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Top 10 ways to use Coca-Cola

by kellys on February 9th, 2007

My girlfriend sent me an email on whether you should drink water or Coca-Cola.  Interestingly enough, there were some interesting uses for Coca-Cola besides a refreshing drink.  Keep in mind that I haven’t tried all of these but I have tried or seen most of them.  Good luck and let me know if you have any uses for Coca-Cola to add.

1.  Get rid of gas.  Who can burp louder with water?  Not me.

2.  In most sates the highway patrol carries 2 gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.

3.  Place a t-bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in 2 days.

4.  Pour a can of Coke into the toilet and wait 1 hr.  Flush.  The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.

5.  Remove rust from chrome automobile bumpers by rubbing the bumper rumpled up piece of aluminum foil dipped in Coke.

6.  Pour Coke over the terminals of a corrosive battery to clean away the corrosion.  (I have done this before)

7.  Soak a cloth in coke and then apply it to a rusted bolt for several minutes and voila!  The rusted bolt will come loose.

8.  Bake a moist ham in a can of Coke.  Wrap the ham in aluminum foil and pour the coke over it.  My Nana has done this for years and I love it.

9.  To remove grease from clothes, empty a can of Coke into the load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a cycle.  Coke will loosen the grease.

10. Pour it over your windshield to loosen road haze.

Good luck and let us know how you do.

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