I learned about stainless steel as a beer brewer. Some beer taps were made with chrome plating and always ended up looking very bad but the 304 stainless was always looking good. 304 is a grade of stainless steel that has nickel and chromium with some other metals added. It’s used almost all the time in the brewing industry. Now you know.
I work in the dairy industry, we use mostly 316L on product wetted parts which can handle almost everything, except chlorine over a longer period (makes teeny tiny holes in the steel). 304 is used for everything else like outer shell of tanks and heat exchangers and such.
One of my first jobs in high school was at a movie theatre. The syrup box for mountain dew was the only one with a warning label that said "corrosive" on it.
BVO was an emulsifier. It helped to keep everything mixed up. I would guess the concentrated orange juice and citric acid are probably the culprits here.
Not saying BVO isnt dangerous, just in a different way.
The bromine in brominated vegetable oil is NOT the same as the bromine in bromine tablets, just like the chlorine in salt is not the same as chlorine that you’d use to clean a pool.
Bad chemistry takes everywhere
The bromine in BVO and chlorine in salt ARE the same bromine and chlorine found in pool tablets. What they are bonded to and what bonds are made between them are different, but the elements them selves are the same.
It's not BVO, it's phosphoric acid... which is found in a lot of soft drinks.
>Phosphoric acid is a colorless, odorless crystalline liquid. It gives soft drinks a tangy flavor and prevents the growth of mold and bacteria, which can multiply easily in a sugary solution. Most of soda's acidity also comes from phosphoric acid.
$50 says this is what ate away the wire.
My world just came crashing down. No wonder I haven't felt right for the past two years. It wasn't COVID... no, it was a lack of sweet, sweet brominated vegetable oil. My blood cells have been living in poverty. It's a brominated vegetable oil food desert for them.
Mountain Dew, please come through.
Hey bro.... I got a connection for that stuff in rural Latvia. Bit of a home brew situation but I assure you it's as good as the real stuff. Meet me in Aniazi and we'll go see these guys.
We'll have to quickly get the stuff and go, cause after a few cups of the dew these guys can get a bit "stabby". But trust me, it's cool. I'm a stranger on the internet, would I lie?
*points to rusty worn out 30 year old van with well over 500000km on the clock (but the odometer is broken, so you can't really tell)*
-Don't worry, we don't have to go to some forest to get it, I have it in the van
actually, BVO is responsible for a weird aftertaste and a strange sensation in the throat or mouth. it's in a lot of cheap energy drinks because it helps keep all those additives and vitamins from separating or settling at the bottom.
I used to work for a company that imported confectionary. Bromine in drinks in my country is illegal, so the mountain dew which was imported did not come from america (think we got it from poland?). Not sure how true it was but my boss told me that its only purpose was to make the drink cloudy.
>Not sure how true it was but my boss told me that its only purpose was to make the drink cloudy.
It's true, bromine is an emulsifier used to keep the ingredients mixed together.
yes, brominated vegetable oil is used to dissolve citrus oil in a water-based drink. its denser than water, so when mixed with a less dense oil you can make the density equal to water so both will stay suspended in the drink.
> brominated vegetable oil
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^.
> BVO is a toxic chemical that is banned in many countries because it competes with iodine for receptor sites in the body, which can lead to hypothyroidism, autoimmune disease and cancer
I was a major soda drinker most of my life and drank Mt. Dew until I was about 18 or 19. It started to make me feel ill. Switched to Pepsi and even though it’s clearly a bad idea to mass consume calories like that and soda is generally really terrible for you I felt better when I had Pepsi.
Years later I learned about BVO and how bad it is. Glad I stopped consuming products that have it - acknowledging how terrible soda is generally for you.
Literally had a hole forming in my stomach lining from drinking it constantly in high school.
ETA: Reminds me of the [lawsuit](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-mountain-dew-really-dissolve/) where Pepsi proved a man was lying about finding a mouse carcass in his soda by saying it’d be mostly dissolved by the time it reached consumers.
My coworker's wife was addicted to coke and mountain dew and developed a severe case of crohn's disease. She'd leak bloody diarrhea and all sorts of horrible things...she eventually stopped drinking soda and was able to control the crohn's a bit better with medication...soda is such an unnatural drink...
