Quinine is indeed present in trace amounts in tonic water. The indigenous people in South America taught the Spanish that you could use quinine (Chinchona) bark to treat malaria. The Brits picked it up and taught their troops to take it in British India, and the troops started mixing it with sugar and carbonated water to reduce the extreme bitterness, thus creating tonic water. (And of course the Brits mixed their beloved gin with it, leading to the gin and tonic.) Nowadays it's only used in very tiny quantities to impart flavour though. Quinine is actually still used as a medicine of last resort though, because it works against the most dangerous type of malaria in some parts of the world where it hasn't evolved resistance. (It also makes tonic water glow under a black light!)
Quinine is prescribed for muscle cramps as well. For several years in the 2000s my Mother had a prescription for quinine for this purpose (she has since recovered). I was aware of its former use as an anti-malaria drug, but not that it was still used for other purposes.
@thisZelse are you a time traveler from the future, this video came out 2 days ago. TH-cam comments says you posted your comment 1 month ago! how? LOL Good info on Quinnine. 😀
@@royboy4199 Haha, I wish. As to how: he doesn't mention it much, but our illustrious host has a Patreon, and sometimes he'll post a sneak preview of a video.
You’re my favourite TH-camr. Please keep uploading. The holidays are always hard for me & my family. Jan. 3rd will mark 12 years since my grandpa passed away. I’ve been watching you for the past couple of years and you make whatever I’m going thru easier.
I used to think post10 was doing some dangerous stuff on his main channel. I now realize that this channel is where he's actually putting his life on the line!
Pepsi and Coke products had those foam labels in the 80s, on 16 ounce glass bottles. And probably into the early 90s I believe. Also, as you talked about before, those caps had the little gasket in them that kept them sealed so well. Today its so hard to find anything of quality, they make everything as cheaply as possible.
Omg yess! I fall asleep to his videos too! Glad someone else does the same thing as me. I'm not sure if it's his voice or what, but it always puts me right to sleep(if I'm trying to sleep)
That Schweppes bottle sure is a throwback to the 70s-80s and even early 90s when things like 7up and Coke was put in glass bottles and wrapped in a styrofoam sleeve that way like a cozy to keep the contents cool! I'd forgotten about that!
Wow! I remember when we'd hang out with my Dad on the weekends. He'd have sodas with styrofoam labels. I loved peeling them in as straight lines as my young fingers could. I really wish I could go back for a day with my Dad and his orange truck with the styrofoam-labeled soda bottles!
Oh yeah! On break at work during HS and college I would often try to get the label off in one long thin ribbon. Not just a beverage, but entertainment too. Haha.
Dang I completely forgot about those styrofoam labels. It’s crazy all the small insignificant stuff we forget but get so excited when we’ve been reminded lol. I love watching this type of stuff, there’s another guy that eats old ass military rations from all over the world dating from recent to all the way back to ww1. Pretty neat stuff all around.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s and I think you are right about carbonation...I found it hard to drink pop (out of a bottle back then) due to carbonation. I don't drink pop any more but it's nothing like it was when i was a kid.
I think that’s what made our soda/pop good. There was nothing like an ice cold pepsi on a summer day with that fizz tickling your nostrils as you take a sip. Nothing more refreshing to a kid in the 80’s without coming out of the garden hose. Lol
It's true about the carbonation, I work for a beverage company. The carbonation will permeate through plastic easily, and also to some degree aluminum. Glass is going to hold that carbonation in extremely well.
Ah yeah homie! Breakin out the Slim Jim mugs!! You know it’s gonna be a good video when he busts those out. Canada Dry is usually Ginger Ale nowadays. Not sure if that’s what that is too.
I'm so surprised there was that much carbonation after all that time! Another great video - thank you for all the content recently, it's been fantastic!
This is an awesome video! Awesome glass bottles and labels are cool enough.. but i was NOT expecting that high powered carbonation 🔥 Just shows they bottled things much better back in the day with good seals. Thanks for sharing
I really appreciate your channel bud, it is so interesting and entertaining. I collect various items and display them as well. Thank you for all you do bud. Shawn from Wenatchee Washington State👍
Post, interesting video even though I am not a fan of club soda. Did you have your work outfit on because you are back working for the log company? I did like how you had the camera at eye level. It was like we were sitting across from you. I also like how you keep the camera running after saying goodbye. Remember to set your clocks back tonight. 😊
I haven’t made it to the end yet but I was laughing at the thought of what could happen if you poured all of those down the toilet. My weird brain imagined the septic tank exploding from the carbonation, or the toilet lid flying up as the toilet lets out a huge burp. The joys of a good imagination, lol. I needed that laugh though. Thank you! 😊
Loved it! The hat. The carbonation. The whole vid I opened some store brand seltzer that was only a yr old and no carbonation at all. Loved this so much!
