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It was a "cool" thing when I was in high school to drop a small pack of
salted peanuts into a Coca Cola bottle that a little had been drunk out of,
shake it up while holding the top closed, and then try to ingest the
resulting eruption and chug-a-lug the coke down. Some said it would give
you a high. I never tried it.

 >Bev writes:
>
>> The can was from 2004, a diet coke.
>
>Aspartame does lose its effectiveness over time. That's why diet drinks now
>have a six-month "best by" date on the can. I found a can of Diet Pepsi that
>was a year and a half old, and it had definately lost its sweetness.
>
>> Surely, I am thinking, there must be another use for them...it's not like
>they are 'spoiled' or anything.
>
>To use old soda, there's always the Diet Coke and Mentos gag (found all over
>the web, including
>http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/08/diet_coke_mentos_rap.html): drop a
>Mentos into a freshly-opened bottle (or can) of Diet Coke to cause an
>eruption. The Mythbusters team found that salt works just as well. You could
>try a piece of chalk or a Tums for comparison.
>
>Cheers,
>Karen Black
>Blodgett, OR