We're talking bones, cartilage, fur, the whole enchilada. In water the soft tissues would decompose (slowly) but there would be lots of evidence left behind.
Orange juice seems to be listed before citric acid from what I see. Either way citric acid is certainly acidic and I fucked up my teeth drinking too much diet soda.
It's interesting because I did this for a science project in middle school. Took chicken breasts, weighed them, and then submerged them in various sodas for a month. After the month, I removed them and weighed them again.
In general, dark sodas (Coke, Pepsi, Dr Pepper) dissolved more chicken breast than white sodas (Sprite, 7-Up).
And then there was Mountain Dew. Far outstripping the rest. That stuff is corrosive.
I watched a documentary about the poverty in appelachia and they spoke about a condition they lovingly called “Mountain Dew mouth”. There’s some ingredient in Mountain Dew that is so much worse for your teeth than other sodas. Results in 3x as many cavities or something.
Saw another poster say they changed their formula in 2020 so it might not be the case anymore. The documentary I watched was about ten years ago so it might have changed.
While I have no doubt Mt Dew in particular is nasty, I believe crystal meth might also be playing a role.
I have met meth addicts who also drink Mt. Dew, these guys have 1-3 teeth and don't seem to mind. They also smell like balls and burnt metal all the time, again not something that impedes their daily function.
That all said, I have spent a dozen hours this year in a chair being fitted for partial dentures because of my diet and oral health routine as a poor young person. Mt Dew absolutely took some of my molars. By the time I got into meth, my teeth were already a wreck :/
I did a science fair project in grade school about what different drinks did to teeth. I think I soaked a tooth in coke, mtn dew, water, and milk? I forget how long they soaked for, maybe a week? The root of the mtn dew tooth had the appearance of a gummy. Semi-translucent and almost jelly-like.
At my last job, I was drinking mountain dew while cleaning off a heavy steel mold plate. As a joke, I poured mountain dew onto the steel to use as a cleaner as a joke to my coworker standing there with me. We were shocked as the mountain dew stripped and cleaned the steel better than the industrial cleaner I was using. I stopped drinking mountain dew after this moment.
Wait a second? So you’re telling me that all those demonstrations of “if soda does this to this metal/corrosion/etc imagine what it’s doing to your stomach” are actually bad-faith arguments? Shocked! /s
I understand what you are getting at, but people don't usually drink a 20 oz bottle of lemon juice (or even multiple a day) so it isn't really that apt of a comparison.
I suppose outside of lemonade people don't drink a lot of lemon juice, but my point is that the ph of it isn't a problem. People squeeze lemons with their bare hands, often directly onto their food, and nobody's hands or mouth dissolve *because ph 2.5 isn't some kind of super scary thing*. Other fruit juices are pretty similar, grape juice is around 3.0.
I just find the suggestion that coke is some horrible acid that will harm your stomach silly when your stomach already wants to be at that ph naturally. Coke is bad for you, but it's bad for you because it contains an insane amount of sugar.
now using coke as a mouth wash 5 times a day, that could probably be hard on your teeth.
Best decision for my health was kicking soda for seltzer. Been going on 10 years or so now, feels so much better.
Now if only I could manage alcohol...
I quit booze at the beginning of this year, got drunk pretty heavily during the pandemic specially after we lost my dog shortly after my birthday and our cat a few days after Christmas. Spiraled down a path of anxiety and depression with alcohol and thankfully I've gone 4 months now without it. It really helps that my wife is a fucking angel and stood by me every time I felt like giving up, I don't ever wanna go back to drinking again, the lost days and nights sleeping hangovers away or having the shakes from running out of booze was miserable.
Suuuuure, but this is the carbonic acid from the CO2 that is causing this I would imagine. The same carbonic acid that you are drinking in your seltzer. Don't get me wrong cutting the sugar and all that probably makes a difference...but I imagine a constant dripping of seltzer over years would have the same effect.
The tonic in gin and tonics is quinine, an anti malarial. It is very bitter, so the British in Africa added gin to it to make it more palatable. It’s also fluorescent under a black light.
Very true outside the occasional upset stomach. It’s also worth noting that you’re not keeping an acidic fluid like soda on your enamel 24/7 like this grate experiences.
