An interesting thing about Coca-Cola.....

[ArneHD]

Three liters a day?

Christ in heaven.

What? I know it's a lot, but I don't drink coffee, and I need to get that caffeine somehow. I tried tea, by the way.

 

[Volum]

Coke tastes so good it can do whatever it wants to my body.

 

[Yuri2356]

Even if it doesn't make a difference for teeth, that's a dumb thing for anyone to say.

1 12oz can has 140 calories vs 1 calorie for diet coke. Magnify that up to 3 liters and tell me that wouldn't make a difference!

Energy's not the sole considderation in a person's diet...

Upon ingestion, aspartame breaks down into several constituent chemicals, including aspartic acid, phenylalanine, methanol, and further breakdown products including formaldeyhyde[5] and formic acid. There is some controversy surrounding the rate of breakdown into these various products and the effects that they have on those that consume aspartame-sweetened foods (see Aspartame Controversy, below).

The naturally occurring essential amino acid phenylalanine is a health hazard to those born with phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare inherited disease that prevents the essential amino acid phenylalanine from being properly metabolized. Because of this, phenylalanine can accumulate in the body and cause health problems including mental retardation. People with PKU are placed on a special diet with a severe restriction of phenylalanine from birth to adolescence or after. Women with PKU must remain on the diet throughout pregnancy. Since individuals with PKU must consider aspartame as an additional source of phenylalanine, aspartame-containing foods sold in the United States must state "Phenylketonurics: Contains Phenylalanine" on their product labels.

Some point to the rapid breakdown of aspartame causing spikes of phenylalanine and aspartic acid which can upset chemical balances and cross the blood-brain barrier.[citation needed] It can also cause unnatural spikes in levels of methanol in places the body does not normally encounter it (like within metabolic processes)[citation needed], raising concerns as to its safe containment and elimination.

Link

also, - Aspritame controversy.

I'll take a sugar rush over the likes of cancer and blindness.

 

[Mise]

Why would I pour perfectly good coke down the toilet?!?!?!

 

[Truronian]

Why would I pour perfectly good coke down the toilet?!?!?!

Cut out the middle man?

 

[Mise]

Cut out the middle man?

But I'm the middle man! Everyone knows that the middle man gets the best job!

 

[Truronian]

But I'm the middle man! Everyone knows that the middle man gets the best job!

Not if its someone else's coke...

 

[Scuffer]

Vinegar is great for cleaning windows, and salt is an excellent abasive for rough surfaces, but I'm still putting both on my chips...

 

[puglover]

Coca-Cola is great in moderation. Geez, some of you sound like my grandmother.

 

[Love]

hehe, i will try the coke instead a toilet cleaner...

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Re AIDS: uneducated people without the access to information we have will believe a lot of things, even if they are not inherently stupid. If I didn't know any better, I would find that no harder to believe than, say, atomic theory. Especially if I was desperate.

 

[Chandrasekhar]

hehe, i will try the coke instead a toilet cleaner...

Good for you! Some people say it actually tastes better!

Re AIDS: uneducated people without the access to information we have will believe a lot of things, even if they are not inherently stupid. If I didn't know any better, I would find that no harder to believe than, say, atomic theory. Especially if I was desperate.

My thoughts exactly. It's like expecting Aristotle to have known about the periodic table. He was a pretty smart guy, sure, but the brain can only process what comes into it.

 

[Mise]

Re AIDS: uneducated people without the access to information we have will believe a lot of things, even if they are not inherently stupid. If I didn't know any better, I would find that no harder to believe than, say, atomic theory. Especially if I was desperate.

Eran, what's shocking is not just that people believe it, but the perversity of the lie itself. Raping someone to help yourself is bad enough, but why a virgin? Virgins in most cultures are considered pure and untainted. Raping them takes that away. Most cultures hold virgins as a sort of ideal; most religions forbid sex until marriage, and Christianity especially holds virginity of high regard because of the Virgin Mary. Robbing someone of their virginity is therefore a most heinous act. This is what makes the lie that much more perverse; it is as if the act of rape isn't bad enough, it must be raping someone who is traditionally considered pure and untainted. Additionally, in most third world nations, people have sex a lot younger than in the West. So this virgin is likely to be in their early teens. The people/culture who invented this lie knew this. If you ask me it's just an excuse to rape a child.

Then of course the part we all know -- the girl who's only ever had sex because she was raped is going to get a fatal illness that has no cure in the most horrible way imaginable. One could almost forgive the man for ignorance if it was consensual.

 

[Mountain-God]

Coke is highly addictive and corrosive - I wouldn't recommend it.

 

[Phlegmak]

... and other aerated soft drinks.

India's most popular and revered Yoga guru, Swami Ramdev, beloved of the conservatives for his patriotism and love for his country and religion, and equally beloved of the liberals for his ardently and uncompromisingly reformist attitude, asked people to try out an experiment.

He told them to take a bottle of Coca-Cola, and to use it in place of toilet cleaner (like Harpic) next time they felt like cleaning their toilets.

