PSA: Mixing lime and coconut does NOT cure a belly ache

[taterguy]

That vile concoction doesn't make you feel better at all.

I think Nilsson was getting kickbacks from lime growers.

Worst advice in a song, ever.

:pukesmiley:

[pinboy3niner]

1. And don't drink wine with a bullfrog

Unless you want warts.

[taterguy]

2. Amphibio-phobia has no place here

[Kali]

3. ...

http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/store/jump/productDetail/Personal_Care/Remedies/Old_Fashioned_Pure_Cola_Syrup_12_oz._Bottle/21650

or, you know...

[taterguy]

5. Is that some type of taunt?

Are you Taterbaiting?

[Thor_MN]

10. Huh, who knew? I thought Taterbaiting was something else entirely.

[taterguy]

11. Don't think

You'll only hurt the ball club.

[Thor_MN]

12. Well, considering clubbing balls...

[frogmarch]

6. In the mid 1960s when

I was pg and throwing up all the time (I was hospitalized twice for dehydration and given IVs), my MD prescribed cola syrup for me, and it worked quite well.

[csziggy]

4. It's not citrus lime you're supposed to use - it is slaked lime with the coconut

As mentioned by Recursion some time ago:

I'm clearly looking very confused, and he absolutely dies laughing. "No, no sir, not that lime!" And he points to a tobacconist two stalls down. Since I'm still not getting it, he takes my wrist, drags me over to the tobacconist, and points at the chewing tobacco shelf.

When the light hit me, it was almost blinding: Indian chewing tobacco, due to anti-tobacco regulations, has to be sold in three separate pouches. One contains the tobacco, one the betel leaf and spices, and one calcium hydroxide, to raise the tobacco's pH.

Calcium hydroxide, better known in most of the English speaking world as "slaked lime".

The song is telling you to put, not the fruit, but calcium hydroxide or calcium carbonate into green coconut water to raise its pH and help settle your stomach if it's too acidic. The coconut water also contains some sugar and potassium, which helps with the electrolytes you may have lost if you've been sick.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018518772

[yardwork]

7. Alka seltzer, in other words. Or even baking soda in water.

[csziggy]

8. Tums! ;)

[yardwork]

9. Right!

[struggle4progress]

13. Maybe you put the coconut in the lime instead of the other way round

[progressoid]

14. Follow the directions carefully. You need to shake it all up.

[shenmue]

15. See here

[progressoid]

16. Aw crap! That's what happens when you haven't heard a song since you were 9 yrs old.

[shenmue]

17. How about flipper ache?

[taterguy]

18. How about it?