Great work Post. Did you know the Village People, that’s a band by the way, formed in 1977, the same time that soda was made. 😂 Also do you know if you drink enough gin and tonics you will keep the mosquitos away and stop you getting malaria 🦟
I just wanna say I love your channel and videos to much. I get so excited to see them and it makes my day to watch them ! Your an awesome guy and keep up the amazing work post!!!❤
In the mid seventies my local A & P grocery store installed bar code scanners, they were thick plastic scanners with a Starburst type opening and the light that activated as the code was read was bright orangey red. One of my friends moms worked at the store and she hated the bar cade readers because she often had to run something over the reader numerous times to get it to read the barcode. Those early readers did a very poor job on objects where the code wasn't flat. I had a friend in the late 70s whose company made and marketed bar code reading systems. Hope you stay healthy!
Thanks for this! 👷 Interesting to see that the Tonic Water contained quinine, which is something I first heard in a movie way back in the early 1980s. I remember asking my maternal grandmother (who was a registered nurse) what quinine was.
All i needed to see was the safety equipment and i was hooked! (Editted to appreciate the vest tucked in 😅) Love your content! So mundane yet captivating!
Yes, you are brave, not so much on the club soda, but your other videos that I’ve watched. And I eat outdated stuff all the time but you do it on steroids X 1000. Love your channel.
I remember those styrofoam lables. I think that they used those into the 1990s. I remember my sisters peeling the labels off and putting them inside of the bottle in spiral strips.
The problem I have experienced with old bottled soft drinks is that the cap liners were made of "cork". After about 5 years the cork taste has leeched into the flavor of the drink. This was quite a long time ago and no company probably uses cork anymore
I honestly thought it was a bob the builder stream. Or is it because it was Halloween. Regardless great vid my good man. Most exited I felt about carbonation in a long time ❤
My dad an i had permission from the property owners because the home was gonna be torn down for an industrial park. It was an old farm house, we got a safe WITH 22 silver dollars inside (they couldn’t find the combo but we found it in a drawer. I also got 7 bottles of whiskey all still tax sealed from 1961. Also found an 8’ pot plant next to the barn. Needless to say, that was a good load of abandoned stuff.
Im as old as the oldest one of those club sodas. I am expecting to find my self on your display shelf soon. At least I will get to watch from the front row.
Dude that’s crazy I wonder what Canada Dry does differently from other companies because even today it’s super carbonated! Awesome vids brother I can’t stop watching them! 🙏🏽🙏🏽
club soda is mostly just mineral water for preparing alcoholic drinks. tonic water is sweet bc there's sugar in it and a bit bitter bc of the quinine. it's used in gin and tonic etc.
Glass bottles make a big difference. I can remember drinking my dr peppers as a kid in the early 80s with the foam labels. Pulling the label down a bit and popping it with our hands.
Those styrofoam wrappers are definitively from the 80s. Being an 80s kid myself I remember a lot of Soda or pop were wrapped in styrofoam. It was phased out after a few years though.
Maybe it would have been good to buy a new bottle of Club Soda and Tonic Water just to compare? They are both quite different tasting, BTW. Both are traditionally used as mixers for alcohol. Enjoyed the video! 👍
The schweppes bottle reminds me of Original New York Seltzer, they still make the same bottles from the 80s, glass with aluminum cap and that foamy soft label.
Hey everyone! Welcome to Old food saturday. I hope today's video is interesting and thanks for watching,
Why u still got your hard hat on bro?
@@psychedelicvoyager9331just got done working
Just realised u take it off later in the vid
I thought you may do something funny with your work uniform as the video progressed, like you did with the haircut video!!! 😆👷♂️😂
Old food saturdays are my fav
Quinine is indeed present in trace amounts in tonic water. The indigenous people in South America taught the Spanish that you could use quinine (Chinchona) bark to treat malaria. The Brits picked it up and taught their troops to take it in British India, and the troops started mixing it with sugar and carbonated water to reduce the extreme bitterness, thus creating tonic water. (And of course the Brits mixed their beloved gin with it, leading to the gin and tonic.)
