re patents was rc rc in article bontchev fbihh bontchev fbihh informatik uni hamburg de vesselin bontchev wrote ahaley eoe co uk andrew haley writes coca cola has always understood it coca cola is made under licence in dozens of countries around the world you re crazy if you think pepsico doesn t know the recipe in all those countries coca cola is distributed in a form of concentrate what the local producers simply mix with water and other simple ingredients the trick is to know what is in the concentrate i don t know if this is still true but at one time coca cola took elaborate measures to keep the formula secret for instance several plants in different cities each made one of six partial concentrates which were then shipped back and forth and remixed in a complicated scheme so that no single plant made the whole formula by now i would guess that pepsico s chemists would have reverse engineered it can t be all that exotic actually i prefer pepsi anyhow in about minutes i m gonna put money into a pepsi vending machine matt healy i pretend to be a network administrator the lab net pretends to work matt wardsgi med yale edu
