Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Aluminum bottles

I've gotten a number of stories about these bottles from a number of sources. If you see some factual errors I'd like to be corrected.

I got these over Christmas when I was in Kansas. If you look south south west of Wichita you'll see a small town called Clearwater. At the intersection of the two main streets through town you'll find a burger joint called Walt's. That's where I got these aluminum bottles.

Walt's is a chain that currently boasts only three restaurant, each of which is very different from the others. So it's very likely that the one in Clearwater is the only one of the three that sells these. As far as the staff knew they were not only the only Walt's selling them, but the only place selling them at all. At least that's what the Coke sales rep implied. He said these bottles were exclusive to them. He must mean from the Wichita bottling plant.

My brother said one of the major beer companies (one of those that sell horse piss and call it beer. Budweiser or someone) had been doing them with limited success so they stopped. Now Coke is trying to make use of the machine.

They're new enough and rare enough right now that you can still flip the bottles on eBay for a profit. And you know where to get them cheap.

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