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[dflock]

Cheaper is not the measure of everything. Glass bottles, returned and re-used are much better for the environment than plastic bottles.

[hutzlibu → dflock]

Also for your health - lots of plastic bottles are not so stable and less so, in heat. So you end up drinking small amounts of plastic and additives.

[rkda → dflock]

Also, and this is only anecdata, drinks in glass bottles seem to taste so much better for some reason.

[fosco → rkda]

more anecdata - I have the same experience, I cannot tell if it is in my head [0] or there is actually a difference

[0] for example some people claim food tastes different based on weight of their utensils etc... It is hard for me to accept my brain is not tricking me when drinks in glass taste better than can/plastic of the same drink

[mmt → fosco]

> It is hard for me to accept my brain is not tricking me when drinks in glass taste better than can/plastic of the same drink

Although we use the word "taste" to describe the experience, even that is well understood to be a methaphor for taste and smell.

What's more, I think it's also pretty well understood that texture is an important component of how people perceive (dare I say "taste"?) what they eat.

As such, I don't think you need to resort to accusing your brain of trickery to conclude a different experience when drinking from a can or from bottles of different composition.

On the other hand, if they're both first poured into identical glass highballs before being consumed.. that's another matter.