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Taken from breakthechain.org (don't believe everything Americans and Canadians tell you)

Here are the specifics:


In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the truck to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.
Consider this: if an accident is brutal enough to cause the road to become flooded with blood, youââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢d need a lot more than 2 milk jugsââ‚ ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢ worth of ANY liquid to rinse it away properly. And if itââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s really as nail-dissolving as theyââ‚ ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢d have us believe, then itââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s a terrible ecological threat to the roadside flora and fauna. We should complain to the authorities.


You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days.
Tried it. Thought itââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢d be cool. Didnââ‚ ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t work. Steak was well-marinated though. Shouldââ‚Ã⠀šÃ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢ve used it with that "Moist ham" recipe in number 7 down there, †˜cause that stuffââ‚ƚ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s good.


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.
Tried it. Thought itâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢d be cool. Didnââ‚ ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t work.


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.
Tried it. Thought itâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢d be cool. It DID work. But then I tried it without the Coke and the Reynoldââ‚à ‚¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s wrap still did the job all on its own.


To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
We actually have a rusty old dead car battery in the garage. Tried it. Thought itâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢d be cool. It didnââ‚ ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t work. But then I tried it with some Reynoldââ‚à ‚¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s wrap (no Coke) and it came off beautifully. Maybe we should be worried about the Reynoldââ‚à ‚¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s wrap here.


To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
Tried it. Thought itâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢d be cool. It didnââ‚ ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t work.


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.
This does work. And itâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s good. Also, turkey breast marinated in Sprite is delicious. Itâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s true. Ah, vending machine cuisine.


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.
Tried the laundry one. It didnâ₠¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t work. Except the road haze one kinda did. But it left my windshield all sticky. Next time I used Windex, and that REALLY worked (who knew?). A lot better than sticky brown pop. Who are all these people trying this stuff on their windows and batteries and stuff? Or are they just claiming theyâ₠¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢ve tried it in the hopes that some doofus like me will copy them? Well, I tried it. And it wasnâ₠¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t a very good method of cleaning road haze. What I suffer in the name of scientific research.

For Your Info:


The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days.
Coke actually has a pH of 3. Yes, Coke contains phosphoric acid. So do a lot of edible things. Beer also has a pH of 3. And vinegar. And you know whatâ₠¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s TEN times more acidic than coke, being pH 2? Lemon juice.

As for the nail. Tried it. Thought itâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢d be cool. It didnââ‚ ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t work.


To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the Hazardous material place cards reserved for highly corrosive materials.
Not true. And if it was, the lemon trucks would really be in trouble. Also, I used to work at McDonaldââ‚à ƒâ€šÃ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s, where we had boxed concentrate that spilled sometimes. It was not acidic to the skin. At least not any more than beer. Also, the concentrate comes in plastic bags stored in cardboard boxes. Violently powerful acids aren't usually packaged in soft, thin, plastic & paper containers.


The distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years!
Oh, please! Maybe they should buy some Reynoldââ‚à ‚¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s Wrap though, †˜cause that stuff kicks ass.

And taken from hoaxinfo.com

There are two separate e-mail messages that have been merged into one. The first is about the need to drink water and the second is the dangers of Coke.

To deal with the Coke contention I must say that it is a little hard to swallow all the enumerated "facts" tossed at you in this one.

The e-mail states that many Highway Patrol cars carry Coke to "wash the blood off the highway". I couldn't find one shred of evidence that any Highway Patrol anywhere uses Coke for this purpose. If this works at all is probably due to the carbonation of the drink (in essence, it has scrubby bubbles). Club Soda would be a cheaper and better choice since it doesn't have a high sugar content. Ditto for Coke as laundry cleaner.

Although any carbonated beverage can help remove tarnish (oxidation) including rust. That is because carbon dioxide when under pressure becomes soluble in water and the process produces carbonic acid. Carbonic acid aids in "reduction" which is the opposite of oxidation. Essentially, it reverses the oxidation reaction. Phosphoric acid can aid in this chemical reaction too, and is why Coke can be used for this purpose.

However, I might add that Coke is not that good at removing corrosion from battery terminals as that corrosion is acidic and baking soda and water (a base) works far better. Perhaps we need a baking soda e-mail warning.

If you drop a nail in Coke for four days as the e-mail says, trust me on this, you'll still have a (very sticky) nail after 4 days. Concentrated phosphoric acid may be able to dissolve a nail in that amount of time, but Coke has too little phosphoric acid to do that in four days. Ditto, a T-Bone steak which will be soggy, and possibly tenderized, but not dissolved.

Nor could I find evidence that Coke drivers use Coke to "clean their engines over the last 20 years". Ask yourself, why would you want to put any fluid that has a high sugar content on your engine. Once the fluid evaporates all you'll have is a sticky residue that burns and creates carbon on the engine surface.

There is little doubt Coke is acidic. I won't even argue the PH value given in the e-mail. But since a lemon has a PH of 2.2 and Coke has a PH of around 2.5 to 3.0 most lemons are even more acidic than Coke. Even grapes are highly acidic, but does that mean they are highly dangerous for human consumption. I might add that compared to stomach acid which a PH of about 1.4, and contains hydrochloric acid, Coke is definitely a weaker acid than what is in our stomach on a daily basis. Further, the carbon dioxide in Coke reacts with stomach acid to actually reduce it, so it might explain how carbonated beverages can help your stomach feel more settled.

Citrus Cleaners have been touted for years as some of the best all-purpose cleaners. Does that mean that we should not eat another orange, lemon, or grapefruit because the citric acid can be used to clean our toilet bowl?

Number 7 below has me the most puzzled. If you were trying to warn off all users of Coke because it does all these bad things, then why would you put a Coke recipe in for making a great gravy for ham? Perhaps you can take the aluminum foil you wrapped the ham in and clean your trailer hitch. What do you think?

This is just a scare mail message that needs to go away. Do your part: Delete it

http://www.joshmadison.com/misc/projects/coke_nail/
http://www.alltooflat.com/pranks/myths/teeth/
http://www2.coca-cola.com/contactus/...ors/index.html

The Pennsylvanian state trooper I asked about the whole blood/coke thing also confirmed it as a load of crap.