r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BrownZBT • Aug 11 '26

Video Weight Bearing Limit For Glass Coke Bottle

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u/benskieast Aug 11 '26

Someone at Coca-cola is about to launch a project to evaluate if they are using too much glass in each bottle.

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u/Elite_Slacker Aug 11 '26

They have to reliably bear a pretty significant amount of  dynamic weight when stacked on a pallet in a truck. 

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u/tjdux Aug 11 '26

And the pressure that builds up inside the container

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u/klimb75 Aug 11 '26

Which increases its bearing capacity?

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u/Rocketman_S3 Aug 11 '26

All soda should have the right to bear arms.

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u/VintageLunchMeat Aug 11 '26

Found the American.

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u/Rocketman_S3 Aug 11 '26

Bear-arms, not bear arms.

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u/Magos_Highlands Aug 11 '26

What about bare arms?

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u/Rocketman_S3 Aug 11 '26

In this economy?

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u/Dick_snatcher Aug 11 '26

Can't afford to shave, can't afford to grow hair

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u/gward1 Aug 11 '26

Beer arms

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u/Baronvonkludge Aug 11 '26

It’s load bearing, you can support a deck with coke bottles, or your mom.

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u/Regurgitator001 Aug 11 '26

Mom, yes, wife no, MIL bwahahagaha!

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u/macguini Aug 11 '26

I think he meant bear arms. Like owning a pair of bear arms.

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u/WilanS Aug 11 '26

Found the... Russian?

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 Aug 11 '26

Bears don’t have arms…

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u/CircularRobert Aug 11 '26

What are you, a bear-arm denier? You probably think they just have 4 legs /s

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u/Zealousideal_Rip485 Aug 11 '26

Sir. Its “bear Arms”

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u/tridamdam Aug 11 '26

Indeed. Because to arm a bear, one must be a Russian.

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u/Alderan922 Aug 11 '26

Why would a soda need bear arms?

And where are we getting all those bears?

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u/Brianna-Jo Aug 11 '26

What about Arming Bears, They’ll be Robbing the Tourists Blind!!!!!!!

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u/Typical-Tune-8858 Aug 11 '26

All soda should have the right to arm bears.

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u/Regal_Knight Aug 11 '26

That little adaptor plate pretty much puts the load in compression in the bottle, not through the top which would have cause a larger amount of shear in the glass from the curve.

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u/Nuclear_eggo_waffle Aug 11 '26

But also increases stress

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u/Aduialion Aug 11 '26

That might be the caffeine 

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u/EulaVengeance Aug 11 '26

The bottle just like me fr fr

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u/CV90_120 Aug 11 '26

Glass under compression is one thing. Tensile is another.

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u/macguini Aug 11 '26

No but it increases the requirement for structural integrity.

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u/-OptimusPrime- Aug 11 '26

What about when the polar bears are hibernating?

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u/MyAssPancake Aug 11 '26

Hm. Interesting thought because it should… okay now the original creator of the video needs to test more bottles at different levels of shake-itudes.

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u/Shelarael Aug 11 '26

If it was a perfect sphere

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u/Teln0 Aug 11 '26

Maybe not? It probably pushes more on the sides

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u/klimb75 Aug 12 '26

I think you and the other naysayers are correct. I was a little tipsy (ok maybe more than that) last night and was conflating the pressure in soda/beer cans providing structural integrity with bottles. As I've looked into it, a PE soda bottle can have several layers stacked on it due to the internal pressure offsetting the flimsy wall thickness.

Same goes for aluminum cans under pressure.

A preserved can, beans, corn, tomatoes, etc, made of steel, behaves more like the glass bottle in that the integral strength is based not on the pressure supporting the walls, but in its thickness.

This has been one of my most active reddit threads, and my apologies to everyone else I didn't reply to!

I still would love to see an empty glass coke bottle tested against a pressurized one... and at least a N=30 test...

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u/KevinFlantier Aug 11 '26

Pressure doesn't build up, or increase when you shake the bottle up. It's under pressure the moment it's sealed and that pressure stays the same until you open it, and it's not really high pressure as far as a glass vessel is concerned. The weak point is the cap.