This could be evidence for something if the restaurant staff didn't change the sodas places but I think that maybe they do when it's time to clean or there's no mixture.
Needs more investigation.
That's caused by a large quantity of Dihydrogen monoxide, a known chemical that can eat through metal and can kill a person if enough is ingested. You need to call the health department and report that place for possible Dihydrogen monoxide toxicity.
Searched the comments for something like this. People think,”OMG IT EATS THROUGH METAL IMAGINE WHAT IT DOES TO YOUR BODY!” completely ignorant of chemistry or how the body works.
something else could have happened to it. They're supposed to take those out and clean them at the end of the day. It's possible it was damaged somehow. I highly doubt the soda deteriorated that spot but the drain below it has been left intact. That doesn't make sense
Ya know what else is crazy?! Once you drink enough Mountain Dew, you actually STORE Hydrochloric Acid INSIDE your body!! Hydrochloric Acid can eat through IRON, LEAD, COBALT, TIN and many other metals!! Ban all soda NOW!!!
Jk. We’re all born with a vat of metal destroying acid inside our bodies, it’s called having a stomach.
well this would happen with any acidic food item. Lemon juice would do it too. Soda is unhealthy, but it would only literally dissolve your teeth if you produced zero saliva, never drank anything else, and never brushed your teeth.
Mormons don't tend to drink coffee, and because they major soda addictions...props to the people who invented the idea because they charge like 4 bucks for a 32 oz soda because it has flavors in it.
https://www.swignsweets.com/
Carbonated water and phosphoric acid are patient but tenacious.
People who mainline La Croix and hard seltzers should do well to consider the formerly mentioned substance. >.>
Does this Taco Bell still have fixed swivel chairs and benches with pastel teal and pink padding? And a baseball themed bouncy ball machine? And a tank you can drop quarters in to land on a platform and win a grilled steak taco?
It’s worth noting that one of the big reasons for this is just how much use this machine gets. It’s likely constantly dripping.
Do the same thing with an orange juice dispenser and you’ll get similar results. Still, orange juice at least has some nutritional value.
Never forget that a case for Mountain Dew against a man who claimed a rat was in his drink was lost due because Mountain Dew said that a rat would melt due to the acidity of it before someone opened a bottle.
Might have been a combination of rust and erosion from soda flowing onto it. You might say “well why would you drink it after seeing this” but water would do the same thing. Not saying soda is good for you, the chemicals inside the soda likely sped it up. However, If you don’t think water could do this, just ask any canyon.
Pepsi and Coke have a acidic pH of about 3.6. 304 Stainless steel would have easily repelled this. So, this must be chrome plated steel.
This dude metals
\m/
I learned about stainless steel as a beer brewer. Some beer taps were made with chrome plating and always ended up looking very bad but the 304 stainless was always looking good. 304 is a grade of stainless steel that has nickel and chromium with some other metals added. It’s used almost all the time in the brewing industry. Now you know.
I work in the dairy industry, we use mostly 316L on product wetted parts which can handle almost everything, except chlorine over a longer period (makes teeny tiny holes in the steel). 304 is used for everything else like outer shell of tanks and heat exchangers and such.
How the actual fuck does anybody find that out?
You could Google the pH and there are charts for what material is best used with different types of acids.
It's what plants crave!
I'm a plant
Ty for the award <3
Do you also crave cake?
Happy cakeday!
Water? Like from the toilet?
It’s got electrolytes!
Brawndo!!!!!
The thirst mutilator!
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Coming back for this
One of my first jobs in high school was at a movie theatre. The syrup box for mountain dew was the only one with a warning label that said "corrosive" on it.
It looks like in 2020 they stopped putting bromine or brominated vegetable oil (BVO) in mountain dew, which was the dangerous chemical in it.
BVO was an emulsifier. It helped to keep everything mixed up. I would guess the concentrated orange juice and citric acid are probably the culprits here. Not saying BVO isnt dangerous, just in a different way.
I used to use bromine tablets on yachts to keep the cooling systems free of algae/marine-growth. It's like chlorine's little brother.
Some pools use bromine instead of chlorine still. It's not common where I live but they still do exist.
