Fun facts about the japanese version: it was brought over with Admiral Perry's black ships, and given to Japanese as a gift, containing carbonated lemonade. The Japanese asked what it was, the Americans said "lemonade" which the Japanese misheard and transliterated as "Ramune". They then tried to make their own, using the same style bottles that the first ones were brought over with.(You can also buy Ramune in conventional plastic bottles, but the novelty style seems to be more popular overall.)
@@daudlozano9176 Ah, it's been a whole since I watched Dagashikashi! iirc the name is a pun because "dagashi" and "kashi" both mean "snack/junk food" but "daga" and "shikashi" both mean "however/also". Of course, I might just be an idiot. I also remember having the headcanon that the reason everyone's irises were so small was that they were hopped up on sugar, except coffee girl who is obviously hopped up on caffeine... I really need to watch that show again, I don't even remember if I finished it.
@@Subreon it's a slice of life about a boy who runs a traditional candy/snack/junkfood shop in rural Japan. Apparently it's famous nationwide, and a girl shows up trying to buy the shop out for some huge megacorporation, and a couple times an episode she goes into rants about the history behind some popular candy or snack. It's meant to be both entertaining and informative.
I find it so delightful that you spent the effort researching and making a video about how the bottle works and why it was invented, despite not knowing about it when you posted the short. It's so annoying whenever people post a question in a Short and never give the answer. Great video!
My pet peeve is when they say 'follow for part 2' When they know damn well they have 'part' 2 already available and could've put the whole thing in there. Wasting my time isn't going to make me want to subscribe. This on the other hand..
@@SpaghettioH “Follow for a part 2” Trash creator: Either doesn’t upload a part 2 or hides it within 20,000 other shorts… Me: *Don’t recommend this channel*
Something that my friend and I used to do with these was chuck them into the freezer for a bit. Now, there is a risk in this as freezing carbonated drinks in glass might make them explode, like beer can. However, when we would throw them into the freezer, they didn't seem to freeze until we took them out and popped the ball seal. They would then rapidly freeze before our eyes. fun to watch.
You call that nucleation… and he trisk of it exploding in the freezer is the reason why is doesnt freeze including some additives.. it freezes when the temprature/pressure ratio. is equal or lower to freeze point
@@cowsagainstcapitalism347 think we have a daredevil out here. What if the marble inside those flasks become canonballs, that would make a cool toy out of them xD
It's the flash freeze effect, there have been a lot of videos covering the topic, and it's always been an interesting phenomenon I've always wanted to play with, but my freezer isn't quite cold enough to get consistent results. But it's cool you and your friend discovered it with no prior knowledge.
@@ngoway9808 no its not the same way it does it different from there one you're mentioning and in one of the top comments you can read it yourself it's different
These were used in my country when my parents were children (1950s-60s). It is nearly impossible to find an intact one. Little boys regularly broke them on purpose, so they could get at the ball inside, to use it as a marble. 😏
@@evanwright8762 No they are not. These types of bottled soda are not carried at any major retailers in America. Even regular bottled soda is a rarity, most places only stock canned soda. You have to go to specialty retailers or small mom and pop stores/restaurants that import them.
I can tell you one reason why this type of bottle is not more popular in the US. It's because of Americans, and how our minds work. Specifically, the warning on the bottle: "Do not attempt to remove marble, injury may occur." Most Americans: "Challenge accepted." My daughter loves these drinks. I have about half a dozen marbles now. MY MARBLES!
@@AgentOffice I am not sure I should be encouraging this, because I actually did injure myself doing it, but you can take a serrated knife and cut through the plastic at the top until you hit glass ( you’ll hear it), then extend the cut down the side of the cap, you can loosen the cap’s hold on the rim enough to pry the cap off with a screwdriver (aka: the American multi-tool).
@@AgentOffice I also have a ton of those marbles in a baggy somewhere. I just put them on a trash bag to catch all the glass and shoot them. Of course there is a bit of a mess when cleaning up but it is good fun.
My friend bought me a bottle of ramune soda the other day. I've never tried it and was always intrigued by it. Anyway, I was super excited when she handed a bottle of the soda to me. I found it very novel to open. Love the little glass marble that drops down and I did really like the flavour which reminded me a lot of cream soda but much more watered down. I really liked it! Plus I liked the whole experience of opening it. Much more entertaining than twisting a cap off. Great fun
This glass ball also comes in handy when drinking in car, bus, subway or whatever vehicle is about to accelerate right at the moment you want to take a sip. In this case it prevents you from spilling the beverage all over your face by auto-sealing due to the acceleration towards the opening of the bottle.
