The good ol' days... | TheaterFire

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markiselmo@reddit

we used to try to peel it off in really long thin stripes

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AlienDelarge@reddit

I have seen them but I think they were pretty rare for xennials. Maybe more common in some areas than others depending on when your local bottler switched.

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nocleverusername15@reddit

I grew up in Ohio and remember these.

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AlienDelarge@reddit

I grew up in the PNW and only remember seeing them as old litter in the woods not on shelves. That said, I'm young enough to barely fit in this sub.

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Chango-Acadia@reddit

Yea, 1983, New England, and no recollection of these things.

My parents were definitely generic brand shoppers thou... Dr Pip!

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everythinghappensto@reddit

Without looking it up, my impression is that it was an early 80s thing, around glass bottles only. Might be wrong about some of that.

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Elandycamino@reddit

Still picking glass out of my arm from a bottle of Rock Pop

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When I was a kid my friends and I had a favorite hangout in the woods. One day we found it completely torn up and the base of a new road was being laid over our secret gully. We sat there and drank our sodas while looking at the loss.

I frequently think of that bottle because I tore off the lable and then stuffed it inside the bottle, sealed it up, and buried it at the construction site. I later helped the surveyor do work on that new road as a young boy scout (by coincidence). That bottle is likely still buried underneath that road and neighborhood to this day, with that torn up lable still inside it.

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emc_lmt@reddit

Then you shove the curly label slice into the glass for display

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Knight_thrasher@reddit

My older sister could take it off without ripping it

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LendogGovy@reddit

I knew people that would do that with NY Seltzers and make a big boom by smacking it down on the ground and popping the styrofoam.

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ZaphodBeeblebrahx@reddit

Man I remember those NY Seltzers. I thought they were awful

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LendogGovy@reddit

I was a vanilla cream flavor person

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ZaphodBeeblebrahx@reddit

Did you like Dr. Brown’s cream soda as well?

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LendogGovy@reddit

Never heard of it, looked it up and now I know why. I’m in the Pacific Nw and it looks like it’s mostly sold in Kosher delis on the west coast, we don’t have many of those.

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ZaphodBeeblebrahx@reddit

I grew up on the East Coast near New York City and all the Jewish deli had either Dr. Brown’s or New York seltzer if not both

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LendogGovy@reddit

Makes sense when I looked it up.

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Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit

There's a joke here, I just can't seem to find it

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PsyOpBunnyHop@reddit

Like the chrome from a trailer hitch.

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FoofaFighters@reddit

Without using her hands

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Derrick_Mur@reddit

That’s what she said

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tenthousandtatas@reddit

Whose sister does what now?

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Negative-Wrap95@reddit

Yes

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ZaphodBeeblebrahx@reddit

Two of these cokes and a styrofoam container of worms in a little Igloo cooler was what my grandpa and I used to take on his boat fishing.

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AeonFluxIncapacitaor@reddit

How does anyone plant seedlings without the little ass cap that came with 2 liters.

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jikt@reddit

Anyone know why these were necessary back in the day? I totally forgot about them.

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ZaphodBeeblebrahx@reddit

my understanding is it has to do with refilling the bottles. In the early 80's we used to take our empty 2 liter bottles back to the store and they'd refill them. I always understood that the bottoms were reinforced with the black thing so the bottle would last for multiple fills.

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bloodpriestt@reddit

They acted as insulators for the bottle like a coozie

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RoundTheBend6@reddit

Good lord. How do you guys remember this stuff. Perhaps you had good childhoods lol. I try and forget mine.

But for real! Such a unique memory.

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AeonFluxIncapacitaor@reddit

I'm sorry you had it rough. I don't think mine was amazing but I have a pretty good memory of those times because I guess I'm just weird.

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RoundTheBend6@reddit

It’s a good thing!

I’m just trying to put it together why. Maybe no other than I have a bad memory.

And thanks, I’m away from my family and in a much better place now.

