Beer bottles
After another broken beer bottle inspired flat tyre this morning, I am left asking the question of just why beer is still sold in glass bottles? It seems every other drink you can buy is sold in plastic bottles these days, and I've never heard of people getting drunk and smashing orange juice or milk bottles on the street. I've heard the argument that "it tastes different in plastic", but can anyone really tell the difference after three beers? If they're that worried, they could always go to the pub and drink it from a glass there. In any case, nobody seems to care that my mineral water will "taste different" so why do beer drinkers get special concern here? I suspect it's because the government is worried about hurting their tax revenue from the excise on the sale of alcohol.
Do we have to wait until a child with parents who aren't actually alcoholics (a rare commodity these days) sustains a serious injury from treading on broken beer bottle glass? Well, in this day and age the parents would probably just be labelled as "do-gooders" and told to f*ck off anyway. That seems to be the attitude to anyone who actually cares about drunks running around, smashing bottles, brawling or running people down in their cars. In fact, that seems to be the attitude of the general public to anyone who really cares about anything at all these days.
In slightly better news, I have finally managed to get hold What the sea wants, the sea will have, the lastest release from Sarah Blasko. You can take a listen to the CD of the year here, and I definitely recommend it.
posted by Chris L @ 6:39 pm
4 Comments:
I'm constantly amazed at the amount of glass smashed on the side of the road. I do prefer the taste of beer from a bottle but I'd be more than happy if that were only available in cans if it stopped the endless trails of glass on the roads.
Beer tastes like ass, so it doesn't matter to me what container its in! :-)
Rodney -- would you believe I didn't even think of cans when I wrote this rant? I had been thinking more along the lines of plastic bottles, but cans are probably just as useful.
Allez -- I agree 100%. :)
Um, I like beer, but beer or cans, it doesn't really make much difference in taste. In fact, Newcastle tastes better from a can.
Plastic, though, tastes like ass. Though the only time I've had it was a few times at major sporting events or concerts, or kegers, though those don't really count. If the beer's been stored in plastic, it's nasty.
Give me a flask of whiskey over it any day.
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