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From: hugh@hcrvx1.UUCP (Hugh Redelmeier)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: cocaine in (very) old coke
Message-ID: <1199@hcrvx1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 14:17:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: hcrvx1.1199
Posted: Mon Jul 15 14:17:09 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 07:45:40 EDT
References: <8765@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: hugh@hcrvx1.UUCP (Hugh Redelmeier)
Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <8765@microsoft.UUCP> root@microsoft.UUCP (gordon letwin) writes:
>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...)

Cola leaves are uninteresting.  Cocaine comes from coca leaves.
Cola nuts (not the people, the things that grow on cola bushes or
trees or whatever) are used in cola drinks (sometimes?).