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The Many Uses of Coca-Cola

1. In many states 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 Coke into the toilet bowl. Let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean.

4. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.

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

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

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

8. 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 a sumptuous brown gravy.

9. 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.

FYI:

1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. It's pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days.

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! Drink up!

Where do I start... OK, first of all, I hate Coke just because it tastes terrible, however, when I read nonsense like this, the hatred for idiots who wrote this overcomes the hatred to the drink itself.

First of all, phosphoric acid is not an active ingredient of Coke. It is there, but it is far from being the most important ingredient. pH of Coke is not 2.8, it's pH of phosphoric acid, I'm yet to hear that anyone drank that. Furthermore, Coke will not dissolve nail (neither that metal one nor the one on your finger). If you're still considering that nonsense as true, then let me remind me that your own stomache is full of gastric acid, which is mostly hydrochloric acid, also known as one of the strongest acids in this Universe. Hahaha, take that. If you think Coke is going to kill you, you better get rid of your stomache as soon as you can as well.

Speaking of transporting concentrate... well, d'uh, they need Highly Corrosive card to transport lemon juice concentrate as well. That's the very point of concentrates - no one drinks them, they are dissolved in generous amount of water before consumption. If you're idiot enough to drink concentrated Coke, well... good riddance. While we're on that, did you know that concentrated fart gas may cause explosion? Better stop farting then, or you might blow up.

And the bit about using Coke to clean anything is utterly stupid. This claim has been debunked multiple times, but it still keeps popping up every now and then. If you want to clean something, use cleaner! On a side note, try to taste cleaner, you may be surprised that it tastes absolutely revolting, but it is nowhere near acid, because... surprise! Fat is not dissolved by acid, it is far more effectively dissolved by soap and water. So, if you try to clean your toilet with Coke - have fun and be prepared to waste a lot of time on that, because Coke doesn't clean much better than regular water.

You can hate Coke's tastes if you want to, but at least check your data before sending spam like that to my inbox. And when you throw up, I hope that gastric acid will dissolve your teeth and your vomit will make your toilet shine, just like Coke.

Aaaargh, I give up. I read this post in Chicken Mafia and it brought a teardrop in my I. Screw that. I'm sorry I left you all alone without my regular rants and random interesting stuff I find internet every once in a while. OK, maybe not interesting, but still random. I love you all. Just forgive me my uncaring.

So just to make it up a bit (after all, it has been 40-something days since my last post, if you don't count stuff in my other also not-too-active blog), I decided to give you some links to a good stuff. First of all, of course, some more idiot bashing in the greatest idiot bashing internet blog ever: Skeptico. It has all kinds of posts, ruining many stupidities dumb people believe, like here, here, here, here or here (yay, I love linking!). Just read it. If this stuff doesn't kick fairy tales out of your brain, do a favour to humanity - shoot yourself. Speaking of which, if you do it right way (totally stupidly), you might even earn this, so your relatives would be proud of you for the rest of their lives.

And if you're tired of reading (did I mention that greatest site of debunking stupidity in the world, by the way?) or have some hatred with involving brain into your activities, give these videos a try:

• if you're a racing fan;
• if you're a music fan;
• if you're an arts fan;
  
• if you're a giggling idiot;
• if you're a hopeless giggling idiot;
• if you're Joyful Chicken;
• if you're sure my sense of humour is screwed and want proof.

You have to check this out. One of the most awesome lectures about antiscience and pseudoscience I've ever heard.

Thanks for Jurgis Pralgauskis for guiding me to this link.