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How anybody can drink Ale8 mystifies me.[/QUOTE]

BLASPHEMY!

Nothing better that Winchester river water.

ETA: I haven't seen returnable bottles in years. Maybe a couple decades.

I remember when the local Coke plant employed bottle washers.

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:

I remember when the local Coke plant employed bottle washers.

They had to separate the bottles, so they were known as coke sorters.

The folks who did a similar job at the winery were called cork soakers.

Don't know of any here now.

The store at the end of the road had a big wire basket just inside the front door to collect the returns. As a kid we could get paid to sort the bottles sometimes on Saturday so the venders would take theirs back for reuse.