I love these bottles! They're such a fun novelty. My only gripe is how much plastic packaging there is, what with the wrapping and the plunger. Bonus that Ramune tastes good 😄
If it's environmental concerns, then the glass is probably much worse. If it's health concerns then a normal glass bottle with metal cap is likely better. Although there is an argument to be made because the marble likely means less plastic in the seal.
Mate, it's mostly a glass bottle, compare it to basically ALL of America's soft drink bottles - you can't really complain or be righteous about plastic waste...
I found out about this in 2009 at a sushi restaurant that had floating sushi and some of the boats had a prize indicated on the bottom. And my prize was a bottle of ramune. I was so delighted at this unique bottle. Thank you for this video, it was nice to learn how widespread this bottle is in different parts of the world.
I used to live in Japan and would see kids competing with one another on who could finish a bottle of Ramune (the soda packaged in this bottle) the fastest. You couldn't chug it straight away, because the marble to seal the top. It was a true game of skill. Lots of nostalgia watching your video!
@@angryburnttoast just dont tilt it back all the way... just as you can pour a drink faster by letting the air easily pass through without bubbles slowing down the exchange; so can you keep the marble from closing the top by simply keeping the bottle at 90 degrees instead of 180. when you tell a kid to "chug a soda" in a race... most dont think about physics and just tilt it 180*
I live in Canada, and I found a similar product in the grocery store a couple weeks ago. It's called Marble Pop . The shape of the bottle caught my attention. I didn't know about the pouring technique. Cool video !!!
Ramune sounds like Lamune in Japanese. It was "lime" written in Japanese letters. If you hit the bottle opening really hard with the palm of your hand, you can pop the marble without using that plastic thing. That's the way it was opened 100 years ago.
The reason why the Japanese named it Ramune is because it was originally a British lemonade soda...As with all English to Japanese translations something got lost , it's said that they choose the word because they either thought that's what lemonade meant or that it was just an easy way to describe the soda to the Japanese people without butchering the name.
The Japanese then just wrote down the foreign words as they heard using the closest Japanese sounds and letters. It happened/happens so often. "Keki (with a long EH sound)" for "cake" is an example.
The ra family uses a sound not in English, something like a hybrid between R, L and D. "Lime" would be spelled ra i mu in my opinion, not ra mu ne. (I prefer putting spaces between what the characters would be, for clarity on singular transcribed words.) I don't know where the actual name of the soda comes from, just enjoy the soda ever since we got them when I lived in Japan for a year as a child.
Plus the kids can take out the Marble for certain toys. They used to have to break it but the newer plastic design now allows them to take it out safely .
the name "ramune", is supposed to sound like lemonade. ita a old style carbonated lemonade. the bottle is called Codd-neck bottle invented in UK. the bottle were used everywhere around the world until bottle cap was invented. everyone stop manufacturing the bottle becauce bottle cap was superior in every aspect. but for some reason people in japan kept it as it is.
@@Geotpf Ramune is this type of drink and not a brand, and there can be multiple different ramune products. Convenience stores generally have ramune in regular plastic bottle, which sounds inauthentic and frankly don't seem much different from Sprite or 7up.
I think that this ラムネ is still popular because it has a special nostalgia for summer fun to the Japanese -- a refreshment under the hot sun, a drink at the night festival... (and, of course, the fun about opening the bottle.)
Fun fact: In the North where it gets cold in the winter is where the bottle corks would "pop" more often than say in the warm south. Therefore more of the south use the word "SODA" and the word "POP" is used much more the further north you go.
My granddad told me about bottles like that when I was a kid, he and his mates would smash them to get the marbles out, if he'd get caught smashing them he'd catch a beating because most of the time the bottles wern't his, the shops would send the bottles back, and there was a deposit on them so people would get pissed off because you were basiclly tossing thier money against a rock.
Funny I grabbed one of these at a ramen restaurant without knowing what I grabbed. And went through the same experience as those kids you were talking about. It is definitely a novelty, and it's fun to see a video on it a few months later
Yes!! I'm reading a great book called How To Be A Victorian, and they mention these bottles in the section about play! The children would collect the marbles to play the game of marbles!
Thank you for the upload! I have never seen these in my life and it doesnt surprise me since the country enforced bottle pawn to be reused and reselled a long time ago
for a novelty, ramune is my favorite soda. The melon flavor tastes delicious and even if you cant get one with these special bottles i recommend trying ramune out
I’ve been a big fan of these drinks since high school and I’ve never questioned why this bottled was made this way I just thought it was a fun way to open a bottle lol thank you greatly for informing me of a drink I already have in my fridge🤙🏼
My great grandparents in India made their money by selling lime soda in these soda bottles, apparently they were the biggest in the village at their time(around 1950-60).
It'd be interesting to do that with properly branded marbles, the Pepsi swirly colours as an example, as an obvious collectible. That could be an interesting marketing strategy for a western fizzy drink brand.
