“It’s the Coca-Cola lot.” If the Snake Pit is the party on the inside, the Coke lot is the shindig on the outside that never sleeps. “We have a beer-die table for my beer-die fans,” Gara ...

By distilling bituminous coal in retorts to obtain gas for illumination, or by burning it in kilns or pits, the residue left behind is called coke, which is simply coal charcoal, and is nearly ...