Coca Cola - What do they put in this stuff..
 

Coca Cola puts me in a hell of a good mood. What do they put in this stuff?

Pepsi doesn't work for me, nor do any of the other cheap Coke knock offs.

Maybe they use the real Coca leaves :) Naah, its just the caffeine and sugar kicking in :)

Hmm....rum and coke?

Captain Morgan, take me away.....!

Coca Cola is mighty tasty. Way better than Pepsi in my opinion.
You can get addicted to all that sugar though.

When they first started manufacturing Coke way back when, didn't they have cocoa in there.. hence the name? Or is that an urban myth?

I'll check snopes.com

They put in leaves of Coca tree (they make cocaine from those i think)

I guess as Zendala says it's the caffine and sugar kicking in but I also suspect it's a minor addiction to one of the artifical flavors or additives they have. I gives me such a "pick you up" feeling I can't wait to have more. The back of the 911 is full of empty coke cans from driving with a coke. It's a wonder I'm not big fat boy - or a diabetic :(

Supposedly it's all natural citrus blend/cinnamon/caramel based with a good heaping of phosphoric acic and corn syrup.
More acid than stomach acid though and uses up a lot of calcium neutralizing it.
They did have coca leaves in it back in the 30s, but then again there was opiates in cough syrup, and the first Levis (early paper and the Mayflower sails) were made of industrial Hemp. Times change.

Drink water or milk. Your teeth won't be stained brown and your body will thank you. Coke is nasty stuff. :)

you know back when coca-cola was first founded the original recipie used coca leaves (hence the name)....and was VERY addicting.....
they have since changed the recipie and now it works great for removing corrosion off of battery posts :D

coke tastes awful

Whenever i'm feeling tired or depressed, i get a vanilla coke... the choice of Morgan-and-Coke drinkers. Yes i am horribly addicted to caffeine, have been since i started drinking coffee every morning in my sophomore year of HS...

...lately i have had only a cup of tea in the morning and another tea or coke or SoBe later in the day

BTW, Coke still puts coca leaves in the Coke vats, just not enough to qualify as an ingredient - only trace amounts. Coke is the only company in the U.S. that is allowed to import the stuff... some kind of grandfather clause or something.

Coca Cola originally contained cocaine. Fact.

I used to have an unopened bottle of the original "recipie", destroyed in the 1994 Northridge quake along with a lot of stereo equipment.

Coke is a great cleaning agent for rust and corrosion, no joke. Probably due to the carbonation and the ungodly amount of phosphorus.

I believe it's mostly the carbonic-acid that does the calcium depletion. . . . carbonic-acid is just CO2 in solution.

So does anyone taste the difference between old (1970's) coke and new-old coke ("classic")?

I heard you can clean your toilet if you pour a can of coke in it and leave it for a while. You can also clean your battery terminals with it and it seems like I heard something about it disolving a tiny bolt if you leave it in a cup of coke over night.

"Coca Cola originally contained cocaine. Fact."

That's what the coca leaf is.

Here is a list of things that the wonderful chemical properties of Coke allow to do...:p

Aurel, that web site is a good laugh :) Bill.

Also removes blood from the scene of the accident, knew the acid was good for something

Goodness Bill...you have two beverage threads going....;)

Coke - Has a great bite to it (and yes...it probably could eat battery acid).

Dt. Coke - Don't like it...it hurts my stomach.

Pepsi - Will drink it if Coke is not available.

Dt. Pepsi - Usually my favorite.

I`ll have to remember using coke to clean my engine case if I ever rebuild it...

Vanilla Coke is the best

My Dad, God rest his soul, was born in 1908. He told me that Coca-Cola once had some "zip"...

CJ, hate to burst your triva bubble but, Coke does not import coca leaves. Stephan Chemical does. They are the only legal importer of these leaves. They use the leaves to make drugs (novaciane, lidocaine ... get the picture). Coke buys the leaves after they are done with them.

anyway...

yeah okay, i knew it was something like that. thanks for the clarification.

So, does anybody know when the "zip" left Coca-Cola?

Used to kill rats, eh?
"......He explained to us that rats cannot belch. They were attracted to the taste of the Coca Cola and would drink large quantities of it only to be unable to belch the carbonated drink and they would actually explode. He would find their carcasses lying about with their stomaches burst open....."

LOL! (My cats are laughing too!)
Thanks for the link, Aurel.

COKE

1. In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two gallons
of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.

2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in
two days.

3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and
let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid
in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.

4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with
a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can
of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Apply a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to
the rusted bolt for several minut

7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan,
wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the
ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the
Coke for
sumptuous brown gravy.
8. 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.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION:

1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8.
It will dissolve a nail in about four days. Phosphoric acid also leaches
calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase
in osteoporosis.

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!

Now the question is, would YOU like a glass of water or coke??????

Iced Tea for me please!!!!

My sister and her husband drink nothing but Coke - day and night.

I think it may be a problem. I was talking to my niece the other day and I asked her what she had for breakfast that morning. Her reply, "bacon, eggs, and Coke". Not good.

So, if I have a screw in my fog light that is stripped, I just pour Coke on it and it will loosen it???????

944S Boyeee

DBL post!

"2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in
two days. "

Not even true by a long shot. My junior high school class did this as an experiment - a small steak in a large vat of coke. The difference after weeks was indeciferable.

This was tackled on some urban legends show on MTV, and proven false. It is just a myth...

...although almost everything else in this post is true.

Coke is awesome, hands down. It's one of two things that life would suck without, the other being Tabasco sauce. Coke is best in a glass with finely crushed ice.

My little cousin bought himself the thickest, fake gold chain he could fine. It rusted and he was just about ready to throw it out.

I dunked the chain in a glass of coca cola. Couple hours later... the chain is perfect!

Regardless, I still drink it.