This may be the oddest article I've posted here, but hear me out.I was a Pepsi drinker for years and years and years. Nothing really against Coke, it's just that I thought that Pepsi tastes differently, better, than Coke, so I always got Pepsi. Then, about five or six years ago, when I switched to drinking diet soda, I started drinking Coke. I don't know why. I think one night I went to the store to get some Pepsi, they were out of Diet, so I sent with Diet Coke instead. And for the past several years, out of taste and habit, I've bought Diet Coke.
Now I find myself going back and forth between the two. Yeah, yeah, I know, in America you're supposed to be a "Pepsi person" or a "Coke person," just like you're supposed to be a "Mac person" or a "PC person." (For the record, I'm a Mac guy.) It's not that I find that they taste the same. They don't. They taste very different, but I've learned to like them both.
Which is my very longwinded way of asking this question: I've noticed that Pepsi bottles often get some sort of film inside the bottle. Either condensation or some other scientific process I'd probably know if I paid attention in 7th grade science class. But I've noticed that Coke never gets this.
Anyone know why?
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6-15-2006 @ 1:59PM
Mad William Flint said...
Actually that film is residual evil left by the abomination under the eyes of god that is pepsi.
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6-15-2006 @ 5:27PM
James said...
Red Rock > RC > Pepsi > Coke
Diet Coke > Diet Pepsi
Cherry RC > Cherry Coke > Cherry Pepsi
Dr. Pepper (from Dublin, TX) > All other sodas.
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6-15-2006 @ 9:55PM
Byron said...
I'm pretty sure that all cans, in America at least, are lined with a plastic so the soda itself never touches the metal. It's probably just that the Pepsi one is more visible. I just hooked at a Coke can and I'm think I can tell there's a thin lining. Maybe some day I'll cut one open and check.
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6-15-2006 @ 10:02PM
Bob Sassone said...
Byron: it's not the cans, I'm talking about the plastic bottles you can see through. Pepsi often has some condensation (or whatever it is), while Coke doesn't.
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6-19-2006 @ 8:38PM
monica Jo Tomaszewski said...
There is some sort of hydration that happens to the plastic. I see a similar phenomena with selzer water that I get in plastic bottles.
A few years ago they developed a bottle that held coke (i think) that was biodegradable, it degraded by light. They pulled the products after a few hundred exploded due to bottle degredation. No one counted on 24 hour stores having the lights on all of the time.
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