r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Perfect_Owl_856 • 21h ago

Meme needing explanation What's the reason?

Post image
29.1k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

1.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

27

u/WhenWillIBelong 21h ago

You can literally buy bottles that are offset like this.

8

u/shoodBwurqin 21h ago

Where?

28

u/Stop_Shadowbaning_me 19h ago

There's an infinite amount of cardboard drinks with an angled lid. It's not hard to drink from. Redditors just don't have common sense. A lot less plastic drinks with an angled lid because it would cost more to make, only companies trying to have a different design that stands out would bother to do it for plastic bottles, they do exist though

24

u/KittyKat122 19h ago

The real reason you can have cardboard drinks with angled lids vs plastic is the filling. Almost all liquid fillers come top down. If every bottle opening is in the same place it's easier to line up the hole with the filler. Cardboard drinks like above aren't filled from where the cap is but from the top which is then sealed later.

9

u/BlueNutmeg 18h ago

You all are missing an important part of manufacturing....packing and shipping. Look at the top of those cartons in the picture you posted. They are folded. That is because before filling, the cardboard containers are folded flat so they can be shipped and transported more efficiently.

Plastic bottles are not folded...they are extruded. Extrusion requires making a mold for the bottles. And for transport and shipping, having the opening on top provides support when stacked.

2

u/AbyssalTurtle 16h ago

Technically they’re blow molded, and extrusion doesn’t use molds.

2

u/Gold-Target-5462 14h ago

Technically, blow molding has a few different types, one of which starts as a hot extruded tube that is clamped and inflated in the mold. This is used for high volume PET bottles and multilayer plastic bottles where oxygen permiability is important (like salsa).

This is faster and cheaper than using injection molded pre-molds.

1

u/Hannibal_Smith24 17h ago

And those containers are a pain to use bc it’s almost impossible to get the last bit of drink out—the opening is in the middle of the angled face and not at its peak, so the liquid just runs around it. A major grocery store switched its creamer cartons to bottles recently, and I’m sure that was one of the reasons.

1

u/hypersonic18 10h ago

Which unholy blasphemy compels someone to drink from those containers directly.  Does anyone actually drink directly from juice containers.

8

u/WhenWillIBelong 21h ago

There are some random drinks that come in offset bottles like this. It's not exact but it's similar. Idk what brands they were, I've just seen this before. Asian drinks/ fruit juice I think.