Science Experiment:
Coke! The Real Thing.
My mother is of a certain age, and because of this she doesn’t know how to send an email. Ohhhhhhhhh, but she can forward one. Seriously. She has no idea how to actually compose and write an email to any one of her knit wit friends (they’re friends who actually knit) but boy oh boy can she forward. She’s the queen of forwarding messages my mother.
I know this because I am the recipient of her many jokes/recipes/trivia/fun facts/pornographic cartoons. One of her most recent messages was devoted to the perils of Coke. A cola. According to the email Coke can rot your gut, remove rust, clean up crime scenes and make a metal nail disappear in 4 days. Give it a law degree and Coke could probably dissolve your marriage.
Not being one to believe anything unless I’ve actually tried it, I’m going through my mother’s forwarded Coke email to PROVE it’s all a load of crap. Starting with claim #1
COKE WILL DISSOLVE A T-BONE STEAK IN 2 DAYS.
Liz
Haaaaaaa, amazing. I don’t know anyone who forwards those kinds of emails to me. Funnily enough i don’t feel as though my life is lacking anything.
My MIL does like to “Like” things on facebook a little bit too much though, which i class as the same sort of thing. My SIL put up a status update along the lines of “I’m sad today” and she LIKED it. That’s strange no?
But, on the subject of coke, you can boil a ham in it and it gives an amaaaaazing taste. Seriously try it, i’m not even B*S-ing. I even blogged about it once.
Karen
If you like I can send my mother your email address. I’ll give the ham in Coke a try. Even though I’ve hated ham ever since I had to dissect a fetal pig in highschool biology. But for YOU I’ll do it. :)
Liz
You should try it, but i totally understand your feelings on the whole fetal pig thing. Bleck.
Karen
O.K. I um … I might try it. Everyone else in the world likes ham. So I’ll give it a go. Now I’m under the recommendation to try Coke boiled ham and Ikea meatballs. This blog is going to make me chubby.
Foxadora
Next time, send me the steak and the coke and I’ll disolve them in about 30 seconds.
Karen
Hah! You wouldn’t have wanted this particular one. It was on sale and a peculiar colour. :)
Oonafey @ Little Pink Houses
Ooooh, suspense!
Karen
I know! Exciting!!!
michelle
HILARIOUS!!!!!!
Karen
Fun, eh? I HATE those stupid emails. Everyone just accepts they’re true. Well, jeez … it came into my computer … it MUST be true.
Tricia Rose
Your are doing a service for all mankind with this experiment, but you also run the risk of being forwarded every half-arsed piece of urban myth going. Brave girl! Keep it up, I’ll watch! (and any moment now I’ll pour bleach on a burn, as long as it is someone else’s)
Karen
Tricia – I do kind of feel like a modern day Madame Curie. Only without the radioactive stuff.
And … Tricia … think of me as your therapist … you have to trust me. The bleach WORKS on a burn.
Sonja
Aw, girl, my dad suffers from the same affliction! He’s hard-pressed to write a single email but boy can he forward like there’s no tomorrow. I’m sure he sent me that same coke email at some point in time. I’ve also gotten the dangers of Pyrex cookware and so many, many others. The forward key should be disabled for those of a certain age. ;)
JANE
Bleach on a burn? Do Tell!!
Karen
Jane – Here’s a link to my post on using bleach on a mild burn. http://www.theartofdoingstuff.com/argh-how-to-treat-a-mild-burn