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.
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.
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.
…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.
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’.
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.
I can get Coke in bottles at an Albertson’s some six miles away. It’s right next to all the other soda.
Vanilla flavoring syrup 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.
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.
Yet more evidence that you conservatives are batshit crazy.
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. Who do I trust more, some schlub at Mickey D’s or the Coca Cola bottling plant?
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.
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.
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.
