Coca-cola cans versus bottles

[Mr C]

I clearly don't have enough work to do if I'm coming up with shit like this, but I was thinking.... cans v bottles - which tastes better?

I personally think Coke out of cans does, but I don't know why!!

Maybe it has something to do with the metal? I dunno.

 

[Soton Seagull]

Mmmmm fully of tinny goodness.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

In order of preference :

Coke from a glass bottle

Coke from a can

and finally Coke from a plastic bottle.

Worrying that it tastes so different from each type !

 

[John Dorian]

I think it tastes much etter from a can. BUT.

when you open a can you have to coninue drinking it and you cant close it and put it in your bag for later. with a bottle you can. i tend to buy botttles rather than cans but then thats just me.

 

[Safeway]

Coca Cola from a glass bottle is a little, 250ml taste from heaven. Truly glorious.

It's not bad out of a can but from a glass bottle it's up there with strong Earl Grey and a neatly trimmed vagina as one of the world's GREAT tastebud arousers.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Is it Coca Cola who have produced that 'tap water' and are flogging it in blue bottles? I bought one of those yesterday, originally they were supposed to be retailing for 95p, I was asked for 50p, and when I objected the newsagent let me have one for 25p. I guess that hasn't really worked then, commercially.

 

[bhafc99]

Off the island of Espiritu Santo (part of Vanuatu in the south Pacific) is a dive site known as Million Dollar Point.

At the end of WW2 the Yanks didn't want to ship back all their supplies and stores, so they basically drove jeeps and trucks off the point, and scuttled old landing craft etc there. All were packed full of supplies – reputedly the 'million dollars' worth.

One of the main things that hasn't been dissolved or washed away is glass coke bottles. Thousands and thousands of 1940s-era coke bottles litter the sea bed. The beach is partly pebbles, and partly wierd deposits made out of millions of fragments of glass coke bottles that have been smoothed into pebbles and fused together by storms. It's both beautiful, and sad, because it shows how we happily ruin our environment.

Any time anyone mentions coke bottles to me, I'm always reminded of diving here, of floating over 10,000 old coke bottles as the sunlight played on them. It's a really vivid memory, so for that reason I'm voting bottles, though it has nothing to do with taste.

Strange post over...

 

[John Dorian]

a neatly trimmed vagina as one of the world's GREAT tastebud arousers.

trust you safeway to bring that into the conversation....

 

[REDLAND]

don't touch the stuff, it stinks of death

 

[Jam The Man]

Coke from a glass bottle is glory personified

 

[GUNTER]

Only from a glass bottle.

 

[GUNTER]

Only from a glass bottle on a hot summer day

 

[Jason Speaks]

1. In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.

2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days.

3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.

4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminium foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.

7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminium foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.

8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

>FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about four days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase in osteoporosis.

2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the Hazardous Material place cards reserved for highly corrosive materials.

3. The distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years!

 

[magoo]

I despise everything the Coca Cola company are!

 

[chez]

A can gives you a better rush, i get a much better hit off of a can than from a bottle. Yes, I am talking about coca cola.

 

[US Seagull]

1. In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.

2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days.

3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.

4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminium foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.

7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminium foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.

8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

>FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about four days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase in osteoporosis.

2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the Hazardous Material place cards reserved for highly corrosive materials.

3. The distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years!

Actually there's a show on over here called "Mythbusters" and they tested some of the supposed "101 uses for Coke" on their show. It did quite well on the cleaning up blood count and cleaning a chrome bumper. It was no better than water on battery terminals, it doesn't remove grease from an engine or from clothing and it didn't seem to help a rusted bolt at all. After two days soaking in Coke the steak was only very slighly eaten away (pure phosphoric acid did a little better - but there where still large chunks left).

To the original question, I think the reason you might find Coke for a can better is because it tends to get cooler in a can than in a bottle. Aluminum cans have a much lower heat capacity and cool much faster than plastic (or even glass) bottles.

 

[US Seagull]

Oh, and I prefer Pepsi.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Bollogs to Coke, Pepsi is better by a country mile, and if you can't get that the cheapo supermarket's own brand stuff is even better - the Sainsbury's one is the dogs.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Coke from a mirror. Refreshing!

 

[Muzzman]

Coke in a glass bottle with 2 straws brings back memories of my Dad taking me to the pub for the customary pre-match drink. Life was so simple back then