Cool; Goli soda pronounced as "goalee" soda still in use near my place in India. All goli soda drinks are less carbonated. And many are home made too in shops.
While I don't know how true this is, I had heard the reason why they were so popular in Japan was because after the war, a lot of their manufacturing facilities were decimated and anything of quality that was left was being used to help in reconstruction. As of such many bottling plants couldn't get machines good enough to properly make cans for things like soda, so they started to use this bottle design. After that it became a bit of a tradition and as mentioned, a bit of a novelty. Much like how most carbonated beverages in the US are typically in cans, but it can be fun to sometimes buy a soda in a glass bottle.
I remember getting Ramune for the first time in college. We'd try all different ways to keep the ball and souvenir. Smashing the bottle was a little hazardous so I basically whittled the hole big enough for it to come out lol
Im familiar with these bottles from a variety of asian-imported food marts but getting some insight into their history and some tidbits on how you can use them; the resealing specifically, was super cool
Fell in love with the design when I happened to be in an Asian food market and saw one for the first time. The soda wasn't half bad either. Was a japanese import and it wasn't nearly as sickly sweet as the soda I'm used to.
i rarely find interesting videos nowadays with the abundance of shorts but when i do i always subscribe and comment to show support man thank you for the video
If there's alcohol in that bottle, trust I'll figure out how to open and drink appropriately.. However, since it seems like it's just regular drink instead lol I'm thankful you've showed me 😆 🤣
I didn't know it was uncommon to see these. I saw them all around LA, growing up. I think you also found them in Mexico. I know my pops knew about him and he's from the 60s.
Mudlarks, the people who explore the foreshore of the Thames river in London for relics often come upon Codd bottles or their marbles. Very often though they were broken decades ago by children to get the marbles out.
This was the standard soda bottle in Italy in the 1940's; I saw some (empty) at flea markets when I was a kid and my grandmother had to explain them to me. I had no idea they were still around.
These were popular at least in the north east in the 90's. My sister had a bunch along with the stretched out bottles filled with different color sand. The 90's what a weird time.
I think "R Whites" also used this type of bottle for its (clear British) lemonade, around WW1. And I think it's where kids sometimes got their smaller marbles.
Love the channel name. Never saw the short but this was a fun little video. The algorithm seems to like it too. Maybe consider doing more content like this in the future.
These have been around for ages, and I guess it was a way to make the whole bottle from glass sort of easily, avoiding the need for a capping machine. A John Seymour book featured such a bottle with a pointed bottom, a purely mobile device it seems.
You was stationed in Japan and did not drink this? Is it even true you stayed at japan? Even in all japanese restaurants you will get thrown to dead with those flask..
@@DILLIGAF2101 I like what you say. And sorry I mocked you for not drinking that soda. Sometimes people just need to have their priorities right, isnt it?
You didn't knew this design? Its quite common, available in every nook and corner of India for Soda or as American's like to call it Sparkling Water. A bit of history "Designed and patented for carbonated drinks in 1872 by British swig maker Hiram Codd of Camberwell, London, the glass bottle is specially made to encase a round marble and a rubber washer in the neck."
But can you believe a guy saying he lived in japan and not have drinked this? There is a dude claiming he lives there and not have drunk this shii… not sure whats more probably, he not goin to japan, or going to japan and not drink this beverage.. you sure must be abducted in such country not to try such simple thing..
Everyone says those are Japanese designed... and they invented this bottle... haha but next time I hear that I will arrogantly correct them! Thanks to this video ❤
i think maybe they choose that is because while other nation choose metal cap, japan, do NOT have iron mine, only iron sand (that why it so complicated to make steel over there ) so glass is easier for them, and they already importing petrol so plastic can be made easier without importing another material and they kept the model because it unique and stylish
I save mine and reuse them. Mix up some soda and put it in the bottle. Then "very quickly" put in a tea spoon of citric acid and tip. The gas pressure will seal up the bottle again. It can be messy the first few times.
Pronunciation guide for what the Indian names you used: Banta, pronounced BUN-TA Goli, pronounced GOAL-E Banta is actually the name of a lemony drink that is sold in that bottle Goli, is Hindi for a tiny ball and hence the name.
My favourite part of this bottle design is something that you get close to, but never quite talk about. As was shown in the video, the marble can re-cover the drink by covering up the top, but what this also means is that these bottles can theoretically be re-filled and re-capped at no extra cost. Because of this, the main place you'll find these in Japan is at festivals, where you're intended to buy a drink from a vendor, drink it at the festival, and then return the empty bottle to be refilled! It makes it funny to see in the (re?)imported versions of these bottles in the US, where there are 3 extra pieces of plastic added to make the bottles MORE disposable.
