Do you think the old glass bottle soda tasted better then the stuff in plastic these days?

Question

Best awnser will be selected on the best personal memory of a old glass bottle soda. i.e. a ice cold coke with 2 ballpark dogs with chips at a detroit tigers game in 1984

Answer 1

when I was a child I would visit my Grandparents during the summer... it was is very small southern town, Lula MS, We would walk up to the store owned by Mr. Lee and get bottled soda, he always put it on my Grandfathers account. We would sit on the curb and drink them. I can still taste how great the Coke was out of those Icy Bottles More so when we would have Moon Pies with them. My Grandfather died when I was in the 5th grade still the last time I was in Lula as an Young adult, Mr. Lee still put My glass Bottled Coke on my grandfathers account, That was in 1991. To this day there is nothing quite a Good is a cold Bottled coke from Mr. Lee's store its like a parallel Universe.

Answer 2

The old pops tasted and were better because you don't have the toxic chemicals leeching into your drink that you get from plastic bottles. I remember drinking a Fanta Orange pop in the summer days of 1964 , it was ice cold and tasted great and cut the dust of a hot august day out of the back of your throat.. The plastic these days doesn't hold the cold as well as glass did either, you never get that crisp cold taste anymore. Plastic sucks.glass may not break down quickly but plastic pollutes so much worst than glass.

Answer 3

I loved the old glass bottle sodas, especially the orange drinks that you got out of the machine where you slid the bottles along a track and pulled them out.

The machines had bottle openers on the front.

I think the typical price for a bottle was a nickle with two cents back if you sold the bottle back to a distributor or grocer.

Kids in my neighborhood would roam the alleys picking up bottles to sell back at the grocery store so we could buy candy.

We would drink Nehi, Pepsi, RC or whatever we were in the mood for when we bought a soda.

Answer 4

Oh yes, I still crave a Pepsi Ice Cold in in 16 ounce glass bottle. I have written to them many times about bringing them back and it falls on deaf ears. You know Miller Lite tried to pull this with beer awhile back they put in plastic bottles and nobody bought it and guess what they brought back the glass bottles! I wish Pepsi and Coke would do this! I would pay more for soda in a glass bottle any day.

Answer 5

Oh for sure... I remember being in the hospital a lot as a child and they had an old bottle cooler in the waiting room... tasted really good on a sore throat. That and going down to the gas station on a hot summer day and buying one... no soda has been better since. All those old coolers had pretty much been replaced by the time I was 12 years old or so, but I still remember them.

Answer 6

Oh god yes, nothing beats a cold Dr. Pepper straight out of a glass bottle. You can't find them too often but sometimes you can find them at the supermarket. When I do I have to buy some, let it sit in the fridge a few days or stick one in the freezer for a bit so it gets a little slushy! YUM!!!!

Answer 7

Yes, the soda was twice as good as this stuff they have today. We accompanied a friend and her two daughters to a theme park, and she took glass bottles of soda, and packed some lunch meat and cheese.
It was a 100 mile trip and when we got there, she made sandwiches of lunch meat and cheese, and gave each of us a glass bottle of soda pop. Boy, it was good, especially after that long trip.

Answer 8

glass!! I used to go to the gas station and get these dinky little glass bottles of MT Dew when I was a kid in the 80's doesn't come close in plastic.

Answer 9

Green " Waldmeister Brause" at the Berlin Zoo with my
Grandpa. He let me keep the pretty bottle ( high German refund on it ). Was the last thing we did together be for he died. And one of the last real good glass bottle sodas I had.

Answer 10

OMG YES!!!! I miss Pepsi in the old bottles. I wish they would bring those back, So addicting. I think more people returned those bottles than recycles the new ones by far.