Coke - the wonder cure

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  1. ClaraLou

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    I particularly like the idea of displesurable (sic) static electricity.

    I think we're back to translation problems here. See JWK's post concerning healthy Chinese balls and flying pans.
     
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      Hi Cogs
      when I was in the canaries in the 70's , I had a bad case of the Tenerife Trots :mad: A bottle of flat coke with a spoonful of salt in cured it in an hour !:dbgrtmb:
       
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      I suffered from car sickness as a Kid [God, that was a long time ago] and at the end of the journey I'd asked for a packet of crisps, the one's with the blue bag of salt in, and I realised a long time after that it was the salt my body was wanting not the crisps:DOH: Very strange:scratch::D
       
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        I've heard a glass of Port is good for travel sickness. Not ideal for the youngsters though.:)
         
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          ARMANDII, I remember those crisps ... Smith's .. are they not for sale again? Just love them. Can't imagine that would help that problem though! :scratch:
           
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          Is it true there is a secret ingredient in coca cola??
           
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          Nor for the Driver :-)

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            I don't think it's secret HYDROGEN ... quote from Wikipedia on Coca-Cola ...

            Use of stimulants in formula

            When launched Coca-Cola's two key ingredients were cocaine (benzoylmethyl ecgonine) and caffeine. The cocaine was derived from the coca leaf and the caffeine from kola nut, leading to the name Coca-Cola (the "K" in Kola was replaced with a "C" for marketing purposes).[26][27]

            Coca — cocaine

            Pemberton called for five ounces of coca leaf per gallon of syrup, a significant dose; in 1891, Candler claimed his formula (altered extensively from Pemberton's original) contained only a tenth of this amount. Coca-Cola did once contain an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass, but in 1903 it was removed.[28] Coca-Cola still contains coca flavoring.

            After 1904, instead of using fresh leaves, Coca-Cola started using "spent" leaves — the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process with cocaine trace levels left over at a molecular level.[29] To this day, Coca-Cola uses as an ingredient a cocaine-free coca leaf extract prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey.
            In the United States, the Stepan Company is the only manufacturing plant authorized by the Federal Government to import and process the coca plant,[30] which it obtains mainly from Peru and, to a lesser extent, Bolivia. Besides producing the coca flavoring agent for Coca-Cola, the Stepan Company extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it sells to Mallinckrodt, a St. Louis, Missouripharmaceutical manufacturer that is the only company in the United States licensed to purify cocaine for medicinal use.[31]

            Kola nuts — caffeine

            Kola nuts act as a flavoring and the source of caffeine in Coca-Cola. In Britain, for example, the ingredient label states "Flavourings (Including Caffeine)."[32] Kola nuts contain about 2 percent to 3.5 percent caffeine, are of bitter flavor and are commonly used in colasoft drinks. In 1911, the U.S. government initiated United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola, hoping to force Coca-Cola to remove caffeine from its formula. The case was decided in favor of Coca-Cola. Subsequently, in 1912 the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act was amended, adding caffeine to the list of "habit-forming" and "deleterious" substances which must be listed on a product's label.
            Coca-Cola contains 46 mg of caffeine per 12 fluid ounces (12.9 mg per 100 ml).[33]
             
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              Coca and caffeine Lmao. Imagine launching that nowadays. :heehee: good job mackies are good for you!
               
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