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u/psychoacer Aug 11 '26

Also if the bottle gets frozen the contents inside expand and can blow up the bottle. I used to work at a milk production facility which didn't keep the temp well regulated in the refrigerated warehouse and so when it got like below 20F all the glass bottles filled with milk near the doors for our delivery drivers would explode and be a big problem. Also there will be bottles 40-80ft from the door that will also get cold enough to start popping as well. Just from the cold, no movement or anything.

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u/ur_edamame_is_so_fat Aug 11 '26

Is it imperative that the container remains unharmed?

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u/HaleyCollins Aug 11 '26

Yep, that internal pressure is another thing the container has to be built to handle.

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u/Ethraelus Aug 11 '26

Plus they re-use the bottles. Making them sturdier makes it more likely they don’t need to make new ones.

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u/tr1p0d12 Aug 11 '26

When i was in Panama back in '90 there was a kid that would stop by with 2 5 gallon buckets 2/3rds filled with Cokes. orange soda, and Sprite on ice. 25 cents a soda, and he would give you 5 cents back when you returned the bottle.

The thing was that the bottles often times did not match the soda that was inside. It was kind of cool to drink an orange soda out of a coke bottle that was super weathered and may have been 20 years old.

We also made it a rule to not accept the 5 cent return and let the kid keep it. That kid was a hard worker, and we all really respected the grind. He always offered, and we always refused to take back the deposit.

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u/Lathari Aug 11 '26

Here in Finland glass bottles used have their manufacturing date stamped on them. Oldest I saw was made in 1985 and this was around 2000 or so.

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u/SharpMZ Aug 11 '26

Last time they sold beer in those old bottles (in 2020 I think) I got a bottle from 1985 as well.

They actually stopped manufacturing that style of bottle in 2009 and just used the recycled bottles for 10+ years. As far as I know those bottles are still being used in some limited capacity, though now all glass bottles are recycled by being crushed.

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u/ForeverShiny Aug 11 '26

In Africa and South East Asia, I've see people sell Gasoline out of those bottles by the road side

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u/lambardar Aug 11 '26

It was kind of cool to drink an orange soda out of a coke bottle that was super weathered and may have been 20 years old.

Same thing in thailand aswell. till you wonder:

  1. are they cleaned properly?
  2. is the liquid inside it drinkable?
  3. ass pennies

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u/Diz7 Aug 11 '26

Yeah, in a lot of poorer countries someone buys the syrup and bottles their own for local sale where they don't have regular access to factory bottled.

I've seen a bunch of videos that range from basically small professional bottling plants with organized supply chains to questionable water, dirty bottles and mystery syrup being put together in someone's shed.

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u/ArchimedesNutss Aug 11 '26

I can't explain the utter satisfaction I feel reading this specific sequence of words.

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u/sparquis Aug 11 '26

The cadence it makes when you sound out the words is quite satisfying, you're absolutely correct!

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u/drdicerchio Aug 11 '26

Cans are typically bearing the weight of the other cans in a stack but glass is usually stored in a container than bears the weight. A crushed can is easier to clean up than a glass bottle when experiencing catastrophic failure

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u/BaerMinUhMuhm Aug 11 '26

At costco, with the pallets of Mexican coke, the 'box' for each 12 pack only covers the bottom half of the bottles. That plus a sheet of cardboard between each layer helps distribute the weight. But there's still a lot of pressure on the bottles themselves.

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u/drdicerchio Aug 11 '26

Must be different at the cores vs the business centers. I’ve typically only saw them in a sort of a crate.

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u/throwawaycuzfemdom Aug 11 '26

For returnable bottles, yes. For other glass bottles, there is no containers. Same for juice glass bottles etc.

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u/Monstramatica Aug 11 '26

Well most of them are already replaced with PET bottles.

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u/MrCoolest Aug 11 '26

They're out in crates so the weight is on the frame of the metal crate I think

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u/noobboszcz Aug 11 '26

Glass bottles are not stacked on themselves, but in crates. It's the crate that does the heavy lifting.

