[HN Gopher] Historic Bottle Website
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       Historic Bottle Website
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 49 points
       Date   : 2024-11-27 06:59 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (sha.org)
        
       | nxobject wrote:
       | A beautiful slice of Old Internet! Of note is how painstaking the
       | author is to mention his limits - American bottles only, no
       | grenades or glass batteries...
        
       | ndsipa_pomu wrote:
       | I had a little look, but couldn't see my favourite - Codd-neck
       | bottles that used an internal marble as a sealing mechanism for
       | fizzy drinks. They're quite rare as children used to break them
       | to obtain the marbles.
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codd-neck_bottle
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       | (I used to believe that the old term "codswallop" was derived
       | from those bottles as you'd give them a wallop to dislodge the
       | marble. However, it looks like Hancock's Half-Hour from 1959 is
       | the first recorded usage of it which wouldn't fit with the usage
       | of Codd bottles)
        
         | etiam wrote:
         | Interesting! I didn't know the the name or the history, but
         | since you mention them almost entirely in the past tense, I'd
         | like to add that they are not entirely gone from use. (Also in
         | the Wikipedia article)
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         | See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramune ,
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banta
        
           | WorldWideWebb wrote:
           | Yep. Easy to come across in SoCal at least, but go into any
           | Asian market and you'll see a whole shelf full of Ramune and
           | other variant brands of that soda with that bottle. Kiddos
           | love them.
        
         | hnlmorg wrote:
         | There's still modern day drinks that come in these bottles.
         | Ryan the Japanese soft drink Ramune
         | 
         | They are a nightmare to open if you lose the cap though
        
       | grahar64 wrote:
       | It's an interesting hobby, but one that has recently been in the
       | news in New Zealand for the wrong reasons where some bottle
       | hunters dug up and destroyed some native trees looking for old
       | bottles https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/535310/suspected-
       | treasur...
        
         | ToucanLoucan wrote:
         | What a thoughtless and shitty thing to do, holy fuck. Does no
         | one have ANY shame anymore!?
        
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