[Bob434]

I swear that the taste of soda in .glass bottles was better than the taste from the new plastic bottles. I don’t know what it was about the glass bottles, but it seems that when they went to plastic, the taste just wasn’t the same. Could be all in my mind, but I hated it when they switched to plastic

[Tom Tetroxide]

That’s why I don’t drink beer out of a garden hose. You can taste that vinyl flavor like you can when you run water through it.

[AF_Blue]

I don’t know what it was about the glass bottles, but it seems that when they went to plastic, the taste just wasn’t the same.

Agree. I used to get a case of MexiCoke from Costco, for the cane sugar and the glass bottles, when it was more reasonably priced ($19 vs about $30 now). It tasted great, and seemed to be more satisfying than the corn syrup Coke made in the U.S.

[grame]

Oh the memory of playing at a friends house. She lived on the outskirts of a small town and we would ride our bikes as fast as we could into the small grocery with a cooler that had a sliding top and lots of bottles of soda sitting in ice cold water. On a hot summer day when we were dripping with sweat, I can still remember how wonderful that bottle of Pepsi tasted and how quickly it was gone! But we would press that still cool bottle on our faces to soak up every bit of refreshment.

[Secret Agent Man]

Plastic outgasses. Especially in hotter conditions. So it can affect taste. Glass doesn’t.

[TTFX]

Could be all in my mind, but I hated it when they switched to plastic

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Coke absorbs plastic.

I think if Coke loses its carbonation, we absorb more plastic when we drink it. If you live in a place where they have Coke in glass and plastic bottles and they make it with low plastic water, you could drink both after removing the carbon dioxide from them. If one has more plastic, I think there would be a big difference in taste.

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One can test Coke for plastic.

Make distiller water with both drinks and compare their conductivities. I think some plastic evaporates when one makes distilled water, and it increases the conductivity of distilled water. So, if the Coke in the glass bottle had more plastic, the distilled water made from it would have higher conductivity.

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If we open a glass bottle, it keeps its carbonation longer than a plastic bottle.