r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Jan 29 '23
The evolution of Coca-Cola bottle design over almost a century
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u/TartineMyAxe Jan 29 '23
Bring back the 1899 please
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u/curiosity0425 Jan 29 '23
Judging by these comments, we have a consensus on that. Let's start a petition
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u/BMagni Jan 29 '23
I can see Coca-Cola launching a limited edition set, scalpers get fed, normal people can't buy one.
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u/FistedWaffles123456 Jan 29 '23
there’s a certain line of mixers that coke sells somewhere in europe, looks pretty similar to this
link: https://www.coca-cola.co.uk/brands/coca-cola-signature-mixers
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u/equality7x2521 Jan 30 '23
They have them in the supermarket beside me but I didn’t notice the design so much, I’ll try and grab some more!
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u/HarryDepova Jan 29 '23
Would feel like I'm drinking a potion!
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u/756898 Jan 29 '23
Only if it has the cocaine in it
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u/CupcakeValkyrie Jan 30 '23
The original didn't really have enough cocaine to do much, and even then it wasn't "cocaine" the way you're thinking. Original Coca-Cola had trace amounts of extracts from the coca plant, which is where the name comes from, but cocaine is made by extracting and then refining and concentrating that extract. Coca extract in the form it was found in the original cola wasn't really any more stimulating than caffeine is.
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u/VictorRed Jan 30 '23
Are you sure?
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u/CupcakeValkyrie Jan 30 '23
Based on the research I've been able to dig up, yeah. Cocaine was legal back then and was sold for medicinal purposes, but medical-grade cocaine wouldn't be very pleasant in a soft drink. At those concentrations, it has a local anesthetic effect on mucus membranes (like other 'caine' drugs - novacaine, lidocaine, etc.) Drinking a soda with drug-grade cocaine in it would be like drinking a tube of Anbesol, and I doubt anyone would really enjoy that.
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u/RawrRRitchie Jan 30 '23
medical-grade cocaine wouldn't be very pleasant in a soft drink
Bold of you to assume that. Everyone has different tastes
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u/CupcakeValkyrie Jan 30 '23
While that's true, I think the general population wouldn't enjoy a product that makes your mouth numb, and Coca-Cola didn't become a household name and cultural icon by only appealing to a niche minority.
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u/ShitpostMamajama Jan 29 '23
Bring back the cocaine recipe too. The world’s already ending, why not let the people get a free bump with every coke purchase?
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u/theabstractengineer Jan 29 '23
How is the world ending?
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u/ShitpostMamajama Jan 29 '23
Nazis are back (https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/24/politics/proud-boys-cooperator-testifies/index.html)
Global warming (https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/GlobalWarming)
Overpopulation (https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/population)
Global resource deficit (https://www.eco-business.com/opinion/the-next-global-resource-crisis/)
Anything right wing
I mean fuck have you paid attention in the last four years? The gradual decline of global sanity? The amount of death, blood, and disease in the streets? The War in Ukraine? The WARCRIMES committed by Russia? Do I need to continue?
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u/evan_luigi Jan 29 '23
Dude quit being a doomer, the negativity is annoying. The world's in a pretty good spot all things considered, we've made a lot of progress.
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u/GinOkc Jan 29 '23
I took 5 minutes, didn’t see the world on fire, guess your windows face a different direction than mine
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u/GinOkc Jan 29 '23
Oh for shits sake mr Doom and gloom lighten up, this is Reddit, no one is going to take you serious. So go burn with the world or don’t.
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u/evan_luigi Jan 29 '23
It's pretty good relative to history, there are few times people would rather live in than the present. Anything past the last few decades is worse if you ask me.
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u/theabstractengineer Jan 29 '23
Wow, the propaganda really worked on you.
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u/ShitpostMamajama Jan 29 '23
Jesus you’re one of those people. I don’t have the energy to put up with you today. Go back to your hole. Don’t talk to me about propaganda when you’re the kinda person that blatantly ignores facts and statistics just because you have so little going for you in life you have to go against the grain of everything. You’re setting back societal progress you traffic cone of a human. Fuck off
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u/theabstractengineer Jan 29 '23
Traffic cone?
