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Re: New Programmer's Drink?

From	lawrenabae@abaluon.abaom (Lawrence Statton (NK1G))
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: New Programmer's Drink?
Date	2021-11-26 10:23 -0600
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J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, 25 Nov 2021 19:41:51 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc
> <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>
>>On Friday, November 19, 2021 at 7:39:12 PM UTC-7, Mike Spencer wrote:
>>> Investigating the unfamiliar locution, I learned 
>>> that her generation had soft drinks containing phosphoric acid, an 
>>> ingredient that had by the 1950s been abandoned to avoid dissolving 
>>> teeth in Coke or whatever. And that the folkloric repute of Coke to 
>>> be a good rust remover depended on its *former* phosphoric acid 
>>> content. 
>>
>>The bottle of Coca-Cola in my refrigerator includes phosphoric acid
>>in its list of ingredients, so they're still using it, at least in Canada.
>
> And in the US.


And in Mexico.

I'm not sure how the poster upthread came to the mistaken inference that
they ever *stopped* using phosphoric acid.

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Re: New Programmer's Drink? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-11-19 11:00 -0800
  Re: New Programmer's Drink? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2021-11-19 22:38 -0400
    Re: New Programmer's Drink? Fred Smith <fred@thejanitor.corp> - 2021-11-20 04:49 +0000
      Re: New Programmer's Drink? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-20 19:08 +0000
        Re: New Programmer's Drink? Radey Shouman <shouman@comcast.net> - 2021-11-22 10:13 -0500
          Re: New Programmer's Drink? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-11-22 16:13 +0000
          Re: New Programmer's Drink? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2021-11-23 19:35 +0000
    Re: New Programmer's Drink? "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2021-11-20 10:29 +0000
      Re: New Programmer's Drink? D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-11-20 12:10 -0600
        Re: New Programmer's Drink? "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2021-11-20 20:28 +0000
        Re: New Programmer's Drink? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-11-20 17:36 -0500
        Re: New Programmer's Drink? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2021-11-21 02:01 -0400
          Re: New Programmer's Drink? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-11-21 11:26 -0500
          Re: New Programmer's Drink? D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-11-21 12:38 -0600
          Re: what's in your water, was New Programmer's Drink? John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2021-11-21 19:23 +0000
          Re: New Programmer's Drink? Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2021-11-21 19:58 -0500
            Re: New Programmer's Drink? Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> - 2021-11-23 08:58 +0000
          Re: New Programmer's Drink? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-22 17:05 +0000
            Re: New Programmer's Drink? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-11-22 18:15 +0000
            Re: New Programmer's Drink? Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> - 2021-11-23 09:05 +0000
      Re: New Programmer's Drink? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-11-25 19:37 -0800
    Re: New Programmer's Drink? D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-11-20 12:07 -0600
    Re: New Programmer's Drink? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-11-21 15:30 +0000
      Re: New Programmer's Drink? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-11-21 16:27 +0000
      Re: New Programmer's Drink? Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> - 2021-11-23 08:56 +0000
        Re: New Programmer's Drink? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-11-23 12:14 +0000
        Re: New Programmer's Drink? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-11-23 14:27 +0000
        Re: New Programmer's Drink? D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-11-23 08:32 -0600
    Re: New Programmer's Drink? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-11-25 19:41 -0800
      Re: New Programmer's Drink? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-11-26 00:48 -0500
        Re: New Programmer's Drink? lawrenabae@abaluon.abaom (Lawrence Statton (NK1G)) - 2021-11-26 10:23 -0600
          Re: New Programmer's Drink? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2021-11-26 19:47 -0400
            Re: New Programmer's Drink? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-27 18:25 +0000
              Re: New Programmer's Drink? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2021-11-27 20:53 -0400
            Re: New Programmer's Drink? Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2021-11-27 23:23 -0500
              Re: New Programmer's Drink? Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2021-11-28 19:32 -0500
                Re: New Programmer's Drink? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-29 03:23 +0000
                Re: New Programmer's Drink? "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2021-11-29 09:40 +0000
                Re: New Programmer's Drink? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-11-29 14:38 +0000

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