I love your product. Really, I do. I like it so much I buy the gallon size. I could make my own iced tea for a fraction of the cost by getting the powdered stuff, but I don’t. I like your tea the best, and am a loyal customer.
And I appreciate how you go to seemingly great lengths to give me the most bang for my buck by filling up the gallon jug as much as possible.
Um, but…
You fill it up TOO MUCH. There is no airspace whatsoever because the liquid is pressing against the cap. If one shakes the bottle prior to opening, nothing happens because there’s no extra room for the tea to slosh around.
This means that that the act of merely unscrewing the cap causes a tea river to flow down the side of the jug. And onto my countertop. And floor. And area rug. And cat (she’s licking herself clean right now).
How is this even possible when mass producing something? How can you overfill a bottle so much that it spills just by opening it?
So look - I appreciate the effort, but please give me an ounce or so LESS iced tea.
I too love me some Arizona Tea. The OP is correct, it’s so full it’s impossible to open without spillage. I learned the first time though, always open it over the sink.
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Open it while holding it. the bumps on the bottom of the container push up when it sits on the counter, displacing a few ccs of fluid. If you hold it, the bottom flexes and no over flow.
I agree with the OP but I don’t splurge on the Arizona Iced tea that much so I forget every time about the impending spillage and do not remember to open it over the sink. I think my cats have missed the tea river but I’m pretty sure I got the dog once.
Can I throw in a complaint to the V-8 guys? You need to shake up the V-8 before you drink it but there is only the teensiest of air bubbles in the new bottle, if there’s any at all, and you have to cautiously swirl the tiny air bubble all around the bottle in order to mix up the juice. Sure you could open it, pour out a little into a glass, put the cap back on and then shake it but that’s too much work.
I wonder if maybe the tea is bottled at a higher elevation than you? So it comes down to the low-lands, and the high pressure pushes on the bottle making it “fuller,” as it were.
Okay I understand about the bottle being too full to open without spilling. But why do you think it can’t be mixed by shaking without air in the container?
So, you think that someone who can’t open a giant vat of tea without stickyfing their cat should spend a few minutes doing a vigourous wardance around their kitchen with said vat of tea in order to mix it?
Perhaps I’m one of life’s pessimists, but I can’t help but think that might be tempting fate a little. Having seen what can be achieved in a kitchen by such minor errors as dropping a bottle of ketchup, I think Mach Tuck should do this outside, if at all. Or buy a showercap for the cat.