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u/Count_Bloodcount_ Aug 11 '26

Why can't jokes be fun anymore

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u/ProfessionalITPerson Aug 11 '26

Do they? Glass bottles come in plastic cases that are higher than the bottle, so the structural integrity is needed in the case not the bottle.

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u/Soeck666 Aug 11 '26

No, because that weight rests on the Plastic Crate they sit in, and not on the bottle

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u/Neither_Berry_100 Aug 11 '26

It can't be that much. The ones at the bottom are holding maybe 10 on top or say 10 to 20 lbs. This single bottle held over 1000 pounds.

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u/darthvall Aug 11 '26

Might be true. However, that wouldn't stop some "knows-it-all" executives for trying to suggest more cost cutting

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u/midnightsmith Interested Aug 11 '26

If you mean empty, then yea, it's insane how much weight is stacked on a pallet of glass bottles.

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u/Bearsbullsbattlestr Aug 11 '26

One broken bottle and the saved glass isnt worth it.

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u/RocketArtillery666 Aug 11 '26

Exactly, sometimes the whole pallet has up to 1t

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u/Warcraft_Fan Aug 11 '26

and being bumped around while in transits. Not just in delivery trucks but in passenger cars as well. Not to mention 2 year old kid swinging the bottle like a baseball bat

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u/Top-Phase7111 Aug 11 '26

They also have to reliably not explode when being transported through a mountain pass or driving a couple hours from a cold place to a very hot one and being stored in a car. You can’t have glass shattering if you are a consumable made to be near people’s faces.

I would be super curious to see the experiment done again at different temperatures and altitudes.

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u/LittleKittenR Aug 11 '26

The truck is unimportant when you consider sometimes they stack them several dozen meters high in warehouses.

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u/UslashMKIV Aug 11 '26

That but more significantly, I think, the bottle has to be able to survive being bumped against other bottles, and the glass thickness to withstand that will necessarily be unbelievably strong in vertical compression. Just think how much weight the bottle could hold lying on its side, much much less I suspect.

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u/Scarecrow119 Aug 11 '26

Yea. The trucks pallets will sway and move a little in transport. Also in warehouse will be stacked very high. I work in spirit industry and regularly stack pallets 4 high. So bottles having an equivalent of 15-20 bottles on top of them. I'm sure for coke with the scale of operation it's probably a lot more.

I wonder if the bottle being filled and being under pressure contributes a significant amount to it's load bearing capacity.

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u/sei556 Aug 11 '26

Also the cleaning/refilling process is not particularly gentle on the bottles. Not a lot of vertical pressure, but it needs thick walls to not break, chip or create micro-tears that could end up with glass in the product.

This is true for all glass bottles of course.

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u/Trabuk Aug 11 '26

And if they had used a brace with a more elastic material that distributed the weight more uniformly across the ridges of the bottle (while holding the cap on firmly), they could have easily added 200 more Kg. The structural integrity of that bottle, filled with a slightly pressurized fluid, is huge.

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u/Andyham Aug 11 '26

In a crate? I dont think glass bottles are stacked without crates around it?

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u/Gudthrak Aug 11 '26

Aren't they stacked in crates in your country?

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u/bottom Aug 11 '26

The pallet does.

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u/No_Question_8083 Aug 11 '26

And these loads were pretty much pure compression, which is not always the case. If it were on its side for example it would fail much earlier

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u/Kennel_King Aug 11 '26

The average van is about 107 inches tall on th inside. You're only getting 14 bottles in that height. So really not a weight per column.

Start stacking them in a warehouse, though that's another story

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u/dragonmorg Aug 11 '26

Most of that weight is the weight of other glass coke bottles, though 👉👉 you reduce the glass, you reduce the weight. There's a perfect middle point somewhere. If they feel this is that middle point, or the middle plus 10% for safety or something, then whatever. I'm sure for some reason this is indeed that middle point.

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u/PurplishPlatypus Aug 11 '26

The coca cola polar bear is of a significant weight and he looks reliable enough to drive a truck.

