# New Package for Coke - brought back many childhood memories. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** soda-softdrinks\ **Created:** [April 4, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779 "2012-04-04T04:45:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/1 "2012-04-04T04:45:13Z")
I was at Home Depot and they had a rack of Cokes in real glass bottles. Labeled Medio Litro, it says its 500ml (16.9 oz). I put that bad boy in the freezer for half and hour. OMG! I haven’t tasted Coke from a Glass bottle in 20 years. That sucker went down so smooth and good. I grew up drinking Coke from Glass bottles. I’ve always insisted they tasted better. They have more Carbonation. For years I bought bottles instead of aluminum cans. But, eventually cans or plastic bottles were the only choice. Hurray for Glass!!! I need to search around and find someplace that sells these by the case. Do yourself a favor and find these. Try one for yourself and see how much better they taste. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/2 "2012-04-04T04:46:58Z")
Our local Costcos in Vegas sell Coca-Cola bottled in Mexico. Glass bottles & real sugar. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/3 "2012-04-04T04:50:02Z")
Almost forgot, you need a Church Key (bottle opener) for these Cokes. No Screw top. Another reason I’m certain this Coke has more Carbonation, just like they used to 25 years ago. Screw tops can’t handle the higher Carbonation. They had to reduce it so the screw tops wouldn’t pop off in shipment. ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/4 "2012-04-04T05:06:58Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I was at Home Depot and they had a rack of Cokes in real glass bottles. Labeled Medio Litro, it says its 500ml (16.9 oz). > > I put that bad boy in the freezer for half and hour. OMG! I haven’t tasted Coke from a Glass bottle in 20 years. That sucker went down so smooth and good. > > I grew up drinking Coke from Glass bottles. I’ve always insisted they tasted better. They have more Carbonation. For years I bought bottles instead of aluminum cans. But, eventually cans or plastic bottles were the only choice. > > Hurray for Glass!!! I need to search around and find someplace that sells these by the case. > > Do yourself a favor and find these. Try one for yourself and see how much better they taste. They taste better because they’re Mexican Cokes, and they use real sugar, not corn syrup. Not because of the glass (or at least, that’s a much lesser reason). ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/5 "2012-04-04T06:26:20Z")
I’ve heard this many times before. Has anyone out there done a blind taste test to see if it holds up? Both the sugar/HFCS and the glass bottle difference. Not doubting, just wondering if it’s the flavour of nostalgia. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/6 "2012-04-04T06:43:29Z")
I just checked the bottle and you’re right. Real sugar. 😉 No wonder this drink made me feel like I was 12 again. 😉 First time I had real, authentic Coke since Junior High. What a head rush. 😛 To fully appreciate the difference you have to be old enough to remember real, Coke with Sugar. When you spent most of your childhood drinking it then you never forget that taste. Coke switched to HFCS and forced all of us to accept it for the past 30 years. We always knew we weren’t getting the real taste anymore. > [@magnusblitz](#): > > They taste better because they’re Mexican Cokes, and they use real sugar, not corn syrup. Not because of the glass (or at least, that’s a much lesser reason). ---
**Author:** ![Pitchmeister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pitchmeister/32/3459_2.png) [@Pitchmeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pitchmeister)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/7 "2012-04-04T06:44:04Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > I’ve heard this many times before. Has anyone out there done a blind taste test to see if it holds up? Both the sugar/HFCS and the glass bottle difference. > > Not doubting, just wondering if it’s the flavour of nostalgia. It would be pretty hard to do a blind test between glass bottles and a can - I don’t think anyone is arguing that the actual coke tastes that much different, but obviously the mouth feel is the bigger factor here. I also prefer glass bottles to cans, but I don’t think I could tell them apart by drinking out of a glass. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/8 "2012-04-04T07:32:59Z")
I do a blind taste test every time I visit the U.S. It goes something like this: 1. Buy Coke. 2. Take a sip. 3. Spit it out. 4. Think: “What the hell is wrong with this Coke?” 5. Think: “Oh, yeah - corn syrup. Damn it.” 6. Throw Coke away. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/9 "2012-04-04T08:14:44Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > I’ve heard this many times before. Has anyone out there done a blind taste test to see if it holds up? Both the sugar/HFCS and the glass bottle difference. > > Not doubting, just wondering if it’s the flavour of nostalgia. I personally am too young to have any real memory of what Coke tasted like before it was made with corn syrup. (I have vague memories of New Coke when I was about 2-3 years old.) To me, Mexican Coke seems to be more “drinkable” than American Coke - it’s smoother and a bit milder and easier to “chug”. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/10 "2012-04-04T10:56:09Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I do a blind taste test every time I visit the U.S. It goes something like this: > > 1. Buy Coke. > > 2. Take a sip. > > 3. Spit it out. > > 4. Think: “What the hell is wrong with this Coke?” > > 5. Think: “Oh, yeah - corn syrup. Damn it.” > > 6. Throw Coke away. This is why I switched to DrPepper since moving to the US. I grew up with real-sugar Canadian Coke, and the stuff here tastes weird. Oddly, fountain Coke is usually fine. I should go buy the glass-bottled Mexican Coke they have at Costco, but then I’ll have 24 bottles of Coke begging me to drink them and I’m not sure my blood sugar can handle the jolt. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/11 "2012-04-04T11:18:45Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I just checked the bottle and you’re right. Real sugar. 😉 > > No wonder this drink made me feel like I was 12 again. 😉 First time I had real, authentic Coke since Junior High. What a head rush. 😛 > > To fully appreciate the difference you have to be old enough to remember real, Coke with Sugar. When you spent most of your childhood drinking it then you never forget that taste. Coke switched to HFCS and forced all of us to accept it for the past 30 years. We always knew we weren’t getting the real taste anymore. In other words, you have to be old enough where you don’t actually remember what it tasted like. Human senses are extraordinarily easy to fool. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/12 "2012-04-04T11:27:01Z")
I don’t have nostalgia for the bottles because I remember what a pain it was to haul all those empty heavy bottles back to the store. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/13 "2012-04-04T15:13:47Z")
When I was young, the small glass Coke bottles (6.5 oz) with real sugar that came in a six pack metal carrier were always in our house. I remember that when, in the late 50’s, the larger size glass Coke bottles (10 oz.) were introduced (probably called King Size, back then) my Mom, an avid Coca Cola drinker swore that they weren’t as ‘strong’. I don’t know if she meant flavor, sugar, carbonation or all three, but she sincerely believed the original smaller size bottle contained a better drink. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/14 "2012-04-04T16:49:51Z")
When I was about 8 or 9 we would ride our bikes to a local retirement home and sneak in the front door where there was a Coke machine many probably don’t remember. It was like a freezer where you lifted the lid, put in the money, and slid a Coke out of the contraption (hard to describe). The reason we went there was it was still only a nickel! Even for us kids, that was cheap! (Normally about 25 cents or so for a bottle back then.) And yes, it was the “old” Coke with real sugar but the small bottles. Just enough for a kid that age, and just about the right price for a kid that age then. We got caught, but the director of the retirement home told us we could keep coming there but had to drink the cola there and leave the bottle. Now I am a Diet Coke addict and really do like the taste better than the current “real” Coke, but I might like to try one of those Mexican Cokes. They sell them at our Walmart, but quite pricey for a small bottle. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/15 "2012-04-04T17:12:39Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > When I was about 8 or 9 we would ride our bikes to a local retirement home and sneak in the front door where there was a Coke machine many probably don’t remember. > It was like a freezer where you lifted the lid, put in the money, and slid a Coke out of the contraption (hard to describe). > The reason we went there was it was still only a nickel! > Even for us kids, that was cheap! (Normally about 25 cents or so for a bottle back then.) > And yes, it was the “old” Coke with real sugar but the small bottles. Just enough for a kid that age, and just about the right price for a kid that age then. > > We got caught, but the director of the retirement home told us we could keep coming there but had to drink the cola there and leave the bottle. > > Now I am a Diet Coke addict and really do like the taste better than the current “real” Coke, but I might like to try one of those Mexican Cokes. They sell them at our Walmart, but quite pricey for a small bottle. You’re referring to [this](http://www.vintagevending.com/coca-cola-glasco-gbv-50-starlet-soda-machine), right? Memories, memories . . . One other kind I remember from the same era is [this](http://soda-machines.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=559&Itemid=14). I particularly recall how hard it was for a little feller to turn the [expletive deleted] crank — but I wanted that Coke! ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/16 "2012-04-04T17:30:42Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > You’re referring to [this](http://www.vintagevending.com/coca-cola-glasco-gbv-50-starlet-soda-machine), right? > > Memories, memories . . . Yes! On a hot day, it was great just to lift that lid and feel the cool air come out while you eagerly moved that bottle to drop. Wow - seeing it brings back lots of memories of being a kid again…sigh. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/17 "2012-04-04T18:31:21Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > I don’t have nostalgia for the bottles because I remember what a pain it was to haul all those empty heavy bottles back to the store. Was that uphill (both ways!), barefoot, in the snow? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/18 "2012-04-04T19:33:00Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I grew up drinking Coke from Glass bottles. I’ve always insisted they tasted better. They have more Carbonation. I commend your Artful Use of Capitalization to enhance the Nostalgia. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/19 "2012-04-04T19:48:00Z")
I love coke in a glass bottle, and I remember drinking them when they were readily available everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779/20 "2012-04-04T20:01:02Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > I’ve heard this many times before. Has anyone out there done a blind taste test to see if it holds up? Both the sugar/HFCS and the glass bottle difference. > > Not doubting, just wondering if it’s the flavour of nostalgia. Yes. Coke made with sugar doesn’t have the cloying mouthfeel of HFCS Coke. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-package-for-coke-brought-back-many-childhood-memories/617779.md?page=2)