Nowadays it's only used in very tiny quantities to impart flavour though. Quinine is actually still used as a medicine of last resort though, because it works against the most dangerous type of malaria in some parts of the world where it hasn't evolved resistance. (It also makes tonic water glow under a black light!)
Quinine is prescribed for muscle cramps as well. For several years in the 2000s my Mother had a prescription for quinine for this purpose (she has since recovered). I was aware of its former use as an anti-malaria drug, but not that it was still used for other purposes.
In the 1960s my great grandmother's cardiologist had her use quinine for her palpitations or afib
@thisZelse are you a time traveler from the future, this video came out 2 days ago. TH-cam comments says you posted your comment 1 month ago! how? LOL Good info on Quinnine. 😀
@@bladerunner752 Interesting; I wonder if that was related to its use in cramps described by William above? (The heart's just a big muscle after all.)
@@royboy4199 Haha, I wish. As to how: he doesn't mention it much, but our illustrious host has a Patreon, and sometimes he'll post a sneak preview of a video.
You’re my favourite TH-camr. Please keep uploading. The holidays are always hard for me & my family. Jan. 3rd will mark 12 years since my grandpa passed away. I’ve been watching you for the past couple of years and you make whatever I’m going thru easier.
I used to think post10 was doing some dangerous stuff on his main channel. I now realize that this channel is where he's actually putting his life on the line!
I love how excited you got every time you found that the drinks were still carbonated. Like a kid on Christmas morning! 😊
Always wear the proper PPE when handling 50 year old Club Soda.
Pepsi and Coke products had those foam labels in the 80s, on 16 ounce glass bottles. And probably into the early 90s I believe. Also, as you talked about before, those caps had the little gasket in them that kept them sealed so well. Today its so hard to find anything of quality, they make everything as cheaply as possible.
So glad I found your channel! I love falling asleep watching your post 10 camping videos! Keep up the awesome content!!
Omg yess!
I fall asleep to his videos too! Glad someone else does the same thing as me.
I'm not sure if it's his voice or what, but it always puts me right to sleep(if I'm trying to sleep)
That makes three of us
So you guys think he is boring?
@@Mom2blue True, and the content is stress- and drama-free and wholesome. It is a nice break from this sometimes crazy world
That Schweppes bottle sure is a throwback to the 70s-80s and even early 90s when things like 7up and Coke was put in glass bottles and wrapped in a styrofoam sleeve that way like a cozy to keep the contents cool! I'd forgotten about that!
Wow! I remember when we'd hang out with my Dad on the weekends. He'd have sodas with styrofoam labels. I loved peeling them in as straight lines as my young fingers could. I really wish I could go back for a day with my Dad and his orange truck with the styrofoam-labeled soda bottles!
Oh yeah! On break at work during HS and college I would often try to get the label off in one long thin ribbon. Not just a beverage, but entertainment too. Haha.
Dang I completely forgot about those styrofoam labels. It’s crazy all the small insignificant stuff we forget but get so excited when we’ve been reminded lol. I love watching this type of stuff, there’s another guy that eats old ass military rations from all over the world dating from recent to all the way back to ww1. Pretty neat stuff all around.
We also had these Styrofoam labels in Germany in the 80s and early 90s. I still have a Pepsi bottle on my kitchen shelf ☺️
Man, it’s still carbonated after all these years! Hats off to the production companies, back in a day, the word quality really meant something.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s and I think you are right about carbonation...I found it hard to drink pop (out of a bottle back then) due to carbonation. I don't drink pop any more but it's nothing like it was when i was a kid.
I think that’s what made our soda/pop good. There was nothing like an ice cold pepsi on a summer day with that fizz tickling your nostrils as you take a sip. Nothing more refreshing to a kid in the 80’s without coming out of the garden hose. Lol
Honestly, this was extremely impressive, usually modern gaskets or ridged caps don't last that long
It's true about the carbonation, I work for a beverage company. The carbonation will permeate through plastic easily, and also to some degree aluminum. Glass is going to hold that carbonation in extremely well.
Ah yeah homie! Breakin out the Slim Jim mugs!! You know it’s gonna be a good video when he busts those out. Canada Dry is usually Ginger Ale nowadays. Not sure if that’s what that is too.
I'm so surprised there was that much carbonation after all that time! Another great video - thank you for all the content recently, it's been fantastic!
