Scott,
I had the same experience with my son (11 at the time) last year. While my children were taught not to drink a lot of soda when he sees Coke in a bottle he always pionts and tells me “the best”. Here is the order of Coke from best to worst……glass bottle > can > plastic bottle > fountain. Thanks for sharing!!!

Hay Scott:
Thanks for the window into your life and sharing it with us.
As I read about you and your son’s encounter with a nice cold bottle of coke, memories came rushing back to me……. a hot summers walk to the local gas station, with 3 or 4 buddies, the coke machine sitting out front in the blazing sun. I remember sliding the nickel into the slot, (I guess that really dates me) opening the door and pulling out that ice cold 6 oz. bottle of coke, we would crack them open, (the bottles had to stay there) after opening them, ice would form in the neck of the bottle, the ice cold coke so cold it would make you head hurt, it took about 3 minutes for those bottles to hit the wooden cases mounted on the side of the machine, and the impending burps, and laughs on the way back home, I guess I had to be all of ten or eleven, life was so simple then.
Thanks again for your memories and taking me back to mine….

Okay, you opened up the giant can of nostalgia…

I used to visit my grandma’s house in in the Sacramento Valley every summer growing up, and I would always walk to the corner store and buy the 6-pack of 16oz. Coke bottles. Nothing tasted better on a sweltering hot day. I still wish they made that size, but the 12oz. bottles they have now are pretty good, too.

Another bonus about buying the Coke in glass bottles now (at least up here in Seattle), is that the cases they sell at Costco are imported from Mexico and they use real sugar. Tastes so much better than the high-fructose corn sweetener they use today. At least in my head it does.

Now you’re talking my language! I’m a hard core coca cola collector, hence the email address. I have all kinds of coke advertisements, carriers, coolers, bottles and more from as early as 1886, along with over 1000 commerative coke bottles. Anyway, you can find coke in the bottle at your local Publix also.

That’s so funny about the Coke. My husband only drinks Pepsi, UNLESS it’s Coke in a glass bottle, then he’ll drink it. He also finds Pepsi in small glass bottles and buys them when he can, too :)

I feel very lucky to live in El Salvador where the glass bottles of coke are as common (and cheaper) as the plastic bottles or the cans. I can walk over to the neighbors, and (without leaving my property) buy a cold 12 oz. coke for $0.35. Life is good! The difference is in the sugar cane sugar vs. the high-fructose corn stuff.

At our local Costco’s (in AZ) they sell Coke in a bottle, but it’s the Mexican product, which means it has cane sugar it in – delicious!!

Ah, the memories. If your son enjoyed the idea of Coke in bottles, remind him that milk used to be delivered in glass bottles by a milkman and left in a metal box by your door.

There are some things that progress should have left alone :-)

For the real Coke taste you need to find a place that still serves a “fountain Coke”. That’s one where the soda jerk mixes the Coke syrup with the carbonated water at tne soda fountain. If you were lucky, you might get a little extra syrup. I grew up in Atlanta and this is how I learned to drink a Coke.

My son had his coke-in-a-bottle experience last summer. We put them in the fridge to get them nice and cold, just like you did, and he absolutely loved it. Only wish I had taken a picture of him drinking it down. Good times….

I LOVE Coke in a glass bottle, must be ice-cold on a hot summer day! Great memories. My brother-in-law was driving me home years ago when I was a teen and he sensed I wasn’t happy about something…he pulled into a fillin’ station (Alabama!) for gas and a couple of bottled Cokes. I still remember him saying, “There’s nothin’ a cold bottle of Coke won’t make better…”

Hey Scott, it’s so funny how even myself at 34 missed the coke in a bottle thing here in the US, but working in Europe for the last 12 years or so, where when you order a coke it come in a bottle always, I have learned that it is the best. I actually refuse to drink any kind of pop here at home anymore.

Great story about your sons first experience with Coke out of a bottle. Did you get that shot of him posing with the empty bottle? That will be what I call “a smiler” for the rest of your days…those are what make photography worth all the time and money we spend. Thanks for sharing this with us – just another part of what makes PSI one of my must reads every day!

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