Dear Coke (A Pictorial Remonstration)

[MGS2 Snake]

I say "hell yeah!"

 

[UnionStrike]

*POP* *psssshh*

No problems here.

 

[Peter]

Why not just have Pepsi?

 

[Dracwolley]

*POP* *psssshh*
-snip-

No problems here.

Good for the most part, but if you've previously eaten anything with anything resembling salt or grease or oil before opening it, good luck then. It's like lubing up a circular doorknob and then trying to open it whilst wearing gloves; it just doesn't work. Ever.

 

[Philly]

Shows how long it's been since I drank coke. How long have these new bottles been on the shelf?

Also, what is that skin looking thing in the OP?

 

[TiJayLFS]

Pepsi cans are a bitch to open (put the ringpull at an angle, damnit!) and Lucozade bottles cause blisters.

Also on the Coke taste thing: Glass is best, then plastic, then cans.

 

[niky]

No way. Glass, Aluminum, PET... a distant third.

Though I suppose it will also depend on the bottling/canning plant in question... but I've never had PET-bottled softdrinks (sodas/pops/soda-pops/fizzy-drinks/etcetera) that tasted better than canned.

 

[a6m5]

Double post? Really niky? Some Super Moderator... don't ban me

I also love the plastic bottles, but I drink Diet. I'm not on diet or anything, but I just find the sugar overwhelming in Classic. Glass is the best, but not very practical. Can's OK, not a big fan though.

Edit: ON TOPIC(better late than never), I also never noticed about the cap. Thinking back, I think there was a time or two I noticed the cap was harder to open. I got Japanese hands though. We make calculators & watches, so it wasn't much of a problem.

 

[Keef]

I've got scrawny hands of win so I don't have much trouble, though I have noticed a distinctly different feel and process to opening these caps. What really scalds me is opening beer bottles with supposed "twist-off" caps without filleting my palm or crusting the bottle's neck with brute frustration. I once threw my bottle at the concrete in a fiery rage. I never told him it was me when my neighbor blew out his tire the next morning.

 

[niky]

Double post? Really niky? Some Super Moderator... don't ban me

So sue me. My internet connection is via 3G wireless. Sometimes my connection rate drops to 36k when it gets cloudy and the phone defaults to GPRS.

Yes... already a mod and still double-posting due to my Third-World internet service. Plus ça change...

I hereby hit you with the banana-hammer. Have a nice banana. Sorry it's green.

 

[mustangGT90210]

I can't stand those new caps, can't open them at all if there's any moisture at all on it or your hands :rant:

 

[vfrmaverick]

I have no problems with them as much as the thin plastic bottles. Like seriously dude, i can barely hold this without squishing it to death.

 

[a6m5]

I hereby hit you with the banana-hammer. Have a nice banana. Sorry it's green.

Hmmmm..... I won't be bragging this to anybody anytime soon.

 

[terminator363]

They changed them to new caps that have an "all new grip" (after the frustrating one) here in Canada, like 5 months ago, and they are awesome.

 

[dylansan]

I have no problems with them as much as the thin plastic bottles. Like seriously dude, i can barely hold this without squishing it to death.

This. Just putting enough pressure on it to open the cap means you're squirting water (if you're lucky) all over your lap. Wait...

 

[Omnis]

Attention everybody:



I win.

 

[W3H5]

Not in China. The last Sprite I bought nearly tore my hand to pieces and I still drink Coke from cans because getting into a bottle is like getting into a nuns panties.

 

[Public'sTwin]

Attention everybody:



I win.

I'd say these are even improvements over the original, non-segmented ridge design—the reason being that as force is applied inward to the cap, it gets divided multiply over each ridge upon turning, whereas this construction type focuses it into only a few ridges allowing you to apply overall more force per ridge to turn it. (The apotheosis of this would be wingnut-style screw caps.)

 

[Omnis]

Force is not the issue. Traction was. More ridges = more surface area.

 

[Public'sTwin]

Force is not the issue. Traction was. More ridges = more surface area.

But increased surface area = decreased grip lb/cm²; if you apply less pressure—contact force between two surfaces (which, in vehicles is commonly measured in g's)—then you have less grip.

You can increase traction by making the angle of incidence more dramatic (as with the current design compared to the reivision), by making the surface more "grippy" (increase the relative friction coefficient by adjusting properties of the matter itself, which ultimately still come down to mechanics at the microscopic level), or by reducing the surface area to improve the applied pressure efficiency. The latter example can be seen when one lays on a bed of nails which fail to pierce the body; mechanically, the few lbs of force that the skin of your thumb is applying to the bottle is less inward (to grip it) and more in the direction of the unscrew motion because it doesn't have to apply so much inward force to maintain the same level of traction (or per-ridge lb/cm² contact pressure).

 

[Omnis]

Not if you open with your left thumb like you're supposed to. And the small ridges interface with your fingerprints giving you gecko-like grip on that sumbitch.

 

[Public'sTwin]

Not if you open with your left thumb like you're supposed to. And the small ridges interface with your fingerprints giving you gecko-like grip on that sumbitch.

LEFT THUMB WUT

No no no, you open it with your right thumb, pointed inward, and rotate counter-clockwise so you can pull the ridges (to the right and away) and unscrew the cap. (Called it, no challenge.)

NO LEFT THUMB

 

[dhandeh]

Not if you open with your left thumb like you're supposed to. And the small ridges interface with your fingerprints giving you gecko-like grip on that sumbitch.

Sounds like someone opens their bottle one handed.

While the other hand adjusts the sunglasses.

 

[Omnis]

Pulling the ridges is the dumbest way to open a cap. You use your left hand so you can get your palm in there.

 

[Dean]

- I've been used to those (annoying) caps, since I was born. - In Denmark, these are on literally, every liquid, even water, that's inside a bottle (like Coke's).

 

[Jay]

We ended up getting a new smaller lid/cap design here in Australia shortly after the US, however ours don't suck.

A little difficult to see but the fine ridges remained.

 

[Bopop4]

I don't get it, why is it so hard to open a bottle of Coke?
The only caps that I don't like are the ones that are half the height of normal caps.
Puts a lot of pressure on the hand.

 

[djinline]

We have something like this here in Finland, maybe a bit higher cap and rougher grip but similar gaps.

 

[David]

What's up with all the names on the Coke bottles in Australia?

 

[Jay]

Just a limited gimmick

https://www.coca-cola.com.au/shareacoke