Love your content man. Simple but so interesting.
This is an awesome video! Awesome glass bottles and labels are cool enough.. but i was NOT expecting that high powered carbonation 🔥 Just shows they bottled things much better back in the day with good seals. Thanks for sharing
the cott bottle looks so cool!
The most genuine man on TH-cam.
I really appreciate your channel bud, it is so interesting and entertaining. I collect various items and display them as well. Thank you for all you do bud. Shawn from Wenatchee Washington State👍
Always sad when it goes down the toilet. RIP to the Tonic water and sodas. x
Post, interesting video even though I am not a fan of club soda. Did you have your work outfit on because you are back working for the log company? I did like how you had the camera at eye level. It was like we were sitting across from you. I also like how you keep the camera running after saying goodbye. Remember to set your clocks back tonight. 😊
I'm digging the Slim Jim mug.
I haven’t made it to the end yet but I was laughing at the thought of what could happen if you poured all of those down the toilet. My weird brain imagined the septic tank exploding from the carbonation, or the toilet lid flying up as the toilet lets out a huge burp. The joys of a good imagination, lol. I needed that laugh though. Thank you! 😊
This is fascinating!! I love seltzers, club sodas and any sparkling water really!! 👍😁
I worked in a grocery store in California in 1977 and it had scanner checkstands!! Great video Post have a great day!!
Loved it! The hat.
The carbonation. The whole vid
I opened some store brand seltzer that was only a yr old and no carbonation at all. Loved this so much!
You're the best Mr Post- Man.
Nuff love Geezer!
Idk why but as a little kid loved cutting off the old foam labels with my finger nails, the old Pepsi and 7 up glass 6 packs i remember having them.
Love the Slim Jim glasses lol.
Thanks, Dave! I love these kinds of videos! Definitely more old sodas and drinks Dave
Are u talking to yourself Dave, post10 dont know u Dave☺
@@turji his name is Dave
Dave's not here man.
@@DarkOneCFH Oh Dave is most definitely here. You’re looking right at him
I love to watch your reactions!
I love this idea, can't wait to see what awaits! Thanks for offering the best content my man!!!
Great work Post. Did you know the Village People, that’s a band by the way, formed in 1977, the same time that soda was made. 😂
Also do you know if you drink enough gin and tonics you will keep the mosquitos away and stop you getting malaria 🦟
16:47 thats how a 50 years old soda sounds like. We're listening to history, my people.
I just wanna say I love your channel and videos to much. I get so excited to see them and it makes my day to watch them ! Your an awesome guy and keep up the amazing work post!!!❤
In the mid seventies my local A & P grocery store installed bar code scanners, they were thick plastic scanners with a Starburst type opening and the light that activated as the code was read was bright orangey red. One of my friends moms worked at the store and she hated the bar cade readers because she often had to run something over the reader numerous times to get it to read the barcode. Those early readers did a very poor job on objects where the code wasn't flat. I had a friend in the late 70s whose company made and marketed bar code reading systems.
Hope you stay healthy!
I love your TH-cam channel and videos so much.
your videos are growing a big desire in me to collect old food and drinks lmao ❤
How do you find canned food that is 30 plus years old still in the can. I am just curious.
once again - really cool bottles - hope you are keeping most of this stuff...the display behind you gets more interesting all the time
brilliant video post , love the safety hat .
Thanks for this! 👷 Interesting to see that the Tonic Water contained quinine, which is something I first heard in a movie way back in the early 1980s. I remember asking my maternal grandmother (who was a registered nurse) what quinine was.
It's interesting to see how those sodas from the last century have turned out, so I loved that video. Greetings from Panama 🇵🇦
You don't know how entertaining it was to slowly peel that Styrofoam label as thinly as possible😊
Bro is a big time safety enthusiast in this one. I like it.
All i needed to see was the safety equipment and i was hooked! (Editted to appreciate the vest tucked in 😅) Love your content! So mundane yet captivating!
BTW - tonic water, when it's fresh, tastes sort of like vomit.
I’m glad you wore the safety vest and hard hat.
No one can comprehend the satisfaction I got when he brought out the testing strips
Your burps made me laugh out loud. Nice video man!
I bought some tonic water once. I thought it was horrible. I love watching you taste test. You are very brave. Thank you.☮️💖🎶
What a brave soul you are
Yes, you are brave, not so much on the club soda, but your other videos that I’ve watched. And I eat outdated stuff all the time but you do it on steroids X 1000. Love your channel.
