Why is Coke from a glass bottle better?

'It just does' :p

Same goes for Stella. I can't stand it on draught or from a can, but the bottles are lovely.
 
I read about this on reddit. It has some scientific name.. it's something to do with the same reason food tastes better when it's made by someone else.
 
I like it from a glass bottle as well! But I think it's just because it's often colder and holding a glass bottle feels better than holding a plastic one :p
 
It is NOT a placebo effect. I can blind taste the difference between canned, plastic bottled and glass bottled Irn-Bru.

Tea also tastes better from a china cup...
 
for the same reasons that a pint of your favourite tipple is always superior when in glass. Hence why I hate these events you go to and they have to give you a plastic cup due to health and safety reasons :)
 
You have to be blindfolded and your mouth numbed, it's kept in it's original container. Hopefully you can still taste.
 
G-MAN2004 said:
How would that work then? If you pour them out into seperate glasses, it's not the same is it? :p
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drink through a straw from each specific pack type ?

although it might invalidate the test as the sample would then be exposed to a 3rd party material in the form of the straw ?

So effectively there is no real way to do a scientifically controlled blind test of coke from a can / glass bottle / plastic bottle without somehow giving the game away ?
 
I always thought it was a reaction of some sort with the plastic of the bottle and the can of the can. Whilst it cannot react with the glass hence it keeping its full original cola flavour
 
wildman said:
drink through a straw from each specific pack type ?

although it might invalidate the test as the sample would then be exposed to a 3rd party material in the form of the straw ?

So effectively there is no real way to do a scientifically controlled blind test of coke from a can / glass bottle / plastic bottle without somehow giving the game away ?
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Well, the way I did it with Irn-Bru I had 3 glasses, and canned, glass bottled and plastic bottled Irn-Bru was poured into the 3 glasses... I tasted it and correctly identified them, and it was repeated another twice with the same results.
 
It is better and it's because it is made in a different country. Coke in glass bottles is normally sourced from Spain or Mexico, from the Coke production factories they have there. The difference between the Latin version and ours is that the US/Euro version uses high fructose corn-syrup as its main sweetening ingredient (which you can thank the American agri-industry for, subsidizing corn farmers), whereas the good stuff (normally in glass bottles) uses proper cane sugar.

So there's your answer :)
 
Coke say there's no difference in the formula of Coke sold in a country.

The difference, I understand is that glass is inert, while the lining of cans and plastic bottles are not.
 
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