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    Default Coca-Cola's top secret formula finally revealed?


    Finally after 125 years, could this "Merchandise 7X" be the real thing

    Did NPR’s ‘This American Life’ discover Coke’s secret formula?


    One of the most closely guarded trade secrets in the history of commerce may be a secret no more: NPR's "This American Life" thinks it has found the exact recipe for the world's most popular soft drink in a 1979 newspaper article.


    According to the show's host, Ira Glass, the drink's secret flavoring component, which was created by pharmacist John Pemberton in 1886, is something called "Merchandise 7X." The show's staff recently stumbled across the February 8, 1979 edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which published an article on page 28 about a leather-bound notebook that once belonged to Pemberton's best friend, another pharmacist in the Atlanta area named R. R. Evans. The notebook contained a number of pharmacological recipes--but the main entry, for students of commercial history, was what's believed to be the exact recipe for the soft drink: all of the ingredients listed with the exact amounts needed to whip up a batch.


    The Journal-Constitution piece also featured a photo of the page in Evans' notebook detailing Coke recipe--essentially revealing the recipe to the world. But since 1979 well antedated the explosion of digital media, the photograph of the recipe didn't travel far beyond the Atlanta area.


    Coke's recipe is one of the most closely guarded secrets in American commerce, steeped in cloak-and-dagger lore. After businessman Asa Griggs Candler bought out Pemberton--who also conjured up cough medicines and blood purifiers, among other things--in 1887 for $2,300, the exact recipe for 7X was placed in the vault in an Atlanta bank. It's been reported that only two company employees are privy to its ingredients and how they're mixed at any given time--and that those two aren't allowed to travel together out of fear that a traveling accident might take both of their lives.


    According to company historian Mark Pendergrast, Candler was so paranoid about the recipe leaking out of his proprietary control that he would go through the company mail himself to prevent any employees from seeing invoices that might tip off its ingredients.


    "It's this carefully passed-on secret ritual," Pendergrast told Glass, "and the formula is kept in a bank vault at Sun Trust, which used to be the Georgia Trust Company."


    After Pendergrast reviewed the recipe in the 1979 newspaper photo, he concluded that it could well be the real deal: "I think that it certainly is a version of the formula," he said, adding, "It's very similar to a formula that I found" in one of John Pemberton's notebooks when he was doing research for the book.


    So what's the secret to making Coke? Well, here's what was written in the notebook:


    The recipe:


    Fluid extract of Coca: 3 drams USP
    Citric acid: 3 oz
    Caffeine: 1 oz
    Sugar: 30 (unclear quantity)
    Water: 2.5 gal
    Lime juice: 2 pints, 1 quart
    Vanilla: 1 oz
    Caramel: 1.5 oz or more for color


    The secret 7X flavor (use 2 oz of flavor to 5 gals syrup):
    Alcohol: 8 oz
    Orange oil: 20 drops
    Lemon oil: 30 drops
    Nutmeg oil: 10 drops
    Coriander: 5 drops
    Neroli: 10 drops
    Cinnamon: 10 drops



    Pemberton had reportedly hit upon the formula for Coke in an attempt to overcome the addiction to morphine he contracted after the Civil War, so it's perhaps not surprising that, in addition to alcohol, the drink originally contained Coca leaves laced with cocaine. After Atlanta passed a local prohibition ordinance in the 1890s, the company took the booze out of the formula, and the company has used cocaine-free coca leaves since 1904.


    When the beverage debuted in Atlanta-area pharmacies owned by friends of Pemberton, marketers pronounced it "a shot in the arm"-- while Pemberton himself hailed it as a cure for cure pain, impotence and headaches. In our more enlightened age, of course, we know that Coke "adds life"--together with a dollop or two of neroli and nutmeg oil.




    Source: Did NPR’s ‘This American Life’ discover Coke’s secret formula? - Yahoo! News


    Coca Cola recipe: Top secret formula 'uncovered' by This American Life website | Mail Online


    'This American Life' says it's revealed Coca-Cola's top secret recipe [Updated] | Daily Dish | Los Angeles Times


    Is This the Real Thing? Coca-Cola's Secret Formula Discovered by This American Life - TIME NewsFeed

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    ^publicity stunt............. klaro kaayo................

    ni-menos naman ang coke gud.......labi pas local scene......... taparan lag RC tag-5..... LOL.........

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    Hahaha!
    Mas lami pa gali ang Jazz. Checkup lang usa ang botelya basin naay nag-lutaw2x sa sulod..
    hehehe

    Maypang redhorse, kusog kaayo ang halin.. nyahahaha

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    ^now you're talking............. LOL

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    finally reavealed. the main ingredient for this is still H2O. It contains about 95%.

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    Kaila kang lara? Lara co thits! Haha.

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    pweh di nga hahahaha di ko mutuo ani haha

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    ang gipangita nako ang secret recipe sa redhorse..

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    mag buhat ka ug imung personal distillery bro? para di mahutdan bah..hehe

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    Quote Originally Posted by treize View Post
    ang gipangita nako ang secret recipe sa redhorse..
    kana ang nindot brod....hehehe

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