Apparently the story goes that this 20-25 year old bottle was found in 2016(?), which went viral online, and Nintendo wound up sending the guy an unopened SNES anyway. (Plus a bunch of other stuff)

  • @Got_Bent
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    192 months ago

    In the summer of 1980 RC Cola was giving cash prizes from the bottle caps of glass bottles. None of it was serious money. I remember five, ten, and twenty five cent winners with maybe a dollar thrown in there every once in a while.

    It was pretty exciting for me to find a quarter under my bottle cap. That would buy a candy bar at the time, so sugar rush bonus!

    • Admiral Patrick
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      2 months ago

      I love the idea of that, but it does not sound very sanitary at all lol.

      Edit: Actual quarter or something you could redeem for a quarter?

      • @Got_Bent
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        142 months ago

        Oh no. The amount was printed on the underside of the bottle cap. You had to pull out that little plastic gasket to see it. Then you’d exchange the bottle cap for whatever coin from the cashier.

        • Admiral Patrick
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          92 months ago

          That makes much more sense, lol. But also, I grew up in the 80s, so the crazy way also checks out.

          • @Lost_My_Mind
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            52 months ago

            It would check out even more if Coke had changed their receipe (let me finish) to reintroduce cocaine back into the formula.

            • @Got_Bent
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              22 months ago

              The way a few people I know are addicted to Coke, and only Coke, I’m not entirely sure that didn’t happen.

              • @3ntranced
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                32 months ago

                Coke addict here. Also tried Coke. Definitely coke in the coke.