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Old Thu Sep 24, 2009, 08:43pm
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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve View Post
People also used to drink "ammonia cokes" made with Coca-Cola and 3 or 4 drops of spirits of ammonia. They used to make them regularly in drug store soda fountains back in the "good old days." Mothers would make them for their small children's upset tummies, and many people drank them for migraine headaches and also to help with bursitis.

People actually still make this concoction, even though the label says not to ingest the stuff. I guess a few drops didn't hurt anyone.
Uh, ... aren't a lot of the people from the old days dead now?
[Bless 'em]
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