Posted on 12/26/2007 6:18:55 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
The problem is plastic softeners. It's found to affect the sexual orientation of animals—and maybe why a lot of Americans don't have grandchildren...if you get my drift.
It probably is a manufactured problem but everything does taste better coming from a glass. That is why when I use to drink beer, I prefered a bottle over a can. Milk from a glass bottle does taste better than from a plastic jug.
My dog would not drink out of a plastic water bowl we had in the house,but the stainless steel bowl outside he would drink his fill.
Yep! I’ve had a few idiosyncracies myself over the years. Most of mine centered around getting the job done and not obsessing over the small stuff.
Due to rising sugar prices (thanks to lobbying by the American sugar industry to restrict foreign competition), in the late seventies virtually all soda bottlers and candy makers went to fructose as a source for their sweetener. As a result the taste in all the products that transferred from sugar to fructose suffered including Coke. The switch from glass to plastic also hurt. Plastic and fructose. That's why Coke doesn't taste as good as it once did.
Perceptions are funny. In blind taste tests, people strongly preferred the taste of New Coke to "classic" Coke, but people just didn't like what they perceived as messing with an icon.
But other posters are right--switching away from sugar and glass has slightly altered the flavor, but it's probably less noticeable (at all, even?) in blind tests than it is by people who like to complain.
American females are trained from birth to fear life.
Woodmans grocery store in La Crosse, WI carries Coke in glass bottled in Mexico and made with sugar. It tastes just like Coke did 40 years ago. 12oz for $1.29, but worth it, especially since we drink perhaps one a month, each.
I first tasted it right after having my teeth cleaned and could _feel_ the sugar, so it will remain an infrequent, special treat.
Probably available anywhere they carry a good selection of ethnic foods.
yes, my wife buys me an occasional bottle. Plus Coke in Britain still has sugar. I drank a vat of it when I was over there last year.
Good idea...I will be, as well. My two children are also grown, and no grandchildren should be coming for some time (I hope : ).....but they'll be told about this when the time comes....
“So is methanol “
Of course, but methanol is not FDA, USDA, approved for food contact - PE is.
Funny, isn’t it?
Oh okay. But that would be as a packaging material, wouldn’t it? Plus, the bottles in question here, aren’t made of PE by itself. PE is translucent and soft. The other kind of polymer that’s brittle and transparent, is what’s mentioned in the article, IIRC.
“PE is translucent and soft. The other kind of polymer that’s brittle and transparent,”
Polycarbonate is mentioned - otherwise kind of known as plexiglas . Great for windows but no need to use it for food contact.
PE in its natural form is milk bottle plastic and is very safe.
HA...that 2nd article didn’t exude much positive in plastics.....
There have been studies out for a while on this plastic and many baby bottle manufactures starting quietly pulling the bottles off the shelves.
There also is a vary big concern about compounds in plastic that become estrogen like when exposed to heat. ,p> http://www.ecocycle.org/TimesFall2002/studentstudies.cfm
I have worked with plastics for over 10 years. My advice:
DO NOT COOK IN IT!!! Oven or Micro.
Do NOT expose food contained in it to heat.
Why take the chance?
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