I recently saw some snickers bars and 3 musketeers bars being sold in their original wrapping. I didn't even remember their original wrapping, my girlfriend had to explain it to me.
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I want the Scrumdidlyumptious Bars back, with the Golden Tickets inside! Wonka just stopped making them after that whole "tour" fiasco...
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According to something I saw on the History Channel many, many years ago, cocaine was temporarily added to coke at one time, but was not part of the original recipe.
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According to this, it would depend on which formula you would consider to be the original. The founder of the Coca Cola Company deliberately obscured many facts, including the fact that he forged the signatures on the bill of sale for the formula. Posts: 15082 | Registered: Jul 2001
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quote:Originally posted by Dan_Frank: According to something I saw on the History Channel many, many years ago, cocaine was temporarily added to coke at one time, but was not part of the original recipe.
quote:The first Coca-Cola recipe was invented in Columbus, Georgia at a drugstore by John Stith Pemberton, originally as a cocawine called Pemberton's French Wine Coca in 1885...
...When launched Coca Cola's two key ingredients were cocaine (benzoylmethyl ecgonine) and caffeine. The cocaine was derived from the coca leave and the caffeine from kola nuts - Coca-Cola (the 'K' in Kola was replaced with a C for marketing purposes)...
...Pemberton called for five ounces of coca leaf per gallon of syrup, a significant dose, whereas, in 1891, Candler claimed his formula (altered extensively from Pemberton's original) contained only a tenth of this amount. Coca Cola did once contain an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass, but in 1903 it was removed.[22] Coca Cola still contains coca flavouring.
I'm surprised by the candor shown on the Wikipedia page. The Company doesn't officially acknowledge that Coke once contained cocaine. It isn't denied either.
I can probably find a better source than Wikipedia, but it's the first good one I can go to.
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In the springtime, Coca-cola makes a sugar-sweetened version that is Kosher for Passover. The packaging is identical except for the yellow twist caps, which say "Kosher for Passover".
I know people who especially go looking for and buying that version, to avoid the corn syrup.
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How does the price compare with the regular stuff, Tante? I can get the Mexican kind at one of the Asian grocery stores in town, but it's $1.50 for a single bottle.
I think that I enjoy drinking the stuff out of a glass bottle as much or more than I enjoy the use of sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. I wish I could get Dr. Pepper in a glass bottle as well.
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