I tired it.

It worked better than the cleaner.



Since then, I've given up aerated drinks altogether. My relatives tell me that in Haryana, the larger bottles of Coke are unavailable to normal consumers - farmers buy them wholesale for use against a certain pest (though this is hearsay, and not confirmed).

I'd like the people here at CFC to try out the same, and tell me their results. If this turns out to be applicable to the US versions of Coke as well, then Coca-Cola corporation has some serious explaining to do.

Mechanics use Coca Cola to clean engines. At least that's what a friend of mine told me.

I'll still drink Coca Cola. It has plenty of acid in it, so that's probably what's doing the cleaning.

 

[silver 2039]

NEVER!!! I will never stop drinking Coke!! How dare you waste it on toilet cleaning...you should be forced to drink nothing but Pepsi for the rest of your life. A terrible sin...

 

[Urederra]

I guess my statements on what the Mythbusters have found has semi-fallen onto death ears:

Cola can be used to...
...kill sperm. Busted. The MythBusters added cola to some slides and saline solution to others. They counted the number of live sperm they could see through a microscope camera in one minute, and found that the number of live sperm in both saline and cola was relatively the same. With the help of Dr. Turek they determined that cola doesn't do much more than dilute the sperm.

So they just tried in vitro? That doesn't rule out other antipregnancy effects that coke might have in the uterus. They should have tried in vivo too.

Sheesh... MythBusters is just a TV program, did they publish something in a peer reviewed paper?

 

[Mirc]

You are right, but not only Mythbusters proved that Cola doesn't kill sperm! It has been proven many times, with many kinds of scientific tests, and all showed that sperm is just sometimes made even more active with Cola, it never acts as a contraceptive.

 

[ShannonCT]

You are right, but not only Mythbusters proved that Cola doesn't kill sperm! It has been proven many times, with many kinds of scientific tests, and all showed that sperm is just sometimes made even more active with Cola, it never acts as a contraceptive.

Cola as a contraceptive. No way! Everyone knows that Mountain Dew is the only failsafe contraceptive...

But seriously, about the OP. I believe the implication is that because Coke can clean a mildly soiled toilet, it is having some corrosive effect on your stomach. I dont buy it. For one, I can clean a mildly soiled toilet without any cleaner at all, just the water in the bowl and a toilet brush. Should I stop drinking water? Secondly, any extra cleaning power that Coke has must come from the carbonic acid that is present in any carbonated water beverage. But the acidity of Coke is several thousand times lower than the acidity of stomach acid (a pH of 6 vs. a pH of 2-3). The corrosive effects of Coke on ones gastro-intestinal system is negligible as far as I can tell.

This is not to say that drinking too much Coke cant harm your teeth or make you fat.

 

[Masquerouge]

Hey, you can also use it to clean metal. The Mythbusters have done a ton of things that delt with Coca-Cola and other soft drinks . Here is the rundown on it:

Cola Myths

Cola is able to...
...remove bloodstains. Confirmed. The cola was able to emulsify bloodstains.
...clean rust. Busted. The cola was unable to break down rust deposits.
...act as a toilet cleaner. Not in this episode. This chapter of the myth was not shown in this episode. See Special 4 — "MythBusters Outtakes".
...clean chrome. Confirmed. It surprisingly cleaned the chrome better than the commercial chrome polish used for comparison.
...dissolve a tooth overnight. Busted. The tooth did start to dissolve, indicating that with enough time it could be completely dissolved. However, the acidic solution used for comparison was much more effective in dissolving the tooth.
...dissolve a steak. Busted. The cola just gave the steak a soft, pasty consistency.
...clean a penny. Partly Confirmed Results were good. The only part of the coin that was not cleaned was an area where a bubble had formed.
...clean battery terminals. Plausible. It works, but it was hard to tell if plain water did not perform just as well. The cola did not do anything spectacular.
...remove greasy stains in your laundry. Busted. No effect at all.
...degrease engines. Busted. The cola did not remove any of the grease.
...kill sperm. Busted. The MythBusters added cola to some slides and saline solution to others. They counted the number of live sperm they could see through a microscope camera in one minute, and found that the number of live sperm in both saline and cola was relatively the same. With the help of Dr. Turek they determined that cola doesn't do much more than dilute the sperm.
Cola can be used as a toilet cleaner. Busted. For this myth, Adam dirtied M5's bathroom with engine oil in preparation for the cleanup. Jamie was greatly upset at this, but Adam assured him he'd be able to clean it. Adam tried to clean with cola, which only made the problem worse. Adam eventually cleaned using a regular all-purpose cleanser which worked well.

Mythbusters: Cola Myths

Thanks CiVGeneral There are so many myths about Cola that this particular Mythbuster episode busted!
And frankly, even if it were true that Coke was able to better clean your toilet than Harpic, I don't see the problem. So far, I haven't noticed any deaths or food poisoning due to people drinking coke, while the same can not be said of Harpic...