8oz Coke

[KaimukiMan]

Maybe this is passe by now on the mainland, but I just found "half size" (8oz) cans of CocaCola at my market. Im sure there were other coke products, but I didn't bother to unglaze my eyes long enough to look around.

Yeah, I'm paying almost as much money for half as much soda, maybe even more. But it is so nice to have a 'guilt-free' size and know that I can drink the whole thing before it goes flat. Just enough for my afternoon "fix". Hooray Coke!

[stellamystar]

Yes - I buy the sprite & 7-up ones for cocktails - just the perfect size for a nice summer libation.

[beachmouse]

They've been doing the promotional small glass bottles for years now, usually with some sort of sporting event artwork on the case or the bottles. I can remember getting a Detroit Red Wings themed small glass bottle six pack in the late 90s.

[irishnyc]

They've been available for quite a while in the wholesale clubs, and I've seen them for years in Target too. I do notice now that they're labeled "100 calories" to ride on the rest of the 100 calorie snack coattails.

[KaimukiMan]

I have to admit, the 100 calories caught my eye.

[Sean]

Anybody know where I can find kosher Coke in RI?

[dagwood]

The Coke that contains real cane sugar and not HFCS is specifically Kosher for Passover, not just "regular" Kosher. Kosher for Passover has stricter standards, which is why HFCS is not allowed (it's made from a grain; I believe that is the reason.) Since we're right in the middle of Passover season right now, though, now is the time to buy it. Some people stock up on enough to last the entire year.

There was a story about this on NPR a couple of years back; I'm sure you can find it by googling. I believe it is available in major cities (Boston being one, so from RI that's about 45 min), and any communities with large Jewish Orthodox populations. But now is the time to get it; in another week (possibly less), they'll be gone.

[hill food]

http://www.chowhound.com/topics/383493

oh and happy Purim!

[im_nomad]

have seen these in coke, diet coke, pepsi, diet pepsi and diet 7-up on occasion, at Walmart in particular, in Canada. Have a friend with a mutual friend who is the only one who drinks pepsi and likes a rum and cola....negates the need for a big bottle with leftovers.

On the flip side to this i like the less than one litre but bigger than the regular plastic bottles of stuff like diet 7-up and such. Great thirst quenchers.

[aurora50]

I saw six-packs of Coke during the holidays that had the "old" bottles from, like, 1872!! (Or something like that). Obviously just for the holidays. They were VERY unusual-shaped. Like cylinders with a narrow neck.
I'm sorry I didn't get a six-pack when I saw it. They could be kind of collector's items!

[Mother of four]

I love them, because when I have company or when the kids and grand kids come over, I don't have to go all over the house picking up half filled cans of coke after they have left! they really went through the orange one's, can't remember the name, but it was orange pop!

[torty]

Exactly why I buy the smaller ones on sale. I really dislike pouring out half a can of soda that has gone warm and flat, but that is what happens when a horde of teenage boys descends on your house. I was getting the regular size generic brand for about a dollar or a dollar fifty a six pack, and then they stopped carrying more than a few types. Must have been pressure from the name brands (ggggrrrr...)

[CPunches]

i like these because its enough to drink without feeling like i just threw myself into a sugar coma!

[Miss Needle]

Yeah, sizes just keep getting larger and larger in America. I think it's really easy to find 8oz bottles in Europe.

[MakingSense]

Wasn't that old green glass returnable bottle 6 ounces?
It cost 5 cents from the vending machine and when you opened it, it turned icy.
And the Co-Cola delivery man, came to the house very week and brought a new case of Coke. Dropped it on the back porch and took away the case of empties that you had left next to the box where milkman left the milk and butter and eggs.

[jfood]

think you are right on the 6oz versus 8oz. The you had to use the bottle opener on te big red machine as well.

Never had a soda delivery guy but lots of others showed up at casa jfood growing up.

[MakingSense]

Maybe y'all never had a Co-Cola delivery man 'cuz y'all lived up there in the North. Notice that the case swap was right next to the milk delivery spot. Its rightful place in the Deep South.

Interesting though that the 8 oz is now considered a small package where the 6 oz was once considered the standard portion. Now the "normal" is twice or more that size - the regular cans are 12 oz and bottles are 20 oz.
Why is America having problems with obesity and diabetes? Ya think?

[jfood]

NJ and CT still have milk/dairy deliveries.

[MplsM ary]

Coke used to deliver here (Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN) as well. I still have the opener that was installed by the delivery guy at my grandfather's house. I also grabbed the opener from my mom's house right before I handed over the keys to the new owners. Some things are sacred.

I used to live with a fellow who had a 'pony' (6 oz) Coke machine. We were in our twenties so of course it was filled with Pabst pony bottles, though I'd slip a Coke in there occasionally.

[vvvindaloo]

There is a popular computer repair/retail center here in NYC that has an old-fashioned operating Coke machine that dispenses the small glass bottles for 10 cents. The machine even has one of those little bottle openers in it. That kind of goodwill goes a long way with customers. I always get a kick out of it, and must buy one every time I am in the store.

[jfood]

This thread brings a smile to jfood's face since it reminds him of the saying"if you work on something long enough you arrive at where you started."

Jfood remembers hearing the story how Pepsi decided to challenge Coke when it was first introduced. Trying to bring Coke-drinkers to Pepsi, it saw an abundance of an inexpensive supply of 12-oz "used" beer bottles. Pepsi decided to offer its product in this larger quantity at the same price as the 8-oz Coke. The rest is history. Now everyone wants the 8-0z bottle of Coke.