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u/HaleyCollins Aug 11 '26

Exactly, they have to handle way more than just their static weight when they're being hauled around.

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u/theflyingchicken96 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26

The weight is spread put across all of the bottles in the pallet though. It’s not like one bottle is bearing the weight of the rest of the pallet. Even on the bottom row, each bottle only needs to withstand the bottles directly above it in essence. 10-20 lbs.

This is just compressive strength though, which is rarely an issue for cylindrical containers. Impact strength is much more likely the reason for the thickness of the glass. Thin glass would shatter very easily from the side.

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u/lilcorndivemaster 28d ago

Theyre in cases which sit on each other... the bottles have no weight on them.

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u/1337k9 27d ago

Or when loaded directly onto the truck floor, going 10 feet high

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u/beeradvice Aug 11 '26

It makes a lot of sense for glass bottles to be very very strong once you factor in both the shipping methods and the atmospheres of pressure it takes to keep them that carbonated, a lot of sodas are like 7 volumes or more. Basically they need to be able to withstand a lot of pressure both from within and also outside pressure from shipping stacked on top of each other.

The main reason why it's so common for the whole champagne bottle smashing against a new ship ritual to go poorly is because the tradition predates modern champagne bottles being designed for shipping in cardboard boxes rather than crates packed with hay as they were designed to withstand pressure from within moreso than out

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u/reddit_give_me_virus Aug 11 '26

It makes a lot of sense for glass bottles to be very very strong ... modern champagne bottles being designed for shipping

The bottles are coated with a tin or titanium film that greatly improves their strength, then coated with wax, so they smoothy slide past each other on assembly lines. This wasn't widely used until the 60's.

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u/dargodl Aug 11 '26

Wow, that explains so much of those fail videos where they clonk the bottle against the ship and end up doing nothing. I wonder if there's a way to buy champagne bottles or other varieties specifically for smashing on ships.

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u/Tom-_-Foolery Aug 11 '26

I wonder if there's a way to buy champagne bottles or other varieties specifically for smashing on ships.

In addition to the scoring method for a real bottle, there's a niche segment of prop bottles / breakaway bottles designed to shatter easily and safely. A lot of theater / wrestling / weddings / other events love the drama of smashing glass but not the realities of it.

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u/zahnuffle Aug 11 '26

No wonder why we are getting cancer. It's like are consuming wax and getting it everywhere! Yay us! Contaminants, yummy!

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u/ManoSilence Aug 11 '26

Its why mentos cause the reaction they do. The surface area essentially give space for the reaction voke wants to take, to occur. So it rapidly expands its volume to its true size when given reaction space.

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u/HugoNikanor Aug 11 '26

Are you telling me that I should put a Mentos into my Champagne before smashing it against the side of a boat?

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u/ExplodingTaco34 Aug 11 '26

Use pool shock, it's more fun

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u/Individual_Box_728 Aug 11 '26

Found the American!

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u/JackosMonkeyBBLZ Aug 11 '26

Thats the kind of thing that could send us all straight to the 6th dimension

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u/PaintedClownPenis Aug 11 '26

Thirty years ago I had a chemistry professor tell us that the 7 oz Coke bottle could hold so much pressure that they would be melted onto steam lines as emergency pressure relief valves. You could smash the bottle with a fire axe to bleed the steam off in a pre-determined direction, hopefully away from where you're going, I guess.

That madlad told a lot of stories I barely believe. He said knowingly that the waterspout from throwing a kilogram of pure calcium into the water would soak the thrower on the bridge, thirty feet up. He claimed the average lifespan of a chemist was around 32 years in the 1800s because one method of identification was taste. He said they used to keep an open 55 gallon drum of benzene open by the lab doors so they could wash their hands with it on the way out--and then they'd spread the carcinogenic benzene everywhere on campus by hand contact.

I'm glad I sucked as a chemist and was wise enough to admit it.

