Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site microsoft.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!microsoft!root From: root@microsoft.UUCP (Super User) Newsgroups: net.rumor Subject: cocaine in (very) old coke Message-ID: <8765@microsoft.UUCP> Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 09:06:25 EDT Article-I.D.: microsof.8765 Posted: Sat Jul 13 09:06:25 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 01:30:19 EDT Organization: Microsoft Corporation Lines: 17 Although its true that the original Coke formulation had some cocaine in it, it was in trace amounts. You'd have to drink more than a gallon of the syrup (which was how it was originally consumed, anyway) to get a good dose of cocaine. The cocaine had the same role in the formula that cola leaves do now - it was there for the sake of listing it on the ingredients. (Cola leaves don't taste like "cola"... cola is a totally artificial flavor. Cola leaves taste very bad, which is why so few are put in Coke, so you can't taste them. Other colas don't bother with any cola leaves...) There was a popular wine at the time, whose name I forget, which had very significant amounts of cocaine in it. One of the biggest fans of that wine was Thomas Edison. Remember in grade school you were told that the "great man" only slept a few hours a night? gordon letwin microsoft