[OT] My uncle cleaned the house with Pepsi Blue

[Dakkareth]

I simply drink water - fresh, cool, cheap and no calories at all.

But of course all those sugary drinks have the great advantage of containing caffeine, which improves their chances tenfold

 

[Drew]

Not to mention that diet soda will still dissolve a copper penny in under 24 hours.

Pouring phosphoric acid on your teeth is not really a very smart idea...

Bah I say!
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tooth.asp

 

[Gellion]

4 people ran up at diffrent times to smack it away from me thinking i was comitting suicide.
2 of them were granny's
1 was a social worker
1 was my boss.

Wow, people actually attempt to be nice in NY. I have been there before, and if i did something like that, i doubt anybody would care.

 

[MaxKaladin]

Soft drinks are apparently an easily un-acquired taste.

I'd imagine so. I've always figured they're an acquired taste. For whatever reason, I didn't get started on drinking soft drinks as a young kid. As I got older, people started trying to get me to start drinking soft drinks* but every time I tried one I found it to be horribly disgusting. To this day, I just stick with water and I'm perfectly happy.

* Looking back on it, I'm rather surprised at the number of people, even adults, who simply couldn't accept the idea that there was a kid who didn't like soft drinks and tried to "fix" that "problem". I got really tired of hearing variations on "You should try 'x' soft drink. You'll like that one." I never did. At least that was better than the kid who was convinced that if he could just get his favorite drink in my mouth I'd love it and share his addiction. He kept trying to slip me a soft drink like I wouldn't notice it wasn't water. I simply can't understand why it was so important to others that I drink soft drinks as a boy. (I don't have this problem as an adult. People just look at me funny when I tell them I don't like soft drinks now.)

Frankly, I think many young people drink way too much soda. I've got a niece and a nephew, both teenagers, who drink nothing but soda all day long if you don't watch them like a hawk. That can't be good for you. Yet they seem to think this is perfectly normal.

 

[physics_ninja]

At least our Coke tastes better than yours. Bottled coke tastes like crap in the States for some reason. Canned is okay, but in bottles it tastes off somehow. I noticed this every time I travelled for a conference, and thought it was just me being strange so I smuggled in some Canadian bottled coke and did a head-to-head taste test and proved it. At least in the New York, Pennysylvania and Florida areas your bottled coke is ass-tastic. I didn't try any in San Fran, so I can't say anything about your west coast distribution. Maybe they use a different plastic that tinges the flavor somehow? [/B][/QUOTE]

Try checking the labels. Here in the US, the vast, vast majority of soda is made with corn syrup and not sugar. About ten years ago I had a bottle of Dr. Pepper from Mexico made with sugar and it was much better.

By the way, if the ingredient lable says, sugar and/or corn syrup it's only sugar during passover when there are a lot of dietary restrictions.

 

[PowerWordDumb]

Here in the US, the vast, vast majority of soda is made with corn syrup and not sugar. About ten years ago I had a bottle of Dr. Pepper from Mexico made with sugar and it was much better.

Hmmm, that could be it. I'll have to check the labels next time and see.

I thought Canadian Coke tasted like reconstituted human ass.

Well, there's gonna be one in every crowd who disagrees. It's likely that whatever we're brought up with predisposes us to like one variant or the other. It's interesting that you prefer the Mexican variety though - I'll have to try that some time!

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Wow, such a debate on soda.

Woo!

Yes, I was walking around with the sprayer on. I occasionally sprayed it into my mouth, sucked directly on the sprayer, or simply unscrewed the top and guzzled.

Today i tried Vanilla Pepsi....
its better then Vanilla Coke....but...bleh. I'll stick to the basic flavor thankyouverymuch.

 

[Darkness]

4 people ran up at diffrent times to smack it away from me thinking i was comitting suicide.

2 cars almost got into accidents

14 people dropped their groceries

ArthurQ - menace to society!

Bah I say!
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tooth.asp

Good one, mate.
Here's another good one - and even related to the topic at hand!

Coca-Cola is a handy household cleaning product.

- Too bad it's not true or you would have an excuse you could tell your uncle Darkness

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

18 million lab mice with brain cancer courtesy of aspartame can't all be wrong, and we've all heard the horror stories about the food colouring they use.

I'd get brain cancer too if you pumped me full of nothing but aspartame. Or water. Or anything else, for that matter.

From http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/3_19.htm

Aspartame, a third type of artificial sweetener, was approved in 1981 by the FDA after tests showed that it did not cause cancer in laboratory animals, although not all the laboratory experiments agreed. At present, aspartame is a common artificial sweetener and is distributed under the trade name of Nutrasweet or Equal. Interest in aspartame was renewed by a 1996 publication which suggests that an increase in the number of persons with brain tumors between 1975 and 1992 may be associated with the introduction and use of this sweetener in the United States. However, a recent analysis of NCI statistics on cancer incidence in the United States does not support an association between the use of aspartame and an increased incidence of brain tumors. These data show that the overall incidence of brain and central nervous system cancers began to rise in 1973, 8 years before the approval of aspartame, and continued to rise until 1985. Increases in overall brain cancer incidence have occurred primarily in the 70 and older age group, a group that has not been exposed to the highest doses of aspartame since its 1981 introduction. Since 1985, the incidence of these cancers has stabilized, and, in the last 2 years for which data are available (1991 to 1993), the incidence has, in fact, decreased slightly. Thus, at this time, there is no clear link, based on animal or human studies, between the use of aspartame and the development of brain tumors.

 

[Akunin]

I didn't try any in San Fran, so I can't say anything about your west coast distribution. Maybe they use a different plastic that tinges the flavor somehow?

I work for Coca-Cola in Sacramento, CA, and the stuff we make here tastes lots better in the bottles than it does in the cans (the canned Coke has a strong Sodium taste).

I have no idea why the bottled and canned versions taste different, though.

EDIT: Nice .sig pic, Gellion. Where did you find it? (I made it when I first started posting to theseboards a couple years back).