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12 ounce glass bottles

I get questions several times a year about Soda Pop in 12 ounce glass bottles.  I don’t know about other areas but in the small town of Mitchell Indiana here’s what you can buy;

Dog n Suds root beer, Jackson Hole root beer, Green Mountain soda, Filberts Peach Soda, Waialua Mango soda, Kona red soda, & Pineapple soda, Thomas Kemper Low Cal root beer & vanilla cream, Captain Elis Blueberry Pop, Fitz’s diet cream soda, A.J. Stephans birch beer, wild strawberry, lime ricky, root beer, sarsaparilla & ginger ale, Route 66 Orange, black cherry, root beer & lime soda, Saranac 1888 shirley temple soft drink, All natural apple beer, Berghoff root beer & diet root beer, Triple X root beer, Dr. Browns original ginger ale, Bubble Up lemon lime soda, Filberts watermelon, The Sopranos limoncello,  Mason’s root beer, Sprecher cream soda, Squamscot fruit bowl, Barrel Brothers root beer, Cheerwine, Sparkey’s root beer, Looks Like Orange Tastes Like Grape soda, Sea Dog root beer, Empire pineapple soda, Kickapoo Joy Juice, Arbita root beer, Goose Island root beer, Cool Mountain razzberry, & peach soda, Sparkle Up lemon-lime soda, Frostie cherry limeade, vanilla root beer, root beer, Zuber fizz, key lime cream soda, grape soda, Virgils cream soda, root beer, Seven Up. 

Go 10 miles up highway 37 to find Green Mountain Lime soda, Jelly Belly Blueberry soda
Go in a 50 mile radius of Mitchell to find:
Faygo orange, grape, red pop & root beer, Reed’s ginger ale, Henry Weinhard’s orange cream, black cherry cream, vanilla cream, & root beer, Boylan’s root beer, Stewarts key lime, root beer, diet root beer, orange ‘n cream, grape & cream soda, Crush orange, strawberry & grape, Jone’s blackberry soda, cream soda, vanilla bean soda root beer, berry lemonade soda & fufu berry soda, IBC root beer, diet root beer, cream soda & black cherry, Double Cola, Ski grapefruit soda  and of course in all areas the 8 oz. Coke. 

Oops! I forgot in Mitchell: Empire banana soda, Dang! Butterscotch root beer, Black Jack’s dead red root beer.

Wow. That's a lot. Here, I can get the Mexican Cokes at Costco. Sometimes I see Crush at the supermarket, but the bottles are too round to fit through the holes of my machine. Only a few grocery stores carry the 8oz Cokes and for the price they charge it isn't worth it, so I stick w/ the larger Mexican ones from Costco. I can get Cheerwine 12oz glass at Wegman's. That's about it.

The orange crush that I get at Walmart will vend in my 81... What machine are trying to vend then out of?

Vendo 63. They used to work when they were taller and skinnier, but now they are shorter and have a larger diameter, kind of like an IBC bottle.