer 4

Very simple answer. Coke tasted better in those bottles because it was made with sugar and not cane syrup. Can still get the good stuff on the upper east side of Manhattan (above 100th Street) if you look at the labels carefully. Sometimes it says sugar OR cane syrup.

Answer 5

The reason the Coke in the glass bottles tastes better than in the can has nothing to do with the container. The Coke in glass bottles is made in Mexico, where they use pure cane sugar, whereas Coke in the U.S. is made with corn syrup. It's the sugar that makes it sooooo GOOD !!!!!

Answer 6

We still get the smaller bottles in Hawaii. The ABC store across the street from Kuhio Beach has them on ice. The bottles sure do taste better than the cans! The glass has a cleaner taste than aluminium; just like beer in a can or glass.

Answer 7

I think the glass bottles kept the Coke cold and refreshing since the glass insulated the Coke from the drinker's warm lips and hands.

New plastic bottles and aluminum cans don't keep the drink as cold so it's not as refreshing as drinking out of a thick glass bottle.

Answer 8

Of course it does. The chemicals in plastic & cans (the taste at the bottom of cans is disgusting) eventually leak into the coke, changing the original taste. Those chemicals that have keaked into the coke then find their way into us. I really don't like putting chemicals inside me. The coke in a small glass bottle in a petrol station cost approx. $3. Those bottles are the equivalent of jus ONE can. The 'real' coke taste costs, but boy, it it ever worth it, once in a while, anyway. Too bad it costs so much.

Answer 9

well i was born in 1979, so i can't say i remember the bottles from way back then, but i have had coke from glass bottles and they are a lot better than from a can or plastic bottles, you can still get the bottles at most stores, my 12 yr. old son loves them so every once in awhile i'll buy them, but it's cheaper to just buy them in the can's. so i don't get them all the time.

Answer 10

Yes, I remember those 16's and the 7 ounce ones as well.

Coke always tasted better in glass, when they switched to plastic, the quality dropped a notch or two. I never cared for Coke when it was in steel cans or aluminum. (now I'm giving my age away)