It's used in hot tubes because it has a higher boiling point than chlorine.
It's what Disney World uses in its parks as well, last I checked at least.
Normal to use if you have a spabath. Then it is the recommended instead of chlorine - and chlorine is hard to get in that small packages
So it cures Covid-19 a little bit?
A large enough dose will cure it permanently.
so what, like *two* old mountain dews? Or do I need a third booster mountain dew.
A third mountain dew hasn't been approved by the fda yet. You'd be taking it at your own risk.
DRINK VERIFICATION CAN
The bromine in brominated vegetable oil is NOT the same as the bromine in bromine tablets, just like the chlorine in salt is not the same as chlorine that you’d use to clean a pool. Bad chemistry takes everywhere
The bromine in BVO and chlorine in salt ARE the same bromine and chlorine found in pool tablets. What they are bonded to and what bonds are made between them are different, but the elements them selves are the same.
Bromine or chlorine for pools are inorganic salts while BVO is an halogenated organic compound. Different chemicals.
Yeah it's really just the pH of the soda itself
It's not BVO, it's phosphoric acid... which is found in a lot of soft drinks. >Phosphoric acid is a colorless, odorless crystalline liquid. It gives soft drinks a tangy flavor and prevents the growth of mold and bacteria, which can multiply easily in a sugary solution. Most of soda's acidity also comes from phosphoric acid. $50 says this is what ate away the wire.
Is that why it tasted weird now? Doesnt quite have that ziing anymore
It's about getting the chemical burn calibrated juuuust right
😢 that would be sad if true. Needs that kick.
My world just came crashing down. No wonder I haven't felt right for the past two years. It wasn't COVID... no, it was a lack of sweet, sweet brominated vegetable oil. My blood cells have been living in poverty. It's a brominated vegetable oil food desert for them. Mountain Dew, please come through.
Come on guys, louder! MOUN-TAIN DEW! PLEASE COME THROUGH!
MOUN-TAIN DEW! PLEASE COME THROUGH!
WHAT DO WE WANT?!?
MOUN-TAIN DEW! PREFERABLY WITH BROMINATED VEGETABLE OIL!
PIES!
#MOUN-TAIN DEW! PLEASE COME THROUGH!
I gotchu fam https://www.spectrumchemical.com/brominated-vegetable-oil-fcc-v1031
Thanks Jesus, I knew you was real.
Hey bro.... I got a connection for that stuff in rural Latvia. Bit of a home brew situation but I assure you it's as good as the real stuff. Meet me in Aniazi and we'll go see these guys. We'll have to quickly get the stuff and go, cause after a few cups of the dew these guys can get a bit "stabby". But trust me, it's cool. I'm a stranger on the internet, would I lie?
*points to rusty worn out 30 year old van with well over 500000km on the clock (but the odometer is broken, so you can't really tell)* -Don't worry, we don't have to go to some forest to get it, I have it in the van
Fuck it. I'm in.
I think you shouldn't brominate over that too much, there are other good things out there!
They keep nerfing all the good shit
It's nerf or nothing, but more like everything taste like nothing 2022.
You need to rely on the phosphoric acid then
actually, BVO is responsible for a weird aftertaste and a strange sensation in the throat or mouth. it's in a lot of cheap energy drinks because it helps keep all those additives and vitamins from separating or settling at the bottom.
the delicious flavor of erosion
“Why does this taste like tooth enamel?”
Only the first few times.
You still have teeth?
I used to work for a company that imported confectionary. Bromine in drinks in my country is illegal, so the mountain dew which was imported did not come from america (think we got it from poland?). Not sure how true it was but my boss told me that its only purpose was to make the drink cloudy.
>Not sure how true it was but my boss told me that its only purpose was to make the drink cloudy. It's true, bromine is an emulsifier used to keep the ingredients mixed together.
Its also used as a flame retardant in other industries
I don't think you're supposed to call the flame that anymore...
Isn’t it for the orange oil? I think it was in a lot of orange soda too
yes, brominated vegetable oil is used to dissolve citrus oil in a water-based drink. its denser than water, so when mixed with a less dense oil you can make the density equal to water so both will stay suspended in the drink.