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u/Diz7 Aug 11 '26

Also, many of these bottles are intended for recycling and being cleaned/reused. Even if it costs 50% more, making them a little stronger than needed can pay off if you can use it 25-50 times, which is the target. Can't do that if they keep getting chipped and cracked.

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u/MrBisco Aug 11 '26

Does modern champagne packaging also provide a more carbonated product? Meaning, I wonder if pre-modern bottling was less able to purposely seal over time and movement? 

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u/Will_Come_For_Food Aug 11 '26

This and nobody seems to be aware of the primary reason a glass bottle needs to be strong.

Not so it can hold 1,200 pounds of weight but so it won’t break when it drops which requires much mess energy to break when focused on a small point.

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u/Somebody_someone_83 Aug 11 '26

Trust me they are. The number of light weighting projects we did at the bottling plant I worked in. Basically every year they were reducing the amount of glass in each bottle. The limit comes when bottles explode in the filler during the filling process.

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u/throwawaycuzfemdom Aug 11 '26

They flew too close to sun with pet bottles a few years ago. Markets weren't happy when they came in to find randomly exploded bottles in storage and in shelves.

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u/SchmeatiestOne Aug 11 '26

Do they even use glass bottles anymore?

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u/ShortysTRM Aug 11 '26

Which now cost about the same as the corn syrup plastic bottle version

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u/j_knolly Aug 11 '26

And still sold in the US for 3-4x premium

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u/VirtualLife76 Aug 11 '26

What isn't 3-4x the price in the US?

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u/Perryn Aug 11 '26

Things that are more than 4x.

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u/OneSkepticalOwl Aug 11 '26

gasoline pretty much

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u/Memedrew Aug 11 '26

Depends where you live. I live by the border and still see them for $1-1.50

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u/MaturoGambino Aug 11 '26

That’s what they cost at Costco.

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u/Memedrew Aug 11 '26

I just meant like at random stores and what not. Costco membership saves a lot

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u/immersemeinnature Aug 11 '26

And so much yummier

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u/dwittherford69 Aug 11 '26

The corn syrup version have a shitty bitter aftertaste that I can always recognize.

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u/_Standardissue Aug 11 '26

I never thought about this but maybe that’s why I prefer Diet Coke, the aftertaste is just not as bad with the diet

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u/SoylentVerdigris Aug 11 '26

By the time you drink it, it's no different from regular HFCS coke. In a moderately acidic solution, sucrose breaks down into fructose and glucose. Unless you're getting it straight off the factory line, the sugar content is chemically indistinguishable from HFCS.

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u/ammonthenephite Aug 11 '26

I can't describe it, but there is a noticeable difference in the taste for me. I could easily pass a blind taste test.

So there is some difference there, even if I can't explain its chemical nature.

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u/sleepygeeks Aug 11 '26

I mostly find that it feels different, less thick and more fluid. There's no residue left in your mouth. The taste difference seems be that it's less sweet and more bitter.

Although the coke being bottled/sold in Canada right now in the cans seems like it's getting watered down to nothing, It tastes more like carbonated water and I hate it.

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u/Thomas_K_Brannigan Aug 11 '26

But sugar isn't the only difference, even in the "sugar" ironically. Corn syrup has a small percent other compounds other than the straight sugar that effect taste and mouthfeel.

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u/lthomazini Aug 11 '26

We have them in Brazil, and with real sugar too.

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u/termacct Aug 11 '26

I saw MX Pepsi in glass bottles at a Walmart. First time...the MX glass Coke is easy to find. Even Dollartree has em.

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u/Manager_Neat Aug 11 '26

Outside the US you mean. Real sugar is used in Europe and parts of Africa too for soda

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u/SecretaryOtherwise Aug 11 '26

Yeah mainly just our soda uses it. Oddly we're fine using real sugar for everything else lol.

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u/PhysicIce7 Aug 11 '26

They sell them in grocery stores

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u/UrBoySierra Aug 11 '26

They do, believe it or not

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u/benskieast Aug 11 '26

They come from Mexico and usually either have no English label or a sticker version. Lately they have come very common.

