{"id":82,"date":"2009-04-13T15:27:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T19:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=82"},"modified":"2009-04-13T15:27:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T19:27:45","slug":"coke-in-a-plastic-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2009\/04\/13\/coke-in-a-plastic-bag.html","title":{"rendered":"Coke in a Plastic Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

A page<\/a> from that ASV Yearbook<\/a> summoned a random childhood memory: We used to drink Cokes out of plastic bags. I thought nothing of it at the time but in retrospect it is something you probably do not see in America. Your Coke was served in a plastic bag if you did not want to pay for the bottle. Some folks would bring their own bottles to stores that sold Coca-Cola or other beverages. If you had no bottle but did not want to pay for one nor be bothered to carry it around then you’d get your Coke in a plastic bag. You might also be forced to get your Coke in a bag if bottles were scarce — some vendors had no bottles at all.<\/p>\n

A cursory web search find that this is common in the Phillipines, and apropos to nothing (though this is the real reason I wrote this) I find it impossible to get this sentence out of my mind:<\/p>\n

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As to whether it is hygienic or not, most people don’t care as long as their thirst gets quenched with the cold softdrink.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That sentence enchants me. In my day-to-day use of English I think "quenched" is not commonly used — nor for that matter is "thirst" — and "softdrink" is usually 2 words, not one. The intent of the above sentence was to be helpful but somehow it sounds like a sales pitch — in the way explanations of cultural idiosyncracies sometimes sound like sales jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A page from that ASV Yearbook summoned a random childhood memory: We used to drink Cokes out of plastic bags. I thought nothing of it at the time but in retrospect it is something you probably do not see in America. Your Coke was served in a plastic bag if you did not want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-181-2","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-1k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}