Very good point and I suspect this is why the regular Codd bottle gets used. In the US, the added bits and modified design is there to keep the bottle more sanitary and also ease of shipping.
I used to drink Ramune as a kid or think it was called Ramuneaid back in the 90s my Grandfather said he hadn't seen these sorts of bottles in years he used to have soda in these bottles when he was a Kid too :D
I ordered some of these a while back out of curiosity. They're pretty pricey in the states. They're not bad, but holy hell are they sweet. Crazy amount of sugar in them. One tiny bottle is like 48% your daily value of sugar.
Goli isn't a brand, it means Marble. This was the only soda we could afford in my childhood ~30 years ago. They've recently made a resurgence and I've got a bunch sitting in my office now as I type this!
not all "key" designs will be condusive to just pressing the plunger without removing the spacer in place so its also partly dependent on brand to brand the ones you know you can just straight press the key would have indents on it to tell you yeah "this is where its supposed to be cut"
You can also open it with one hand and without a hard surface, by putting your palm over the plastic opener, and closing your fingers over the contours to use as a grip.
Fun facts about the japanese version: it was brought over with Admiral Perry's black ships, and given to Japanese as a gift, containing carbonated lemonade. The Japanese asked what it was, the Americans said "lemonade" which the Japanese misheard and transliterated as "Ramune". They then tried to make their own, using the same style bottles that the first ones were brought over with.(You can also buy Ramune in conventional plastic bottles, but the novelty style seems to be more popular overall.)
In Dagashi Kashi they explain this, i recommend you to watch it
@@daudlozano9176 Ah, it's been a whole since I watched Dagashikashi! iirc the name is a pun because "dagashi" and "kashi" both mean "snack/junk food" but "daga" and "shikashi" both mean "however/also". Of course, I might just be an idiot.
I also remember having the headcanon that the reason everyone's irises were so small was that they were hopped up on sugar, except coffee girl who is obviously hopped up on caffeine... I really need to watch that show again, I don't even remember if I finished it.
@@SwordGuardian what's it about? Doesn't sound like isekai.
@@Subreon it's a slice of life about a boy who runs a traditional candy/snack/junkfood shop in rural Japan. Apparently it's famous nationwide, and a girl shows up trying to buy the shop out for some huge megacorporation, and a couple times an episode she goes into rants about the history behind some popular candy or snack. It's meant to be both entertaining and informative.
@@SwordGuardian eventually the boi tells the gurl to kick rocks and eat the rich right?
I find it so delightful that you spent the effort researching and making a video about how the bottle works and why it was invented, despite not knowing about it when you posted the short. It's so annoying whenever people post a question in a Short and never give the answer. Great video!
My pet peeve is when they say 'follow for part 2'
When they know damn well they have 'part' 2 already available and could've put the whole thing in there. Wasting my time isn't going to make me want to subscribe.
This on the other hand..
@@SpaghettioH “Follow for a part 2”
Trash creator: Either doesn’t upload a part 2 or hides it within 20,000 other shorts…
Me: *Don’t recommend this channel*
I thought the same ! 💕 🥹
@@SpaghettioHAGREED 👍
@@sj-redabsolutely
Something that my friend and I used to do with these was chuck them into the freezer for a bit. Now, there is a risk in this as freezing carbonated drinks in glass might make them explode, like beer can. However, when we would throw them into the freezer, they didn't seem to freeze until we took them out and popped the ball seal. They would then rapidly freeze before our eyes. fun to watch.
You call that nucleation… and he trisk of it exploding in the freezer is the reason why is doesnt freeze including some additives.. it freezes when the temprature/pressure ratio. is equal or lower to freeze point
Ramune labels specifically say DO NOT PLACE IN FREEZER 😂
@@cowsagainstcapitalism347 think we have a daredevil out here. What if the marble inside those flasks become canonballs, that would make a cool toy out of them xD
It's the flash freeze effect, there have been a lot of videos covering the topic, and it's always been an interesting phenomenon I've always wanted to play with, but my freezer isn't quite cold enough to get consistent results. But it's cool you and your friend discovered it with no prior knowledge.
@@ngoway9808 no its not the same way it does it different from there one you're mentioning and in one of the top comments you can read it yourself it's different
These were used in my country when my parents were children (1950s-60s). It is nearly impossible to find an intact one. Little boys regularly broke them on purpose, so they could get at the ball inside, to use it as a marble. 😏
what country are you from? these are at any supermarket in the US?
@@evanwright8762 No they are not. These types of bottled soda are not carried at any major retailers in America. Even regular bottled soda is a rarity, most places only stock canned soda. You have to go to specialty retailers or small mom and pop stores/restaurants that import them.
