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                 COCAINE + CAFFEINE = COCA-COLA 

                     

                                    Food Chain Radio Show #921

                                     May 25, 2013 • Sat 9AM Pacific

*********                       Michael Olson hosts:   Mark Pendergrast, Author

                                          For God, Country & Coca-Cola

                                             The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink

                                             and the Company that Makes It

                           

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What is the secret in Coca-Cola’s secret formula?

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What is your favorite soft drink? *

         

It sprang to life selling patent medicines in Reconstruction Atlanta, and then grew into the quintessential American corporation selling soft drinks to the world.

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And it did it all on a secret formula consisting of a few common ingredients. Two of those ingredients were, and are, cocaine and caffeine, which made Coca-Cola the original American energy drink.

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How the Coca-Cola Company grew, and the times in which it grew, lead us to ask:

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What is the secret in Coca-Cola’s secret formula?  According to Wikipedia, “The primary ingredients of CocaCola syrup include either high fructose corn syrup or sucrose derived from cane sugar, caramel color, caffeine, phosphoric acid, coca extract, lime extract, vanilla and glycerin.”  If the ingredients are listed on Wikipedia, they can’t be the secret in the Coca-Cola’s secret formula! And so we persist in asking…

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What is in Coca-Cola?

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(Food Chain Radio & Forums #921)

Michael Olson's LAWS OF THE FOOD CHAIN:

#1 Agriculture is the foundation upon which we build all our sand castles.

#2 The farther we go from the source of our food, the less control we have over what's in that food.

#3 Cheap food isn't!

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