Sant eller falskt? Ingen aning. Flaskan liknar onekligen kakao-frukten, som dock (såvitt jag vet) inte har det minsta med själva produkten att göra. Koka-busken (till höger) verkar tämligen svår att bli inspirerad av i sammanhanget, den har bär men dessa är helt oansenliga.
En annan historia jag hört om flaskans tillkomst hävdade att formen var inspirerad av de snäva kjolar som var populära bland damerna på den tiden. Sant eller falskt? Vad vet jag...
SvaraRaderaFortunately in 1913, Harold Hirsch, a lawyer for the Coca-Cola Company, came up with a plan. He helped Coca-Cola launch a national competition in which bottle manufacturers across the country would be asked to design a distinctive bottle - a bottle which a person could recognize even if they felt it in the dark, and so shaped that, even if broken, a person could tell at a glance what it was. The bottle manufacturer that won this competition was the Root Glass Company of Terre Haute, Indiana. Inspired by a picture of a cocoa pod which was found in an encyclopedia at the Emeline Fairbanks Memorial Library, Earl R. Dean, the designer, made a pencil sketch of the bottle. From this sketch, the contour bottle prototype* was made. The prototype never made it to production since its middle diameter was larger than its base. This would make it unstable on the conveyor belts. Dean then reduced the middle diameter and the Contour Coca-Cola Bottle was born.
SvaraRaderahttp://www.sodamuseum.bigstep.com/generic.jhtml?pid=19
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Snopes.com har en hel kategori med "Cokelore", inklusive kakao-historien, tanden, och en hel massa konstigheter som förhoppningsvis aldrig kommer att få något fäste här. :-)
SvaraRaderahttp://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cokelore.asp
Inget om snäva kjolar, men det låter långsökt tycker jag. Flaskor har ju liksom form som en människokropp från början, på något sätt...