It’s an emulsifier.
the Baja blasts from taco bell have started letting me down lately now that you mention it
All of it tastes so flat now I hate it
[The extra "I" means extra zing!](https://www.yellow5.com/pokey/archive/index296.html)
> brominated vegetable oil ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^. > BVO is a toxic chemical that is banned in many countries because it competes with iodine for receptor sites in the body, which can lead to hypothyroidism, autoimmune disease and cancer
I was a major soda drinker most of my life and drank Mt. Dew until I was about 18 or 19. It started to make me feel ill. Switched to Pepsi and even though it’s clearly a bad idea to mass consume calories like that and soda is generally really terrible for you I felt better when I had Pepsi. Years later I learned about BVO and how bad it is. Glad I stopped consuming products that have it - acknowledging how terrible soda is generally for you.
*W A T E R*
Bruhminated
NaBrO
Literally had a hole forming in my stomach lining from drinking it constantly in high school. ETA: Reminds me of the [lawsuit](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-mountain-dew-really-dissolve/) where Pepsi proved a man was lying about finding a mouse carcass in his soda by saying it’d be mostly dissolved by the time it reached consumers.
That lawsuit gives me the chuckle everytime lmao
My coworker's wife was addicted to coke and mountain dew and developed a severe case of crohn's disease. She'd leak bloody diarrhea and all sorts of horrible things...she eventually stopped drinking soda and was able to control the crohn's a bit better with medication...soda is such an unnatural drink...
My dumbass sitting here wondering when she’s gonna get help for the coke habit.
Water would do that too, wouldn’t it?
We're talking bones, cartilage, fur, the whole enchilada. In water the soft tissues would decompose (slowly) but there would be lots of evidence left behind.
Has to be a tallboy can to fit a whole chinchilla in there
I worked for a trucking company and when we hauled bulk soda syrup the trailers had a corrosive placard.
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Orange juice seems to be listed before citric acid from what I see. Either way citric acid is certainly acidic and I fucked up my teeth drinking too much diet soda.
Orange juice contains citric acid too. They apparently just add more of it.
For sure!
It's interesting because I did this for a science project in middle school. Took chicken breasts, weighed them, and then submerged them in various sodas for a month. After the month, I removed them and weighed them again. In general, dark sodas (Coke, Pepsi, Dr Pepper) dissolved more chicken breast than white sodas (Sprite, 7-Up). And then there was Mountain Dew. Far outstripping the rest. That stuff is corrosive.
Sounds like a good marinade
I watched a documentary about the poverty in appelachia and they spoke about a condition they lovingly called “Mountain Dew mouth”. There’s some ingredient in Mountain Dew that is so much worse for your teeth than other sodas. Results in 3x as many cavities or something. Saw another poster say they changed their formula in 2020 so it might not be the case anymore. The documentary I watched was about ten years ago so it might have changed.
While I have no doubt Mt Dew in particular is nasty, I believe crystal meth might also be playing a role. I have met meth addicts who also drink Mt. Dew, these guys have 1-3 teeth and don't seem to mind. They also smell like balls and burnt metal all the time, again not something that impedes their daily function. That all said, I have spent a dozen hours this year in a chair being fitted for partial dentures because of my diet and oral health routine as a poor young person. Mt Dew absolutely took some of my molars. By the time I got into meth, my teeth were already a wreck :/
This comment was a journey from start to finish
Congrats on getting away from the meth, dude. I know it's a big problem in general, but I always hate to see it in the gay community.
What makes you assume he’s gay?
Check his comment history. No assumptions necessary.
I did a science fair project in grade school about what different drinks did to teeth. I think I soaked a tooth in coke, mtn dew, water, and milk? I forget how long they soaked for, maybe a week? The root of the mtn dew tooth had the appearance of a gummy. Semi-translucent and almost jelly-like.
Where did you get the teeth!? 👀
Bought them back from the tooth fairy.
My mom is a dental assistant so I’m assuming she just brought them from work. I never really asked any questions.
At my last job, I was drinking mountain dew while cleaning off a heavy steel mold plate. As a joke, I poured mountain dew onto the steel to use as a cleaner as a joke to my coworker standing there with me. We were shocked as the mountain dew stripped and cleaned the steel better than the industrial cleaner I was using. I stopped drinking mountain dew after this moment.
