# Bottle Cap Says I Win A 20 Ounce Drink..... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 6, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bottle-cap-says-i-win-a-20-ounce-drink/186518 "2003-07-06T05:23:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bottle-cap-says-i-win-a-20-ounce-drink/186518/1 "2003-07-06T05:23:38Z")
…but the grocery store where I bought the **Diet Pepsi** in the first place won’t honor it: “Oh we’re not particiipating in that!” Huh? You sell the product you bought from the distributor and you’re not participating? Has this happened to y’all and am I missing some small print on the bottle cap or something? This is a major supermarket chain here in Georgia called **Ingles** , BTW. Thanks Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bottle-cap-says-i-win-a-20-ounce-drink/186518/2 "2003-07-06T05:50:41Z")
Yo, Q, just bust out their front window! Maybe they’ll consider the economic alternatives. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bottle-cap-says-i-win-a-20-ounce-drink/186518/3 "2003-07-06T05:55:14Z")
We tried to redeem one at Kroger, it involved talking to a manager, etc. The Quick-E-Marts and such are much better at redeeming 'em. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bottle-cap-says-i-win-a-20-ounce-drink/186518/4 "2003-07-06T06:00:30Z")
I won a $100.00 once from a Mountin Dew cap.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![skyzoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@skyzoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skyzoo)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bottle-cap-says-i-win-a-20-ounce-drink/186518/5 "2003-07-06T06:29:23Z")
Earlier this year, I won some french fries from a fast food chain, and they wouldn’t honor _their very own franchises claim!!!_ The manager explained that they were protesting anything with _French_ in it and, offered me a fried apple pie in replacement. ? non mérci! ☹ I feel safer not mentioning what Churches these people cook Chicken at (in Texas somewhere as might as well curb it before…uh-oh happens) _uh—oh_ ---
**Author:** ![teleute12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@teleute12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teleute12)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bottle-cap-says-i-win-a-20-ounce-drink/186518/6 "2003-07-06T09:56:20Z")
Do they still have the little tabs on the side of soda cups, where you get a code or something free? One year I was working at Taco Bell during that promotion, and the policy was that if a stack of cups fell on the floor, you had to throw them all away. I collected soooooooo many of those little code thingies. I got a free CD out of it, too! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bottle-cap-says-i-win-a-20-ounce-drink/186518/7 "2003-07-06T12:07:19Z")
No hablo **Ingles**. 😃