Comments on: DEFY S. McQUAID! #70: Bad, bad soda

By: smcquaid

smcquaid — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:43:56 +0000

Thanks Aaron. Always nice to see some action in the Defy Archives…

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:49:45 +0000

Soft drink cans are indeed lined from epoxy resin which also gives the freshness expiry date a long life span.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:02:48 +0000

I believe that the word Shaun was looking for was diffision or even effusion, not osmosis, and it occurs whether we like it or not. Also, Soft drink cans are lined with an epoxy resin to prevent the beverage from “eating” through the aluminum can. This should slow it down, but not prevent it.

By: Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:43:16 +0000

I dare you! Take it in black and white!

By: Jon Abad

Jon Abad — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:12:00 +0000

I will take a picture today!

By: CEO of Pepsi, Inc.

CEO of Pepsi, Inc. — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:59:21 +0000

I find it hard to believe that a pepsi product would be found in the dirty, dirty belly of a coke machine. Bah!

By: ben

ben — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:46:27 +0000

I’ve succesfully cut HFCS out of my det 100%, and aspartame never entered it… since it does funky things to me. Occasionally I drink something with splenda, but for me it’s usually Sugar Cane or bust.

I get my caffeine from 3-4 cups of coffee a day, black no sugar. mmmmm.

By: Jon Abad

Jon Abad — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:52:23 +0000

So in conclusion, don’t plan on using soda cans for long term storage in your bomb/hurricane/toddler shelter.

By: Jon Abad

Jon Abad — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:50:18 +0000

I put money in and Mountain Dew comes out. None of this Mount Dew that you refer to.

And I’m 99% sure that its a Coke machine. I remember lots of red.

I imagine that they’re like “software developers are gonna work on this floor? mt dew it is!”

I don’t think Jolt comes out of machines anymore…

By: Jon Abad

Jon Abad — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:48:09 +0000

And at whole foods, I get my favorite soda, which has Sugar Cane!
My second favorite is Coke Zero which has aspertame but no HFCS.

In the long term, I actually trust aspertame more than HFCS.

By: smcquaid

smcquaid — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:47:51 +0000

There are a few bottling plants around the U.S. that still use sugar as well. But you are correct - the majority of American Coke is sweetened with high fructose corn syrup - fructose being a sugar, by the way (if not “sugar” in the usual sense).

By: smcquaid

smcquaid — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:46:20 +0000

And yet the gas escapes from the can, eventually. Leave it long enough, and it will find a way out. Soda cans are not hermetically sealed.

However, I grant you that it will take a lot longer for a can of soda to go flat than a plastic bottle - since plastic is a lot more permeable.

By: smcquaid

smcquaid — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:40:11 +0000

I glossed over a number of points…like the fact that the methanol and formaldyde will damage your body in addition to tasting bad, and that eroded aluminum will do the same, etc. There were a number of tongue-in-cheek references here.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:13:43 +0000

The eroded aluminum, however, is very bad for you. Unless, of course, you want Alzheimer’s.

You sort of glossed over that point.

By: Roland

Roland — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:24:06 +0000

CO2 “percolating” through solid aluminium? I don’t think osmosis works that way. Osmosis is a liquid passing through a semi-permeable membrane. CO2 isn’t a liquid (not at room temp, anyway) and solid aluminium is not a semi-permeable membrane.

CO2 dissolved in water is acidic though, I wonder how long it would be before it ate through the can?

By: Roland

Roland — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:17:52 +0000

Depends where you are. Here in the UK my Coke contains actual sugar :)

By: Addicted to Caffeine

Addicted to Caffeine — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:38:54 +0000

How did you get a Mt. Dew of out a Coke machine? I’m calling BS on the premise of this story.

By: ben Privett

ben Privett — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:04:26 +0000

There’s no sugar in modern soda… High Fructose Corn Syrup is the sweetner of choice. Gross.