Subj : soda pop
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sat Sep 03 2022 12:41:57

Hi Dave,

 RH> Guess it just depends on your taste and location.

 DD> What taste? Even the flavoured seltzers have very little taste. Just a
 DD> hint

Sometimes it's barely even a hint, other times, more pronounced. Partly
depends on the brand and intended flavor.

 DD> Polar is a Taxachussetts firm (Worcester, MA) since 1882. They have a
 DD> licence/franchise agreement with Keurig-Dr. Pepper and thus are now a

 RH> We got/drank the Polar water the 6 months we were stationed at Fort
 RH> Devens. Had to pay deposit on the cans so tried to keep consumption
 RH> down.

 DD> That will vary state-to-state. Some states have a can/container
 DD> deposit and others don't.* When I was a youngster soda (and beer)
 DD> bottles were
 DD> washed and reused. So, there was a bottle deposit charged if one took
 DD> them off the premises. That 2c per bottle wasn't a lot but it did add
 DD> up. I used to collect discarded soda bottles around my neighbourhood
 DD> and ca$h them in for movie or Dairy Queen money.

 RH> My parents didn't drink that much and never let us kids "scrounge"
 RH> bottles in the neighborhood. Bottles they emptied/returned were turned
 RH> back into grocery money.

 DD> What scrounging? It was clean-up. Or enterprise. Not much different
 DD> from mowing lawns or delivering newspapers.

Scrounging as in looking among weeds on the roadside. Back before
littering wasn't as much a "crime" as it is now and people blithely
discarded trash from moving vehicles.

 DD> *STATES WITH CONTAINER DEPOSIT LAWS; California, Connecticut, Hawaii,
 DD> Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Guam

 RH> The HI one came out while we were there; cut our (my) consumption
 RH> dramatically. I don't think we even filled one grocery (brown paper)
 RH> bag in the remaining 3 years we were over there.

 DD> The container deposit laws were designed to cut down on litter, waste,
 DD> and depletion of resources. Seems to have helped.   Bv)=

Depends; some people recycle their containers faithfully; others don't
care that much about getting their money back. In HI, after we stopped
buying a lot of recyclable containers, we just washed them out and
tossed them into a grocery bag. Our church youth group had a fundraiser
for camp the summer before we left, asked for recyclables so we donated
the bag and, IIRC, some $$ above what the cans would have brought.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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