# I pit the Coca-Cola company **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224 "2007-02-07T17:05:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/21 "2007-02-07T19:07:00Z")
[QUOTE=friedo] Where? In addition to keeping the beverage cold longer, glass has no taste, whereas I can easily taste the plastic when drinking directly from a bottle. Thus, drinking Coke from a glass bottle is a superior experience to doing so from a plastic bottle. But if you’re going to pour it into something then the point is moot. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I’d say Coke poured into a glass is pretty much the same no matter what it was bottled in. Drinking it directly out of the bottle is a different story. You CAN taste the plastic, but that’s because it’s touching your mouth! By far my favorite way to drink Coke (and I drink a lot of it) is from a good fountain, like at McDonald’s, with just the right amount of ice and a straw. It’s making me thirsty just to think about it. But glass bottles are a close second. Cans are ok (that’s how I drink it at home, right out of the can), and plastic bottles are a last resort. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/22 "2007-02-07T19:30:36Z")
[QUOTE=ralph124c] Is RC Cola still in business? haven’t seen it in years. [/QUOTE] It’s still around. Tastes the same as it always did. I like it the best of the colas. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/23 "2007-02-07T19:50:28Z")
Right now I have three tall glass bottles of Coke with real sugar chilling in my fridge. Where I got 'em: the Mexican food aisle of my local Wal-Mart. They cost a bit more (about a buck a bottle), but it’s worth it. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/24 "2007-02-07T19:55:04Z")
I noticed that on the long elaborate commerical they had showing the trippy Rube Goldberg path the coin and the cola have before the cola fills the **glass** bottle with the **metal cap** in the vending machine. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbOLjfKqE5s) What coin is that? It can’t be a quarter… ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/25 "2007-02-07T20:05:03Z")
[QUOTE=Jackmannii] Mr. Beverage Skeptic would like to know if there have been any double-blinded taste tests involving Coke in glass and plastic bottles. The glass bottles were nice to hold, but better at preserving flavor? [/QUOTE] Sir? You can’t do a double-blind test of Coke using plastic and glass bottles. Unless your samples are complete morons, they will be able to tell instantly that one of the beverages is in a cold glass bottle and one of them is in an inferior plastic bottle. If you pour both of them out into glass cups, you won’t be able to tell the difference, because the product is the same, it’s just a different container. The difference is that the cool, smooth opening of the glass bottle feels so much better on your tongue and lips than the scratchy rough edge of the plastic bottles. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/26 "2007-02-07T20:11:11Z")
Of course, the point is moot since carbonated soda is just a bunch of nasty fizzy tooth decay, whether it comes in a glass bottle or a plastic one. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/27 "2007-02-07T20:20:43Z")
…and then the polar bears jumps in the water, killed the seal, dragged its carcass onto the ice floe and ate it, while enjoying a nice refreshing Coke. -my preferred ending for a Coke commercial that’s been around for some time. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/28 "2007-02-07T20:37:28Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] If there is a Mexican market in your vicinity, chances are you can find Coke in a bottle. Made with real sugar. Divine. [/QUOTE] Was just coming here to mention that. There’s a mom-and-pop store about 2 blocks from my friends’ house that sells 'em. Hispanic-run… ANd of course, I can’t drink coke anymore. Ah, the unfair-manity. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/29 "2007-02-07T20:51:01Z")
[QUOTE=Jackmannii] Mr. Beverage Skeptic would like to know if there have been any double-blinded taste tests involving Coke in glass and plastic bottles. The glass bottles were nice to hold, but better at preserving flavor? [/QUOTE] I was part of a small blind test that compared Coke from a Glass Bottle with Sugar, to normal Coke from a 2 liter bottle with cornsyrup to Pepsi and Jolt Cola as a wild card. The test had 83 participants. Short of the hundred hoped for. Coke from the Glass Bottle made with Sugar was the favored Cola in over half the test. Pepsi and Jolt split the rest of the votes with Coke from the 2-liter bottle getting only 5 votes. That stood out pretty well in my mind. Only 5 out of 83. I got surprised when I picked the Coke from the Glass Bottle. I preferred Jolt to Coke at the time and I expected to pick it. I do not drink Cola anymore but when I did, my preferred drink was actually Jolt or RC stored in the Freezer long enough to almost be a ‘slushee’. Jim ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/30 "2007-02-07T21:22:07Z")
I saw a bunch of the Cokes in glass bottles being sold in bulk at BJs. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/31 "2007-02-07T22:44:13Z")
[QUOTE=Jackmannii] Mr. Beverage Skeptic would like to know if there have been any double-blinded taste tests involving Coke in glass and plastic bottles. The glass bottles were nice to hold, but better at preserving flavor? [/QUOTE] It’s an absolute fact, Jack, that glass kicks ass. If chilled is your thing, the glass has more thermal mass and is a better insulator. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/32 "2007-02-07T22:58:17Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] If there is a Mexican market in your vicinity, chances are you can find Coke in a bottle. Made with real sugar. Divine. [/QUOTE] Not necessarily. After reading, on the SDMB, about the Coke made with sugar and bottled in Mexico, I picked up a half-dozen bottles at a local grocery store (with a fantastic Mexican food section). The taste was okay (although I’m not a big enough Coke fan to tell the difference), but since drinking it out of a glass bottle was a fun novelty, I went back in a couple of weeks to get some more. This time, all of the bottles saying “Hecho en Mexico” had new labels slapped on to them. The smaller bottles declared that the Coke inside was made with high fructose corn syrup, and the larger bottles claimed their liquid was made with real sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup. Ultimately, it still tasted like the stuff I bought the last time; which, in turn, didn’t taste too different from the usual Coke. So, I’m not sure if the previous batch of bottles was supposed to have those labels and didn’t, or if the manufacturing down south is changing. I’m kind of hooked on the Sprite in a bottle, though. Good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/33 "2007-02-07T23:50:13Z")
