I don't think I've ever seen a 24-can pack. Coke is usually bought in either 2-liter bottles, 20-oz bottles, or 12-oz cans. The cans come in 12-packs, not 24 packs, at most grocery stores.
...and in some rare places its made with real cane sugar rather than refined sugar.
Last I heard, sugar was still coming from cane. What's the difference between "real" and "refined"?
However, getting back to the topic at hand: the primary problem with Aspirin in Coke is the Reye's syndrome, as already mentioned. The syndrome would probably have been discovered earlier, and would have led to an early ban on it (as well as a much earlier ban on Children's Aspirin[1]).
Adults, and non-ill teens and children, can still drink all the aspirin-laced soda they want no matter what.
24-can packs are very common in the grocery stores I go to (and no, I don't shop at Costco or Sam's Club). They've been around since the '80's when I used to have to shelve them at the SuperValu store I worked at. In my experience they tend to be less common in the city, where grocery stores are smaller and shelf space is more expensive.
Well, as long as they don't drink 50 bottles of it, but even I think that's insane.
(Sigh) Yes, though that's a problem whether there's aspirin in it or not. I had a roommate in college who drank multiple 2-Liter bottles of Mountain Dew every day. I wonder how he's doing now...
But I don't live in the city, I live in suburban Massachusetts with numerous major grocery stores (Stop & Shop, Price Chopper, Shaw's, Big Y, etc) surrounding me. I've still never seen one.
Nice POD Tailedwinggoat. Do you think that the relatively lower number of cancer deaths compared with OTL would curtail efforts to find a cure to cancer in the ATL, or make efforts to cure cancer in the ATL less prominent?
When I was a kid (late 1970s/early 1980s) there was a common myth that aspirin and Coke together was a cheap high. Even my father believed it so this wasn't just some kid myth in school. I tried it once and felt nothing special. Is there possibly anything to it, though, at high doses or something?
That Myth dated back to the 1930's when it mixed with the Coke would get you high . They change the formula before WWII .
Also in the 1950's my mother and other women in the church group would polish brass at the church with Coca -Cola and if you put a copper penny in a glass of coke it would eat it in a day .
Belgium:There is a significant difference between the American relationship with soft drinks and those of the rest of the world. In America Coke and other soft drinks either come in 24 can pack Cosco sizes or self service restaurant fountains, and a small drink is a one liter cup.
For the rest of the world Coke is still a traditional 12 oz bottle which cost as much as a good beer. A 12 oz Coke cost 10 Euros in Europe, and they're never properly chilled either.