Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bmcg.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!bmcg!bobn From: bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert) Newsgroups: net.rumor Subject: Re: cocaine in (very) old coke... and sugar Message-ID: <1782@bmcg.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 16:10:29 EDT Article-I.D.: bmcg.1782 Posted: Mon Aug 5 16:10:29 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Aug-85 03:13:51 EDT References: <8765@microsoft.UUCP> <561@rtech.UUCP> <136@rpics.UUCP> <245@unccvax.UUCP> <901@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <307@persci.UUCP> Organization: Burroughs Corp. ASG, San Diego, CA. Lines: 11 > i see the current discussion about what does the coke company do with > the cocaine it takes out of the coca leaves... i'd like to contribute > some historical background and ask 2 questions. > > background: at the turn of the century, when cocaine was legal and > the US imported a billion pounds a year of coca > leaves, there was cocaine in coca-cola. Another historical background item about Coke was that about the early 1900's Coke got tired of their advertizing slogan and sold it to Maxwell House coffee. The slogan was "Good to the last drop."