Tonic water contains sweeteners. Club soda doesn’t and has a more neutral taste
Quinine is actually what gives tonic water its taste. It also fluoresces under black light (UV light).
I remember those styrofoam lables. I think that they used those into the 1990s. I remember my sisters peeling the labels off and putting them inside of the bottle in spiral strips.
Bonus points for one single long, thin ribbon!
Fun fact, Quinine glows under blacklights. People make things like glowing jello shots/drinks with it in tonic water sometimes.
Thanks Post! 👊👍Appreciate you my friend 🙏
I remember seeing those Schweppes bottles with that neat label when I was a kid and I was fascinated by it 😂
The problem I have experienced with old bottled soft drinks is that the cap liners were made of "cork". After about 5 years the cork taste has leeched into the flavor of the drink. This was quite a long time ago and no company probably uses cork anymore
Thanks for this video David
I honestly thought it was a bob the builder stream. Or is it because it was Halloween. Regardless great vid my good man. Most exited I felt about carbonation in a long time ❤
I'm surprised the first two didn't hold up, considering it's basically just water.
My dad an i had permission from the property owners because the home was gonna be torn down for an industrial park. It was an old farm house, we got a safe WITH 22 silver dollars inside (they couldn’t find the combo but we found it in a drawer. I also got 7 bottles of whiskey all still tax sealed from 1961. Also found an 8’ pot plant next to the barn. Needless to say, that was a good load of abandoned stuff.
Just me guessing Post, we're you off to start your new job for the logging companies before you made this video 🤔
You should see what the quinine containing tonic water looks like under a blacklight. It will glow a faint bluish purple
Im as old as the oldest one of those club sodas. I am expecting to find my self on your display shelf soon. At least I will get to watch from the front row.
when did they start printing the metric volume alongside the regular oz ,quart etc on the products.... the early 80s?
Hard hat in case they explode, the two-way radio to call for help... LOL
So I've never had it before...is club soda just fizzy saltwater?
Dude that’s crazy I wonder what Canada Dry does differently from other companies because even today it’s super carbonated! Awesome vids brother I can’t stop watching them! 🙏🏽🙏🏽
My favorite channel
Good thing you wore that helmet for this one. Safety first! 😜
I'm very fascinated by seeing how it was packaged or the labels of food products from the past
were these drinks chilled or at room temperature?
Styrofoam labels! I remember those!
Wow, thanks for the flashback, Post! 😄
Another awesome video New England 👍
Guy is definition of weird and I love it
I like your picture of a fax machine on fire.
Very quaint.
I can see how one would confuse Cott with Colt. That Soda water be looking like a 40
Love that schweppes bottle. The label is also nice ones
Johann Jacob Schweppe (the man behind Schweppes) was born about 30km away from me in Witzenhausen in Germany. I found that quite interesting...
Just got off work and decided to try old club soda? youre crazy man keep up the good content 😂
The burping while rinsing 😂
club soda is mostly just mineral water for preparing alcoholic drinks. tonic water is sweet bc there's sugar in it and a bit bitter bc of the quinine. it's used in gin and tonic etc.
Great video! Thank you, for showing us hope your days been good.
Love this guy!!
Great video!
Oh my gosh….. love the outfit! 😂❤👏🏻👏🏻
Glass bottles make a big difference. I can remember drinking my dr peppers as a kid in the early 80s with the foam labels. Pulling the label down a bit and popping it with our hands.
Those styrofoam wrappers are definitively from the 80s. Being an 80s kid myself I remember a lot of Soda or pop were wrapped in styrofoam. It was phased out after a few years though.
Tonic water is used in mixed drinks. It was very popular back in the day.
Love those slim jim steins
I love your outfit!! 😍
❤ Thanks for the video. Yay test strip are back lol. ❤❤
Ur vids never disappoint! ❤❤❤❤❤
Maybe it would have been good to buy a new bottle of Club Soda and Tonic Water just to compare? They are both quite different tasting, BTW. Both are traditionally used as mixers for alcohol. Enjoyed the video! 👍
GREAT VIDEO!
The schweppes bottle reminds me of Original New York Seltzer, they still make the same bottles from the 80s, glass with aluminum cap and that foamy soft label.
how has the carbonation held up so well? ive seen videos of people opening up soda from like the 90s with no carbonation