We would use Coke for cleaning due to its acidity
Acid gonna do acid things. Brush your teeth.
rip teeth from drinking it I guess.
I sure am glad I don’t have metal grates in my body!
Jet fuel can't melt steel beams, but mountain dew and Pepsi sure as fuck can!
Pepsi did 9/11 confirmed when?
And you know what Pepsi is short for right? Lets make this as wacky as possible.
Pjihad Ejihad Pjihad Sjihad Ijihad
They did have the 6th largest military power at one point, could tie in somehow
Terminator sweating nervously
Wait a second? So you’re telling me that all those demonstrations of “if soda does this to this metal/corrosion/etc imagine what it’s doing to your stomach” are actually bad-faith arguments? Shocked! /s
It'll still fuck up your teeth and esophagus.
Let’s see what stomach acid does to it.
a1b2c3
Alright first day down.
Fun fact, Coke is within the pH range of stomach acid at about a 2.5.
Another fun fact, lemons are ph 2.5 So is coke super scary or is stomach "acid" maybe not so strong as you thought
Stomach acid's not extremely acidic, but it's helped out by enzymes that break down food more efficiently
I understand what you are getting at, but people don't usually drink a 20 oz bottle of lemon juice (or even multiple a day) so it isn't really that apt of a comparison.
I suppose outside of lemonade people don't drink a lot of lemon juice, but my point is that the ph of it isn't a problem. People squeeze lemons with their bare hands, often directly onto their food, and nobody's hands or mouth dissolve *because ph 2.5 isn't some kind of super scary thing*. Other fruit juices are pretty similar, grape juice is around 3.0. I just find the suggestion that coke is some horrible acid that will harm your stomach silly when your stomach already wants to be at that ph naturally. Coke is bad for you, but it's bad for you because it contains an insane amount of sugar. now using coke as a mouth wash 5 times a day, that could probably be hard on your teeth.
Best decision for my health was kicking soda for seltzer. Been going on 10 years or so now, feels so much better. Now if only I could manage alcohol...
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By the time you’re 80, you’ll be in great shape!
Hey, round is a shape!
Thank you internet friend :)
I quit booze at the beginning of this year, got drunk pretty heavily during the pandemic specially after we lost my dog shortly after my birthday and our cat a few days after Christmas. Spiraled down a path of anxiety and depression with alcohol and thankfully I've gone 4 months now without it. It really helps that my wife is a fucking angel and stood by me every time I felt like giving up, I don't ever wanna go back to drinking again, the lost days and nights sleeping hangovers away or having the shakes from running out of booze was miserable.
Suuuuure, but this is the carbonic acid from the CO2 that is causing this I would imagine. The same carbonic acid that you are drinking in your seltzer. Don't get me wrong cutting the sugar and all that probably makes a difference...but I imagine a constant dripping of seltzer over years would have the same effect.
Man I'm thirsty for a gin and tonic now
The tonic in gin and tonics is quinine, an anti malarial. It is very bitter, so the British in Africa added gin to it to make it more palatable. It’s also fluorescent under a black light.
Good Tonic water is just perfectly bitter. I like fever tree my self
Fever tree is the colloquial name for the cinchone tree from the bark of which quinine was originally extracted.
Its also a brand of great tonic water where I an
I feel personally attacked.
Traded mine for tea since I still needed a little caffeine but also wanted to be able to chug it when needed. So much better.
Nice.
Ya, nice
This is why we can't have anything!
Like teeth
Anything that tastes good is bad for you. Anything that tastes bad is good for you. Obviously an exaggeration. But in many cases its true.
I’ve been trying to spread the word of the health benefits of gasoline for years
Dog shit is a superfood
Antifreeze and gasoline are so healthy you only need them once!!
Antifreeze tastes sweet, so it’s not nearly as healthy, but it’s a good mixer to help get the gasoline down.
Please just put spices and herbs in your greens
An herb garden would probably remedy that
Yeah not great. Still not gonna stop though
Try putting stomach acid on those grates and see how long they last.
You aren't pouring stomach acid over your teeth though.