@@digiquo8143 we do have these locally at my Safeway, but not in the soda section but the Japanese section
My mother had a few. They turn up here and there. The better examples have a rubber washer still in place to form the seal against the marble.
@@digiquo8143 Every supermarket in my town (Seattle) has these in stock right now.
Of course American supermarkets carry them. Stop making things up.
I can tell you one reason why this type of bottle is not more popular in the US.
It's because of Americans, and how our minds work.
Specifically, the warning on the bottle: "Do not attempt to remove marble, injury may occur."
Most Americans: "Challenge accepted."
My daughter loves these drinks. I have about half a dozen marbles now. MY MARBLES!
As an American who's drank this a few times and always wondered 'could I get the marble out??' can confirm.
How do you get it out
@@AgentOffice I am not sure I should be encouraging this, because I actually did injure myself doing it, but you can take a serrated knife and cut through the plastic at the top until you hit glass ( you’ll hear it), then extend the cut down the side of the cap, you can loosen the cap’s hold on the rim enough to pry the cap off with a screwdriver (aka: the American multi-tool).
@@AgentOffice I also have a ton of those marbles in a baggy somewhere. I just put them on a trash bag to catch all the glass and shoot them. Of course there is a bit of a mess when cleaning up but it is good fun.
Sounds like a warning label for people who don't want free marbels. Nothing a hammer and a towel can't fix
My friend bought me a bottle of ramune soda the other day. I've never tried it and was always intrigued by it. Anyway, I was super excited when she handed a bottle of the soda to me. I found it very novel to open. Love the little glass marble that drops down and I did really like the flavour which reminded me a lot of cream soda but much more watered down. I really liked it! Plus I liked the whole experience of opening it. Much more entertaining than twisting a cap off. Great fun
This glass ball also comes in handy when drinking in car, bus, subway or whatever vehicle is about to accelerate right at the moment you want to take a sip. In this case it prevents you from spilling the beverage all over your face by auto-sealing due to the acceleration towards the opening of the bottle.
Have you tested this?
That is called centripetal force
@@xLyrico Only if your bus, car or subway is spinning.
Interesting. Goli Soda is popular in India esp Tamil Nadu. You pronounce Goli Soda as " Goal-e- Soda"
The bottled “Goli Soda” is very very popular… you should try that too
does that mean Bullet?(similar to hindi Goli)
@@stegotyranno4206 It means marble. Which is what the word bullet was derived from aswell I think.
@Arvind Venkatesan oh yeah both come from a word for round or sphere
Ok..🫠
I love these bottles! They're such a fun novelty. My only gripe is how much plastic packaging there is, what with the wrapping and the plunger. Bonus that Ramune tastes good 😄
I agree, but I have an additional gripe: how to get the marble out without breaking the bottle.😅
If it's environmental concerns, then the glass is probably much worse. If it's health concerns then a normal glass bottle with metal cap is likely better. Although there is an argument to be made because the marble likely means less plastic in the seal.
@@ano_nym Glass can be recycled much easier than plastic.
Mate, it's mostly a glass bottle, compare it to basically ALL of America's soft drink bottles - you can't really complain or be righteous about plastic waste...
@@Blorper Just because it's not comparable to the waste of an entire country it doesn't mean I can't complain about it a little.
I found out about this in 2009 at a sushi restaurant that had floating sushi and some of the boats had a prize indicated on the bottom. And my prize was a bottle of ramune. I was so delighted at this unique bottle. Thank you for this video, it was nice to learn how widespread this bottle is in different parts of the world.
I used to live in Japan and would see kids competing with one another on who could finish a bottle of Ramune (the soda packaged in this bottle) the fastest. You couldn't chug it straight away, because the marble to seal the top. It was a true game of skill. Lots of nostalgia watching your video!
Use your tongue to keep the marble from sealing it.
@@angryburnttoast just dont tilt it back all the way... just as you can pour a drink faster by letting the air easily pass through without bubbles slowing down the exchange; so can you keep the marble from closing the top by simply keeping the bottle at 90 degrees instead of 180.
when you tell a kid to "chug a soda" in a race... most dont think about physics and just tilt it 180*
I live in Canada, and I found a similar product in the grocery store a couple weeks ago. It's called Marble Pop . The shape of the bottle caught my attention. I didn't know about the pouring technique. Cool video !!!
Is it more expensive than the normal sodas there? For example out here a 8oz ramune like in the video it’s $2.59, vs a 20oz coke for the same price
Ramune sounds like Lamune in Japanese. It was "lime" written in Japanese letters. If you hit the bottle opening really hard with the palm of your hand, you can pop the marble without using that plastic thing. That's the way it was opened 100 years ago.
