Where does one draw the line when collecting cans? Some people pick a brand or two and focus on just that. But if you choose to collect Coca-Cola cans, soda cans are obvious but what about Coca-Cola energy drinks? Or Coca-Cola coffee? For a brand-completionist the lines can quickly become gray.
The brand Pepsi would include Pepsi soda. But do you also collect Brisk since it's under the Pepsi umbrella? If yes, now you're collecting soda and tea. And then juices show up. And what about those weird relaxation drinks? How do you decide which cans to keep and which to refuse?
I've stated many times on this blog that an easy line to draw is whether the drink has alcohol or not. I'm not against alcoholic beverages, but with that as the deciding factor it's a simple YES or NO whether to include a can in my collection. Now that does open the door to a HUGE can pool (any non-alcoholic drinks), but the more the merrier, right?
So when someone handed me this can for my collection, I almost threw it away. It's a "cold brew" and I don't collect cans with alcohol, which includes ALL beer cans.
But wait! That symbol looks familiar. Upon a more careful read of the label I realized this was a Starbucks coffee can, not some micro-brewery beer can. OOPS.
Ok kids, the can-collecting lesson of the day: Be sure to read the label carefully. Don't glance and assume. Other than Monster, black cans aren't real common so it's nice to have another cool black can. And to think, I almost threw it away.
And my other surprise... this can only has 10 calories! Wow.
Isn't it great when a week is themed? Let's take last week for example. All three cans that found their way to me were peach flavored. Neat.
I've still been trying different brands of flavored water and the last 12-pack I bought was AHA peach + honey. My daughter saved a can of Just Peachy Peace Tea for me. And my son came home with a can of peach Crush.
Summer is quickly approaching. And with juicy flavors such as peach, I just can't wait for the scorching temperatures, high humidity, mosquitoes, thick air, sunburns, etc. On second thought, I can't wait for fall to get here.
Every once in a while an exception is made for my can collection. And this time it was for a couple of bottles someone gave me.
What makes these two bottles so special?
They both come from Mexico. And living in the Midwest, I don't often see cans/bottles out in the wild from exotic foreign lands.
I've heard the tales of yesteryear of people tracking down Mexican Coca-Cola and soda-smuggling rings at the US-Mexico border because Mexico's soda is still made with real sugar, not like America's high fructose corn syrup variety. And that means the Mexican version tastes better. But now in the future, it's not so hard to jump online and have a crate of whatever delivered from wherever to wherever. So this find may not be as rare as it once was, but it's still neat to have these bottles.
And both bottles came with their bottle caps which takes me way back to when I was young and started a bottle cap collection. I sure do wish I still had all those brown paper grocery bags full of caps I collected from the early 80's. But they were tossed out with other "trash" during one of my house moves through the years.
Mi coleccion sigue creciendo.
Yesterday we had awesome weather here and it was my return to a couple flea markets after more than a year of shutdowns.
While strolling along a sidewalk I noticed a Dr Pepper Zero Sugar can I didn't have yet lying against the curb. When I first began my collection a decade ago, this was how I found a lot of my cans.
