Not to forget how successive popes have preached, “pro-life” means being against both abortion AND the death penalty. Soft on crime, I tells ya!!
TBF when I visited the Coca Cola plant where Diet Coke syrup concentrate is made, I noticed the shipping containers for concentrate are plastered in hazmat stickers including “corrosive”.
Let’s just say I started consuming a lot more spring water…
The 4th ingredient in Diet Coke is phosphoric acid. I don’t think that’s a secret. Every cola and most soft drinks in general have some form of acid in them.
Lemon juice is also corrosive, that doesn’t mean I won’t eat anything with lemon in it.
As an demonstration/experiment in junior high science class, our teacher poured a bottle of Pepsi into a drinking glass, and then dropped a 2-3 inch long nail into it.
A week later, the nail had disappeared.
What would have happened if they dropped a nail into a drinking glass filled with stomach acid?
I’ve used diet cola to remove concrete stains. It really works on some of them. It’s not because it’s toxic to human health in moderate amounts (contrary to what woo-pushers would insist) but because diet cola doesn’t leave sticky residue (unlike the sugary stuff), and the acid is strong enough to dissolve a lot of things without harming concrete. It’s good in a pinch if you don’t have access to something better.
This thread kinda reminds me of a running gag from The Last Remake of Beau Geste :
“How’s your father doing?”
“Still alive and dying.”
The concentrate is, well. concentrated. It’s designed to be undrinkable until it’s diluted with water..
When i was a kid, i was once given coca cola syrup as a medicine, for an upset stomach, maybe. (I don’t recall for sure.) I doubt that’s good medical practice, but other than it having a strong flavor, i don’t recall any problems. I think the corrosiveness is well within the range your stomach is designed to handle.
The problem with demonstrations like that is that we are not chunks of iron; human flesh reacts entirely differently to all sorts of things than iron does. Salt water rusts iron fast, but iron will ignore temperatures that would cook a human easily.
Heck, blood is highly corrosive to iron, so by the “nail test” we’re all going to dissolve into puddles any moment now.
When I was a kid, the standard Mom’s remedy for an upset stomach was flat Coca Cola. You can buy the syrup.
Remember when you had an upset stomach, and your mother would soothe it with a dose of pure cola syrup? You can’t find it at the drugstore anymore, but cola syrup is still an excellent remedy for an upset stomach. Ours has that rich cola flavor you love, plus we make it with pure cane sugar—never high-fructose corn syrup. Add it to sparkly seltzer water for a refreshing homemade cola beverage, too!
I assume it’s the citric acid. Citric acid is very, very commonly used in the aquarium hobby for cleaning aquarium parts. Mainly because vinegar has a bad habit of eating plastic and damaging seals, which allows water in places you don’t want water, which breaks expensive equipment and allows rust into your tank water.
Also, whenever someone mentions the tooth or nail or egg or whatever in soda for a week, my first thought is usually 'well, it’s a good thing I don’t leave soda in my mouth for a week".
A friend of my wife who is also a nurse suggested flat Coca Cola a while back. Let’s not tell el donald though. We want him using quack cures that don’t work instead of real ones that do.
Funny enough, Coca-Cola was invented by a colonel from the Confederate army who had a medical degree as he was seeking an alternative to morphine (which he had become addicted to himself as a result of being treated with it in the war while recovering from a sword wound). He introduced the kola nut as a source of caffeine in hopes of finding something less addictive that could help with pain treatment. His first concoction was alcoholic, but the non-alcoholic version eventually became what we know today as Coca-Cola, and became the prototype for other cola drinks to follow.
So, it seems appropriate for people to use it as a form of medical relief, even if it never fulfilled its original purpose.
As long as there’s a real doctor in the room telling him what to do, you can be sure Donald ‘smartest guy in the room’ Trump will do the opposite. If there’s one thing he hates, it’s being told what to do.
Go to your room.
Go, ribald! Get you hence to your cabin with celerity!
I’ll take my celerity with raisins and peanut butter.
Teacher threw it away one day before class.
My son uses coke on his wheel rims. So shiny you gotta wear shades.
If I might hijack this thread about Coca-Cola by mentioning the president’s health…