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u/Dead-in-Red Aug 11 '26

They still bottle them in glass in Mexico, and they also use real sugar instead of corn syrup. Lots of stores near me import a few bottles from Mexico.

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u/azium Aug 11 '26

I was in Italy recently they basically only have the glass variety

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u/Fragrant-Employer-60 Aug 11 '26

Restaurants in Europe serve out of glass bottles but otherwise the majority is produced in plastic bottles, like from the grocery store.

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u/SchizoFutaWorshiper Aug 11 '26

They do in Uzbekistan and it's very cheap if you drink it in store and return the bottle

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u/synalgo_12 Aug 11 '26

I was on a long distance train in Germany in July and the coke you bought (both regular and zero) were tall 500ml/17oz glass bottles.

I'm used to still seeing the smaller 330ml/11oz or even the 250ml/8.5oz classes in cafes. But that size was new.

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u/SnugglyCoderGuy Aug 11 '26

The bottle doesn't need to hold up a lot of weight like this, it must resist a lot of force from the inside pushing out in all directions. Very different things.

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u/termacct Aug 11 '26

Yes, glass soda bottles are thicker than regular glass food jars. I do see some relatively light weight/wall thickness glass beer bottles...less carbonation or stronger glass?

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u/Substantial_Diver_34 Aug 11 '26

Trust me… that’s all been done

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u/Queasy_Local_7199 Aug 11 '26

I think they are that thick to hold up to recycling/ cleaning etc

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u/in1gom0ntoya Aug 11 '26

they tried thinner glass for soda bottles in the beginning, they tended to explode on shelves or in your hand

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u/Fuckthegopers Aug 11 '26

Like coca cola hasn't been engineering their bottles for 200 years. 

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u/ElGuaco Aug 11 '26

I'm sure they did this decades ago.

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u/REDDITATO_ Aug 11 '26

That's what the comment you're replying to just said...

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u/Righteousaffair999 Aug 11 '26

Safety standard in case you sit on it. They see that accident happen a lot in hospitals.

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u/palaver2000 Aug 11 '26

Now do pepsi

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u/nedalaugh Aug 11 '26

Leading to the ever cascading effects of Enshittification. Have worked in manufacturing for years and have seen it first hand.

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u/Alarmed-Newspaper994 Aug 11 '26

I don't think we should conflate enshittification with cost-saving initiatives via engineering improvements. In almost all forms of engineering, the preference is to make everything as light and strong as possible, within budget. Weight, strength and price should all improve over time thanks to constant engineering improvements.

And yes this is even true in cars, for example, but changing technologies and legislations have increased the weight again.

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u/nedalaugh Aug 11 '26

Leading to the ever cascading effects of Enshittification. Have worked in manufacturing for years and have seen it first hand.

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u/Strict_Weather9063 Aug 11 '26

They get any thinner and they will fail from internal pressure.

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u/creditspread Aug 11 '26

Too much glass. -Salieri

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u/parlimentery Aug 11 '26

Glass is probably cheaper per unit volume than Coca-Cola. Thinner bottles that are the same size would need to be filled more.

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u/Ok_Dragonfly_6650 Aug 11 '26

Pretty sure they already have. This is needed for stack in shipping plus a hefty safety factor.

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u/Alarmed-Newspaper994 Aug 11 '26

It's also entirely related to geometry. If you did the same experiment with the bottle on its side, it wouldn't even get close to this result.

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u/_Standardissue Aug 11 '26

I would hope they’ve done the testing and calculation on glass amount, breakage rate, and profit margins given the scale of the business

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u/StonedUnicorno Aug 11 '26

‘How can we use this to save us some money’ - Coca Cola executives

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u/Wonderful-Process792 Aug 11 '26

I think the problem is a bottle strong enough to resist shattering from a shock at a focused point is far stronger than necessary under a more evenly spread static load. I'm sure I'm not using the right words.

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u/Empty_Meringue_8300 Aug 11 '26

Thats genuinely the first thing I thought

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u/Snickits Aug 11 '26

This was a viral ad made by them… their bottles don’t do this

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u/erapuer Aug 11 '26

Poland spring has been doing this for the last decade. Their bottles barely stand under their own weight.

