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Kinda makes ya wonder what it does to one's stomach if they drink a lot of it.

Actually, Coca Cola is also v. good to unblock the drain. No, I mean seriously. :)

If you go to snopes and look it up, coke isn't any more dangerous than orange juice. http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/acid.asp

My understanding was that it was origionally developed as a cleanser. The evolution of it to a soft drink was a happy mistake.

if anyone watches mythbusters they did a whole set of coke related myths, i think two shows of it. If i remember correctly it said that this doesn't actually work, the guy rolled around in a greasey engine and then tried it, and it didn't help much.

I'll tell you what does work:

flat, room temperature coke will settle your stomach like magic. Just sip it at first and you'll see.

Yes Coke to settle a stomach! But in the good old days we actually used Coke syrup. I am guessing that access to this is pretty much gone unless you have a friendly neighborhood proprietor of a malt shop that could hook you up.

LOL

That was the original use and reason that Pemberton invented Coca-cola. It was used as a stomach settling tonic.

I think you can generally still buy coke syrup to settle your stomach. I've found it in the pharmacy part of the supermarket, by the Mylanta and stuff like that.