Anyone who knows me knows I am addicted to Diet Peach Snapple Tea. I always have a glass bottle by my side. I start with a bottle filled with the tea, and as the day goes on, I slowly dilute it with cold water and ice. Some days I do drink two Diet Peach Snapple teas. (See blog below.)
I love Snapple in the glass bottles. To me they taste better that way. I know it comes in two-liter size, which is cheaper. But for me, the glass bottles in their six-packs was my go-to drink. I keep cases of it at home, so I never run out.
But starting in mid-January, I was having a difficult time finding my favorite drink. Whenever I did see it, I would buy two or three cases. Eventually, I could not find it at all. I was down to my last four bottles. And I was stressed.
Finally, two weeks into the start of no Diet Peach Snapple, I made a run to my local grocery store and I saw something that both horrified and gladdened my heart. There surrounded by the regular cases of all other flavors of Snapple was Diet Peach Snapple! YES! But it was different! NO NO NO! It was not in its lovely cardboard packaging with its iconic glass bottles. NO it was a six-pack of newly designed plastic bottles shrink-wrapped in plastic.
My heart stopped for a second. Should I even put a package in my cart? Should I bring it home to try. I had to. The choice between and new package and No Snapple was a no brainer. I needed Snapple.
I took a picture of the two cases together and posted my angst on Facebook with these words: WHY?? Why did @Snapple have to change how my diet peach Snapple looks? I have been drinking it for decades. I don’t want any more change in my life. NOOOOO!!!!!
My friends made many comments. The most important: Have I tasted it yet? The answer was no. I was afraid. It said the same great taste. But what if it wasn’t? How would I cope?
Some talked about their own Snapple addiction. One even admitting that seeing me with my Snapple, made her try it. Now she was addicted as well. One could not find diet Peach Snapple in Arizona. This is a nationwide issue!
Several understood my need for glass containers. It was a difficult day for me. Tea does taste better in glass. Some suggested saving a glass container and pouring the new Snapple into a glass container. It does not work that way. It has to come in glass.
On February 6, I took the dive. I opened one of the new bottles to try the Snapple. It was okay. The recipe had not been changed, but I could taste the difference between plastic and glass.
I did my research, a research I did not know I needed. It seems this change had been coming. But I did not know about it. It seems the company that owns Snapple, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, had been planning this for two years. It had all the other sizes in plastic, 20, 32, and 64 ounces. I avoided those. But it kept the 16-ounce six-pack in glass. Now the company wanted all of the Snapple in plastic. But it tried to keep the look of the glass bottle.
I wrote this on Facebook: I have now tasted the Diet Peach Snapple in the new container. It was fine. And the new container is environmentally better. So I will take this like a big girl and accept reality. No more glass Snapple. Still I think it tastes better in glass. But I am accepting.
However, I really am not accepting. I am distraught. Holding the plastic bottle does not have the weight of the glass bottle. It does not feel right. And the embossed S is gone. I am trying to be accepting. I think about the good: The new containers are made from recycled plastic. I like that.
I guess they did the best they could. We still have factoids on the inside of the lids. And it is the same recipe. But I am UNHAPPY. Why couldn’t they leave well enough alone? Why fix something that doesn’t need to be fixed. I understand, it saves money. It saves breakage. But really taking away the Snapple bottle is like taking away the Coca Cola bottle. Someone made a bad decision!!!
A major gripe is this, with all the changes we have had to cope with this year, dealing with the change in Snapple is almost the last straw. How could they do this NOW in the middle of a pandemic. Have they no empathy or courtesy or kindness?
Okay, perhaps I am going overboard. There might be in a few crises in the world that some might consider are more important than my Snapple crisis. Sigh! But at least I can save one bottle and my last cardboard container for my memories.
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I feel you pain 🙂 I hate change too and funny prefer glass over plastic for drinking. There is definite difference. Have you thought of keeping some of your glass bottles, simply transfer the drink from plastic to the glass bottle, refrigerate and enjoy! That might help take the sting away 🙂
I am keeping one. Thanks.
I get it. I have a dear friend who was addicated to Tab, the old version of a diet cola replaced completely maybe 20 years ago (?) by just Diet Coke. She horded Tab for as long as she could, but then finally adapted to Diet Coke. And that was a whole different taste, not just a different container. (I could never understand what she saw in Tab—I thought it was awful. I used to drink Diet Coke, but now I drink no soft drinks at all.)
It is my one and only addiction. I have never been a big soda drinking. But I do keep some dr browns cream soda in my house.
Ah, Dr Brown’s! Great memories of NY delis…
Exactly. I like cream and black cherry. Occasionally I find them here and I buy a six pack to enjoy.
Black cherry is my favorite. Or was, I should say. since I no longer drink soda. But when we go to a NY deli, I still long for a Dr Brown’s.
As I said I don’t have them often. But I do enjoy.
I am also a Diet Peach Snapple in the glass bottle addict and am trying to deal with the shift. Thank you for your blog post it brought a smile of connection and understanding to me. Thank you 🙏
I saved a glass jar, and I am considering pouring the tea into it and drinking it that way!
Recovering Diet Raspberry Snapple in a glass bottle here… THANKfully, the new plastic bottles are the same recipe as the previous glass bottles. Which is NOT the case with the 20oz plastic they sold, and still sell!
I saved 12 glass bottles, peeled the labels off and keep them cleaned, AND in the freezer… any time it’s time for a Snapple, I pull an empty frosted Snapple GLASS bottle out of the freezer, pour the plastic in, and voila! As good as old! 🙂
I saved a glass bottle as well to pour the plastic into. Enjoy your raspberry.