Exploding Diet Pepsi 2 liter bottles

mike l

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I am watching tv and all of a sudden there was a noise like a gunshot and then I was showered with diet pepsi.

This is the second time that a bottle has exploded for no reason, as it happened about 6 months ago as 1 two liter bottle of diet pepsi was on the conveyor belt at the Playero and it exploded there as well showering everyone within a 3' radius.

There is no plastic shrapnel when they spontaniously explode just a hole in the bottle with a black spattering of evidence and now a destroyed piece of furnitue and there was even a drop on my keyboard 7' away.

I will stop drinking diet pepsi but I have some lemons arriving soon and I hope that the 2 liter bottles of tonic water don't also explode or I need to find a safer purveyor...!
 
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rice&beans

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Put a warm one in the freezer, forgot about it........YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/39896705@N05/5285958754/" title="Exploding pepsi... by neon-circles, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5289/5285958754_c14be75145.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Exploding pepsi..." /></a>
 

mike l

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I am not talking about a frozen 12oz. can of a frozen soda I am talking about a 2 liter bottle that is on the shelf and without reason suddenly explodes.

It took me an hour to clean this mess and now i have to take another shower
 

rice&beans

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Hahahaha...I know, I figured since we were in the "Pepsi Thread".......I have to admit that is kinda weird........KABOOM!!!!!!!!!!.........If that was happening in the States......CHA CHING CHA CHING........can you say Class Action???......The Lawyers would be lining up at your door........
 

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Last month I purchased a 6 pk of 2 liter bottles of Pepsi from PriceSmart. One exploded sitting on my kitchen floor. It was never opened and the bottom was blown out. The next day another bottle exploded. I put the rest of the bottles outside and they were fine. Went to the corner grocery store and he said he had several Lg Pepsi bottles explode in his stock. The one thing I did notice was I never had Pepsi before that was so carbonated, it was great, but what a mess it made........


B in Santiago
 

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Well if we are going to laugh about this i can hijack my own thread.

I have a delancer box and pay extra for the fox channel so I can watch the NFL playoffs and sure enough the only channel that worked today was my fox channel with no other programming available from delancer.

Resources and contingecy plans are paramount....
 
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Sounds like its too hot!

Could it be the room temperatute?
We had a watermelon on the kitchen counter that jut exploded.
It was a typical hot June day in DR.

Ccarabella
 
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....... The one thing I did notice was I never had Pepsi before that was so carbonated, it was great, but what a mess it made........

B in Santiago

Another example of "Quality Control" in the D.R.

Perhaps they were "Fake" bottles of Pepsi, like they do with drugs.
 
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we sell peKsi in the farmacia and it regularly breaks - i would not cann it explosion as such, the bottom just gives in. same with red rock. buying from peKsi themselves so not fake, i hope.
 
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a we buy KolaReal which is a good buy at RD$50 for a 2 and a half liter bottle.
Plus you're supporting a truly Dominican born company. The owner is fighting tooth and nail to make this company successful and against all odds seems to be succeeding.

The bathroom sinks in my house in Cotui are all of the modern glass bowl type. Similar to this one Kraus GV-101-14 Clear 14 inch Glass Vessel Sink

Anyhow one night one of them spontaneously exploded and thanks god there was nobody in there at the moment, because that person would probably be dead. It exploded with such force that we found glass shrapnel from it embedded into the cement walls. Wonder if there's something climate related that causes this. I replaced it with the same shape, but made out of stone.

I'm still kind of freaked out about my other bathrooms.
 
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Plus you're supporting a truly Dominican born company. The owner is fighting tooth and nail to make this company successful and against all odds seems to be succeeding.

The bathroom sinks in my house in Cotui are all of the modern glass bowl type. Similar to this one Kraus GV-101-14 Clear 14 inch Glass Vessel Sink

Anyhow one night one of them spontaneously exploded and thanks god there was nobody in there at the moment, because that person would probably be dead. It exploded with such force that we found glass shrapnel from it embedded into the cement walls. Wonder if there's something climate related that causes this. I replaced it with the same shape, but made out of stone.

I'm still kind of freaked out about my other bathrooms.

It's the HAARP thing! ; )
 
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Read about Henry's Law:

Henry's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You'll be safe with cans and it won't be as flat. Ever notice that in the tropics the air gap in plastic bottles is about twice as big? I also check twist off glass beer bottles. If there is more air than normal, it is prob skunked.

If the soda is too cold when it is carbonated, it can be over-carbonated at room temp.
 
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I always get someone else to open the Canada Dry tonic. That's good fun to watch from a distance! (Got me the first time, or maybe a few more).

I've noticed as well that in many brands due to the thinness of the bottle plastic, the bottle twists before the cap security strip breaks with entertaining results.

Should have labels like, "Store and open under the shower".
 
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4 yrs and 20,000 Diet Cokes later and never had a problem in the DR. Add a friend of mine that doubles that number and I think it time for you Mike to Smile and switch to the Real Thing.;)
 
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Coke did it in retribution for those commercials:

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Great commercial....



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I am watching tv and all of a sudden there was a noise like a gunshot and then I was showered with diet pepsi.

This is the second time that a bottle has exploded for no reason, as it happened about 6 months ago as 1 two liter bottle of diet pepsi was on the conveyor belt at the Playero and it exploded there as well showering everyone within a 3' radius.

There is no plastic shrapnel when they spontaniously explode just a hole in the bottle with a black spattering of evidence and now a destroyed piece of furnitue and there was even a drop on my keyboard 7' away.

I will stop drinking diet pepsi but I have some lemons arriving soon and I hope that the 2 liter bottles of tonic water don't also explode or I need to find a safer purveyor...!

This is hillarious because the same thing just happened to me this week in La Sirena ! LOL I was shopping with my daughter in the ladies clothing dept and the clerk was rounding up a bunch of bottles in a shopping cart near the cashes and then all of sudden BANG !!!!!!!! and we were showered with diet coke! I was wearing white capri pants... :cheeky: it managed to hit my lower legs but my daughter was not so lucky...try brushing out waist lenght hair with coke in it... LOL
 
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This is hillarious because the same thing just happened to me this week in La Sirena ! LOL I was shopping with my daughter in the ladies clothing dept and the clerk was rounding up a bunch of bottles in a shopping cart near the cashes and then all of sudden BANG !!!!!!!! and we were showered with diet coke! I was wearing white capri pants... :cheeky: it managed to hit my lower legs but my daughter was not so lucky...try brushing out waist lenght hair with coke in it... LOL

Concesus suggests an investigation for the cause as I am now handeling these as if they were loaded with nitroglycerin.

The prices to buy canned soda is 27 rd for 12 0z vs 45rd for 2 liters.

From now on I will go to the little Playero and have one of the detectives open a bottle and bring it to the cashier.

Of course this great discomfort cannot compare to the 65 year old women who I saw today carrying a 4 gallon container just for potable water.