You can do all those things with vinegar which has been around for thousands of years before Coke.

Vinegar is cheaper, colorless, and doesn't contain sweeteners.

Vinegar also removes odors from laundry, just pour some into the fabric softener compartment of the detergent tray.

Drink Coke if you like it, but don't use it for cleaning. Vinegar does the job and a better value.

Jay: Thank you for the great info on vinegar. Now I can cancel my order of a case of Coke I put in for my Spring cleaning.

With the money I've saved you, I think you owe me a beer, Max.

Allegedly, one can also clean stuff with beer, but that's not why there's beer in my fridge. I buy beer for drinking.

Cheers

:-)

And this:
Web Link
Cheese-like product isn't even good for cleaning. Is there any wonder people eat so poorly?

At least plant-based diets get a positive mention in the proposed USDA recommendations.

Steven: thanks for contributing your link "A Cheese ?Product? Gains Kids? Nutrition Seal" to the discussion. An article worth reading. It's unbelievable that such a non-food product (part of the "family" of non-food Kraft products) can get this kind of seal of approval from what sounds like a reputable organization, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. As the article points out, while Kraft claims that the Academy has endorsed their product, the Academy's Executive Director says it's not an endorsement of the product, but rather a seal that proclaims that Kraft endorses the Academy's Kids Eat Right program! Do they think we are that stupid? Actually, yes they do. The processed food industry counts on our stupidity on a daily basis. Maybe "stupid" is not quite the right word. "Easily influenced by millions of dollars spent on advertising" might be more accurate.

>> Maybe "stupid" is not quite the right word. "Easily influenced by millions of dollars spent on advertising" might be more accurate.

No, stupid is the word.

In our "information age", look at all the noise we have blared at us constantly, and then look at how much of that has any information value at all. None. TV shows, except for PBS has zero information value, if not negative information value.

Our society and economy is based on the worship of ignorance and it is hardly any wonder why the US must import talent from all over the world, and in fact the global economy needs workers and consumers, not thinkers. People who know what's going on can react to it, and people who are intelligent can take some pretty devastating actions, i.e. 911.

We see this in our political debates every election cycle when the subjects are style, images and insults instead of anything to do with forging a real culture, because that is just for smart people, or those who think they are smart people.