Bottle cap in Back to the Future
In Back to the Future Marty has trouble opening a glass bottle, because he assumes that the bottle can be opened by twisting off the cap, which implies to me, that he has no idea, that he has to use a bottle opener, as George (more or less) demonstrates to him. I searched for patents that describe twist-off bottle caps, but the one I found, is dated to 1987, which obviously makes no sense, because the movie has been released in 1985 and is partly set in 1955.
Is it reasonable to believe that Marty had no idea how to open a non twist-off cap, and that he has never encountered such a bottle in 1985 or before? Were twist-off bottle caps introduced after 1955? (I might add, that I am European and I have never seen a twist-off bottle cap before)
Best Answer
According to AskBeer
The twist off bottle cap appeared in the early 1960's. This was the same time as the introduction of the pop top can.
This site specializes in questions about beer but the twist off cap has also been in used in sodas since then.
As an underage young man, Marty was likely expecting soda to come with a twist-off cap. Soda sold in the 1980's mainly came in plastic bottles with caps you twist off. Being a young man, he was likely not too used to opening bottles with an opener as glass bottles with pry-off caps of his era were more than likely for beer.
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