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.
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a carbonated soft drink manufactured by The Coca-Cola Company. Originally intended as a patent medicine, it was invented in the late 19th century by John Stith Pemberton and was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coca-Cola to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century. The drink's name refers to two of its original ingredients: coca leaves, and kola nuts (a source of caffeine).
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