Trickflation

Stupid shape for a can too, tips over In a vehicles cup holder

Uses more aluminum to store the same amount of liquid too.
- You sure about that?
  Cylinders of the same volume will have the same area, so it should be the same amount of aluminum?
  Maybe less, even, since the lid and bottom are thicker than the sides and on the taller can there's less of that thick top/bottom

Maybe you want to have a cup of tea instead? Way more cheap and healthy. Or buy some off-brand soda. It is just as much garbage as coca cola but at least it's cheap.

I agree soda dependence isn't a good thing, but there's not much evidence diet soda is any less healthy than tea.
- Diet soda contains sweeteners that are suspected to cause cancer. Granted, you'd have to drink a couple of liters of diet soda a day before you need to be seriously concerned, but tea has one big advantage: It contains as much sugar or sweeteners as you add to it, so there's that.

Several years ago mountain dew had the following prices

20 oz - $2

1 liter - $2

2 liter - $2

1.5 liter - $1

It wasn't a sale, they had these prices on several stores for over a year.

20oz are more expensive per volume because they sell faster. There's less of a demand for larger sizes typically go flat too fast for people unless they're having a party or something, and even in that case they don't have the convenience of being able to drink from the bottle.
- Do you leave your soda uncapped or something? I buy almost exclusively 2 liter bottles and they very rarely go flat on me. I'll drink one over the course of about 4 days.

if you're buying coke in america, you should get the 12 packs at grocery stores instead. it's anywhere between $5.99 to $8.99, which is less than a dollar per can

Or get the 2L bottles, which are usually around the same price as the 500 mL bottles (for some reason).
- Because if you drink 500ml of a 2L bottle and put the cap back on, the rest goes flat.
- And if you think you can dodge microplastics by opting for aluminum instead of bottles, I have some bad news for you.
  https://youtu.be/f9vAi1OJspA

...do people think the tall can is bigger? If anything, I've always assumed that they were smaller 🤷‍♂️

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- In my highschool psych class we actually went to an elementary school and did this experiment with the kiddos. It was a while ago but if I recall correctly, 9/10 times they thought tall = bigger. I bet some people never grow out of that mindset or at least at first glance our less smart brain goes “tall is big!”
- Oh hey we watched that video in my psych class. Funny phenomenon. Kids are dumb