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A12077408 - Coca-Cola - the Soft Drink and Other Uses

I'm hoping I can put this to bed now. Unless there's anything else?

According to the official FIFA / Coca-Cola World rankings the USA is the 5th best football team in the whole world!

Only this,

1) the link maybe didn't survive the copy/paste for Chiapas

2) slight wording change recommended for this:

from -

'There is some disagreement among nutritionists as to whether drinks like cola should count toward your goal of drinking eight (six for children) glasses of water per day. Caffeine is a diuretic, which actually increases your need for liquid, therefore you need to drink more water. Therefore care should be taken when giving sugary drinks to babies...'

to (asterisks show where changes are) -

'There is some disagreement among nutritionists as to whether *caffeinated* drinks like cola should count toward your goal of drinking eight (six for children) glasses of water per day. Caffeine is a diuretic, which actually increases your need for liquid, therefore you need to drink more water. *Also,* care should be taken when giving sugary drinks to babies...'

Ok, that's it from me - no more tinkering, searches, etc. I swear (as in, Holy Coke!).

OK I have corrected the link.

Added "caffeinated".

Changed "Therefore" to "Also"

The number of cases of diabetes has increased globally more than 7-fold in the last 20 years and that by the year 2025 it will have increased 10-fold. Worst affected are developing countries like India where there are now more than 35 million diabetics.
This epidemic can only be due to modern eating and drinking habits - including the addictive consumption of sugar in canned and bottled drinks.
The human body has its own natural methods of making sugars from carbohydrates so it doesn't require tanking-up on sugar in liquid form. It gets an ample supply of sugar from consumption of bread, potatoes, spaghetti etc.

USA, the international football team rated 5th best in the whole world on the FIFA / COCA-COLA website just lost 0 - 3 to the CZECH REPUBLIC home of the true and original BUDVAR BUDWEISER BEER - now that's "the real thing!"

I'm not talking on this thread! (My journal)

There was a movie, one of Jimmy Cagney's last, made in the early sixties, that had him starring as a Coca-Cola executive in West Germany after the rise of the wall.

It had a title something like "1,2,3,Go!"

I also seem to remember a connection between Coca-Cola and the CIA in places such as South America and Vietnam. There were poltical cola wars in some places outside the US where Pepsi and Coke paid the appropriate grease to the necessary officials in order to gain access to water supplies and local shoppes. Oddly enough, if I remember correctly, there were even struggles over the silica needed to create the bottles and access to local glassmakers.

The Mack truck company was supposedly the first to specifically manufacture bottle-hauling trucks. I think that the Coke people were the first to buy them.

I filled my water bottle (orig. purchased 2005 one hot day)
from a deep well yesterday and I noticed in microscopic print
on the label the words "Coca-Cola Company" and the strange info.
: "contents - pure water - keep refrigerated / when opened consume within 3 days" .

Hi Annie,

Love this entry! I just want to come back to COke and Santa. While they did not invent him, they did popularise the red and white fat jolly hohoho image in their ads...

"Santa was then portrayed by dozens of artists in a wide variety of styles, sizes, and colors. However by the end of the 1920s, a standard American Santa—life-sized in a red, fur-trimmed suit—was emerging from the work of N. C. Wyeth, Norman Rockwell and other popular illustrators. In 1931 Haddon Sundblom began thirty-five years of Coca-Cola Santa advertisements that popularized and firmly established Santa as an icon of contemporary commercial culture."

http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=35


W

Ref flast coke as an aid to diarrhoea, we have an Arab studentstaying with us who demostrated what happens if you sprinkle salt onto the surface of a tumbler-full of coke. The salt crystals act as nucleation sites for effervescence of carbon dioxide bubbles. He then said that they drink this concoction as an aid to diarrhoea - presemably because the salt 'flattens' the coke

Addendum - one other reason Coke is used is because water may be impure and in case of diarrhoea/food poisoning, not only do you need to hydrate but you also need 'clean' fluids with the requisite electrolytes... Flat Lucozade would work as well as 7UP (the preferred potion in Lebanon)


W

Yes. When I was staying in St Petersburg (CIS) a few years back, we were not allowed to drink the tap water. I understand this was because the ground water has been contaminated by the decaying bodies of those buried in mass graves during WWII. There was no bottled water either, so the only way we could swill our mouths after brushing our teeth was with Pepsi Cola (I believe the Ruissians have a contract with Pesico, rather than Coca Cola Co, for producuing cola)

This thread (now with the addition of this post) has a total of 134 posts, as compared to 145 received by the recent 'The Morning Glory - A Male Mishap?' - A11821682 up to just before it was picked.

Therefore, I think we can conclude that nearly one out of two peer reviewers prefer coke to sex.

This amazing result was arrived at by dividing one number by another, so it is scientific and therefore unassailable - it really is a fact.

What about those that enjoy both at the same time?

Kinky

Oh, I forgot, the current Presidente of Mexico, Vincente Fox, used to be a Coke executive...

Very comprehensive entry well done to all concerned. Someone give the editors a shove!
Nother

I second that. Looks pretty complete to me. Shall we whistle together, nother?

tries to blow whistle (I know that won't work) would you give me a hand dear Wilma
Nother