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u/ShitpostMamajama Jan 29 '23
You exist only to impede progress
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u/theabstractengineer Jan 29 '23
Aw, you're sweet!
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u/Alt_dimension_visitr Jan 30 '23
In other words guide humanity forward and keep people from danger.
Nice compliment actually
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u/Mjagos Jan 29 '23
He's got shitpost in his name. No sane person thinks the world is ending
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u/ToothyCamel420 Jan 29 '23
Humans have always been thinking the world is ending. Look at all the different concepts of apocalypse in entirely different religions over time. I personally don’t think the world is ending, but it has to somehow lie our nature. There was no time when people weren’t thinking the world is ending.
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u/Able-Ad-1332234234 Jan 29 '23
we need to bring back the first one
"honey, uncork your finest cola"
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u/b3ll3r2022 Jan 29 '23
Put the cocaine back in too.
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u/Paul-Smecker Jan 29 '23
Make Coca-Cola drugs again.
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u/nolongerbanned99 Jan 29 '23
Due to cost cutting, this will not be feasible. Now they will use speed or meth.
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u/Otlot Jan 29 '23
It would save them money, actually. Coke still uses coca leaves, but they pay to have the cocaine extracted so they can use the “spent” leaves in their drinks.
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u/nolongerbanned99 Jan 29 '23
This does not sound accurate. It’s just a bunch of sugar and artificial food chemicals.
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u/Otlot Jan 29 '23
After 1904, instead of using fresh leaves, Coca-Cola started using "spent" leaves – the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process with trace levels of cocaine.[74] Since then (by 1929[75]), Coca-Cola has used a cocaine-free coca leaf extract. Today, that extract is prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey, the only manufacturing plant authorized by the federal government to import and process coca leaves, which it obtains from Peru and Bolivia.
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u/PrincessHootHoot Jan 29 '23
I actually like the 1899 bottle. Looks like some kind of powerup lol
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u/MasbotAlpha Jan 30 '23
Oh, it was
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u/luvs2sploooj Jan 30 '23
HEY THERE! GOT A COKE? HAVEN’T HAD ONE IN A BIT. COULD USE ONE. OH LOOK IVE GOT ONE NOW! JUST GONNA DRINK THAT.
HEY ANY CHANCE YOU’VE GOT A COKE?
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u/Four_Duck_Snakes Jan 29 '23
SizeFlation?
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u/Devccoon Jan 29 '23
More like perspectiveflation. Don't know why they put each one further away, but it's not helping the comparison.
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u/jijiriri Jan 29 '23
1915 was really "round", I'm curious to hear what people knowledgeable in design could tell about it.
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u/Scarlet-Fire_77 Jan 29 '23
I remember reading that it barely went into circulation or at all. They turned out to be more prone to breakage in the crates because of the big curves. That's why only a year later, it was slimmed down.
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u/MaintenanceInternal Jan 29 '23
They need to release all of these as a Christmas set.
It's pretty much a necessity to have glass bottled Cokes in for Christmas and I would 100% buy a row of them like this.
Or a separate set with all the flavours, I cannot get normal vanilla coke anywhere.
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u/bazzanoid Jan 29 '23
https://imgur.com/a/bsCmGsp bonus little bottles for added coca-cola-ness
On my kitchen wall
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u/magicravioli Jan 29 '23
They could do what Irn Bru does with their 1901 flavour and release an “older” version of their colas in it. Like imagine the 1899 one with a remake of the actual version of Coca Cola from 1899 (minus the cocaine of course).
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u/CupcakeValkyrie Jan 30 '23
I've always wanted to try Irn Bru, but apparently their current recipe contains aspartame, which gives me headaches, so that sucks.
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u/International_Rip186 Jan 29 '23
1915 looks like someone had a fetish.
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u/milleribsen Jan 30 '23
I definitely have a couple of friends who have similar looking collections but of a completely different product.
