What Is the Great Mystery Surrounding Coca-Cola?

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What Is the Great Mystery Surrounding Coca-Cola?

Answer 1

I think the great mystery is the recipe for making Coca-Cola, which has been a carefully guarded secret.

It is said that when it was first marketed, the ingredient that gave it its name was cocaine. Mind you, this was at a time when genteel ladies routinely were prescribed laudanum for their nerves ... a tonic containing morphine derived from opium!

Answer 2

Pretty much the recipe.

Answer 3

The recipe is kept as a secret for years !!!

Answer 4

Another interesting question !!! I LOVE TO ANSWER such questions...

Since its invention in 1886, the secret formula for making Coca-Cola has been known to only seven men. Today, just two of these men are still alive, and they never travel together on the same airplane.

The world's most popular soft drink was the creation of a druggist named John S. Pemberton of Atlanta, Georgia. He concocted a syrup to which he added soda water. After spending $73.96 to advertise his new drink, Pemberton made only $160 by selling the drinks at his shop. In 1890, after Pemberton's death, his heirs sold his drug business to another pharmacist.

Nine years later, two Tennessee men, Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead, bought the formula from the pharmacist and set up bottling plants to make their new drink available throughout the country. The first ads for Coca-Cola read, "Sold at all fountains and carbonated in bottles, 5 cents."

165,000,000 bottles of "Coke" are drunk every day in more than 158 countries around the world!

This is a Great Mystery surrounding Coca- Cola...

Answer 5

It rusts nails, and disolves my stomach lining. :)   Good cleaner!   Tastes so good... and its fun to say: "Lets go get some Coke." and make people think your going to do drugs when your gonna get a harmless.... ... (harmless... lol) soda...

its yummy with vanilla too!   mmm poison!

Answer 6

Is it really good to drink?Is it actually a pesticide kinda thing?Mysterious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

whatever,I love coca cola

Answer 7

is trying to rule the world!!! its even in the NAME!!!

plus coke zero is nasty

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_cola

The wiki page talks about it being still flavoured with coca leaves: unique at least!

Answer 9

U can clean u r toilet sheet and used as a soft drink too.

Answer 10

The ingredient is a secret.

I lprefer pepsi anyway.

Answer 11

No mystery,it's the best drink out there, next to Arizona Iced Tea.

Answer 12

Coca Cola has a well kept secret formula hidden safely. The secret formula is the great mystery surrounding Coca Cola, probably the best known soft drink in the world since past many decades. One trivial fact is that the color of Coca Cola when it was first launched was "Green'.

Answer 13

I wonder how they keep the recipie such a secret.  But coke is yummO!

Answer 14

The greatest mystery around Coca cola is that here is a sweetened carbonated drink which has no food value,nothing to nourish and has so many anti health reports about it, but still

remains the #1 drink in the world.

Answer 15

the coca- is derived from cocaine. because when coca-cola was first made it had cociane in it. having cocaine in products was fairly typical at that time. cola refers to the soda the syrup mixture .

to sum up coca=cocaine cola= syrup mixture/soda

Answer 16

its good