Killer Coke! FYI

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I just found this info- we stopped drinking Coke a while back. This is scary! 1. In many states, the highway patrol carries 2 gallons of Coca Cola in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after an accident. 2. You can put a T-bone in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in about 2 days. 3. To clean a toilet: pour a can of Coke into the toilet bowl. Let "The Real Thing" sit for about one hour, then flush clean. 4. The citric acid in Coke will remove stains from vitreous china. 5. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled piece of Reynold Aluminum foil dipped in Coca Cola. 6. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away corrosion. 7.To loosen a rusted bolt:Apply cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes. 8. To bake a moist ham: Wmpty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan;wrap the ham in aluminum foil and bake. Thirty min. before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy. 9. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield. FYI: 1. The active ingred. in Coke is phosphoric acid. It's pH is 2.8 It will dissove a nail in about 4 days. 2. To carry Coca-Cola Syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the hazardous material place cards reserved for Highly Corrosive materials. 3. The distributors of Coke have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years! Drink up! No Joke. Think what coke and other soft drinks do to your teeth on a daily basis. A tooth will dissolve in a cup of coke in 24-48 hours.

-- Kristin, in C. Alabama (positivekharma@aol.com), December 09, 2000

Answers

You're right, of course, Kristin. But addicts won't give it up. I know several.

-- Joy Froelich (dragnfly@chorus.net), December 09, 2000.

Huh...wonder if generic cola would work as well?

-- Leann Banta (thelionandlamb@hotmail.com), December 09, 2000.

Not to mention what it will do to your bones!! I know, I'm living proof.

-- bwilliams (bjconthefarm@yahoo.com), December 09, 2000.

Kristin, There was a contributed article in the new Countryside that the man said cola was good to kill ant mounds. Said he poured a 2 liter over the mound, no more ants crawling all over the place. Must be the acid. BTW did you recieve the update yet?

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), December 09, 2000.

I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade ( in 1966), "huge" science project! We were to soak our next lost tooth in 'Coke', and see how long it lasted! Not long! See my answer as to de-rust a good ole' iron pan!

-- Kathy (catfish@bestweb.net), December 09, 2000.


I'm ok I drink Pepsi .{ haha}

-- Patty (fodfarms@slic.com), December 09, 2000.

Over a yr ago I was sent a list of things Coke could do on a list i am on. It listed all the things you just did. I remember my father saying that i couldn't drink Coke as a kid and thought he was the meanest thing that ever existed. he told me about the Coke on the steak and rust off of bolts and that wasd in the 60's. I just thought he was stupid and making it up.

-- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), December 09, 2000.

On a similar note, I used to have a scorpion (hubby's idea) and we kept crickets in the tank for it to eat whenever it got hungry. Well, we had to feed the crickets, too, and we did, til our crickets started dying all of a sudden. Found out why one day when I was feeding them. Put a bit of food in and watched the cricket keel over after one bite. Last time I ever ate a Pop-Tart. It's the only thing short of a shod foot that will kill crickets.

-- Soni (thomkilroy@hotmail.com), December 09, 2000.

NO not poptarts too!

-- Patty (fodfarms@slic.com), December 09, 2000.

And the moral is... drink Leinenkugel beer. (Sorry. I was reading Alice in Wonderland this afternoon.)

-- Jd (belanger@tds.net), December 09, 2000.


My gosh Kristen this is the most un-American thread I've ever read!!! Look on the bright side. Every since I've been drinking the stuff I've never had to be wormed!!! Just funnin ya....Kirk

-- Kirk Davis (kirkay@yahoo.com), December 09, 2000.

Ah ha!!!!! All this time I have been blaming the dog after marinating my steaks in Coke.

Andrea

-- andrea smith (a-smith@mindspring.com), December 10, 2000.


