The Stuff in Old Coke

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MysticYogi

IS IT COKE?

An 84-year-old retired beverage distributor claimed recently that he has had the original Coca-Cola formula for almost 40 years.

Lee Williams wrote in to Dallas Morning News columnist Maryln Schwartz, after she had written about the new Coke in her column. Williams said he was given the formula in 1948, when he had a sales route for the Dr. Pepper Company.

A pharmacist named John Reed told him that he used to make his own syrup for the cola because he had been given the original recipe. Reed said he had gotten the recipe from an ingredient salesman who wanted to sell him the ingredients for the syrup. He then pulled the formula from a file marked "1898" and let Williams make a copy of it.

If it's true, this is your big chance to make up a batch of "The Real Thing" yourself. Here's the recipe:

*30 pounds of sugar
*2 gallons of water
*2 pints of lime juice
*4 ounces of citrate of caffeine
*2 ounces of citric acid
*1 ounce of extract of vanilla
*6 drams (3/4 ounce) of fluid extract of cola
*6 drams of fluid extract of coca


Don't forget to mix with carbonated water before you drink it, like any fountain drink. If you try it, let us know how it comes out.

Warning: Drink at your own risk.

(If they haven't proved that any of these ingredients causes cancer yet, I'm sure it's just a matter of time.)

According to the Coca-Cola Company, the formula has never been given out. But who knows? This could be the biggest leak ever...

Sourced from : Toste.com :tongue:
 
they stopped puttin coca extracts after cocain or any of its forms (raw plant etc.) became illegal .....

cool .... people could get high after a soft drink
 
staying on topic .... some more coke related intresting things .....

# Mexico and Iceland have the highest per capita consumption of Coca-Cola.
# Coca-Cola translated to Chinese means, "To make mouth happy".
# Every second over 7,000 Coca-Cola products are consumed.
# If all the Coca-Cola ever produced were in 6 1/2 oz. bottles and placed end to end they would wrap around the earth more than 11,863 times.
# The tallest Coca-Cola bottling plants are in Hong Kong. The plant in Quarry Bay is 17 floors, and the plant in Shatin is 25 floors.
# The bottling plant at the highest elevation in the world is located in Bolivia, at 12,000 feet.
# The world's longest Coca-Cola truck is in Sweden. It is 79 feet long with a four-azle trailer.
# The best selling non-carbonated soft drink in Japan is a product of The Coca-Cola Company named "Georgia", a coffee flavored beverage.
# Coca-Cola first crossed the Atlantic on board the Graf Zeppelin, the Geman dirigible.
# The Varsity Restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, has earned the distinction of serving the highest volume of Coca-Cola anywhere. It dispenses nearly 3 million servings of Coca-Cola annually.
# If all the Coca-Cola vending machines in the U.S. were stacked one on top of each other, the pile would be over 450 miles high.
 
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