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As a kid, I was really enamoured with Ernie's (?) Bert's (?) bottle cap collection on Sesame Street.
I gotta have me a Braino. It's all plugged up in there.
This reminds me of a book of Hungarian Matchbook design I found in Budapest.
What a find!
These are beautiful :)
No bottle cap discussion is complete without reference to the currency of Fallout!
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Bottle_caps
Minted Grape? Grape + Mint? Wow that sounds gross.
Jones Soda; Stewarts; Boylans; Rollies and many other soda companies continue the tradition of great bottle cap design.
(Stewarts, Boylans, and Rollies might be a regional northeastern US thing)
Reminds me of Kim Dietch's awesome graphic novella "Pictorama" about a crazed bottle cap collection and an LSD soda.
Soda Pop? I thought that was a Midwest nomenclature. Where did you grow up Mark?
'Soda Pop' is what you say when you want both coastal and Midwestern people to understand what you mean. It's 'soda' on both coasts and 'pop' in the middle. I've never been anywhere where people actually say 'soda pop'. (I haven't been everywhere, of course.)
Hooeezit: Colorado. That's what we called it there.
Did anyone else play a sidewalk game called Scully using bottle caps like these? You melted crayons in them for weight and beauty, then flicked them with thumb and index finger into numbered boxes drawn on sidewalk. A NYC game.
Crown Holdings, named for its first product, the crown bottle cap, has annual revenue of about $8,000,000,000 US.
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
In NZ people don't say soda or pop, but rather "fizzy drink". Although as we are saturated with American TV and culture, I'd say we would understand pop and soda adequately.
In Ireland and the UK, we'd mostly say "soft drink". We definitely do say "fizzy drink", but probably more in a your-granny-to-your-nephew kind of scenario.
Yes, the beauty of these old bottlecaps (many collectors refer to them as "crowns" is how I ended up with some 5,000 of them in cartons in my NYC apartment. BTW, 1972, I believe, is the cutoff date for cork-backed crowns in the US. After that they were plastic lined. Some people collect only cork-backs and limit themselves to either beer or soda.
Meanwhile Canadians, as far as this Canuck can tell, use "pop" far more than "soda", but either will be understood.
The English-speaking world, strangely seperated by a common tongue.
Actually, "soft drink" is probably still more common than either soda or pop in Canuckistan, now that Arkizzle's comment has prodded my brain to life...
"soft drink" would get you some odd looks in Canada. That's on par with "carbonated beverage", accurate, but no one talks like that.
For inquiring minds, see the pop/soda map:
http://popvssoda.com:2998/
Dr Haggis -
Having grown up in Quebec* and now Ontario, all anyone ever used was "soft drink."
*the English speaking part of it. I don't think I could walk in to any store in Toronto, order a "liqueur" and get served a can of Sprite.
You're all nuts. It's called *tonic*.
(I remember all the small bottlers there were when I was a kid; you could buy a case of mixed and matched bottles of tonic - not brand names, local - and then bring back the bottles when you ran out.)
I heard this on Modern Marvels: More steel is used yearly to make bottle caps than cars! That's crazy
Baughb
i've been told by a friend from Georgia that they would call all soda/pop/fizzy drink/soft drinks Coke. All of them. They could order a Coke in a restaurant then the server would ask, "What kind?"
As in:
"Can I start you out with some drinks today?"
"Yes, I'll have a large Coke, please"
"Sure, Ma'am. What kind would you like?"
"Sprite"
Can anyone from the south confirm this? Strikes this NYer as sheer lunacy!
My friend Jason Kaneshiro has documented his impressive collection of bottle caps on http://www.bottlecaporama.com/.
Almost 2500 now!
http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/
Nanner,
I'm from the deep south, and yes, every soda pop is called a Coke. Atleast this was the case until the late 80s when i moved north. Might be different now.
You may aslo dig:
http://www.glyphjockey.com/muzzles/index.htm
I was in Japan as a kid about 32 years ago IIRC and one thing that blew me away and still does was the Coke bottle caps. They had images of different Star Wars characters on the UNDERSIDE of the cap!!!!
That blows me away. I have never seen the like since, anywhere. It must have been really expensive and would probably be impossible now due to the stellar costs of the Star Wars license.
I'd like to know if any beverage known has this sort of thing.
Matt R
Looking at those caps, it seems that the taste of yesterday was more open to sour and bitter. The kids of today grow up in a much sweeter word. I say bring them the delight of quinine water and sour orange soda!
@20 Really? Never used that in western Canada. Maybe in a news report: "increased tax on soft drinks". But not in conversation. "Can I get you something to drink while I'm up?" "Yes a soft drink, please" Never heard it.
Again regional differences; see map.
Bert collected bottle caps.
DrHaggis,
Your sayin it all wrong!
Sof'drink :)