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alhambra
03-11-2004, 11:40 AM
For those of u who LOVE Coke/Pepsi. Just when you thought you knew everything.

1) To clean a toilet:-
§ Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl.
§ Let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean.
§ The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.
§ No scrubbing, no sweat - guaranteed.

2) To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers:
§ Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of aluminum foils dipped in Coca-Cola.
§ Much economical than the stuff from Smart Shop.

3) To clean corrosion from car battery terminals;
§ Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

4) To loosen a rusted bolt;
§ Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.

5) To remove grease from clothes;
§ Empty a can of Coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle.
6) The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

Hey, what do we have here?

The world's first soft drink disguise as a multi-purpose cleaner? Or should it be a multi-purpose cleaner disguise as a soft drink!!!

Besides that, If you pour Coke (yes, the soda) on a slab of pork, wait a little while, you will SEE WORMS crawl out of it.

AND WE DRINK THIS STUFF! Coke & Pepsi ALARMING FACTS!!!

The average pH of soft drinks, e.g. Coke, Pepsi is pH 3.4. This acidity is strong enough to dissolve teeth and bones! Our human body stops building bones at around the age of 30. After that it'll be dissolving about 8-18% of the bones each year through the urine, depending on the acidity of the food intake (acidity does not depend on the taste of the food, but on the ratio of potassium / calcium / magnesium / etc. to phosphorus).

All the dissolved calcium compounds accumulate in the arteries, veins, skin tissue, and organs. This affects the functioning of the kidney (kidney stones). Soft drinks do not have any nutritional value (in terms of vitamins and minerals). They have higher sugar content, higher acidity, and more additives such as preservatives and colourings.

Some people like to take cold soft drinks after each meal, guess what's the impact? Our body has an optimum temperature of 37 degrees for the functioning of digestive enzymes. The temperature of cold soft drinks is much less than 37, sometimes quite close to 0. This will lower the effectiveness of the enzymes and put stress on the digestive system, digesting less food. In fact the food gets fermented. The fermented food produce bad smelling gases, decays and forms toxins, which are absorbed in the intestines, get circulated in the blood and is delivered to the whole body. This spread of toxins can lead to the development of various diseases. Think before you drink Coke or Pepsi or any another soft drink.

Have you ever thought what you drink when you drink an aerated drink? You gulp down carbon dioxide, something that no sane person in the world would advise you to do. Few months ago, there was a competition in Delhi University "Who can drink the most Coke?". The winner drank 8 bottles and died on the spot because too much carbon dioxide in the blood and not enough oxygen. From then on, the principal banned all soft drinks from the university canteen.

Someone put a broken tooth in a bottle of Pepsi and in 10 days it is dissolved! Teeth and bones are the only human organs that stay intact for years after death. Imagine what the drink must be doing to your delicate soft intestines and stomach lining! To all COKE / PEPSI LOVERS, think again the next time before you say " CHUP ".

wubbywa
03-11-2004, 11:44 AM
Worms?! That is gross.

BigLyd1
03-11-2004, 11:50 AM
Originally posted by wubbywa
Worms?! That is gross.

Hmm, I'll have to try that sometime :eek: that is, if I want to waste some pork and a can of my Diet Coke :eek:

Njean31
03-11-2004, 12:31 PM
please tell me the worm one is not true:(

Urban Cowgirl
03-11-2004, 01:05 PM
say it can't be true.........someone gonna try this with their pork??? I have to know......Just don't see how it could be true...what if the emat has been frozen??? Icky...I am supposed to make a pork roast for mu dad while he visits next week!!!

alhambra
03-11-2004, 01:38 PM
I'm not sure how true it is , someone sent it to me and I found it interesting.

justme23
03-11-2004, 02:00 PM
Some true... some not so true...

www.snopes.com ... click on 'cokelore'

bop422
03-11-2004, 02:07 PM
There is a show on the Discovery channel called "Mythbusters." They test out urban legends and other stories to see if they could be true. They tested a lot of these and many of them weren't true.

Water cleaned the battery terminals just as well as the cola, it was the fact that it was a liquid rather than the fact that it was cola.

The cola did not get the grease stains out of the clothes. All it did was leave them with a brown hue.

It says "(acidity does not depend on the taste of the food, but on the ratio of potassium / calcium / magnesium / etc. to phosphorus)," This isn't true. pH (acidity) is the concentration of Hydrogen ions. It has nothing to do with what they said.

The calcium deposits in arteries is affected just as much by eating or drinking anything with calcium in it. Either way, look at the ingredients label, there are no calcium compounds in it.

The digestive enzymes will be affected by anything cold, as will all chemical reactions. It doesn't matter if it is water, cola, milk, or whatever. Anything cold that enters your stomach warms up so fast that it wouldn't make much of a difference.

The person dying from the CO2 is rediculous. How did the CO2 get in his blood from drinking it? You have to breath gases into your lungs for them to be dissolved into your blood. If this was true, no one would ever drown because they would be "breathing" the oxygen dissolved in the water they swallow.

The mythbusters also put a tooth into cola. It did stain it, but the tooth was still there. As for your intestines, your cells die and are replaced naturally, while your teeth aren't made of cells so once they are gone they are gone for good.

The cola is not going to create worms which means that if they crawl out of the pork when you put it in cola, they must be there before you pour it on. Go ahead and look at your pork, you don't see any worms do you?

mamalamas
03-11-2004, 04:45 PM
Besides that, If you pour Coke (yes, the soda) on a slab of pork, wait a little while, you will SEE WORMS crawl out of it.


I don't know if these are myth or not ... but the next time someone is surprised that I drink NO pop what~so~ever ... I am going to tell them this reason~~:D ~~

I used a can of warm coke one time in place of Drano~~and it cleaned my drain right up! Nope~~never touch the stuff

jen-ron
03-11-2004, 07:04 PM
FYI~ if you have corrosion on the connection where your battery and battery cables are (in your car) pour some warm pepsi, or coke, on it and it will clean it away. My DH taught me this. :) :D