> [@crazyjoe](#): > > I have lamented the loss of the glass bottle for years now. Coke tasted much better when sipped through the ice cold neck of a properly chilled bottle. This plastic? Complete shit. > > So fuck you, Coca-Cola, for continuing to rub in our faces the fact that you know that the glass bottles were better (why else use them in your advertising), but refusing to sell them to us. I can get Coke in bottles at an Albertson’s some six miles away. It’s right next to all the other soda. > [@Autumn Almanac](#): > > The real reason Coca-Cola deserves to be pitted is the discontinuation of Vanilla Coke, their best product. [Vanilla flavoring syrup](http://www.torani.com/find/online.shtml) is easier to find than Coke in glass bottles. Get a syrup pump and add three pumps to 12 oz. of Coke and you’ve got Vanilla Coke. If you do happen upon a Mexican grocery store (or, hell, an Albertsons in an area with a high Mexican population–see above), do yourself a favor and pick up some Sidral Mundet. It’s a Mexican apple soda that goes great by itself or as a mixer. > [@Sarahfeena](#): > > By far my favorite way to drink Coke (and I drink a lot of it) is from a good fountain, like at McDonald’s, with just the right amount of ice and a straw. Considering that those soda fountains just run a carbonated water pump into a tank of water and pour out the resulting club soda with flavoring syrup, I’ve always wondered if you could get the syrup wholesale and make your own Coke by mixing the stuff with club soda at home. BTW–people _like_ RC Cola? WTF? ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/34 "2007-02-08T00:08:28Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] By far my favorite way to drink Coke (and I drink a lot of it) is from a good fountain. [/QUOTE] Yet more evidence that you conservatives are batshit crazy. I consider myself a bit of a coke fancier ([evidence seen here](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/maxthevool/detail?.dir=5071&.dnm=221e.jpg&.src=ph)), and I avoid fountain soda like the plague, because the mixture is so often wrong. Who do I trust more, some schlub at Mickey D’s or the Coca Cola bottling plant? ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/35 "2007-02-08T01:36:26Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] Considering that those soda fountains just run a carbonated water pump into a tank of water and pour out the resulting club soda with flavoring syrup, I’ve always wondered if you could get the syrup wholesale and make your own Coke by mixing the stuff with club soda at home. [/QUOTE] I’ve seen them available at Sam’s Club a year or so back. I’m sure that warehouse club style businesses will sell them, but you’d still have to have the hookups for the carbonated water setup. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/36 "2007-02-08T01:40:31Z")
[QUOTE=MaxTheVool] Yet more evidence that you conservatives are batshit crazy. I consider myself a bit of a coke fancier ([evidence seen here](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/maxthevool/detail?.dir=5071&.dnm=221e.jpg&.src=ph)), and I avoid fountain soda like the plague, because the mixture is so often wrong. Who do I trust more, some schlub at Mickey D’s or the Coca Cola bottling plant? [/QUOTE] Hee hee…am I batshit crazy for being a conservative, or for liking fountain Coke? And are the two linked somehow??? I am also what you might call a Coke fancier…I avoid Pepsi if I possibly can! I completely agree that a Coke that is mixed wrong is the worst…but because of this I rely heavily on McDonald’s for them. Coke maintains the machines themselves, and they really take care of McDonald’s, since they are such a big client. I almost never get a bad Coke from there. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/37 "2007-02-08T01:42:09Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > I consider myself a bit of a coke fancier (evidence seen here), and I avoid fountain soda like the plague, because the mixture is so often wrong. 'At’s why she specified drinking it from a **good** fountain, you illiterate commie. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/38 "2007-02-08T01:42:59Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] Considering that those soda fountains just run a carbonated water pump into a tank of water and pour out the resulting club soda with flavoring syrup, I’ve always wondered if you could get the syrup wholesale and make your own Coke by mixing the stuff with club soda at home. [/QUOTE] I don’t know…for one thing, I doubt you could get the syrup, and for another, I’m not sure if what it is mixed with is just club soda. Anyone else know what the fizzy part of it is? Interesting thought, though…if I could get a Coke fountain installed in my house, I would do it in a minute. Mmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/39 "2007-02-08T01:43:30Z")
[QUOTE=nashiitashii] I’ve seen them available at Sam’s Club a year or so back. I’m sure that warehouse club style businesses will sell them, but you’d still have to have the hookups for the carbonated water setup. [/QUOTE] Or buy club soda… ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224/40 "2007-02-08T01:44:53Z")
> [@Sarahfeena](#): > > Anyone else know what the fizzy part of it is? Carbonated water, aka club soda. I make soda at work all the time. What do you suppose they _could_ mix it with? All the flavor is in the syrup. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-coca-cola-company/391224.md?page=3)