I think it's actually a shortening of "lemonade" and they just dropped the "do" after a while
The reason why the Japanese named it Ramune is because it was originally a British lemonade soda...As with all English to Japanese translations something got lost , it's said that they choose the word because they either thought that's what lemonade meant or that it was just an easy way to describe the soda to the Japanese people without butchering the name.
The Japanese then just wrote down the foreign words as they heard using the closest Japanese sounds and letters. It happened/happens so often. "Keki (with a long EH sound)" for "cake" is an example.
Some bottles, I can make the bottom blow off if I hit the top with my palm.
The ra family uses a sound not in English, something like a hybrid between R, L and D.
"Lime" would be spelled ra i mu in my opinion, not ra mu ne. (I prefer putting spaces between what the characters would be, for clarity on singular transcribed words.) I don't know where the actual name of the soda comes from, just enjoy the soda ever since we got them when I lived in Japan for a year as a child.
Plus the kids can take out the Marble for certain toys.
They used to have to break it but the newer plastic design now allows them to take it out safely .
the name "ramune", is supposed to sound like lemonade.
ita a old style carbonated lemonade. the bottle is called Codd-neck bottle invented in UK.
the bottle were used everywhere around the world until bottle cap was invented.
everyone stop manufacturing the bottle becauce bottle cap was superior in every aspect.
but for some reason people in japan kept it as it is.
I'm pretty sure the only Japanese brand that uses this type of bottle is Ramune; all other sodas there use standard bottles.
@@Geotpf Ramune is this type of drink and not a brand, and there can be multiple different ramune products. Convenience stores generally have ramune in regular plastic bottle, which sounds inauthentic and frankly don't seem much different from Sprite or 7up.
Soo.. Rahmoonay?
If you knew this already why didn't you say it in the first video. Repeating what the video already said was pointless 😂
I think that this ラムネ is still popular because it has a special nostalgia for summer fun to the Japanese -- a refreshment under the hot sun, a drink at the night festival... (and, of course, the fun about opening the bottle.)
Fun fact: In the North where it gets cold in the winter is where the bottle corks would "pop" more often than say in the warm south. Therefore more of the south use the word "SODA" and the word "POP" is used much more the further north you go.
Neat!!
My granddad told me about bottles like that when I was a kid, he and his mates would smash them to get the marbles out, if he'd get caught smashing them he'd catch a beating because most of the time the bottles wern't his, the shops would send the bottles back, and there was a deposit on them so people would get pissed off because you were basiclly tossing thier money against a rock.
That is even more cool now that you explained the details! Awesome!
Funny I grabbed one of these at a ramen restaurant without knowing what I grabbed. And went through the same experience as those kids you were talking about. It is definitely a novelty, and it's fun to see a video on it a few months later
First had one at Disney Epcot in 2010. Took a bit to figure out how to open but got it. Saved bottle for a souvenir.
I don’t usually sub to random channels I see shorts of but this was genuinely fascinating and I love the curiousity on display here ❤
The reseal is amazing. I never knew that
Subscribed! I really enjoy your straight and to the point format.
Yes!! I'm reading a great book called How To Be A Victorian, and they mention these bottles in the section about play! The children would collect the marbles to play the game of marbles!
Thank you for the upload! I have never seen these in my life and it doesnt surprise me since the country enforced bottle pawn to be reused and reselled a long time ago
Ice bong!!!!!! Make small hole for the down pipe...slip a couple cubes in the top an boom
"You should totes drink this, it's amazeballs."
-Commodore Matthew C. Perry introducing lemonade to Japan
You made me want one! They’re hard to find, but worth grabbing when you see them, they’re so fun!
I actually see them at walmart sometimes, in the asian section
for a novelty, ramune is my favorite soda. The melon flavor tastes delicious and even if you cant get one with these special bottles i recommend trying ramune out
yeah I love the flavor. a lot of people say the classic tastes like Sprite, but it's unique in a way I can't place.
My daughter shops at the Asian food & grocery store and buys something similar to that. She loves those drinks.
its almost certainly the same, ラムネ is what it will say in Japanese, as thats how you write ramune
Similair… well probably not
Thanks, this video is exactly as much as I ever wanted to know about the Codd, Ramune, Banta, Goli or Marble Soda Bottles.
Ok I didn't know you could seal it again, that's pretty cool.
Yes, we still use this in India and we use the thumb only to open the goli soda bottle
Very interesting, thanks for sharing this amazing little bottle 🍾 with your viewers
I’ve been a big fan of these drinks since high school and I’ve never questioned why this bottled was made this way I just thought it was a fun way to open a bottle lol thank you greatly for informing me of a drink I already have in my fridge🤙🏼
My great grandparents in India made their money by selling lime soda in these soda bottles, apparently they were the biggest in the village at their time(around 1950-60).