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fauxshoyall@reddit

I don't know what the Styrofoam label thing is but I grew a hell of a lot of plants in this contraption.

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Domitiani@reddit

Same - I'm a '80 ... how did I miss whatever this styrofoam label thing that keeps popping up lately?

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Insomniac_80@reddit

Never seen one either, grew up in the US born the same year as you were.

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switheld@reddit

same. don't remember styrofoam, but def remember this bottom part of the bottle

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everythinghappensto@reddit

It wasn't exactly styrofoam, but it was the same polystyrene material in a very thin layer (not really puffy at all, but thicker than the single sheet on bottles nowadays).

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AeonFluxIncapacitaor@reddit

It was a style of label on bottles. It was definitely a thing.

It's hard to describe because it's more of a texture thing. How it would peel off the bottle in strips vs the wrap of plastic.

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FalseQuestion7864@reddit

Holy Shit! Yes!!!

I totally forgot about those!

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eternallysantanasass@reddit

Memory unlocked. I remember pulling they styrofoam off and breaking the little pieces off the screw tops…damn I’m old

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muhredditone@reddit

One strip at a time.

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SearrAngel@reddit

And slide them down and smash back for a loud pop

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Sith_Apprentice@reddit

I'd slide it halfway off and then open palm slap it for a big bang noise.

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ConundrumMachine@reddit

Memory unlocked

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key_buds@reddit

Literally

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resourcefultamale@reddit

This sub kinda freaks me out sometimes.

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CasualtyVampires@reddit

Didn't know I remembered it either.

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ttttunos@reddit

I found an empty in the middle of the woods a few months ago. :O

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Occultist_chesty@reddit

I remember the soda tasted better too

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ossman1976@reddit

This is way before xieniels

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

I don't know about "way before", but maybe a few of the younger ones don't remember. I want to say I may have been in my teenage years when they phased out the glass bottles w/ Styrofoam labels and switched to plastic.

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Insomniac_80@reddit

Where in the US did you grow up?

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

Eastern NC

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ghoulthebraineater@reddit

No it's not. Gatorade was using these into the 90s.

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lsp2005@reddit

I remember it in the early 1980s as one of my first childhood memories. So for someone born in the late 1970s, they would remember it. If you were born in 1984 you likely would have no idea this was a thing.

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Woodworkingwino@reddit

I was born in 83 and I remember them from the late 80’s early 90’s. I wonder if it’s regional depending on what bottlers switched to plastic first vs last.

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Insomniac_80@reddit

Where did you grow up?

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Woodworkingwino@reddit

Eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas.

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ArcadeKingpin@reddit

I vaguely remember them. Like I know what it is from experience but I do not remember details because how young I was. But I remember the way it felt

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lostnthenet@reddit

I was born in 77 and remember these.

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Moxie_Stardust@reddit

Same.

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epidemicsaints@reddit

Faygo and New York Seltzer had these til 1990 at least in the midwest.

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LemonSkye@reddit

Coke and Pepsi did too in the Northeast. I definitely remember peeling off the labels as a kid.

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graveybrains@reddit

They made that shit till I was like 12

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Fuckspez42@reddit

For me, it was specifically Canada Dry labels from my aunt & uncles fridge, peeled off of glass bottles.

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

Asking for Xennial help... I remember when coca cola sold 16 ounce glass bottles of coke at around 1994 for a buck, before 20 oz plastic bottoms became big. I can't find a picture of it anywhere, but those were the last coca colas I ever enjoyed.

They were not vintage or special, just bigger than cans and the glass helped the taste.

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Insomniac_80@reddit

Hmm, I've heard of bottles with Styrofoam, on commercials bottles of coke would be made of glass. But the only coca cola I had growing up came in plastic bottles or aluminum cans. Sometimes the plastic bottles would have plastic around the bottom, but they were always plastic. I have memories of chugging the last of the coke out of the bottom of a two liter, the one time I got to drink it from the bottle like on the commercials!

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