I find if you press down as hard-as-you-fucking-can until the fizzing stops, there's more ramune in the bottle and less on your hands. I'm gunna find a Japanese person and ask them to explain opening ramune to me... there really has to be a way to do it without the fizz explosion.
Actually, yeah! It depends on the brand you get. In Japan there are lots of different brands of ramune (rah-moo-nay), like there are lots of different brands of cola in America. I like to buy the Summer Festival Fireworks brand because the caps screw off... but when I have to drink something else, either breaking the bottle or sawing off the cap becomes unavoidable.
Keep in mind though, just like the Japanese drive on the "wrong" side of the road in Japanese, they also twist off things the "wrong" way. Instead of righty-tighty-lefty-loosey, you've gotta twist in the opposite direction!
My mom used to drink "marble soda" as she called it when she was a child, 40 years ago. Then I guess some clever Japaneese company picked it up and oversells it at a grotesque price just for the novelty factor.
You have to push the marble up with your tongue or else gravity will let it slide back down thus blocking the soda.
I'm such a novelty whore I get things like Apple Sidra just for kicks since I've been drinking it since the age of 2. HEH. NOVELTY YAY!
Actually, ramune has existed in Japan since the early 1900s.
It used to be considered a "poor" or "commoner" drink because most often the ramune bottles were chilled in buckets which were very dirty. Richer folk also wouldn't drink it because sometimes chips of glass flaked off the bottle and into the soda when the marble was pushed down. Back then, ramune soda came in bottles that were 100% glass -- unlike the ramune of today, in which the marble is held in a plastic seal at the top of the bottle.
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For FOUR years we've been drinking these calling them (from context only) "Japanese Action Drinks".
Is there a way to get the ball out without having to break the bottle open?
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It depends on the brand you get. In Japan there are lots of different brands of ramune (rah-moo-nay), like there are lots of different brands of cola in America. I like to buy the Summer Festival Fireworks brand because the caps screw off... but when I have to drink something else, either breaking the bottle or sawing off the cap becomes unavoidable.
Keep in mind though, just like the Japanese drive on the "wrong" side of the road in Japanese, they also twist off things the "wrong" way. Instead of righty-tighty-lefty-loosey, you've gotta twist in the opposite direction!
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I wanna try one of those now :D
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Next time we hang out, the ramune is on me!
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Of course you have to say that now and after the fact that you didn't want any of the ramune I was shoving in your face all of Thursday!
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You have to push the marble up with your tongue or else gravity will let it slide back down thus blocking the soda.
I'm such a novelty whore I get things like Apple Sidra just for kicks since I've been drinking it since the age of 2. HEH. NOVELTY YAY!
Christine are you coming to my birfday party???
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It used to be considered a "poor" or "commoner" drink because most often the ramune bottles were chilled in buckets which were very dirty. Richer folk also wouldn't drink it because sometimes chips of glass flaked off the bottle and into the soda when the marble was pushed down. Back then, ramune soda came in bottles that were 100% glass -- unlike the ramune of today, in which the marble is held in a plastic seal at the top of the bottle.
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