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Re: What Coke Contains

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Post by justin66 »

jscheel wrote: post #9

Ok, bit of a bragging moment here: my grandpa, with two other gentlemen, created the process for machining seamless cans that is described here. Before them, cans had a lead seam in them. They discovered that you could draw down the aluminum and stretch it to form cans in one piece. He also invented the process for creating the bottom of soda cans, and his friend invented the modern tab on the top of soda cans.

> They discovered that you could draw down the aluminum and stretch it to form cans in one piece. He also invented the process for creating the bottom of soda cans

Aren't these both part of the same process? Whatever is being done to force that piece of aluminum into the correct shape, it involves the same piece of metal.

Re: What Coke Contains

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Post by redwood »

aneth4 wrote: post #111

The most interesting part of the story lies here: "coca-leaf which comes from South America and is processed in a unique US government authorized factory in New Jersey to remove its addictive stimulant cocaine" Consider the implications of one of the largest American companies being singularly authorized to buy and import hundreds of tons of coca leaf, which is banned in nearly every country and produced primarily by…

It's a bit conspiracy theory: but is it really a coincidence that this factory is in NJ? the home of the sopranos?!

Re: What Coke Contains

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Post by ars »

jacquesm wrote: post #120
lifeformed wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anything except for quarks.

If you bang some of the electrons hard enough into some of the neutrons or protons you'll even get quarks.

No you won't.

You need to bang protons or neutron together. Electrons don't participate in color force and can't make quarks.

Re: What Coke Contains

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Post by ars »

iso-8859-1 wrote: post #125
Uncompetative wrote: post #121

"The second ingredient, caramel coloring, gives the drink its distinctive dark brown color. There are four types of caramel coloring — Coca Cola uses type E150d, which is made by heating sugars with sulfite and ammonia to create bitter brown liquid. The syrup’s other principal ingredient is phosphoric acid, which adds acidity and is made by diluting burnt phosphorus (made by heating phosphate rock in an arc-furnace)…

There's a lot of stuff you can't ingest, if you'd follow that criterion.

Of all things for him to stop drinking....

But if you are worried about arsenic don't eat rice, and be careful of the ground water (depending on where you live).

Re: What Coke Contains

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Post by philwelch »

Wonderdonkey wrote: post #36
jechen wrote: post #23

Curious as to why there's no mention of the secret formula, since the author is wrong about kola nut being an ingredient of the syrup: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/pr2001447 (from the Coca-Cola wiki page), which interestingly is a component in many purported recipes. It's also interesting to see a picture of a glass bottle coke when the American product rarely exists in such form. I've sworn off the HFCS versi…

This time of year you can buy "Passover Coke." It's made with cane sugar. It has no corn syrup in it whatsoever, while Mexican Coke actually has a ≈70/30 cane/corn mix. You can tell it apart from regular Coke by its yellow cap printed with a circle U (kosher symbol). It's much cheaper than Mexican Coke (same price as regular 2 liter Coke), although it doesn't come in a glass bottle. And it's delicious! I actually sto…

Where do you live? I've heard of Passover Coke for years but never actually seen it. Judging by the name, it must be a regional thing in places like New York that have a higher Jewish population.

Re: What Coke Contains

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Post by jacquesm »

ars wrote: post #133
jacquesm wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you bang some of the electrons hard enough into some of the neutrons or protons you'll even get quarks.

No you won't. You need to bang protons or neutron together. Electrons don't participate in color force and can't make quarks.

Hehe, trust me for getting it wrong, you are absolutely right.

Re: What Coke Contains

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Post by jscheel »

justin66 wrote: post #131
jscheel wrote: post #9

Ok, bit of a bragging moment here: my grandpa, with two other gentlemen, created the process for machining seamless cans that is described here. Before them, cans had a lead seam in them. They discovered that you could draw down the aluminum and stretch it to form cans in one piece. He also invented the process for creating the bottom of soda cans, and his friend invented the modern tab on the top of soda cans.

> They discovered that you could draw down the aluminum and stretch it to form cans in one piece. He also invented the process for creating the bottom of soda cans Aren't these both part of the same process? Whatever is being done to force that piece of aluminum into the correct shape, it involves the same piece of metal.

Sort of, the can's bottom is flat (potentially with specific varying thicknesses) after the drawing. A punch then shapes the bottom to what it needs to be.

Re: What Coke Contains

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Post by Wonderdonkey »

philwelch wrote: post #135
Wonderdonkey wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This time of year you can buy "Passover Coke." It's made with cane sugar. It has no corn syrup in it whatsoever, while Mexican Coke actually has a ≈70/30 cane/corn mix. You can tell it apart from regular Coke by its yellow cap printed with a circle U (kosher symbol). It's much cheaper than Mexican Coke (same price as regular 2 liter Coke), although it doesn't come in a glass bottle. And it's delicious! I actually sto…

Where do you live? I've heard of Passover Coke for years but never actually seen it. Judging by the name, it must be a regional thing in places like New York that have a higher Jewish population.

I live in Southern California. I thought it would be hard to find when I first went looking, but the first Albertsons I went in had a giant stack of it. Do you have any grocery stores with a kosher section or an "international" section? That might be a place to look.

I've read it's available some places now; I haven't seen it myself yet this year.

Re: What Coke Contains

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Post by triplesec »

gambiting wrote: post #109
triplesec wrote: post #94

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and you? You castigate a poster for doing exatly what you are doing yourself. Ironically recursive. It's important that the elites of this world understand what harm they and their tribes are doing, intentionally or not, because awareness comes before action!

Of course I am doing it ironically. That's not the point though. If you think that someone at Coca-Cola Co. is going to wake up one day and say "you know, we are going stop making soda drinks and lay off thousands of people and cause unemployment for hundreds of thousands because after all,we produce a drink that's no good for anyone", then I think you are(just like OP) being naively idealistic.

Quite possibly. However, great changes only ever arise from apparently impossible tasks! You probably actually know that from things like Einstein's special relativity coming shortly after Lord Kelvin's infamous dictum, or Galileo standing up to the Church...
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