Can Pop make you drunk?

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:38 pm

(reads coke label) Nope, no alcohol. Sorry *o*, but this particular can of coke contains no alcohol. Either that or by law the alcohol content in soda is Considered to be zero.

just one thing...it takes 200 cans of coke to OD on caffeine

Now THAT is interesting. Over what period? I'm guessing that you could not possibly fit that much coke in your stomach and body in the required time frame.

Radon199 · Post by **Radon199** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:47 pm

Ya, I would gess you would have to chug the intire can and then imidiatly start again on another can.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:48 pm

I'm sure you've all seen this:
http://www.energyfiend.com/death-by-caffeine

It'd take me 163.7 cans of Classic Coke to die from caffeine. And I'm 160-ish pounds.

It'd also take me 4449.90 cups of Instant Decaf Coffee to kill me due to caffeine.

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:51 pm

It would take me 486 cans of diet Dr. Pepper to kill me! 905 cans of Barq
s Root Beer!

Radon199 · Post by **Radon199** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:53 pm

lol, just cheaked out that site, would take 55 cans of Full Throttle to kill me... actually thats a very small number compared to coke. 0.0;

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:54 pm

If you eat 11,124.75 Hershey's Kisses, you'll be pushing up daisies

Wow. Better stop eating so many kisses...

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:56 pm

timmeh87 wrote:acually, ethanol (that is, normal 'drunk' alcohol) will never blind you. it will indeed kill you if you take too much though.

methanol (wood alcohol) is the kind that blinds you. it is usually present where ethanol is (along with trace amounts a whole bunch of other alcohols), but youd die of ethanol poisioning well before you went blind.

anecdotally, i head once that aspartame (artificial sweetener) is metabolised into methanol, among a few other things. of course, youd have to eat a LOT of it to go blind.

I dont think your body metabolises anything into methanol. THey put methanol in varios methylated sprirts / rubbing alcohol etc to stop you drinking it.

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:05 pm

teraflop122 wrote:(reads coke label) Nope, no alcohol. Sorry *o*, but this particular can of coke contains no alcohol. Either that or by law the alcohol content in soda is Considered to be zero.

in australia, food standards consider less than 0.1% alchahol to be below the dangerous threshold of alchahol. Rum and raisin ice cream has about the same quantity of alchahol.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:12 pm

Well we're on the topic of other stuff that can kill you in insane quantities. Anyone here try to eat 100 peeps at one time? Likely if you get them all down you'll be a diabetic the next morning.

P.S. Sorry for spelling Mormons with an "a". I don't read book nor do I live by or know any so I don't hav experiance with knowing the spelling.

limpport · Post by **limpport** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:22 pm

teraflop122 wrote: Aside from Caffine, soda does not contain any drugs capable of altering your state of mind.

Coca-Cola used to have cocane in it before it became illegal. People would get addicted to the cocane and keep buying the soda. It also gave it a kind of pea-soup green tint to it.

Reploid Ayla · Post by **Reploid Ayla** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:25 pm

you fools, you can get drunk on water.

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:41 pm

...we arent talking about water

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:41 pm

sam fisher wrote:I dont think your body metabolises anything into methanol. THey put methanol in varios methylated sprirts / rubbing alcohol etc to stop you drinking it.

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/aspartam ... tameh.html

<i>Biology

Aspartame is metabolized in the body to its components: aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol.</i>

although it is true that they put it in things to stop you from drinking it (although i dont think they need to put it in rubbing alcohol... its poisonous as it is)

further down the page is this interesting paragraph:

<i>Methanol is commonly encountered in the diet. The table below shows the amount of methanol you would get from a can of diet soft drink, along with amounts found in the same volume of several fruit juices. Methanol is well known to be poisonous in large quantity. "Large quantity" means tens or hundreds of grams. Your liver can deal with reasonable quantities of methanol, metabolizing it so that it can be excreted. If you start drinking enough methanol to get inebriated, you overwhelm your liver's metabolic machinery, and serious problems result.

Code: Select all

Diet soft drink  0.024 gram
Orange juice  	0.018 gram
Apple juice  	 0.021 gram
Grape juice  	 0.046 gram
Tomato juice  	0.085 gram

</i>

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:30 pm

XTZ Chai is probably the worst drink there.

Unidentified Assilant · Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:14 am

You could drink 122.45 bottles of Coca-Cola Blak before croaking

I think i'll be safe

and yes Water does get you drunk, oxygen drunk