Ever since I did all that research on celery-flavored soft drinks on Monday I've had the almost overwhelming desire to drink a carbonated soft drink from a glass bottle. When's the last time I did that? These days everything's in plastic bottles, but there has to be something carbonated in glass bottles that's available in my area. (And please don't tell me to dig an old glass Coke bottle out of a trash pile from behind someone's house, clean it out, and fill it with Coke from a plastic bottle. I've already considered and rejected that option.)

When I was little back in the 70's virtually all the vending machines in my area sold soft drinks in bottles. And how many times did one of my parents tell my sister and I to hurry up and finish our drinks so they wouldn't have to pay the 5¢ deposit for the bottle? That part wasn't any fun. So we'd stand there outside of the gas station forcing down Pepsi or that vile orange Ne-Hi (or however it's spelled). (Mindless nostalgia is a sign of old age.)