Coke also tastes so much better in Canada than it does in the US, or at least many places in the US. I can't stand it with High Fructose Corn Syrup.
As for glass bottles, there was a plant (12 years ago) in Saskatchewan that still bottled Coke in glass bottles. Drove through some town in central Saskatchewan, and the gas station had glass bottles. The 237 ml glass bottles are in lots of places.
I also can't believe that anyone would rather have fountain pop than an actual, from the factory coke. Not that I hate fountain coke, but it's just not the same.
Mexico was fun, 25 cents for a bottle of coke (and promised to bring the bottle back to the little corner store), or 75 cents if you wanted to keep the bottle. The amount of wear on some of the bottles could only have happened had the bottles been refilled and transported hundreds if not thousands of times.
Growing up on Prince Edward Island, all we had were Glass Bottles. Most bottles came in 355 and 755 ML variations while Diet Pepsi and 7up had 1.5L bottles.
The island however, was generally unhappy with glass bottles and would often Travel to New Brunswick to purchase Pop in a can. They would then bring the cans over, and either A) brag that they have can pop or B) Sell them out of Vans in the highschool parking lot. I remember a guy selling 355 ML cans for 5 dollars a can, and being pretty successful. (illegal of course)
Can pop was desired so much in fact; that politicians would include the promise to bring can pop to Prince Edward Island in their Election Campaign.
Long story Short, somewhere in the Mid 2000's Can pop was finally brought to PEI and people celebrated.
That said, Living on the West Coast for 5 years has made me really appreciate Pop out of a glass bottle. For whatever reason the Flavor seems infinitely better when drank from a glass.
I'd drink Coke from a sewer before drinking Pepsi, so I'm not picky what bottle it comes from.
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Not at all, as I've said, I would rather start with LA over any of the other WC playoff teams. Bunch of underachievers who look good on paper but don't even deserve to be in the playoffs.
The T&T Supermarket in Harvest Hills always has coke in glass bottles for sale, they're pretty overpriced for just 6 little glass bottles (around 5 bucks I believe) but at least they're always there.
Edit - whoops totally glossed over the original post, sorry no luck on the bigger bottles
Nope, i don't think it's the same. The coke definitely TASTES different ( though some places in the US have the same stuff as we do) and the sugar is probably the only thing not the same from country to country.
They Cherry Coke for a brief time in stores in Canada, I want to say 2003 to 2004. Everytime I go to the states I bring back at least a case of the stuff. Would love for it to be back full time.