Ok, some of you folks seem to be overly worried about Coke being acidic (I'm sure my favorite soda is just as bad), but did any of you stop to think that our own digestive juices are worse? Without getting to technical or gross, the stomach secretes a mucus which protects it from devouring itself.

Yes, there are many food evils in this world, and Coke may very well be one of them, but to some (not me) having a Coke is one of the few "little extras" they have. I like to think that this board isn't full of alarmists.

Well, I'm done with my 2 cents.

-- Chris Stogdill (cstogdill@rmci.net), December 10, 2000.


No wonder my teeth are falling out.jeez, I loved coke. My dad worked at Chrysler, when I was young I remember they went on strike. I remember going to the union hall with him one day. On this day I overheard all sorts of dirty little deeds they were going to do, One of them was to put coke in the fuel tanks of there trucks and forklifts, they claimed it would eat the motors up. I don't know if they ever did that or if it even works. I quess after reading your responces, it probably could?

-- hillbilly (internethillbilly@hotmail.com), December 10, 2000.

COKE, is good with Rum and a slice of lemon. You might want to try some of those things with any carbonated soda. I have used club soda to clean battery terminals.

-- Hendo (OR) (redgate@echoweb.net), December 10, 2000.


When I was a kid, my parents bought expensive (for them) vinyl tile with lines cut in it to simulate stone. It was virtually impossible to clean, and we literally went over the durn floor with toothpicks to clean out the little channels in the tile--until one day a one liter glass bottle of Dr. Pepper broke. Guess what!!! Lovely, clean as installed floor tile!

See, Coke ain't the only thing that'll dissolve stuff.

-- Green (ratdogs10@yahoo.com), December 10, 2000.


Hey, as already been said, your belly is full of acid far more powerful than what is in coke. You all worry too much!

-- Dimmer (Dimmer2@yahoo.com), December 10, 2000.

Something not addressed in Kristin's original post: The acid in "soft" drinks packaged in aluminum cans will leach the aluminum into the drink. Then you drink it. Excessive aluminum is NOT good for you, and your stomach mucosa will not protect you from it. A bottle, preferably glass, would be much better for you.

Probably like many things, a soft drink as an occasional treat will not hurt you. But if you're drinking one a day, I wouldn't call that occasional -- I'd call that a regular thing. If you're drinking them from sun up to sun down (and have one on your nightstand, as a friend of mine does), then I call it an addiction.

I've never been a fan of carbonated drinks, and less so all the time. I do like ginger ale and root beer, so when I want one for a treat, I get the "natural" kind -- real ginger, roots, real flavors -- bottled in glass. Wish they'd bring back glass bottles period, and the deposit for them. Heck, I wish they'd charge a deposit on the plastic bottles and aluminum cans too!

-- Joy Froelich (dragnfly@chorus.net), December 10, 2000.


I prefer my small ration of junk food to be something like really good chocolate, not an amalgamation of chemicals, and additives I cannot even pronounce, that is found in bottled or canned soda pop. And anything that will eat the paint right off an automobile I wouldn't dream of ingesting! Yuck!!! Annie in SE OH.

-- Annie Miller (annie@1st.net), December 10, 2000.

If you think coke is bad try pepsi. Not only the acid but boosted high on sugars and caffine. But then again try good old coffee, with it's own acid and very high in caffine. One a day. Not if I can help it. But lets keep it in perspective. I uses to drink over 20 cups of coffee a day when I was in the service and when I drank cokes it was proably a six pack a day. Hay what are you going to do, you can't drink the water, it's not safe.

-- Nick (wildheart@ekyol.com), December 10, 2000.

I got no problem with dissing coke but I draw the line with coffee. Is nothing sacrad, communist dog. Where I come from those there are fightin words. Pistols at dawn. My second will be contactin you for satisfaction you scoundrel.

-- Tom (Calfarm@msn.com), December 10, 2000.

Yep, you don't mess with a girl's coffee cup or her pickup truck!

