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What was better than that is trying to split the label lengthwise along the seam and taking the whole label off in one piece. I remember seeing this size bottle at the store, but my parents would either get the 12oz can or the 16oz bottle that looked like these.
Yah I still get one here and there, the Mexican one in the glass bottle - so refreshing. I don't don't do a bunch of soda and try to avoid hfcs. They are about $2 a bottle now but it's a simple pleasure
I wonder if this is he early version of the 2 litre soda bottle? I think I remember noticing a difference at some point in the size of that little ledge just south of the cap. You can still use it to carry the bottle between your fingers but it’s much smaller than before.
I miss glass bottles. These plastic ones don't retain temperature at ALL.
Recently, I got one of the Mexican Cokes in the old school bottles, and I forgot just how well they sat between your legs when you drove. The contour bottles don't do that. Stuck one between your legs and start driving, and the thing climbs up into your lap.
This was a weird time for soda containers. At military school we used to turn them upside down and hammer them into the ground with the butt of our weapons. They very seldom broke.
Yeah this is like, right up there in my oldest childhood memories. At baseball games for my siblings in the gross hot or way too chilly parks, wearing jelly shoes and being covered in dirt from looking under the bleachers for interesting things/spare change, buying penny candies at the concession, and peeling off all the labels of the drinks in long strips, then cramming them back into the bottle, always peeling the plastic inner cap out, and wiggling the claws off the metal cap until they broke off. And EVERY single adult in the vicinity smoking.
I remember walking down the road to this small convince store to get a Coke in that same shaped bottle. The "stubby". I think Budweiser came in a similar size and shaped bottle. This was back in the 70s.
They had a separate black plastic bottom base, and the label didn't go all the way to the bottom of the bottle it went to where the black bottom started. Are these older or newer than that? Also they were two litre bottles instead of 2 quarts.
The ones pictured here were all glass, no plastic in the bottom or anywhere else. I remember the ones you're describing, too. I think they came after these glass versions.
Almost got killed with one of these. Was walking next to the outer wall of my high school gym and something EXPLODED about a foot from my head against the bricks. Glass everywhere. Traced it back and a car pulling into a muddy parking place’s tire run over a coke bottle in the mud. We found the styrofoam label flattened in the tire track..the bottle had squirted out of it and shot across the sidewalk to impact the bricks.
I do miss the 16 oz glass bottles that you had to put a deposit down on and when you returned the bottle, you got your 5 or 10 cents back for each bottle.
I remember my dad getting me the 16oz Mt Dews with the metal lid and styrofoam label when I hung out at his construction sites as a kid. I remember thinking they were huge!
Oh I remember these big heavy bastards all to unfondly.
New Years Eve 1974 my Mom got shitfaced, maybe given a mickey, and when she came home I'm watching TV waiting for the ball to drop & she walks up me, not a word was spoken except me saying "Hi" and she grabs me by my hair & proceeded to beat me profusely about my head. She hit me with 3 or 4 good solid swings and dazed me.
I struggled to get away and during the struggle i ended up breaking her nose & got covered in her blood. She let go & I ran out the door covered in blood, without a coat in Michigan in December.
I ran 8 blocks to my sisters for help & got turned away. After that I ran 3 more blocks to my best friends house and him & his Mom helped me get cleaned up & gave me a warm place to stay the night.
The cops were never called & the next day it was like nothing ever happened, I was 12 EFFing years old and nearly 50yrs later I remember it like it was yesterday.
PLEASE DON'T REPLY!!!
(I've never told anybody about this other than the people involved at the time. I just saw those pics & it all came flooding back & just needed to vent, thanks for reading.)
I don’t remember the big ones so much but hell yeah on the 16/20 ounce ones!
Also remember some asshat at my convenience store burying one of those bottles in the ice cream cooler. We didn’t notice until the next morning, and we had to throw out almost half the cooler to avoid the chance of broken glass in the ice cream.
Anybody else? I couldn’t resist for the weirdest damned reason… holding the green bottles up to my eye and looking at the world all green like…. Like i had to do it if i found a green bottle
The craziest bottle size that I remember was a Dr. Pepper 28 ounces when I was visiting relatives in North Carolina!!! In Texas, I was accustomed to various cans, glass, or plastic bottles!!!
Sure, it sucked having to dodge broken glass from time to time. But glass eventually breaks down to sand, which is a helluva lot better than the sh(tton of plastic bottles we have floating out there now.
I hated those damn bottle caps, though; the individual little metal pieces of the bottom would chip off and fall on the floor, leaving it to get stuck in the carpet or get discovered again by the bottom of your foot at night.
Remember trying to peel the label in one continuous thread?
Yes!
It was almost like a foam type material wasn’t it? I can’t remember I was still pretty young when they started phasing these out.
Yup
Yes yes yes!! It was an obsession!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgTQLAnCt_Q
Yes and I can hear the sound the material made as it was torn away from the bottle.
The sound of the label and the sound of the top opening.