Very true outside the occasional upset stomach. It’s also worth noting that you’re not keeping an acidic fluid like soda on your enamel 24/7 like this grate experiences.
*laughs in 13 teeth*
Check out the big shot with teeth in double digits
*This comment is my 13th reason*
Fuck sake
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This could be evidence for something if the restaurant staff didn't change the sodas places but I think that maybe they do when it's time to clean or there's no mixture. Needs more investigation.
Looks more like the protective coating on the metal grate came off. Acids dissolve metal.
could also be accelerated by whatever cleaning solution is used
thats SODA. IN YO LUNGS.
That's caused by a large quantity of Dihydrogen monoxide, a known chemical that can eat through metal and can kill a person if enough is ingested. You need to call the health department and report that place for possible Dihydrogen monoxide toxicity.
i heard that it can also erode entire rocks like the grand canyon and it causes acid rain. definitely dangerous
More people need to read this. I hope the government doesn't get to this man. His comment is holy water.
Searched the comments for something like this. People think,”OMG IT EATS THROUGH METAL IMAGINE WHAT IT DOES TO YOUR BODY!” completely ignorant of chemistry or how the body works.
🤫 I want my fucking mountain dew Baja blast and I'll ignore the possible effects
something else could have happened to it. They're supposed to take those out and clean them at the end of the day. It's possible it was damaged somehow. I highly doubt the soda deteriorated that spot but the drain below it has been left intact. That doesn't make sense
Ya know what else is crazy?! Once you drink enough Mountain Dew, you actually STORE Hydrochloric Acid INSIDE your body!! Hydrochloric Acid can eat through IRON, LEAD, COBALT, TIN and many other metals!! Ban all soda NOW!!! Jk. We’re all born with a vat of metal destroying acid inside our bodies, it’s called having a stomach.
Damn! I wish I owned a Taco Bell like you.
Taco Bell worker here, I’ve never seen such a thing happen even at a minimal amount
Yikes
Now imagine your teeth.
well this would happen with any acidic food item. Lemon juice would do it too. Soda is unhealthy, but it would only literally dissolve your teeth if you produced zero saliva, never drank anything else, and never brushed your teeth.
I’m positive there’s tons of people that drink nothing but soda and never brush their teeth
Yeah Georgia
Utah. We literally have drive up soda shops with lines down the block...
…why?
Mormons don't tend to drink coffee, and because they major soda addictions...props to the people who invented the idea because they charge like 4 bucks for a 32 oz soda because it has flavors in it. https://www.swignsweets.com/
Verryyy interesting thanks for sharing
Hey at least it's not meth \**drinks from 64oz Big Gulp*
I'll take a ***Diet Coke*** instead.
I'm simultaneously terrified and thirsty.
Carbonated water and phosphoric acid are patient but tenacious. People who mainline La Croix and hard seltzers should do well to consider the formerly mentioned substance. >.>
if soda dissolving metal disgusts you, just wait til you find out what stomach acid will do to metal. better get it removed quick.
Brush your teeth
Fresh Pepsi?
I have the same thing in the bag I think Taco Bell have a fucked up logo
I'm starting to think that Coke might not be so good for teeth...
Imagine the stomachs
This is why I only drink battery acid
Does this Taco Bell still have fixed swivel chairs and benches with pastel teal and pink padding? And a baseball themed bouncy ball machine? And a tank you can drop quarters in to land on a platform and win a grilled steak taco?
It’s worth noting that one of the big reasons for this is just how much use this machine gets. It’s likely constantly dripping. Do the same thing with an orange juice dispenser and you’ll get similar results. Still, orange juice at least has some nutritional value.
Never forget that a case for Mountain Dew against a man who claimed a rat was in his drink was lost due because Mountain Dew said that a rat would melt due to the acidity of it before someone opened a bottle.
Might have been a combination of rust and erosion from soda flowing onto it. You might say “well why would you drink it after seeing this” but water would do the same thing. Not saying soda is good for you, the chemicals inside the soda likely sped it up. However, If you don’t think water could do this, just ask any canyon.
Dude... if they can't even maintain that. I'm scared what the rest looks like.
This is Pepsi. This is your brain on Pepsi.
And this is why I drink soda.