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u/Chemical-Raven624 Jan 29 '23
When did they take the cocaine out?
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u/Legal-Software Jan 29 '23
Apparently it was part of the original formulation in 1886, and was completely gone by 1903.
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u/Wooden_Ad1779 Jan 29 '23
looking at the time spans we could see a new bottle design soon. exciting times.
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u/JeromesNiece Jan 29 '23
The first 17 years of this are doing most of the work of giving the impression of continual change. The design basically hasn't changed since 1916
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u/Zixinus Jan 29 '23
I would prefer the first one because it seems to contain most liquid for the given size and the cork allows it to be reusable.
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u/FlacidBarnacle Jan 30 '23
Had it right the first time. Just like everything else they couldn’t stop touching it and went blind.
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u/Key-Win-8602 Jan 30 '23
They’d have to change to top to make it safer, but I would start buying coke again for the 1899 bottle. In glass of course…
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u/NikkiBriar Jan 29 '23
When did they stop adding cocaine... I'm doing research
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u/AlarmedSnek Jan 29 '23
It’s tough to say because the coca cola museum in Atlanta denies that cocaine was ever used. You have to go to the Dr Pemberton museum in Columbus, GA to find out more about the original recipe. I went to it when I was stationed at Fort Benning but forgot that info.
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u/serphenyxloftnor Jan 29 '23
I would have said it got progressively worse with each design...but then there is the 1915 one. It looks atrocious.
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u/learning2greenthumb Jan 29 '23
Dr Pepper was out before Coca Cola, wonder what their bottle looked like
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u/cosi_bloggs Jan 29 '23
1899 is far and away the best, but the cork would be deemed a safety issue today. That's where we are as a society.
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u/BrilliantWeb4367 Jan 29 '23
1899 looks like a fragrance bottle.
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u/Low_Dream_1481 Jan 29 '23
Nah it looks like a potion that would make you shoot crows out of your hands
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u/ternic69 Jan 29 '23
Am I the only one that’s curious what the original one tasted like? Cocaine and all, with cane sugar etc. I have a suspicion it was quite delicious but guess none of us will ever know
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u/spookinky987 Jan 29 '23
If I recall, the designer of the Ferrari also designed the 1957 bottle. Discuss...
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u/ognnosnim Jan 29 '23
The first iteration (#1 on the left) looks so fancy imo! Kind of like a nice cognac bottle.
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u/Scarlet-Fire_77 Jan 29 '23
I have a couple of the 1900s. Of course the paper label is long gone. And they're more of a lighter amber color.
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u/lasvegashomo Jan 29 '23
I get why they moved away from original bottle design but it looks cool af. They need to upsale and make some more
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u/The_ManWithoutAPlan Jan 29 '23
1899 looks like it's gonna make me shoot crows outta my hands, I dig it
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u/BrisketOnABiscuit Jan 29 '23
That 1899 bottle looks fucking sick. They should bring those back with metal caps.
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u/jgalt5042 Jan 30 '23
Brown colored sugar water all the same. Why would anyone drink this poison is the real question.
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u/lordofedging81 Jan 30 '23
The 1899 one was flat, they made it without carbonation.
But it had cocaine.
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u/MBeebeCIII Jan 30 '23
I kinda like 1899 the best. Just 'cause it would feel the best working over my prostate...
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u/Gloworm02 Jan 30 '23
There’s a dash in 1957, and possibly some of the no paint labels. I can’t tell.
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u/PeyoteComputerFungus Jan 30 '23
I don't like coca cola but I would buy a bottle for collection if they remade the old bottles
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u/Psilocvbin Jan 30 '23
They probably have all costed the same lol Just keeps giving us less and less
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u/PSYOP_warrior Jan 30 '23
Not gonna lie, I would love to try the original "coke". I wonder how good the buzz was?
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u/Alistair_TheAlvarian Jan 30 '23
The one case where less cocaine made something thinner.
They removed cocaine around 1903
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u/Spirit_Miku Jan 30 '23
A left to right representation of coke in Coca-Cola to no coke in Coca-Cola
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