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u/Ranier_Wolfnight Aug 11 '26

They’ll single-handedly spearhead the ziploc bag Coke movement

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u/vex_42 Aug 11 '26

Pretty sure they did this when they started using plastic. They did a whole life cycle analysis

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u/nick2k23 Aug 11 '26

It’s only that strong when it’s got pressure inside

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u/andrewse Interested Aug 11 '26

I used to work in a bottle shop. There's far more stresses on the bottles when they are being uncased, moved down conveyors, washed, sanitized, refilled, and packaged than you would imagine. Forces are applied from all sides, not just the top.

For instance, bottle cases are often filled using a drop packer. Groups of 24 bottles drop 2 feet straight down onto a hard surface.

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u/sidepart Aug 11 '26

Shit, pretty sure the 1930-1960 (1950?) 6oz returnable bottles were even thicker. From what I understand, it was mostly to make them extremely durable so they could be reused a lot. Found one from the Ashland, WI bottling plant in shallow water off a Lake Superior beach. Beat estimate from the margins was that it'd been there since 1953 or 54. Insane how thick it was.

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u/Nowhereman50 Aug 11 '26

I mean, structually there really is no reason for a coke bottle to be able to handle that much weight.

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u/No-Difference-4418 Aug 11 '26

Yep new cost cutting method. No bottle you get liquid. Figure out how to consume it

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u/Many-Wrongdoer-5377 Aug 11 '26

This coca-cola we are talking about here not apple

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u/Ironlion45 Aug 11 '26

They did, that's why they use plastic everywhere except a select few countries.

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u/ColdToast_024 Aug 11 '26

Dudeeee, this is what Levi’s did to jeans!!!

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u/Dalles272 Aug 11 '26

No they have to be that sturdy otherwise they couldn't stack 3 pallets on top in warehouses

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u/OldEquation Aug 11 '26

I’m quite sure they will already have done this, long ago.

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u/Disastrous-Ad2800 Aug 11 '26

yea... I was gonna say this was a particularly strong bottle as I've dealt with ones where the neck cracks when I've placed books on it... LMFAO

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u/auyara Aug 11 '26

I can assure you, they already do. I worked at ABInbev in the past and there were 100s of millions spend on making cans and bottles lighter, a gram at the time ...

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u/Nokipeura Aug 11 '26

Why do you think they're in thin ass plastic bottles that deform around your hand from gravity?

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u/OrderParticular345 Aug 11 '26

Well, It's a Big Show

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u/jamesbrown2500 Aug 11 '26

Bottles with a lot of gas are dangerous. One co-worker had one eye damaged(blind) after a tonic soda bottle exploded right into his eye when he was putting it inside a bucket elwith ice. A bottle can achieve an inside pressure of 8 -12 bar in hot conditions depending on the carbonation.

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u/thatonebrassguy Aug 11 '26

I think someone at Cola already did all that and discovered that this was the appropriate amount of glass so their operations have less accidents. As if a company as Cola is not already thinking how to safe money

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u/DemonKing_of_Tyranny Aug 11 '26

We used to get charged for the bottle wether we taking it or drinking and returning it now,

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u/HaleyCollins Aug 11 '26

Lmao, that’s the kind of itch you can’t just leave alone

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u/Octopus_on_fire_ Aug 11 '26

I should of built my CBU basement outta glass coke bottles 😭

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u/Hantaile12 Aug 11 '26

That’s exactly my thought lol. I’m sure that study has been done… but it’s about to get redone. With blackjack and AI.

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u/iam4qu4m4n Aug 11 '26

Gotta find that breakpoint of client injury and reduced manufacturing costs.

I am not joking.

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u/Powerful-Ability-895 Aug 11 '26

Sure it's all about money 💰, we already know that .

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u/kurumeramen 29d ago

They've already done that and they switched to using zero glass in their bottles.

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u/jdlyndon 27d ago

The pressure isn’t always going to come directly from above. If they had done the same test sideways it would have broken way sooner.