Do you still live in india or have you moved out?
I like that you can actually reseal these
I loved buying these in Yokohama. Unlike the ones I've found in the States, over there the caps screwed off so you could keep the marbles
It'd be interesting to do that with properly branded marbles, the Pepsi swirly colours as an example, as an obvious collectible. That could be an interesting marketing strategy for a western fizzy drink brand.
Cool;
Goli soda pronounced as "goalee" soda still in use near my place in India. All goli soda drinks are less carbonated. And many are home made too in shops.
Yep, & In Maharashtra it's called Goti soda. pronounced as "Goatee". I absolutely love it. 😋
You are the most well spoken person I've ever heard
While I don't know how true this is, I had heard the reason why they were so popular in Japan was because after the war, a lot of their manufacturing facilities were decimated and anything of quality that was left was being used to help in reconstruction. As of such many bottling plants couldn't get machines good enough to properly make cans for things like soda, so they started to use this bottle design. After that it became a bit of a tradition and as mentioned, a bit of a novelty. Much like how most carbonated beverages in the US are typically in cans, but it can be fun to sometimes buy a soda in a glass bottle.
that ball seal was called "pirolito" in Portugal in min childhood, only heard of it - I never saw one myself.
Okay, I never knew about the sealing the bottle by shaking it upside down. That's cool!
I remember getting Ramune for the first time in college. We'd try all different ways to keep the ball and souvenir. Smashing the bottle was a little hazardous so I basically whittled the hole big enough for it to come out lol
Thanks for the info! I personally love this drink a lot, so I’m glad to know more about it.
Ramune is one of the best tasting sodas ever. Love the stuff, just wish it weren’t so expensive here in the states.
Im familiar with these bottles from a variety of asian-imported food marts but getting some insight into their history and some tidbits on how you can use them; the resealing specifically, was super cool
My family loves these. We knew everything but sealing back up. So thank you
Fell in love with the design when I happened to be in an Asian food market and saw one for the first time. The soda wasn't half bad either. Was a japanese import and it wasn't nearly as sickly sweet as the soda I'm used to.
I never saw this before, got the clear one, read ingredients, to my shock! Water and sugar! In such a complicated bottle.
I do really like the soda that's generally sold in the Ramune bottles here in the UK. Much less sickly sweet than most sodas, and a mellower Flavour
2:20 If there's one thing the Japanese love, it's novelty.
i rarely find interesting videos nowadays with the abundance of shorts but when i do i always subscribe and comment to show support man thank you for the video
If there's alcohol in that bottle, trust I'll figure out how to open and drink appropriately..
However, since it seems like it's just regular drink instead lol I'm thankful you've showed me 😆 🤣
I didn't know it was uncommon to see these. I saw them all around LA, growing up. I think you also found them in Mexico. I know my pops knew about him and he's from the 60s.
Right On!!! You can find those sodas in Fresno, Ca. At the Winco
My grandkids love them because they can just slap the top plunger and have that ball pop, just something different.
Thanks for researching this so we didn't have to. A video where I learnt something. Good presentation as well.
Mudlarks, the people who explore the foreshore of the Thames river in London for relics often come upon Codd bottles or their marbles. Very often though they were broken decades ago by children to get the marbles out.
It’s funny how designs get phased out due to convenience and cost and then people still like to go back to them
The title is such clickbait lmfao… In fact, I learned EVERYTHING I wanted to about these bottles from you haha. Great video!
This was the standard soda bottle in Italy in the 1940's; I saw some (empty) at flea markets when I was a kid and my grandmother had to explain them to me. I had no idea they were still around.
These were popular at least in the north east in the 90's. My sister had a bunch along with the stretched out bottles filled with different color sand. The 90's what a weird time.
I think "R Whites" also used this type of bottle for its (clear British) lemonade, around WW1. And I think it's where kids sometimes got their smaller marbles.
Love the channel name. Never saw the short but this was a fun little video. The algorithm seems to like it too. Maybe consider doing more content like this in the future.
I want a longer video on this. It’s like the first 4 min was so good I want three more lol
My kid's next request was, "Dad, can you get the marble out of the bottle?" Yes I can, with fair amount of effort and some ingenuity.
These have been around for ages, and I guess it was a way to make the whole bottle from glass sort of easily, avoiding the need for a capping machine.
A John Seymour book featured such a bottle with a pointed bottom, a purely mobile device it seems.
I've never had ramune, yet I've seen these in Asian stores from time to time--not to mention the time I was stationed in Japan.
You was stationed in Japan and did not drink this? Is it even true you stayed at japan? Even in all japanese restaurants you will get thrown to dead with those flask..
@@ClosestNearUtopia I was busier with other fine Japanese beverages, like Suntory Whisky and habu sake .
