1886 Coca Cola? Hmmm Cool Place

[Eric]

Thanks for posting.. wish I was closer...

[kbareit]

Maybe it's the formula for "New Coke".

YUK!!!  That stuff was awful. And to think even Bill Cosby couldn't sell it.  I could never figure out why Coke would change it's formula to be more like Pepsi.

[sc1101]

Glad you guys liked the video. This was there comment about coca leaf I found below their video.

We didn't forget anything. We made a fluid extract of coca leaf as the video explains, using de-cocainized coca leaves just like Coca Cola has done since 1903. The cocaine was definitely NOT forgotten, just intentionally omitted.

[tkaz]

Pretty neat, I'd like to try some...maybe when I'm up in MN in January...if I don't freeze on the way there.

Along the same lines, did anyone see the Drunk History episode on Atlanta?  They did a skit on the invention of Coca Cola; for anyone not familiar with the show, they basically get a historian drunk and then celebrities re-enact the skit using the words of the drunk historian...not for everyone but it's a riot. 

Here's the preview, I can't find the full episode anywhere right now:

http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/gd5y4s/drunk-history-invention-of-coca-cola

[Larry]

I remember back in the day reading the High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs and they had a section on why cocaine was removed from the recipe.  Blacks use to drink this elixir a lot and there were riots at one time caused black Coca Colaholics. 

I found this on the web and this is what I remember reading years ago.  I couldn't tell you if it was true or not, I wasn't born yet.

"Anyone with a nickel, black or white, could now drink the cocaine-infused beverage. Middle-class whites worried that soft drinks were contributing to what they saw as exploding cocaine use among African-Americans. Southern newspapers reported that "negro cocaine fiends" were raping white women, the police powerless to stop them. By 1903, [then-manager of Coca-Cola Asa Griggs] Candler had bowed to white fears (and a wave of anti-narcotics legislation), removing the cocaine and adding more sugar and caffeine."

[Chedki]

I've got a couple of Nichol Kola bottles that says "Decocainized" on the list of ingredients on the backside.