Gotta love it.

[Caroline1]

Last time I was at Sam's, they had 8 oz Coke in BOTTLES...! Yes! The original size bottles! I bought a case. But it may have been "leftovers" from the holidays. I think Coke does it every year, but I'm not certain it's a national thing.

I've been wishing for some time that Coca Cola would make original formula Coke, as in "real cane sugar", put it in the 8 ouce bottles and market it as "The Real Thing." I'd buy it! <sigh> I should be their marketing director.

[Leonardo]

Wouldn't "original" formula Coke contain cocaine, as it did over 100 years ago?

[ASHERASHER]

Yes, in 1885 COKE did have traces of Cocaine in it.
Please see snopes.com for ALL the facts.
Very interesting.
I WISh they would go back to SUGAR instead
of HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP!!

[Passadumkeg]

Evidently, (Urban legend?) Coke is the largest legal buyer of coca leaves, but it is processed to remove the illegal stimulants. Anybody have more info.?
Drive a U-haul to the southwest of Mexico and fill it up w/ real sugar cane Mexican Coke and drive back happy and buzzed. It really does taste better.

[justagthing]

nawww...all you have to do is go to a 99 cents only store and you can get 2 bottles for only 99 cents!

[Passadumkeg]

Not in New England. The Puritans don't allow it. Now back to my green coke & Jamisons

[yamalam]

Really? They have real sugar cane coke at the 99 cent store?

[Passadumkeg]

What's a 99 cent store? They don't sound Yankee to me!

[hill food]

are you serious? go to a sketchy or just struggling neighborhood. with few exceptions everything for under $1.00

[justagthing]

I checked 3 stores yesterday and they were ALL sold out. I was so, so bummed. Maybe I should have kept it to myself so that I could have bought more. They aren't expecting to receive any in the near future. Oh well, onto the next good buy!

[hill food]

call a distributor directly. you'll have to buy by the case.

[yamalam]

Found "Hecho en Mexico" real sugar cane Coke at Costco here in Arizona!!!!!!!!!! It was being sold by the case...not sure of the price though.

[Smileelisa]

I was in Mexico last year and had their brand of Sprite. It was way too sweet for me. I didn't try the coke since it is not allowed on my diet. Of course coke is my fave kind of soda but I have to stick to ginger ale or sprite.

[Sean]

Coke still does use the Coca leaf but with the drug portion removed:

"After 1904, Coca-Cola started using, instead of fresh leaves, "spent" leaves - the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process with cocaine trace levels left over at a molecular level.[16][17] To this day, Coca-Cola uses as an ingredient a non-narcotic coca leaf extract prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey.[18][19] In the United States, Stepan Company is the only manufacturing plant authorized by the Federal Government to import and process the coca plant.[20]"

[MacTAC]

After having long grown out of my childhood addiction to "soda", some years ago, Coke reintroduced the 8 oz. as a promotion. I bought it for old times sake and wowed my daughter when I brought it home, as we never had soda in the house. Sharing one, ice cold and only out of the bottle, became a nightly ritual until the 8 pack was gone.

More recently, I had picked up kosher Coke, for the real cane sugar, in a 2 liter bottle and would have a nightly, or bi-nightly, glass or two, with ice, with my son. We also enjoyed the ritual, and appreciated the superior taste, buying more and bringing extras to my brother, who until then, hadn't been aware of that detail.

This Christmas while shopping in BJs, my son and I spotted the 8 oz cases and of course, I bought. Now I can't hold him to our ritual, but it was still fun as he would offer me a Coke, knowing I would go for it. It's fun too, seeing him offering to his friends, who go through liters of all flavors at home, and imparting some of his appreciation to them. My daughter, now 22 and not living at home, was over and seeing us drinking our cokes, commented why does he get his own? It was such a funny and warm and real moment.

A great idea to put the real cane sugar Coke in 8 oz bottles. Kosher Coke available all year round instead of only Passover and Rosh Shoshana, and 8 oz bottles all year instead of occasional promotions. Probably pay double, triple or more for the privilege, as the sugar IS more expensive as well as the packaging, handling, economics of scale etc. I'd be happy to pay it though, easy for me to say, as I drink it in such moderation.

[vvvindaloo]

I like the way you think, Caroline. It always bugs me to see the word, "classic" written on the Coca Cola cans. They should be prohibited from using that word, since today's Coke does not taste the way it used to, as anyone who remembers it from "classic" times can tell you. How ironic that the "The Real Thing" no longer is. What a bunch of phony bull.

[Hooda_Guest]

It also bugs me too that until recently, they were still using 12 oz bottles in their advertising. Please tell me where I can get a 12 oz bottle of Coke other than at my local Mexican food grocery store.

[Will Owen]

Actually, the original size bottles were 6 oz. I suspect that the bottle's exterior is the size of the old ones, but the old bottles were much thicker, to allow plenty of rough handling. I remember those well - my grandpa Owen had the contract to paint all the exterior signage in the local bottler's distribution area, and part of the deal was a case of Coke every week.

[justagthing]

At the local Ralph's they have the 1/2 size cans in more than just Coke. I can't seem to buy it as I feel as if it is a ripoff and for the fact that I prefer Mexican Coke, no HFCS!

[Hooda_Guest]

The size is right and now if they would make them with sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup, I would be on top of the world!