Beer is a sensitive liquid and is actually affected by its surroundings. You could run Coke through a rusty gutter and you'd get perfectly good Coke and a clean gutter.

Coke does not taste the same in any container. A lot of older folks were sad when glass coke bottles disappeared in the US to be replaced by cans and plastic bottles. That ability to clean a gutter might be why you get a lot of complaints about coke tasting metallic out of a can.

could Coke (tm) contain genetically modified flavour control agents that fool our taste buds into thing that whatever is in the can is the real thing. Has Soilent Green gone brown and fizzy?

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You're absoulutely wrong about coke tasting the same nomatter what you're drinking from. I have been blind-tested on this, and could tell which coke had been poured from glass bottles, and which hadn't. The difference is quite distinct.

I'm glad there's somebody out there who's concerned about this. I put in a application for goverment funding to head a scientific investigation of this phenomenon but was turned down.

What?

They spent £200,000 on why some people like black jelly babies and others don't... I thought it was worth a shot.

Rob - it's time to re-apply. This is a matter of utmost import.

Beer in a can is, I think, a pure American invention. Now, I am an American, and I can say this: American beer is bad. Putting it in a can and saying that it's bad because of the can just doesn't fly.

Canned beer? It's for the university folk. I had you pictured as more of a cognac kind of guy, Simon :)

A co-worker and I went back to the US on temporary duty while stationed in Germany. We drank Sam Adams and Canadian the entire time, until getting to the airport for the flight back to Germany. We ordered a can of Bud, split it into two glasses and chugged 'em. Blech.