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  • 2021-12-14 (xsd:date)
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  • Do Yellow Caps on Coke Bottles Have a Special Meaning? (en)
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  • Since at least 2021, online advertisements displayed a picture of Coca-Cola bottles with yellow caps alongside the caption: Ever Spotted a Coke Bottle with a Yellow Cap? You Need to Know What It Means. Readers who clicked the ad were led through an 80-page slideshow article on the Opulent Express website. However, worry not, as we're going with the novel approach of printing the rest of our story on a single page. (We're pioneers.) It's true that Coke bottles with yellow caps have a special meaning. They're shipped to stores in the spring for the Jewish Passover holiday. For the special bottles, corn syrup is replaced with sucrose to make the beverages kosher for Passover. According to jewishaz.com, Coca-Cola began providing kosher-for-Passover beverages in the 1930s. This led us to an April 20, 1935 article from the Atlanta Constitution, now known as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. However, we didn't find a mention of yellow caps: The first reporting we found about yellow caps on Coke bottles came from an April 2, 1998, article from The Record, a newspaper based in Hackensack, New Jersey. It's possible that the caps had been a tradition in years prior, but this was the oldest story available on the subject in the large library of archives on newspapers.com. The Record reported that Coca-Cola added a special symbol on the label in addition to creating yellow caps for Coke bottles: We also found a mention of yellow caps on Coke bottles from Ed Franklin in The Boston Globe in a story that was published on April 12, 2006. In the piece, Franklin referenced a big company decision that was made in 1980: We found several pictures that showed Coke lovers stocking up on the real classic Coke, as Franklin mentioned: Instagram user @chrisoninstagram also posted a picture of the top of the yellow Coke bottle cap. It showed a kosher label: When Coca-Cola substituted corn syrup for sugar in 1980, The Associated Press reported that stock prices of corn syrup producers soared and sugar futures tumbled. In January 1980, Coke spokesman John White told the AP that the switch would not affect the quality of the popular soft drink: In sum, yellow caps on Coke bottles do have a special meaning. Their annual, limited-time appearance on store shelves offer the opportunity for U.S. consumers to drink the beverage the way it tasted prior to the 1980 ingredient switch. (en)
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