It’s probably what you’d expect to happen.

I remember when a teacher left an old penny in a beaker of coke at primary school. We came in the next day and gasped as our teacher held up the coin, marveling at its shimmering new finish.

Someone said the sugar had cleaned it. We weren’t going to argue with that.


The sugary gloop takes shape (Picture: YouTube/CrazyRussianHacker)

A few years and a hundred or so cokes later, a friend showed me a clip of these two guys dropping Mentos in a cola bottle, only to have the contents shoot out like water from a firehose.



He told me it only worked with the diet version. You can’t blame sugar this time, I thought.

It looks like crude oil (Picture: YouTube/CrazyRussianHacker)

And now there’s this clip. A man in Russia has discovered that coke is so sugary, boiling it results in an amorphous gloop thick enough to plaster a wall.

I think the average kid in primary school could have predicted that, even if it does resemble crude oil.

Come on Russia, get with the times! You can’t blame the Cold War or Euromaidan for missing the boat on this one.