[SOC] I NEED PLANE TICKETS TO GERMANY STAT!!!

Sat, 21 Dec 2002 19:46:13 -0000

Hi Rob,

I lived for a year in Germany (75,76) and at that time the idea of buying
beer in a TIN was completely foreign to them.

You have your crates (24x0.5L bottles). When they're all empty, you trundle
round to the local 'Getranksmarkt' (if I got that correct...) and exchange
your crate of empty bottles for a crate of full ones. The difference in
price between an empty crate and a full crate was a fraction of the deposit
paid on an empty crate alone.

The Germans (amongst others in Northern Europe - Scandiwegians in
particular) are pretty keen on recycling stuff and the 'new' rules seem to
be reinforcing that.

In the mid-sixties, I and my friends used to earn extra pennies (3d a
bottle) recovering the deposits on discarded returnable bottles. The
practise fell out of fashion when the suppliers twigged that it was cheaper
to throw the bottle away than to recycle it.

Times change.

Paul :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Matherly" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 7:06 PM
Subject: [SOC] I NEED PLANE TICKETS TO GERMANY STAT!!!

> Just heard on 1040 that beer is selling for FIVE CENTS A CAN in
> Germany!!!
>
> Apparently there's some new law coming up at the first of the year
> over there outlawing "disposable containers", so stores are trying to
> get rid of all their stock while they can.
>
> That brings up an interesting question... if you can't buy beer in
> "disposable containers", what are you supposed to buy it in?  Are you
> just supposed to drive to the brewery and suck it straight from the
> brew tank? lol....  (hmm.... ;^))
>
> --
>   72/73/oo - Rob, w0jrm - [email protected]
> ARRL, FPQRP -330, SOC #497, QRPp-I #19, IAQRP #143,
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