How to Open a Bottle of Ramune with pictures

Let's make this super easy. (There are some fun facts at the bottom)

First step, take your bottle and put it on the table:

 1) Wrap your hand around the plastic part and twist it off. 

You can do this in one simple motion. 

(This saves the trouble of slowly taking off the plastic)

 

 2) This will leave you with the bottle and the wrap.

3) Take the white wrap off of the green piece which will leave you with the following:

 

4) Push out the center portion of the Green piece: 

5) Take the center portion in your hand:

 (You don't need the outer ring anymore)

6) Fit the green piece into the blue hard plastic:

7) Push the green piece into the opening on the blue piece.

The next part takes a fair bit of strength so I usually use the back of my hand. I recommend against using your thumbs or fingers for this.

 

8) It should look like the following picture below:

 

9) Take out the green piece (like below) and you are ready to drink!

 

Fun Fact #1: If you want to drink the Ramune fast without having to constantly swing it back and forth - use a straw! 

The straw holds the marble in place so that it won't obstruct the Ramune.

Fun Fact #2: The Ramune bottle is the reason we have bottle deposits

It wasn't Ramune itself but the Hiram-Codd bottles. People in England (where it was invented) would take the bottles and break them for the marbles. It wasn't until they put a minor bottle recycling fee that the bottles started to be returned!

Fun Fact #3: It is almost impossible to get the marble out of the bottle without smashing it.

You don't need a physics degree to realize that the marble will not fit through the top while the blue plastic piece remains. You need to saw through blue piece which is kept in place by a powerful adhesive. Oh yeah, also it's molded around the plastic. Most people? Drop it on concrete.