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Got thinking today after replacing a tyre for a friend who ran over a glass bottle smashed in the middle of the road.
Why is it that Coke etc comes in plastic, yet alcohol comes in glass containers? Too often do you see morons smashing bottles in the worst places cos they're ****ed, and far too often have i come close to losing a perfectly good tyre just cos some moron feels like it. /end rant.
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bugger knows, but if you ask me coke tastes 100% better in a glass, so maybe thats why they keep grog in glasses, it would be kinda ghey having a plastic bottle for your jack daniels and coldies, keep the plastic for mud shakes or what ever crap uses them lol, but as for them c*nts who smash bottles everywhere i despise them
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Something to do with taste i think however Bundy does come in plastic in the little bottles.
This is like when they went from 750ml bottles to 700ml bottles and put the price up.
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They serve beer in plastic bottle at rugby games and speedwy events and I reckon it does taste a little worse from a plastic bottle.
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I can't tell the difference between the taste of coke from plastic and glass bottles...
I know I don't buy the glass bottles because they're only 330mL and they're the same price as a 600mL plastic one.. f*** that.
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13-07-2005, 06:58 AM | #6 | ||
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they should sell it in a bladder bag , just like cask wine, The best thing about a cask set up is u can use the box for a shoe or make a cap , then the bladder can be used as a pillow or a seat conforter, and if u reallt want to u can slap someone with the bag and it wont hurt them. what do u recon... burbon and coke with a free pillow and carboard cap...
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Plastic, after a little while, leaches chemicals into your drinks. Hence why even the water companies say you shouldn't reuse their water bottles, and why the little kids' drinks (the ones in the plastic bottles with pop tops) say on the bottle itself not to reuse it. They even went to the extent of making it impossible to take off the pop tops so that you couldn't refill them.
So the companies know it, but they don't tell average Joe WHY we can't reuse them. Also there is news starting to surface about the amount of fire retardants and other plastic related chemicals we have in our bodies. Kids toys, plastic bottles and containers for food and drink storage, glad wrap... think about all the plastics we have used in our lifetimes. One person I know refuses to buy or eat anything that's in plastic. I have an article on it somewhere if anyone's interested (yes, Red_EL, in one of my hippie mags!).
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Hrmmm... just thinking from an SA perspective... they finish brewing coopers in the bottle, i'd say that'd be kinda shyte in plastic... I meeeeAn HeEEy, i'vE alllLLllwayyYz uSEddd pwASticS aNd i TttTTturNeD oUt juuuUUsssTt fINe.... :
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The plastics are some of the more stable materials on the planet. Why do you think their disposal re-cycling is of such concern. Re-use is discouraged because bottles are unlikey to be thoroughly washed at all times and particularly with people drinking directly from the bottles there is a hightened risk for harbouring bacteria. E-coli etc.. |
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PVC bottles do not leach compounds into what they carry, they are as inert as a Politician on a Sunday afternoon. One of their only drawbacks is they let free oxygen pass through them, while they can keep C02 in, I know this because I'm a brewer. Long term storage of fluids in PVC bottles is not a good idea if the fluid can be affected or contaminated by free oxygen(IE anything with yeast or with no preservatives present). Also as red has said, the reason they dont want us re-using their poptops is twofold. One is lawsuits from baceteria building up in the poptop mechanism(which is stupid but it is their reasoning), the other is because they want you to buy more of their poptops. Recycling, is BAD for PROFIT. Companies dont give a crap about you health, only cost.
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Dont know the reason or anything, but I can easily tell the difference of Coke or Red Bull in a can, compared to the ones in the glass bottle...glass bottle always tastes better, no idea why!
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I can't see bourbon & coke doing well in a (wine cask) bladder! Unless you want it to expand from wine cask size to beach ball size (assuming teh bladder is elastic) as soon as it is shaken...
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Bah you're insane! V and Red Bull and Coke taste assloads better from a can! This calls for a poll.... ah stuff it. |
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Coke tastes way better from a can I reckon, beer tastes worse. I won't drink tinnies unless I'm half ****ed and it's free.
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dont go there, last week i drank a apple juice that had me thinking ???????????? berry must have had a bad day at the plant.
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