Posted on 02/14/2011 7:08:52 PM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...
That's due to the Phosphoric Acid in it...
urban legend
The Old Dr. Pepper is available in Texas and what I have have had is authentic to me.
Bump
coca cola
Those are two words. Look them up separately. It’s not rocket science, bud. P.S. cola is sometimes spelled kola and it comes from a nut tree grown in africa.
I wonder what the 7X flavor is?
No doubt. Its cheaper and easier to handle. Adding solid sugar to a batch is more labor intensive.
Aluminum cans cannot hold the higher level carbonation that was in the old formula.
As long as the public settle for the cheaper product, that will be the market.
FWIW, Coca Cola probably never had enough cocaine to get you high, but nobody alive today really knows exactly how much was in the early (1885-1891) mixture.
“Good for removing rust too!”
We used it to free up water valves in the street (curb boxes)
Worked pretty well.
you can buy mexican coca-cola in austin
Some clues here:
http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090531173018AA7Z4mu
Looks like the alcohol is used to help create or stabilize the flavoring emulsion. It probably has an effect on solubility.
How do you get into this kind of work? You have to know your chemistry, but you also have to have good judgment about the aesthetics of flavors, fragrances, mouth feel etc. How do you prove you have the aesthetic part? Are there formal credentials for that?
Only if donated by the former Speaker.
““I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony...”
“Then pull its pants down to its knees,
And chase it through the trees.”
Opus
Only way I can stand to drink that crud is if there's enough rum in it to kill the taste.
The secrecy of the Coke recipe is mostly hype. William Poundstone reproduced it for his book "Big Secrets" 25 years ago.
Thing is, no one has a bigger supply and distribution chain than Coca-Cola. No one works on their economies of scale. So there's no business model in duplicating Coke; "just as good and only slightly more expensive" isn't much of a selling point. Competing by tasting different makes a lot more sense.
You can also stock up during Passover. Corn syrup isn't kosher, so they use real sugar.
The seven ingredients listed after it.
Probably because it is eating at the aluminum cans. We used to use Coke to clean the diesel soot off the sides of aluminum vans with coke. They told us to quit using muratic [sp] acid.
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