panamag8or
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Matt,
To answer your question on the bottle design change...
The older bottles were meant to be vended from machines that were not too kind on the bottles, what with them dropping and slamming on each other, and the older design had thicker impact points built in, so they wouldn't break. The newer ones don't need those, since you only find them in 6-packs now. The new bottles are also much thinner all around. I visit a soda forum, and the chief complaint among those of us with old bottle vending machines is that the new bottles have more breakage issues.
I like the 8-oz. bottles myself. It is just the right amount to "pause and refresh", and I find myself only drinking one, maybe two, a day, instead of the 3 or 4 12 oz. plastic bottles or cans I used to. After all, that is how it should be... one a day, when you need it.
Last I checked, there was a Coke bottler along the MN-WI border that would take your old 10 oz. bottles and sell you the same amount of filled bottles. The only problem they have is that their bottle supply is dwindling, since even beat-up Coke bottles can fetch $5 on feebay. I have around 200 empty 16 oz Coke bottles gathering dust in my garage, and no way to fill them.
To answer your question on the bottle design change...
The older bottles were meant to be vended from machines that were not too kind on the bottles, what with them dropping and slamming on each other, and the older design had thicker impact points built in, so they wouldn't break. The newer ones don't need those, since you only find them in 6-packs now. The new bottles are also much thinner all around. I visit a soda forum, and the chief complaint among those of us with old bottle vending machines is that the new bottles have more breakage issues.
I like the 8-oz. bottles myself. It is just the right amount to "pause and refresh", and I find myself only drinking one, maybe two, a day, instead of the 3 or 4 12 oz. plastic bottles or cans I used to. After all, that is how it should be... one a day, when you need it.
Last I checked, there was a Coke bottler along the MN-WI border that would take your old 10 oz. bottles and sell you the same amount of filled bottles. The only problem they have is that their bottle supply is dwindling, since even beat-up Coke bottles can fetch $5 on feebay. I have around 200 empty 16 oz Coke bottles gathering dust in my garage, and no way to fill them.
