# Does beer or pop taste better in a glass bottle? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 8, 2004, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-beer-or-pop-taste-better-in-a-glass-bottle/254086 "2004-07-08T07:34:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skully)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-beer-or-pop-taste-better-in-a-glass-bottle/254086/21 "2004-07-09T05:23:06Z")
For some reason Pepsi taste better in a can than in a plastic bottle. Coke taste better in plastic IMO. I think it is because pepsi looks retarded in the plastic bottle. Blue and black don’t go well. But I don’t know if I do not like the color cause the drink taste bad or I don’t like the drink because of the color. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-beer-or-pop-taste-better-in-a-glass-bottle/254086/22 "2004-07-09T05:28:40Z")
Anyone who drinks beer from a bottle or a can is a lost cause, since the only proper container is a stein. Of course, they’re probably drinking Bud or Coors, which isn’t really beer anyway… ---
**Author:** ![YWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6f9a4e/32.png) [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-beer-or-pop-taste-better-in-a-glass-bottle/254086/23 "2004-07-09T15:12:13Z")
This is opinion, not fact. My favorite soft drink is [Cheerwine](http://www.cheerwine.com/), a regional beverage found mostly around the Carolinas. Cheerwine is a VERY fizzy and sweet soft drink. I always found that the glass bottles kept the fizziness in better, and had a superior quality to that served in either cans or plastic bottles. The 16 oz glass bottle kept in the bottom of a chest cooler that is so cold that the beverage is just beginning to freeze is the optimum way to serve Cheerwine. As for ketchup — I hate the plastic bottles. At one point, I even wrote to Heinz to complain about it, because the ketchup in the plastic bottles tended to collect water on the top, and the first sploosh out of a plastic bottle always ended up soaking your bread with water before the ketchup came out. They wrote me back saying that they’d never heard anything like that before. Then a couple of months later, they started selling it in plastic bottles with a “new, improved cap” that was supposed to prevent the drip of water (that never existed, according to them.) It’s improved the situation, but I still shake the bottle, and tend to aim my first sploosh of ketchup into the trash instead of onto my bread, because water soaked bread is just gross. ---
**Author:** ![Lips\_Obsession](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbce88/32.png) [@Lips\_Obsession](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lips_Obsession)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-beer-or-pop-taste-better-in-a-glass-bottle/254086/24 "2004-07-09T20:37:35Z")
> [@picker](#): > > Hey **duffer** - what are Canfields? **duffer** , Canfield’s is a regional brand of soda. I used to get it when I lived in Chicago. Not sure if they’re just in Chicago, or further in the midwest. They were famous for having “odd” flavored sodas, besides the standard fare. I can remember flavors like “Chocolate Fudge”, “Bubble Gum”, and other odd flavors. Some of them weren’t too bad. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-beer-or-pop-taste-better-in-a-glass-bottle/254086/25 "2004-07-09T21:28:21Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Yup, they were returnable. Adults got the Coke, us kids got the Canfield’s. Good times. Slight hijack, but: Irn Bru (British Soft Drink) still comes in glass bottles that are returnable. Up till a few years ago we had a small van drive around our area stopping like an ice cream van where you could buy glass bottles of pop and return the empties. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-beer-or-pop-taste-better-in-a-glass-bottle/254086.md?page=1)