Coca-cola how long?!
Coca-cola how long?
how long they been in business?
Answers:
Coca-Cola (the product) was developed in 1885.
It originally did contain a slight amount of cocaine because they used the leaves of the coca plant for flavoring. After 1903, they started using leaves that already had the cocaine extracted (spent leaves), but there were still trace amounts left in the drink (not so much that you'd even feel it). Today they still flavor with kola nuts and the spent leaves of a coca plant.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/coca_cola...
I believe since the early 20's or even before. Used to be, that trace amounts of cocaine was used in the mixing of the coke syrup to give it that "zing". They later made cocaine use illegal and took it out.
In May, 1886, Coca Cola was invented by Doctor John Pemberton a pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia. John Pemberton concocted the Coca Cola formula in a three legged brass kettle in his backyard. The name was a suggestion given by John Pemberton's bookkeeper Frank Robinson.
The product that has given the world its best-known taste was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886. Dr. John Stith Pemberton, a local pharmacist, produced the syrup for Coca-Cola?, and carried a jug of the new product down the street to Jacobs' Pharmacy, where it was sampled, pronounced "excellent" and placed on sale for five cents a glass as a soda fountain drink.
In 1886, Coca Cola was invented by Doctor John Pemberton. He sold the recipe and the company was formed some time around 1890.
So they've been in business a loooong time!
If you had been one of the earliest investors, you would have been dead a long time by now, but you'd have died rich!
Late 19th century, I believe.
Made in 1886. I was pretty sure that Coke was originally meant to be used as a medicine drink but after a bit it became just a great drink. The cocaine at first was hailed as an amazing new thing in medicine, and so it was put in Coke. Later when it became just a drink the cocaine was taken out. I'm not positive about this though, so don't quote me lol.
Over 30 years