Peel-away tops and Arabic Coke

I remember the days before the "safety" tops on sodas and beers. You'd peel back the key on top of the soda and then drop it inside (rather than keep it laying on the table in front of you).

In the U.S., these went the way of the dinosaur in the early 1980s because people would choke on those tops they dropped in, but apparently the United Arab Emirates is still making Coke products the old fashioned way. I can appreciate that -- it's nice there are still some places in the world where the consumer's stupidity doesn't necessarily cause greater complication for the company.

In other, somewhat related news, I leared how to write Coca-Cola in Arabic script:

Pretty cool, huh?