This has always baffled me.

I don’t think it’s a recycling mark. I remember noticing the West Virginia silhouette since I was a kid, with a number inside, and sometimes it wasn’t the number one. I grew up in western Pennsylvania, with West Virginia about an hour and a half away by car, so I figured that must have something to do with it.

I don’t drink much pop these days, and I live in New Jersey now. I should go to the supermarket and investigate, though, just to see if West Virginia is there or if they use Delaware or Vermont or some other state in these parts.

By the way, I was a kid in the 1970s, so West Viriginia has been appearing on the cans since at least then. But this is something I’ve always wanted to know, myself.

I’m from Massachusetts, and West Virginia (and no other state) has been on cans since the eighties. But looking at the Coke can in my hand now, there’s nothing. I wonder if they left off doing that? I always assumed it was West Virginia aluminum that went into the cans…

Um, Chance, this thread, called West Virginia on Cola, was started just 5 days before you started this thread; it’s like an inch and a half away from it on the General Questions content page, on my screen. Try the search enginge before you start a new thread.

Yeah, unless I miss my guess, Chance meant this post as a reply to the West Virginia thread, but hit “new thread” by mistake.

I’ll go ahead and close this one up.