Cola Will Eat Through the Can

February 01 2010 | Healthy Living

First, I have 2 confessions:

1. We have a small bar fridge.

2. We have soda pop in our house (or did).

My husband enjoys a mixed drink every now and again. About 5 years ago, he bought a small case of cola, which he has very slowly been making his way through.

On the weekend I went to get some juice from the fridge and discovered a big mess: there was a brown liquid all over the bottom of the fridge, and under the unopened cans of pop.

There were no broken bottles. Nothing had exploded. What appears to have happened is the cola ate through the bottom of the aluminum cans and slowly leaked out. O.k. so, we should not have kept the pop in the fridge for that long. Heck, we shouldn't even have it in the house in the first place. But, I find it very disturbing that cola can eat through metal. If it can eat through that, what does it do to the insides of your body?