Re: oops!

Hi Steve,

First off let me say I posted that video in good faith, I know you know that Steve but for the benefit of others.  Second let me say that I don't think Snopes.com always gets it right as a matter of fact I know they've missed it on some things I've checked on. There have been several but I only remember one because its a subject that is on my mind at all times and they said it was false but its true.  

I don't in fact know if everything on that video is true or not but I won't take Snopes word for it, but thats up to each individual to decide.  I can say that several months ago when I first saw this video I did go buy a couple of cans of Coke. I put one in my commode and it did exactly what the video said it would do, sparkling clean without using a toilet brush at all, just flushed it.  I poured part of the other can over some pennies that had turned crusty and green, let them soak for less than 5 or 6 hours and low and behold when I rinsed them off they were shiny and looked like they just came from the Mint. Now what got me about the penny experiment is that I had already soaked them in a toxic cleaning solution that I bought at the store and they wouldn't come clean.  I think it says a lot that the Coke cleaned the pennies when a toxic cleaning solution didn't.

So I guess to sum it up I appreciate your investigative skills, wish I had them LOL, but in this case I have to disagree with at least part of what Snopes quoted here, "Besides, the gastric acid in your stomach is much stronger than any of the acids in Coca-Cola, so the Cola-Cola is harmless."  Now surely anybody who reads this statement knows that "Coke is not harmless" isn't a true statement.  I can't say if the gastric acid in my stomach is much stronger than the acids in Coke but I can say that if Coke shines up pennies that toxic materials can't then I sure don't want it in my stomach.  

I used to drink Diet Coke several years ago, my dentist asked me not IF I drank Coke, but how many a day I drank.  The reason is she said the enamel on my teeth was wearing and it was consistent with what Coke products do to the enamel on teeth.  She told me to stop drinking them all together.

Anyway, all that being said I can't prove if everything in that video is true or not but I'd lean toward believing it has more truth in it than not from my own experiments.  I do know a couple of cops so I'll ask them about Coke removing blood stains, if they laugh at me I won't care because their friends LOL. BTW I don't believe they all carry it in their cars just in case they need it to remove blood off the road. I'll let you know what they say.

Willow