I live in Atlanta, Georgia, the home of the Coca Cola company, maker of Coca-Cola!!
Awesome, I have been to the Coke museum and also Six Flags over Georgia. It's a great city!
Originally invented by John Pemberton in the late 1800's Coca Cola used Cocaine as an ingredient in the early years, and due to the marketing tactics of Asa Candler, has dominated the soft drink market for the 20th century.
That's a crazy story. I know cocaine was used by a lot of people for pain back then. It wasn't made illegal until later.
The name Coca Cola comes from Coca or Cocaine, and Kola, the name of the nut that the caffeine is derived from.
Yeah, it is an appropriate name. Many people call it Coke today.
The current formula of Coca-Cola remains a trade secret, although a variety of reported recipes and experimental recreations have been published.
The Coca-Cola Company produces concentrate, which is then sold to licensed Coca-Cola bottlers throughout the world. The bottlers, who hold exclusive territory contracts with the company, produce the finished product in cans and bottles from the concentrate, in combination with filtered water and sweeteners. A typical can contains of sugar (usually in the form of high fructose corn syrup). The bottlers
Cola was invented in 1885 in Columbus, Georgia by grocer John Pemberton. Originally called coca wine (the trademark was "Pemberton's French Wine Coca"), it may have been inspired by the formidable success of Vin Mariani, a European coca wine. In the late 19th century, it was sold as a bottled soft drink in most of the United States. In the early 20th century, another beverage, Pepsi, was created by pharmacist Caleb Bradham and quickly came to rival the sales of Coca-Cola. Strategic