Addicted to Coca-cola?

[Elveon]

You can become addicted to anything. I'm addicted to coffee.

The phosphoric acid in Coca Cola actually does help you digest, and the caffeine is addicting. So, probably.

Just like Ulf; I'm addicted to coffee too

[Manifest Destiny]

Addiction is not always chemical, it is psychological as well. What chemical can gamblers be addicted to?

I've heard a rumor that some major casinos coat their poker chips and handles of slot machines with crack.

[Baron Samedi]

Coke sucks! Pepsi rules!

Soooooo ecstatic that Pepsi won the contract with my college of Coca-Cola!

[Lady L]

Coke is okay but is flat to me, Pepsi is better and it has that burn.

I've never been addicted to caffeine really. I've had friends say they were addicted to Sun-Drop.... Sun-Drop is to syrupy to me. I mostly enjoy tea and water over cokes but after a while of not drinking any cokes I will get a taste for one. I have known people who never drank water and I don't understand, its the only thing that really cures thirst to me.

[Manifest Destiny]

Coke sucks! Pepsi rules!

Soooooo ecstatic that Pepsi won the contract with my college of Coca-Cola!

I'm an RC Cola man, myself.

[Rasvalg]

LOL, I know that just by reading the title, you feel the urge to laugh uncontrollably, but please don't!

Can this happen? Someone close to me seems to be literally addicted to Coca-cola, he drinks 1-2lt per day, and he can't live without it...

He needs it to 'digest food', he needs it to 'ease his stomach', he needs it 'because he feels a bad taste in his mouth'...anyway he makes all kinds of excuses to drink it, and I am worried as this is starting to become pathological... Just think of the health implications...

You can become addicted to coke because of the Caffine in it. I am addicted to coffee and get severe headaches or even migranes without it. Coke can do the same to you. I have even attempted to quit and I am back to about 2 cups a day but that is all I can stand. I tried to quit altogether and my body refuses to cooperate.

[Baron Samedi]

They are taking away all of the Coca-Cola machines here on campus (PepsiCo won the bid this time!).

I told one of the Coca-Cola mover dudes today "I have been waiting for the moment for 4 years" as I held the door open for him....

He looked at me like I was an asshole.

It felt great.

[Frigga]

Modern, processed soft drinks are basically poison to our bodies! The soda companies knowingly put in chemicals in their products which cause us to be addicted to them. They have a lot of antinutrients that strip your bones of minerals. Here is an article of interest.

http://www.westonaprice.org/modernfood/soft.html

I've done some research, and if you want to kick the soda habit, it's very hard, but worth it. Fermented beverages like natural, homemade ginger beer, kombucha, kvass, and other lacto-fermented beverages are very healthy, and are very tasty, once you develop the palate for the probiotic rich, and tart, sour flavors of these nourishing drinks. Young coconut water kefir is another very important thing to have, and you can make it yourself, with three green coconuts, and some kefir grains. And it does taste good too.

[SwordoftheVistula]

They did an episode on 'coke as a grease stripper' or whatever on Mythbusters and it turned out to be BS.

I need caffeine since I'm an insomniac and I don't like coffee, so coke/pepsi/mt dew it is. I don't really get the people who really like coke and hate pepsi or vice versa, they aren't that different really. Coke also finally has a decent competitor to Mt. Dew with 'Vault'. Surge was awful, and Mellow Yellow wasn't that great either.

Most of the generic colas are pretty nasty though.

A liter of coke isn't that much, even 2 liters isn't when you think about how many people drink more than 4 pints of beer per day.

[Atlas]

I'm not addicted to coke. It's okay in small quantity, or mixed with bad whiskey. I'm disgusted by the large coke at Mac Donalds, take a look at the movie "Supersize Me"...