[House Atreides]

In the deep South every soda is called a “coke”, which I don’t understand, but it is. LOL
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That’s because EVERY family in the South has family lore about missing out on buying COCA-COLA stock at the beginning. At least the families I’m familiar with.

[nopardons]

Are you sure that that’s the “real” reason, or did you just make that up ?

[Karl Spooner]

That's because EVERY family in the South has family lore about missing out on buying COCA-COLA stock at the beginning.

What year did Coca Cola start issuing stock?

[nopardons]

Since Coca Cola was invented by a morphine addict, in Atlanta, Georgia, about 30 years before the company sold stock, I wonder about family your story. Just how old were these people, since the common stock sold @ $4r0 dollars and the preferred stock @ $100...both of which was quite a tidy sum in 1919 !

In the beginning, Coca Cola was nothing but a PATENT MEDICINE hawked by montebanks, who claimed that it was a cureall for every ill.And yes, the original formula DID contain a teensy smidgen of coca leaves. But due to the PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACTS of 1913, the recipe was changed.