HeyBub wrote:
Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
aemeijers wrote:

The cost of the beer is trivial- what you are buying is the
experience. And for a certain subset of bars and/or beer drinkers,
long-necks are a vital part of the experience. Think bars where most
of the people are wearing hats. The washing and refilling is not
expensive- that is mostly automated. What is expensive is hauling
the empties back and sorting and inspecting them. Lotsa fuel burned,
lotsa manual labor.

(Even for those of us who don't insist on glass, look at the cost per
ounce in a keg, once you get the deposit back, versus the cost in
cans sold retail. The beer is close to free- you are paying mostly
for the shipping and the handling of the containers.)

I understand and concur, but still don't see the difference between
refilling a coke bottle and refilling a beer bottle, that would make
the one economically viable and the other one not.

The residual alcohol in beer kills all the badness. All the beer company has
to do is shake out the obvious cigarette butts.

The Coke company has to autoclave their bottles so our precious snowflakes
won't contract Chastic Fibrosis (a disease usually found in foxes).

Bottom line: It's for the children.


Isn't Chastic Fibrosis that disease first discovered in the country
of Framistan?

TDD