Question how are these weights different?

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
No, they are plastic lined. Its a very thin lining but its there.

Tin cans refers to steel lined food cans generally.

Coatings​

There’s always a thin plastic layer (coating) inside drink cans to protect the food or liquid and to protect the cans from corrosion. Every soda contains phosphoric and citric acid and it’s thus necessary to add a hidden liner inside the can to prevent the beverage from reacting with the metal.

Coatings contain different additives, e.g. agents to increase surface slipping as well as abrasion and scratch resistance of can coatings, lubricants, anti-foaming agents, adhesives, scavengers for hydrochloric acids, and pigments.

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Disagrees with you.
 
gingergundog said:
Maybe a tin plated steel can is preferable to a bpa lined alu can?
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I can't remember the last time I had a steel can in the UK with drink in it.
As I said generally the drinks cans are alu with a liner since it means you retain a closer taste profile and will attract far less flavour from the can than steel.

Food mainly comes in steel since a lot of them are actually cooked or final heated in the can. You can't do that with a plastic liner.
Its part of the reason most canned food has such a long shelf life since its in effect steralised in the can.
 
It's probably 8.3kg for both.

The weight is more important for logistics calculations anyway. So as long as it doesn't understate the weight it is fine.
 
Dis86 said:
"Steel cans are made from tin-coated steel (which is why they are often called ‘tin cans’)."
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Yes and I said which are generally used for food which your article agreed with.
Tin cans generally aren't used for drink which is what the question was about.

They are called tinnies generally as people haven't kept up that they are generally not used for soft drinks now.
I'm still struggling to see what your issue is that you think I have got wrong.

If the conversation was about tinned soup we would agree. :)

Actually just realised OP thinks Britvic and Pepsi are the same parent company, they aren't. Britvic are licensed to bottle some of Pepsi products in the UK and Ireland but they are a different company.

Drinks are sold by volume anyway so weight is irrelevant. Sugar is heavier than water so its possible if one is sugar free and the other is sugar based you could have a weight difference.
 
smogsy said:
24 cans of tango dark berry 9KG
24 cans of Pepsi cherry 8.3KG

both packed the same packing in those plastic wrap with weak cardboard to hold them up

Tango and Pepsi are from the same parent company so packing very unlikely to be much different

All liquid is the same weight so how is there almost a kg difference ?
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Sugar will add a bit.

Your Pepsi is zero sugar right? So assume approx similar weight to water + 15g from each can

24*330 + 24*15 = 8,280g so roughly the 8.3 kg you see on the packaging.

Tango apparently has 4.3g of sugar dissolved in it per 100ml so that alone adds an extra 4.3 * 3.3 * 24 = 340.56g so approx 8.6kg perhaps they've rounded up to 9kg from that figure (and had a different convention for labeling) or perhaps there are some other ingredients that also add a bit more weight and bring it closer to 9kg.

Edit - actually this isn't normal Tango right? In which case, if also sugar free/flavoured water maybe they're just being a bit less precise with the measurements on the Tango packaging or are sticking 9kg on all of the boxes whether diet versions or not.
 
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