November 02, 2004

The Right way to use Coca-Cola.
posted by Gyan 20 years ago
  • With just a cup o' vinegar, makes a fine footwash!
  • ooh, maybe the cafeine will make some sort of super crop...
  • My 10 shares of Coca Cola stock will now soar in value. Maybe even get back as high as the the price I paid for them.
  • Surprising how Coca-Cola spokespeople waved off this bit of news as poppycock.
  • I plan to try this, come spring. I wonder if the slugs will like on their lettuce.
  • I suspect Coca Cola (and the other soft drink manufacturers) would want to avoid having their flagship product classified as a pesticide. Might make people stop buying it. And, bees - I though slugs preferred beer.
  • In Guadalajara, it's cheaper than bottled water, and, according to many, it kills off the bugs in your tummy after some dodgy food. I drank gallons of it the year I lived there, ate loads of dodgy food, and only got sick once - off a hotdog, which, by the way, has a much cooler name there; "salchicha". Is there anything this wonder beverage can't do?
  • So, you're telling me that the same drink that Nigella Lawson tells us makes a tasty glaze for a baked ham is also good for spraying on crops? I just have to doubt it! Gee, I hope I don't get that reversed or anything... Well, I'm making a baked ham tonight, so I'll try to remember to write all this down.
  • You're basically spraying pests with phosphoric acid, at a pH of 2.5 or so. With the surface area-to-volume ratio of an insect, I'm not surprised they get burned and die.
  • Draws flies, though. And ants. I've never seen soda burn leaves but I have seen phosphorus do it.
  • The right way to use Coca-Cola is as toilet cleanser.
  • When I got braces, the lovely assistant who was applying them was dabbing the peptic acid on my teeth (it roughens the surface so the braces can stick better) and told me that that's what you're drinking in Coke. I haven't drunk it since, except on rare occasions.
  • Moxie beats Coke any day.