Back in the day, we’d take a sip out of bottled cokes and freeze them. That sip would take care of any overflow. I’d think the same would work for cans.
I was just thinking this morning about back in the day when we were kids, we’d put salted peanuts in Coke bottles. The salt gave it an extra something. We’d eat little cubes of cheddar cheese with Dr. Pepper. Though the cheese would get icky inside the bottle unless you drank it within a few minutes. Of course, the only float was, and is, a rootbeer float with cheap vanilla ice cream, yum!
Back in the day, we’d harvest the ice crystals out of the freezer over a cup of kool-aid after we got off the hour-long bus ride 96o with windows open, and that was heaven on earth.
Somewhere we learned the ice crystals were not good for you, but the ice cubes from the tray were safe.
We used to peanut our cokes, too, for the fizzup before it got flat! Ice cream never lasted long enough for any application other than spoon>container>mouth.
On the way down to the lake to cool off, we knew which creeks on the way were cold, from deep springs, and drank like vampires from them, ignoring those black curly things that suctioned themselves above each springhead. Maybe that’s what’s wrong with us:)