@@DILLIGAF2101 so basically you admit your an alcoholic with no time for a soda?🤣🫠
@@ClosestNearUtopia back in the day, I was more of a drunk. Alcoholics go to meetings.
@@DILLIGAF2101 I like what you say. And sorry I mocked you for not drinking that soda. Sometimes people just need to have their priorities right, isnt it?
You didn't knew this design? Its quite common, available in every nook and corner of India for Soda or as American's like to call it Sparkling Water. A bit of history
"Designed and patented for carbonated drinks in 1872 by British swig maker Hiram Codd of Camberwell, London, the glass bottle is specially made to encase a round marble and a rubber washer in the neck."
But can you believe a guy saying he lived in japan and not have drinked this? There is a dude claiming he lives there and not have drunk this shii… not sure whats more probably, he not goin to japan, or going to japan and not drink this beverage.. you sure must be abducted in such country not to try such simple thing..
Everyone says those are Japanese designed... and they invented this bottle... haha but next time I hear that I will arrogantly correct them! Thanks to this video ❤
I swear this guy just tried to put bottle in the most ammount of sentences to see if anyoe would notice
You noticed! :)
This is the *exact* amount I've always wanted to know about these bottles, how dare you?
i think maybe they choose that is because while other nation choose metal cap, japan, do NOT have iron mine, only iron sand (that why it so complicated to make steel over there ) so glass is easier for them, and they already importing petrol so plastic can be made easier without importing another material
and they kept the model because it unique and stylish
I've always had this since I was a kid. My grandma would always buy these for me and I loved them. I would always tried to get the marble out.
I always wondered why Ramune came in that weird bottle. Now I know. Thanks.
I save mine and reuse them. Mix up some soda and put it in the bottle. Then "very quickly" put in a tea spoon of citric acid and tip. The gas pressure will seal up the bottle again. It can be messy the first few times.
Pronunciation guide for what the Indian names you used:
Banta, pronounced BUN-TA
Goli, pronounced GOAL-E
Banta is actually the name of a lemony drink that is sold in that bottle
Goli, is Hindi for a tiny ball and hence the name.
Omg i drink these sometimes and hate to carry it around open.. never thought you can seal them again. I love it
My favourite part of this bottle design is something that you get close to, but never quite talk about.
As was shown in the video, the marble can re-cover the drink by covering up the top, but what this also means is that these bottles can theoretically be re-filled and re-capped at no extra cost. Because of this, the main place you'll find these in Japan is at festivals, where you're intended to buy a drink from a vendor, drink it at the festival, and then return the empty bottle to be refilled! It makes it funny to see in the (re?)imported versions of these bottles in the US, where there are 3 extra pieces of plastic added to make the bottles MORE disposable.
Very good point and I suspect this is why the regular Codd bottle gets used. In the US, the added bits and modified design is there to keep the bottle more sanitary and also ease of shipping.
Thank you for this full of information educational video
Your my hero! I didn't even know I needed to know this!
“I got excited, cause it was a bottle I never seen before.”
Instant sub.
As an avid consumer of Asian Culture, I find it amusing someone seeing one for the first time.
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Subbed: JUST because of the channel name! Good video, too! Thanks for posting!
Super interesting, thanks for sharing !
Never knew you could reseal it. Cool
Yeah, but it can leak. You have to listen for air escaping
I used to drink Ramune as a kid or think it was called Ramuneaid back in the 90s my Grandfather said he hadn't seen these sorts of bottles in years he used to have soda in these bottles when he was a Kid too :D
I literally just noticed these for the first time ever today and bought one, I haven't even opened it yet. Good thing I found this video first
I ordered some of these a while back out of curiosity. They're pretty pricey in the states. They're not bad, but holy hell are they sweet. Crazy amount of sugar in them. One tiny bottle is like 48% your daily value of sugar.
Goli isn't a brand, it means Marble. This was the only soda we could afford in my childhood ~30 years ago. They've recently made a resurgence and I've got a bunch sitting in my office now as I type this!
these bottles were mostly used for beer, lots of beer.
I would regularly dig them up in london in the '70s.
One of the most satisfying sounds...
kinda nice to think that in the old days children use to play with marbels so this was a 2x1 in the summer.
not all "key" designs will be condusive to just pressing the plunger without removing the spacer in place so its also partly dependent on brand to brand the ones you know you can just straight press the key would have indents on it to tell you yeah "this is where its supposed to be cut"
You can also open it with one hand and without a hard surface, by putting your palm over the plastic opener, and closing your fingers over the contours to use as a grip.
Hu! Traipsed in here for the soda bottle answer. Here to stay for repairs n'stuff in the future. Fixing stuff is important ie dinner!
Thanks for this follow up! We just had to know!!😁👍