hiya, i was just reading through a book i have, and it was talking about the ingredient aspartame,
this is found in diet drinks, (and many other foodstuffs)
BUT it did say, that heating this substance up can make it have a chemcial reaction that will make it very dangerous if consumed,
so, just a note of warning that if anyone trys the coke and ham recipie we were talking about, dont use it with diet cola...
the last paragraph of this link has the same info as my book:
http://www.ess.sunysb.edu/tracy/whatis.html
if anyone was to drink/eat "wood alcohol" it is normally called methanol.. and its nasty, its used in weedkiller and paint stripper