First of all, carbonated beverages always taste better in glass than they do in plastic. They lose their crispness in the latter. The first ice-cold Schlug, right after you open the bottle, suffers a particularly depressing fate in a plastic bottle, for the water inside it invariably lacks tastes warmer and flatter. More than that, though, there's the feel of the glass Gerolsteiner bottle itself. To paraphrase Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady, "I've grown accustomed to its shape." The ritual of twisting the cap off, taking a drink, then twisting it back on has become as much a sine qua non of my teaching as the way I use the whiteboard. When it became my turn to pay today, the checker asked me the standard, "How are you doing today?" My reply, in my best imitation of Peter Finch: "I'm mad as hell!"
A Crushing Blow
First of all, carbonated beverages always taste better in glass than they do in plastic. They lose their crispness in the latter. The first ice-cold Schlug, right after you open the bottle, suffers a particularly depressing fate in a plastic bottle, for the water inside it invariably lacks tastes warmer and flatter. More than that, though, there's the feel of the glass Gerolsteiner bottle itself. To paraphrase Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady, "I've grown accustomed to its shape." The ritual of twisting the cap off, taking a drink, then twisting it back on has become as much a sine qua non of my teaching as the way I use the whiteboard. When it became my turn to pay today, the checker asked me the standard, "How are you doing today?" My reply, in my best imitation of Peter Finch: "I'm mad as hell!"
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