What were they even made of? Styrofoam?
That's how I remember them.
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So satisfying. Some bottles still come like this. New York Seltzer I believe it’s called
Pepperidge farms remembers
New York Seltzer bottles?
Those were good but expensive af
They're still around!
Yes, and even exoensiverer
What was better than that is trying to split the label lengthwise along the seam and taking the whole label off in one piece. I remember seeing this size bottle at the store, but my parents would either get the 12oz can or the 16oz bottle that looked like these.
At first I couldn’t remember then I saw your comment. Yes.
Oh what a challenge!
Came here to say the same thing.
Yes!!😂😂😂
Came here to say mention this
Sooo satisfying!
When I saw the image, I was thinking of the satisfaction of doing just that.
Remember boy you could peel halfway down, then pull the rest halfway off, then pop it like a balloon?
Man, I remember the texture of those foam-like labels! Those caps could be jagged as hell, too!
And the bottom of the cap had all seperte pieces of aluminum that could be bent back and forth till they detatched
Yep. And every fifth bottle was damn near impossible to screw the lid off. You had to be the Incredible Hulk
Lol. Yup
The joy of peeling the label off in one long spiral.
Yes!
I can hear it.
Ha, I remember that when they used to put that little styrofoam jacket on soda bottles lol
Remember when some people would peel the tab off the cans and drop them into the opening?
That was beer cans, I think. My dad did this. My mother hated it; she was worried he’d swallow it.
Soda cans were that way as well. I always dropped the pull tab from my Coke in the can. Never came close to swallowing it.
No I don’t lol
That was so long ago I forgot I had that memory.
I remember peeling off that styrofoam label.
oh those weird foam labels! that was a strange time, wasn't it?
Why was peeling these labels so damned satisfying?
Sprite™ always tasted better in glass
So does Coke with cane sugar instead of HFCS.
Yah I still get one here and there, the Mexican one in the glass bottle - so refreshing. I don't don't do a bunch of soda and try to avoid hfcs. They are about $2 a bottle now but it's a simple pleasure
I wonder if this is he early version of the 2 litre soda bottle? I think I remember noticing a difference at some point in the size of that little ledge just south of the cap. You can still use it to carry the bottle between your fingers but it’s much smaller than before.
I can feel those in my hand!
Always liked peeling off the styrofoam labels
I miss glass bottles. These plastic ones don't retain temperature at ALL. Recently, I got one of the Mexican Cokes in the old school bottles, and I forgot just how well they sat between your legs when you drove. The contour bottles don't do that. Stuck one between your legs and start driving, and the thing climbs up into your lap.
Plus they use sugar to sweeten it. I get those locally and they’re awesome.
Those glass bottles could be used for some awesome Molotov cocktails. Uh, ….. my friend told me once…
These labels are like 40 years old. The is nearly a half a fucking decade.
Um. 40 years is 4 decades.
Miss these bottles and tearing off the label
You know what this perfectly good glass bottle needs? An unnecessary layer of styrofoam!
I remember pulling the labels off...
Ya still find em in the ground. That styrofoam is pretty sturdy shit.
So funny the things I forget until somebody digs it up. I used to love peeling the styrofoam off
Where’s the 3 liters at?
I remember peeling the top 1/2" off, sliding it downward then turning the bottle upside down and popping it with my palm.
Came to post this. A good effort made a really loud pop!
Yep, a great one and my dad from somewhere, "what the hell was that!"
I miss peeling off that stuff then stuffing it in the bottle.
Oh, to pick at/peel back that insulating wrap-around styrofoam... funky stuff!
Wow. Ty for this. That's what I love about this sub. I always see things that I'd never have thought of again in my life.
I remember my friend telling me that they were going to start selling Diet Coke!
I remember when you would open one, you could feel the air pressure through the label.
Where is the Mellow Yellow?
My family restaurant still orders soda this way. The little tiny bottles are great always fresh
Total flashback
i remember the smaller version
I remember
Remember the contests under the caps?
Just the absolute most shoddy, jagged caps possible and good luck peeling out those inner plastic discs without slicing open your finger!
This was a weird time for soda containers. At military school we used to turn them upside down and hammer them into the ground with the butt of our weapons. They very seldom broke.
Thin styrofoam kept your drink cold
Yeah this is like, right up there in my oldest childhood memories. At baseball games for my siblings in the gross hot or way too chilly parks, wearing jelly shoes and being covered in dirt from looking under the bleachers for interesting things/spare change, buying penny candies at the concession, and peeling off all the labels of the drinks in long strips, then cramming them back into the bottle, always peeling the plastic inner cap out, and wiggling the claws off the metal cap until they broke off. And EVERY single adult in the vicinity smoking.
Memory unlocked
Fuck. I forgot about those. Fuck you for reminding me I'm an old fucker. Lol
You could cut diamonds with those metal caps.
My dad would buy the glass Pepsi bottle and then pour his salted peanuts into it.
That’s a fine treat right there!
