• Ooops@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    TIL: Aluminium bottles are a thing.

    Up until now I only knew thick reusable plastic, thin recycleable plastic and reusable glas as the usual materials for bottles.

    Edit: Oh, wait… I’m stupid. I simply forgot that cans exist as I haven’t drunken cola from a can in decades.

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        15 hours ago

        Jokes aside… how common are cans in the US still?

        The thing still often seen in cans here are energy drinks. And those are fittingly often “non-standard sizes” (basically adapted from US sizes with less filling, for example 12 oz -> ⅓ L) that never existed when cans (¼ and ½ L being the normal sizes) where still more common.

        Ohh, and cheap beer…

        But I have honestly not touched a coca cola can for more than two decades.

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          11 hours ago

          Cans are incredibly common if you’re buying in any quantity. You can get flats of 24 or more. You aren’t really buying them at that quantity in plastic usually. No one other than wholesale places would sell that many in plastic that either. It’s almost all 6s or 8s