Q - What's the difference between Diet Coke and Coke Zero ? Read on ...
Have you seen the Coke 125 ad on TV? Hard to miss really.
- Yes, Coca Cola is celebrating it's 125th anniversary having its first sales on May 8th 1886, in Jacobs Pharmacy, Atlanta, Georgia - costing 5c a glass.
- It was developed by Dr. John Pemberton, a pharmacist, who actually died 2 years after his Coca Cola drink went on sale.
- Pre 1886 the drink was developed as a 'wine' with alcohol but with the enforcement of prohibition in the USA Pemberton looked at the possibilities for a non-alcoholic version of the drink
- In its early days it sold about 9 drinks per day but 125 years later it sells 1.7 billion drinks each day
- The drink, also in the early days, contained cocaine (from the coca leaf) and had claims of medicinal properties and cures for certain ailments (with cocaine, maybe it did !!!). Today the concentrate does not have any cocaine but does have extract from cocaine-free coca leaf.
- The flavouring and 'caffeine' source for Coca-Cola is Kola nuts
- Coca-Cola claim to have introduced the modern day image of Santa Claus, in a1931 campaign. It's a debatable claim !
