Nicomorphinist
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It was invented as a cure all patent medicine tonic in an era full of BS cure all patent medicines, not the same thing
I'm not saying you're wrong about coca cola helping you. Those are your choices to make. I just can't take calling coca cola a medicine seriously.
Besides. It seems reasonably well established that the Coca cola of today is not the Coca cola that was originally sold as a medicine.
It's apparently close enough that C-Jam shows up in GC/MS of the finished product in what are usually traces but some times have been higher, similar to an energy drink whose name I forget that actually had active amounts in it and there is only one firm with a licence to import and decocainise the leaves and bottle the decocainized extract to sell to Cloaca-Cola and other companies and sell the blow to Mallinckrodt in St Louis -- the flavouring component they took out that caused all the sound and fury in 1985 was Decocainised Coca Leaf Extract. There is just no substitute, it turns out. I forget if the cane sugar to high fructose cough syrup changeover was simultaneous or came later and made a bad problem worse, and they slid it in later to less controversy. I drank it before, during, and after this, and whilst I did not get the Inca Message, I have chewed coca leaves and I could detect the before, during, and after there.
Other than that:
Carbonated water: tick
Phosphoric acid: tick (the two ingredients doctors tell me helps queasiness)
Citric acid: tick
Cane sugar then HFCS: tick
Kola nut extract: tick
Lime Juice: tick
Vanilla: tick
Cardamom: tick
Lime oil: tick
Lemon oil: tick
Orange oil: tick
Cinnamon: tick
Neroli oil: tick
Nutmeg oil: tick
Coriander: tick
Decocainised Coca Leaf Extract: tick
Carmel colouring: tick
Caffeine citrate powder: tick
Coca-Cola changed their three-years old recipe in 1886 to improve the taste according to Dr Pemberton the inventor, changed it again to take out the blow in 1903, then tried again in 1985-6 when it blew up and fizzed all over them like putting bottles in a freezer. The change was made in 1903 after carping in Harper's, Cosmopolitan, The Public, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, other magazines and Upton Sinclair getting on the trail then Eugene V Debs ripping them a new arsehole, the Pure Food & Drug Act was passed 30. June 1906 and the patent medicine era (not that it was as much a patent medicine before or after with the Nose Candy in it then caffeine) ended only with another company being fined for reacting to the act by doubling the cocaine content of Celery Cola in 1910.
By the way, depending on the region of North America and the world one is in, various people recommend Coca-Cola, RC, Pepsi or local brands, and arguably Sprite/Slice/7-Up are healthier to an extent. I have mixed in the 3 grains of Bolivian Marching Powder per 240 ml and of course there was a little difference, but nothing in the GI system.
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