[Reader-list] Thanda matlab coca cola - part 2

[Yazad Jal]

thanks a lot. the urba legends site is super!

and they have done their homework. the research citations at the bottom of
the articles are there for all to check up.

so the original "joke" email turns out to be nothing more than coke-bashing.

-yazad

>
> It isn't based on any research, but on urban legends. A simple query in
> Google pops up the following 'Coke Lore' page with these specific examples
> and the following explanation:
>
> That you can cook and clean with Coke is relatively meaningless from a
safety standpoint --
> you can use a wide array of common household substances (including water)
for the same
> purposes; that doesn't necessarily make them dangerous. The fact is that
all carbonated soft
> drinks contain carbonic acid, which is moderately useful for tasks such as
removing stains and
> dissolving rust deposits (although plain soda water is much better for
such purposes than
> Coca-Cola or other soft drinks, as it doesn't leave a sticky sugar residue
behind). Carbonic
> acid is relatively weak, however, and people have been drinking carbonated
water for many
> years with no detrimental effects.
> The rest of the claims offered here are, in a word, stupid. Coca-Cola does
contain small
> amounts of citric acid (from the orange, lemon, and lime oils in its
formula) and phosphoric
> acid. However, all the insinuations about the dangers these acids might
pose to people who
> drink Coca-Cola ignore a simple concept familiar to any first-year
chemistry student:
> concentration. Coca-Cola contains less citric acid than orange juice does,
and the
> concentration of phosphoric acid in Coke is far too small (a mere 11 to 13
grams per gallon of
> syrup, or about 0.20 to 0.30 per cent of the total formula) to cause harm.
The only people who
> proffer the ridiculous statements that Coca-Cola will dissolve a steak, a
tooth, or a nail in
> a day or two are people who have never actually tried any of these things,
because they just
> don't happen. (Anyone who conducts these experiments will find himself at
the end of two days
> with a whole tooth, a whole nail, and one very soggy t-bone.)
> The next time you're stopped by a highway patrolman, try asking him if
he's ever cleaned blood
> stains off a highway with Coca-Cola. If you're lucky, by the time he stops
laughing he'll have
> forgotten about the citation he was going to give you.
>
>
> This and other myths on Coke can be found here:
> http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/
>
>
> bye,
>
> Menso
>
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