Stole this from FuckImOld, but totally worth it!

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jjhart827@reddit

Mountain Dew in the glass bottle hit different.

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Warring_Angel@reddit

The Gatorade too. They were practically health foods back then :D

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Economy-Mango7875@reddit

Core memory unlocked. We had Pepsi at my house. I got in trouble bringing one into school with my lunch in grade school

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Used to peel the top part off down to where the bottle was straight. Then slide the label down a ways and slap the bottom part of the label to the bottle and the air pressure would split the label and make a noticeable "pop".

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literanch@reddit

I had forgotten all about this but I can instantly remember the doing this back in the day.

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DerbGentler@reddit

I'm your old, but I don't remember any styrofoam labels.

What I remember is the collectible pictures inside of the caps.
In Germany they were called "Knibbelbilder". 😆
And I had one from the band Toto.

EDIT: Here is the German Wikipedia article (as there is none in English): Knibbelbilder

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HylanderUS@reddit

Oh man, came here to say this, I remember the knibbelbilder vividly :)

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DerbGentler@reddit

Great to see other Knibbelbilder-Fans around here! \^\^

(The English word for "Knibbelbilder" would be "Peel-out pictures".)

This site (also in German, but translatable) is an awesome tome of knowledge and pictures:

Retro Cult "Knibbelbilder"

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SaveusJebus@reddit

Definitely peeled.

OMG I remember feeling like it was extra special getting the little bottles.

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nochumplovesucka__@reddit

These were popular when I was a kid in the 80s. They seemingly went plastic sometime in the 90s,I can't specifically remember exactly when.

We used to make muriatic acid bombs with the old glass bottles,plastic didn't work.

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bigSTUdazz@reddit

ASMR before ASMR was a thing.

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IceSmiley@reddit

The labels were made of styrofoam? I remember they were like strong wrap plastic

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RipErRiley@reddit

I’m a xennial (born in ‘79) but the glass soda’s were not in my orbit. Maybe a tad before my time.

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Pisstoffo@reddit

It must’ve been location or just memory not sticking. I’m the same age and remember them fondly (idiot parents let me drink pop and watch rated R movies WAY too early)

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RipErRiley@reddit

I remember coke bottle ls but generally, on the fly, we had plastic bottled dew. Maybe you’re right

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Pisstoffo@reddit

Man, the glass bottle and styrofoam labels were amazing. I peeled a little string from the top but could never get it all the way to the end.

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Defnotabotok@reddit

I’d tear them into strips and stuff them in the bottle and pretend I had a Molotov cocktail.

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Tony_Tanna78@reddit

I almost always peeled it off and sometimes put the waste in the bottle after finishing off the soda.

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FestiveArtCollective@reddit

I was a total peeler. I loved the cruncy sound.

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IamREBELoe@reddit

I'd forgotten that existed

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Funkopedia@reddit

I think New York Seltzer may still have that type of label

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neems_79@reddit

New York Seltzer is the OG!

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robkillian@reddit

NY seltzer

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jbmyre@reddit

These were 25 cents, even a broke, white trash 10 year old like myself could live like a king.

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TheLoneliestGhost@reddit

The best was when you could make it into a perfect curly tail!

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Beliliou74@reddit

Core memory unlocked

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ChromeDestiny@reddit

I saw the tail end of what Canadians called the glass "Stubby bottle." Beer used to be sold that way too. It should probably be more mainstream again considering how well glass breaks down and recycles.

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p90rushb@reddit

One of my first memories was grabbing a styrofoam-wrapped coke with two hands in the passenger seat of my dad's 1978 Chevy c10 Scottsdale. It was super heavy.

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MOSbangtan@reddit

Gotta say I don’t recall this!

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seaska84@reddit

Soda tasted better too.

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canikatthedisco@reddit

Remember doing this any time my mom would bring a pack of New York Seltzer home, (also remember thinking that stuff was "ritzy")

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OpinelNo8@reddit

These were the best to shoot with bb guns because the styrofoam held the broken glass in place enough to get two or three shots on it instead of one.

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wantsomechips@reddit

Those old mountain dew bottles, they always had a promotion going where you could look under the cap and win free drinks. I won so many Mtn dews when I was younger.

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Electrical-Pie-8192@reddit

Yup. NY Seltzer blackberry

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YogurtclosetDull2380@reddit

Peel off the label and then smash the bottle. You're damn right I have regrets l

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idleat1100@reddit

I had absolutely forgotten about that. And immediately it all came back. Ha

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omartje@reddit

You did not steel . We call it “long term borrowing” 😉

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Hilsam_Adent@reddit

It's "Strategic Transfer of Equipment to an Alternate Location".

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omartje@reddit

That’s beautiful !

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Hilsam_Adent@reddit

It is, indeed. One of the more useful acronyms I picked up in my time in the Navy. Not sure how old it is, but I can tell you for certain it dates back farther than 1957, which is when my Pops first heard it in his Boot Camp.

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