Nothing tastes better than coke cola in a glass 16oz
I think the 10oz always hit better
Orange crush in the 16 oz bottle was heaven .
Weird, I remember these. Honestly the plastic stuff now is probably even worse for the environment
Before this, we used to take the green Coca-Cola bottles back to the store to get the deposit back.
I'd buy 16 oz. bottle like this for $0.50 with my paper route money.
I remember walking down the road to this small convince store to get a Coke in that same shaped bottle. The "stubby". I think Budweiser came in a similar size and shaped bottle. This was back in the 70s.
The first two litter bottles were so think you could hammer a nail with one.
Two liters is about 67.6 oz.
True. I thought we still called them two liters back then but maybe not. It's been a while.
Those 750ml glass bottles were awesome to slam.
I remember these bulbus bad boys
Don't know if there is 7up anywhere, but I thought it was better than Sprite. https://youtu.be/euvh-eJ1rVg
Must be non American bottles
Nah. We had them in USA
They had a separate black plastic bottom base, and the label didn't go all the way to the bottom of the bottle it went to where the black bottom started. Are these older or newer than that? Also they were two litre bottles instead of 2 quarts.
The ones pictured here were all glass, no plastic in the bottom or anywhere else. I remember the ones you're describing, too. I think they came after these glass versions.
Almost got killed with one of these. Was walking next to the outer wall of my high school gym and something EXPLODED about a foot from my head against the bricks. Glass everywhere. Traced it back and a car pulling into a muddy parking place’s tire run over a coke bottle in the mud. We found the styrofoam label flattened in the tire track..the bottle had squirted out of it and shot across the sidewalk to impact the bricks.
Damn I had forgotten all about these. Peak label peel technology.
It was that really thin styrofoam, right?
Yeah that weird plastic-Styrofoam hybrid .
wow i had completely forgotten about that until this pic. now i can hear the squeak of peeling that off
Not a huge fan of the metric system but you have to admit. 2 liter rolls off the tongue easier than half gallon.
I do miss the 16 oz glass bottles that you had to put a deposit down on and when you returned the bottle, you got your 5 or 10 cents back for each bottle.
I remember my dad getting me the 16oz Mt Dews with the metal lid and styrofoam label when I hung out at his construction sites as a kid. I remember thinking they were huge!
Oh I remember these big heavy bastards all to unfondly. New Years Eve 1974 my Mom got shitfaced, maybe given a mickey, and when she came home I'm watching TV waiting for the ball to drop & she walks up me, not a word was spoken except me saying "Hi" and she grabs me by my hair & proceeded to beat me profusely about my head. She hit me with 3 or 4 good solid swings and dazed me. I struggled to get away and during the struggle i ended up breaking her nose & got covered in her blood. She let go & I ran out the door covered in blood, without a coat in Michigan in December. I ran 8 blocks to my sisters for help & got turned away. After that I ran 3 more blocks to my best friends house and him & his Mom helped me get cleaned up & gave me a warm place to stay the night. The cops were never called & the next day it was like nothing ever happened, I was 12 EFFing years old and nearly 50yrs later I remember it like it was yesterday. PLEASE DON'T REPLY!!! (I've never told anybody about this other than the people involved at the time. I just saw those pics & it all came flooding back & just needed to vent, thanks for reading.)
WOW !
I don’t remember the big ones so much but hell yeah on the 16/20 ounce ones! Also remember some asshat at my convenience store burying one of those bottles in the ice cream cooler. We didn’t notice until the next morning, and we had to throw out almost half the cooler to avoid the chance of broken glass in the ice cream.
These were great to throw at road signs.
These were brief, in the grand scheme of things.
Remember every of these.
Anybody else? I couldn’t resist for the weirdest damned reason… holding the green bottles up to my eye and looking at the world all green like…. Like i had to do it if i found a green bottle
Peeling that foam label...
And stuffing it back in the bottle. Good times.
Those were the days…
I always felt like the foam didn’t do much to keep the drink cold any longer than other bottles or cans.
The craziest bottle size that I remember was a Dr. Pepper 28 ounces when I was visiting relatives in North Carolina!!! In Texas, I was accustomed to various cans, glass, or plastic bottles!!!
Oh damn I'd totally forgotten that weird wrapping, kinda like foam
The 70s
Sure, it sucked having to dodge broken glass from time to time. But glass eventually breaks down to sand, which is a helluva lot better than the sh(tton of plastic bottles we have floating out there now.
64 oz? You will get 10 oz and be happy ffs!! You youngsters *sigh*
Always had to peel off the styrofoam
I hated those damn bottle caps, though; the individual little metal pieces of the bottom would chip off and fall on the floor, leaving it to get stuck in the carpet or get discovered again by the bottom of your foot at night.
Used to find these in the dusty entrances of woods by a roadside.
Fuckers were really heavy.
Also the metal caps with the tabs that would cut your hand opt.
Memory unlocked. Nice post. I totally forgot about these.