FYI, not only the men aka guys ask questions but the gals aka women ask questions too dear

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!

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.)

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.

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.

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

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. 😏

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!

Interesting. Goli Soda is popular in India esp Tamil Nadu. You pronounce Goli Soda as " Goal-e- Soda"

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 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 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 !!!

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!

Subscribed! I really enjoy your straight and to the point format.

Very interesting, thanks for sharing this amazing little bottle 🍾 with your viewers

That is even more cool now that you explained the details! Awesome!

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.

Thanks for the info! I personally love this drink a lot, so I’m glad to know more about it.

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

Thanks, this video is exactly as much as I ever wanted to know about the Codd, Ramune, Banta, Goli or Marble Soda Bottles.

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’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 family loves these. We knew everything but sealing back up. So thank you

Thanks for researching this so we didn't have to. A video where I learnt something. Good presentation as well.

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

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.

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.

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 ❤

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

Right On!!! You can find those sodas in Fresno, Ca. At the Winco

You are the most well spoken person I've ever heard

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 definitely learned something new today. Thank you ❤😊

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

Super interesting, thanks for sharing !

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

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.

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

It's pretty cool of you to do this follow up video ❤

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.

You made me want one! They’re hard to find, but worth grabbing when you see them, they’re so fun!

This answered all my questions! Cool!!

Omg i drink these sometimes and hate to carry it around open.. never thought you can seal them again. I love it

Subbed: JUST because of the channel name! Good video, too! Thanks for posting!

My daughter shops at the Asian food & grocery store and buys something similar to that. She loves those drinks.

One of the most satisfying sounds...

Simple, informative, direct, friendly! Awesome energy and approach, bit of an outlier to find your channel through but it's a lovely find nonetheless. 😁

Thanks for this follow up! We just had to know!!😁👍

Your my hero! I didn't even know I needed to know this!

Thank you for this full of information educational video

I want a longer video on this. It’s like the first 4 min was so good I want three more lol

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).

that ball seal was called "pirolito" in Portugal in min childhood, only heard of it - I never saw one myself.

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 should totes drink this, it's amazeballs." -Commodore Matthew C. Perry introducing lemonade to Japan

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 .

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!

I LOVE the strawberry flavor it’s so yummy but all the flavors are good

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.

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.

Okay, I never knew about the sealing the bottle by shaking it upside down. That's cool!

I’ve never seen one of those. I’ll have to go see if I can find one at Asian market now. Cheers POP!

They way it can be resealed is pretty awesome

i think i remember seeing these when i was a kid in an Australian store once and then never again. i guess found some of the last few before they fell out of use

My grandkids love them because they can just slap the top plunger and have that ball pop, just something different.

The reseal is amazing. I never knew that

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 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

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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.

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

“I got excited, cause it was a bottle I never seen before.” Instant sub.

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"

Thank you KZfaq recommendations God's for suggesting this video in my fed. Pretty interesting video. But now I'm curious how do they get the glass ball inside the bottle and seal it after filling it with soda.

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.

You can seal it back on if you unscrew the plastic cap and use the plunger then screw back again thebplastic cap or rim

It’s funny how designs get phased out due to convenience and cost and then people still like to go back to them

These are common in India too I grew up drinking soda from these bottles... the pop is so satisfying

💙 My Love and I enjoy these soda bottles as well as ginger beer 💙

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.

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.

My nephew loves these things. I saw it and thought it was neat. That was months ago and now I'm seeing a video on how they were made and when and why lmao

As a kid I remember being able to unscrew the top clockwise to get the marble out

quite fascinating thx!

Ok I didn't know you could seal it again, that's pretty cool.

Sooo these could be cool with one of those home soda fountains... resealable bottle... Nice thanks

I always wondered why Ramune came in that weird bottle. Now I know. Thanks.

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 😆 🤣

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.

Yes, we still use this in India and we use the thumb only to open the goli soda bottle

When I worked at Walmart I put these on the shelf.

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!

I like this stuff. It's like a light sweet tart.

Cool Video 👍

It's so cool that you can seal a bottle without any tools

Great video!

Cool. Thank you for following up.

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.

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.

My friend showed me those years ago. She would get them from the World Market and to open them she would just slam her hand down on top of the bottle. It has been years since I have been, so I am not sure if they still carry them, though I don't see why they wouldn't. I may have to go back soon and get a few.