BREAKING NEWS: Coca Cola Recipe 'Discovered'

fox news ^ | 2/14/11 | staff

[Nachum]

The ingredients of the drink, founded by John Pemberton, a medicinal pharmacist in 1886, have always been a mystery.

However, Thisamericanlife.org claims to have discovered a list in a photograph in a newspaper article giving the ingredients and exact quantities to make the drink.

[mowowie]

You can buy sugar coke here during passover.
It usually has yellow caps on the bottle.

I stock up every year.

[TheBattman]

Mass Spectrometer would get the job done in short order!

[RegulatorCountry]

You can get cane sugar sodas in Mexican stores anytime, and also kosher with cane sugar around the holidays.

[CodeToad]

It forget the name but we had it for a few weeks here. It was good.

[mowowie]

I believe i have a 45 single copy of “Making It” out in my garage.

The song is in my head now....

Making it...this time in life i’m takin it..no more, no more. making it.., this time in life i’m takin it it.....

thanks....

[Newtoidaho]

Now if we could just get the Colonel’s KFC original recipe...

[23 Everest]

Shirley you jest and yes I’ll stop calling you Shirley when the France family stops making rule changes mid season. You can have the Race to the Chase. No points for leading a lap and let em race back to the flag.

[fours]

Here's the picture of the recipe, from This American Life:



And here is a link to the page where the recipe and a PDF may be downloaded ...

The episode of This American Life this was featured on makes for an interesting listen, too.. they had some sodamakers try whipping up a batch.

[bigbob]

Get ahold of the crackerjack detectives that broke this code, I’ve got a missing birth certificate and college records case for them to tackle

[WVKayaker]

I buy bottled Cokes from Mexico. REAL SUGAR! It makes a difference. I buy them at Costco...

Goes VERY well with dark rum and lime!

[SE Mom]

Because EVERYTHING tastes better in glass bottles including milk, juice and sodas. I have an old glass milk bottle I put my milk in- tastes better and stays fresh longer.

[Nepeta]

I would think that with today’s very sophisticated testing equipment, the formulation of most anything could be decoded down to the last molecule.

I've done that kind of work. Flavors and fragrances are tricky. Modern analytical equipment can tear apart most things, and identify components--but putting the right proportions of components together is an art form, because very small quantities can make a difference. Different molecules may have greater or lesser detector response--unless you have calibrated with a known standard, you will have difficulty determining levels present in a formula. Real vanilla extract has over 1000 components.

Sugar, corn syrup, and artificial sweeteners change the "mouth feel" and add another factor into duplicating a formula.

Also, with any natural flavor, there may be variations from year to year, or depending upon where they were grown. Flavor houses blend to eliminate variability.

[Secret Agent Man]

I think that’s Mountain Dew. ;)

[2harddrive]

It wasn’t a RUMOR. It is FACT, until just before passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act.

[jonrick46]

If we could get Colonel Sander's KFC original recipe, that would be better than what they are doing now. Whatever they are doing with today's KFC I am not liking. It is much saltier and giving a bitter aftertaste that I never tasted in earlier years.

[MadelineZapeezda]

Who leaked it....Wikileaks????????

[La Lydia]

That is right. Mexican Coke tastes so much better. I found a case of it at a warehouse store last weekend. I otherwise never bother with soft drinks.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Now it’s just the gas dissolved in it that gives you the smile!

[AnalogReigns]

“What about carbonation?”

I think originally all “sodas” were flavors mixed by the soda jerk at the soda bar with soda water. Basically the same process done manually, in what your typical fast-food soft-drink dispenser does automatically today.

“Anyway, formula or no formula Coca-Cola will never be what it once was.”

I’m sure the primary reason the flavor is cheapified is due to corn syrup substituted for real cane sugar.

Modern “gormet” soft drinks all use cane sugar, and make a big deal about that... (they do taste great too...if you like to spend 3 bucks for a 12 oz. bottle!!!)

[Lancey Howard]

However, Thisamericanlife.org claims to have discovered a list in a photograph in a newspaper article giving the ingredients and exact quantities to make the drink.

Heh, I always wondered what the original Coca Cola tasted like, with its real sugar and cocaine.