Murgatroid
Nevada City
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Just keep your Diet Coke and Mentos separated!
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rolnrolnroln
WA
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I have traveled with diet soda for as long as there has been diet soda. I am diabetic so I don't drink anything but diet. We always have a large suppy in the TT and have never seen one explode, even when the digital thermometer in the TT is "pinned." However, like others, we found out the hard way that freezing isn't good. We cleaned out all the stored pop but forgot about the refer. The cans exploded into some very interesting patterns. Not just a split like you'd think, they looked like they had be cut down the side and spread almost flat. Musta been a pretty violent series of explosions. At least diet isn't as sticky as regular. Oh, the best part is that we leave the refer door open when stored so air can circulate. The cans were in racks in the door.
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shenandoahvalley
Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
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For those of you concerned about toxic chemicals in soda, DW drinks this stuff called Zero. The reason it's called Zero is because it's got zero carbs, zero calories, zero anything including flavor. Tasteless, carbonated, tinted water can't be too bad for you.
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B Traveler
Iowa
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Too bad it doesn't cost Zero dollars!
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loedman1
Napa, Ca.
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CSpenceFLY wrote:For the sake of my brothers here at RV.net I conducted an experiment. I left a Dr.Pepper in my truck yesterday afternoon. I got in about 4:30 yesterday. Went out this morning and sure enough it had infact exploded. I spent the last hour cleaning the inside of my truck out.Luckly it was not a violent explosion but more of an expanding can and a slow spew.
Now before any of you call me a dumba$$ I did not do this on purpose. i just forgot the can in the truck. Well, I guess you can still call me that.
I left a 6 pack of coke sitting on the front seat of my pickup in the sun....
five blew.
Oh did I mention cloth seats and headliner?
Sun dried coke is quite the treat to remove.
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Jim Shoe
Amelia, OH
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On one of my first trips in the RV, I put a couple of 12 packs of coke in the reefer. When I stopped for the night, I found that many had exploded, apparently just from being jostled around. I put the unexploded ones in the door shelf and everything was fine after that. I wondered at the time why delivery trucks don't have that same problem. Then I noticed one day at the grocery that pallets full of those 12 packs are all stacked on their sides, so that the cans are vertical instead of horizontal. I store mine that way when I travel now and have had no more explosions. Don't know for sure, but I bet that they need the air space at the top of the cans to be stable.
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Deb and Ed M
SW MI, USA
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david_42 wrote:Diet sodas won't explode or turn into toxic chemicals, but aspartame does break down around 120F and you'll have to toss the cans, as there is no practical way to re-sweeten them.
I wonder if it even has to get that hot?? I've had a few Diet Dr Peppers that were no longer sweet from sitting in our garage in the summer - temp around 85 degrees??
If I remember correctly, drinks made with Splenda/sucralose(?) do NOT suffer the same heat breakdown as Nutrasweet/aspartame??
Deb
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hapiour
Tennessee
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I do know Diet Dr. Peppers will explode! DH had a 20oz bottle he had been sipping on...put the top on it and left it in the truck while he went in the store to shop. It was hot outside of course (last summer when we were having record highs!)when he got back to the truck..he went to open it to pour it out and it exploded in his hand...it went everywhere...course most of it was on him!!!! Was not fun to clean up! Had only had the truck 3 weeks and cloth seats!!!!
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PatJ
WA
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I haven't had a problem in the camper, but I have blown a few pop cans in a parked car in the summer. So it has happened to me.
I don't know anything about the sweetener either. I usually sweeten mine with a little JD.
Patrick
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