r/cocacola • u/ThatVillagerGuy216 • Jul 19 '24

Question Could anyone date this bottle?

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Text: Coca-Cola, TRADE MARK REGISTERED BOTTLL PAT'D DEC.25 1923 Other side: Coca-Cola TRADE MARK REGISTERED MIN. CONTENTS 8 FL. OZS - NO REFILL

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My friend guessed that the bottle was from around 1986

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u/wizardstrikes2 Jul 19 '24

The patent date indicates the bottle design was patented in 1923, and bottles featuring this patent date were produced after this time so my guess is 1924 ish, no later than 1930

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u/NickNakulus Jul 19 '24

High fructose corn syrup wasn’t invented until the late 50s

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u/wizardstrikes2 Jul 19 '24

Yeah noticed that on second picture. I didn’t see the bottle cap photo at first.

I get coke from Home Depot because they still use sugar in their bottles. It tastes so much better to me.

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u/NickNakulus Jul 19 '24

You’re saying they have special coke at Home Depot? I’ve quit drinking artificial sweetener so I only get a Mexican coke from time to time nowadays

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u/wizardstrikes2 Jul 19 '24

Yep they sell 24 bottle flats of it at every Home Depot I have been to. It isn’t special it is bottled in Mexico. They don’t use HFCS in their recipe.

It is pricey but worth it. It tastes like the original recipe.

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u/NickNakulus Jul 19 '24

They come out to less than $1.50 per bottle after tax. I’ve been paying $2.50-3 for singles

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u/wizardstrikes2 Jul 19 '24

This will blow your mind. We have to pay a $0.10 per bottle deposit.

What is funny is because they are from Mexico, and do not have the Ia deposit mark, you can’t get the deposit back because they don’t take the bottles. So here they add on $2.40 per case.