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Soft-drink bottle, "Tropi Cola" (TropiCola), Cuban, 207 ml
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Slender returnable soda bottle in colorless/pale-aqua glass with a white applied color label. The shoulder carries a rising-sun (sunburst) logo above the "Tropi Cola" wordmark; the lower body has a white ingredients panel in a rounded-rectangle frame with the sunburst logo repeated below. Empty; no closure.
2025.11.19
2025.11
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Maker: Cuban state soft-drink industry; brand TropiCola (Cuba's national cola). No specific bottling enterprise or glassworks named on the visible faces. Date: No printed date. Post-1962 Cuban product; vintage ACL design and 207 ml returnable format suggest c. 1970s–1980s, but in-range placement cannot be confirmed and a later example isn't excluded.
Shoulder: sunburst logo + "Tropi Cola." Reverse: "Ingredientes: agua carbonatada, azúcar refino, extractos aromáticos, ácido fosfórico, caramelo y cafeína. Contenido: 0.207 l. HECHO EN CUBA," with the sunburst "Tropi Cola" logo below.
Materials: Glass (colorless/pale aqua); fired-enamel applied color label (white). Technique: Machine-molded glass bottle; applied color label (ACL).
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In 1989, Carlos Varela recorded the song “Tropicollage,” taking inspiration in this carbonated drink’s name for the title of his song.
Brand: TropiCola was Cuba's domestic cola, a symbol of post-embargo self-sufficiency after Coca-Cola left the island; the brand persists today.