I had a very good buddy who worked with me at the body shop. He was addicted to Coke, he drank them all day, from sunup to sundown. He developed stomach problems, bad bleeding ulcers, and he had to completely give up Coke, which was real hard for him. His stomach is much better now.

Also, when I met Steve, he drank Mountain Dew all day and didn't eat hardly anything till dinner. HE had bleeding ulcers. I took him off the Dew and put him on grape juice and after a couple months his stomach had healed itself. I make him take his lunch now and EAT, and no more Dew. I don't drink soda hardly ever, it makes me belch. Plus I think it makes you even thirstier after you have one. I like Gatoraid in the summer, and of course my coffee, even if it is hot outside. But, I just love those Coke commercials!

-- Cindy in Ky (solidrockranch@msn.com), December 11, 2000.


Enough already I am sitting here drinking grapefruit juice instead of my normal Pepsi.I already knew it wasn't good for me so I am going to try to give it up .And just think of the money i will save .

-- Patty (fodfarms@slic.com), December 11, 2000.

I heard you could clean your jewelry with Coke. I dumped some silver jewelry in a glass of the stuff, and nothing happened. Even after two days. I was so disappointed!

-- sheepish (rborgo@gte.net), December 11, 2000.

And don't forget cleaning those golf club heads with the 'real thing'. Worked in a golf shop for a while and there was always a bucket of 'generic' cola around.

j

-- j (jw_hsv@yahoo.com), December 11, 2000.


My fourth-grade teacher (yes, it would have been about 1965 or 1966!) did the tooth in the glass of Pepsi experiment -- very impressive! And I think he told us about Coke/Pepsi being used as an engine cleaner, etc. I've never been a big soda drinker anyway -- it gives me gas, and I prefer water to sweet stuff. On the Low-Carb sites, some people have commented that they think the citric acid hinders weight loss. I don't know if that's been proven by research, but a number of people reported being stalled in their weight loss until they dropped the diet sodas they were drinking -- and that was the only change they made. FWIW

-- Kathleen Sanderson (stonycft@worldpath.net), December 11, 2000.

If you think this is bad, I have known people who actually ingested Budweiser! You don't think they keep those Clydesdales as PETS, do you!?

-- Brad (homefixer@SacoRiver.net), December 11, 2000.

Y'know, they say that if you send American beer to a lab, the report comes back that your horse has diabetes!

-- Soni (thomkilroy@hotmail.com), December 13, 2000.

Heehee! This is a funny thread! They were cleaning the rust off of car bumpers with coke when I was a kid....waaaayyyyy back when. I also put one of the teeth I lost as a child in a glass of coke; it was totally dissolved in a few hours.

My dentist always knew which patients were heavy cola drinkers who used a straw; holes behind those teeth.

-- ~Rogo (rogo2020@yahoo.com), December 16, 2000.


Annie, when drinking a Diet Coke with chocolate treat, the Diet Coke cancels out the calories in the chocolate.

-- JLS in NW AZ (stalkingbull007@AOL.com), December 16, 2000.

I like Pepsi, but am trying to get away from soda pop altogether due to stomach troubles. I am allergic to citric acid and I never realized it was in Coke. I get a bad stomach ache from Coke, but not so much from Pepsi. Anyway, even before tummy troubles, I didn't drink coke after watching my Dad clean engines with it. eeewwww My father in law, may he rest in peace, kept two cokes in the car in the winter, one to drink, one to pour over the ice on the windshield. :-) I have enjoyed the comical remarks on this posting. cute! What fun! Everyone have a good, Coke free day! ;-)

-- Cindy in OK (cynthiacluck@yahoo.com), December 16, 2000.

It's a common misconception that a Pop Tart has so many preservatives that 100 years from now it would still look the same. But actually there are virtually no chemicals beside the typical ingredients found in a pastry. The secret to it's longevtiy is the foil pouch it comes in.

-- Karol (okarol@yahoo.com), March 11, 2001.

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