Do you guys remember when 2 liter bottles had

[Juice Box]

I demand pics....I don't remember these 🙁

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: MrPickins
Haven't seen those in ages. I had forgotten about em.

 

[hanoverphist]

i had strings of those when i was a kid from my aunts coors cans

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: Platypus
Yeah I remember them, wow that's a blast to the past.

Hey remember that classic movie that came out WEEEEEKS ago, Spiderman III? I saw a poster the other day that reminded me of it. Man, those were the days.

Kids. :roll: 😛 😉

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: dainthomas
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Platypus
Yeah I remember them, wow that's a blast to the past.</end quote></div>

Hey remember that classic movie that came out WEEEEEKS ago, Spiderman III? I saw a poster the other day that reminded me of it. Man, those were the days.

Kids. :roll: 😛 😉

Really. Anybody else remember when beer in cans required a church key? Clue: It was before pop tops.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: dainthomas
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Platypus
Yeah I remember them, wow that's a blast to the past.</end quote></div>

Hey remember that classic movie that came out WEEEEEKS ago, Spiderman III? I saw a poster the other day that reminded me of it. Man, those were the days.

Kids. :roll: 😛 😉

The elderly, thinking everything that stopped being around a decade ago is still 'new' :roll: 😛 😉

 

[antillean]

Originally posted by: LolaWiz
at first, i thought... what the hell is he talking about.... then BAM! i do remember them!!! (i am 24)

Same here. Now I can picture the black plastic base, with the 5 little round holes. CRAZY

 

[Joemonkey]

I guess since these really pre-date the internet, and they weren't that interesting, pics of them are few and far between... I've been searching for 20 mins and all I found was the same pic as SVT Cobra. Oh well, put it in the OP for those asking for pics

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Google failed me

 

[MrBond]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: mugs
Yes. They weren't terribly thick... I always assumed they were intended to give the bottle a flat bottom so it would stand up. But then they started designing bottles that could stand on their own. Of course I don't know why they wouldn't design them to stand on their own to begin with... maybe 80s plastic bottle technology wasn't so great. Back then the smaller soda bottles were 16 oz and glass instead of 20 oz and plastic like they are today.</end quote></div>They would have designed them to stand up on their own, but the technology wasn't there yet. As PET manufacturing techniques became more refined, it was easier to coax the plastic into "complex" shapes like the petal base.

It wasn't to create an illusion of volume either. It was just a way of overcoming the limitations of PET at the time.

Fun fact about early PET soda bottles: Initial testing showed that people preferred the heavier glass bottles because it "seemed like there was more in them" (because the same size bottle weighed more).

I imagine that's also part of the reason people are so against beer in plastic bottles. People think glass keeps beer colder, but a glass bottle of beer feels cold because it's losing cold through the sidewall. It's their loss - besides plastic beer bottles are hard to manufacture anyway 😀

 

[Wheezer]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: middlehead
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Ronstang
Do you mean the heavier black plastic cap on the bottom? I guess it was supposed to protect the bottle from being pierced and thus exploding.</end quote></div>
I still say it was to create the illusion of more volume.</end quote></div>

actually no, the reason that they had the base cups at first was because it took a while for manufacturers to come up with a single bottle that had a foot design that allowed the bottle to stand upright AND maintain the structural integrity of the bottle with the amount of CO2 pressure inside.


<-----used to be in the industry

 

[Kelemvor]

We used to take the bottoms off after we drank the soda and use them as Gold Holes for our mini-golf course we laid out around our cabin. We used croquette balls and played golf. Was fun. Now we use margarine/butter containers.

 

[potato28]

My cousins used to throw them at me when I was younger... they really leave marks after a while.

 

[patentman]

Originally posted by: Ronstang
Do you mean the heavier black plastic cap on the bottom? I guess it was supposed to protect the bottle from being pierced and thus exploding.

Nope, it was because the blow molding processes used to make the bottles weren't good enough to make a strong enough base.

 

[patentman]

Originally posted by: amdskip
What about glass bottles of pepsi, man do I miss them. Pop just doesn't taste the same.

From michigan are we? (Pop?)