I Wasn't the First Person to Find the NJ Coca-Cola Cocaine Factory (2016)

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This even sparked that beverage company to retract those ads from their Twitter profile.

The big, old companies really factor in the overturn of human population in, don't they? They hold out until persons alive who remember any inconvenient for them facts to just... die out.

Once I had tried coca tea in Peru, it was clear what the taste of Coca-Cola comes from.

What became funny was the series of "tasters" who claimed they had figured out the formula with other ingredients like cinnamon, etc.

That is the formula for Coke. And other colas.

The formula isn't much of a secret: vanilla, cinnamon, citrus oils, and a few others. Plus acid and caffeine, or another bittering agent. It's easy enough to figure out with a mass spectrometer. The details vary but that's the general formula for "cola".

Only Coke uses decocainated coca leaves. I don't doubt that it has some effect on the flavor, but the dominant flavors are still those various oils. A lot of people can't tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi if they're not paying attention (and often, even if they are).

I don’t know what they mixed with your coca tea, but tea made from pure coca leaf tastes nothing like Coca Cola. It really tastes more like Japanese green tea, but it makes your mouth slightly numb.

There was some series of books in the 80s about secret things and it talked about the cocaine history. written by William something? I can't find it in a quick search.

Big Secrets by William Poundstone. There was also a sequel (Bigger Secrets). I read those books a bunch as a kid, but haven’t thought about them in decades. I wonder how they hold up.

that is hilarious

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