Homer's cola recipe

I think the coca-cola guy thought that up first.

"Gregory Yount" wrote in message news:[email]...

The original had cocaine in it...

"I'll tell you what real is. I'll tell you what real is. Hey, man, there's a new dance going around, ya know? They're doing it from the East to the West And everybody's learning to do it the best And it' called the *MARCH*, 2, 3, 4, Hup 2, 3, 4 It's called the *MARCH* 2, 3, 4, Hup 2, 3, 4 Well we are going to war ladies and gentlemen I don't care what you think is happening The world is going to war So you better get it up and learn to do the *MARCH* 2, 3, 4, *MARCH* 2, 3, 4" (Finch) - Brave Combo ('The Real Thing')

Stan, www.thesequencers.us/BraveCombo "Mysteries will be revealed Wheel within a wheel in a machinery of grace" +- +- +- +- "dwacon" wrote in message news:lkCde.1268$sy6.1186@lakeread04...

a lot of things had cocaine in it back then

Funky wrote:

Thus the slogan "The pause that refreshes"

Right, including Sigmund Freud.

What about the cocaine?

"Old Black Ishmael" wrote in message news:VnLde.3595$D91.3556@fed1read01...

"Everything here is drugs!"

Nope. Urban Legend. A popular myth, but still a myth. You can read about it in "The Real Thing" by Constance L Hays.

"dwacon" wrote in message news:lkCde.1268$sy6.1186@lakeread04...

about it

Depends who you believe:

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcocacola.htm http://www.solarnavigator.net/sponsorship/coca_cola.htm

"Until 1905, the soft drink, marketed as a tonic, contained extracts of cocaine as well as the caffeine-rich kola nut. "

OF course, "extracts" of cocaine doesn't necessarily mean that it contains cocaine, no more than jello (glycerin) contains extracts of Nitro-Glycerin.

[email] wrote:

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp

Says it did, although exactly how much was never clear.

It's true - not an urban legend From Snopes - the Urban Legend bible

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp

Origins: Coca-Cola was named back in 1885 for its two "medicinal" ingredients: extract of coca leaves and kola nuts. Just how much cocaine was originally in the It's all gone now, folks. formulation is hard to determine, but the drink undeniably contained some cocaine in its early days. Frederick Allen describes the public attitude towards cocaine that existed as Coca-Cola's developers worked on perfecting their formula in 1891: