An 84-year-old retired beverage distributor claimed recently that he has had

the original Coca-Cola formula for almost 40 years.

Lee Williams wrote in to Dallas Morning News columnist Maryln Schwartz, after

she had written about the new Coke in her column. Williams said he was given

the formula in 1948, when he had a sales route for the Dr. Pepper Company.

A pharmacist named John Reed told him that he used to make his own syrup for

the cola because he had been given the original recipe. Reed said he had

gotten the recipe from an ingredient salesman who wanted to sell him the

ingredients for the syrup. He then pulled the formula from a file marked

“1898″ and let Williams make a copy of it.

If it’s true, this is your big chance to make up a batch of “The Real Thing”

yourself. Here’s the recipe:

30 pounds of sugar

2 gallons of water

2 pints of lime juice

4 ounces of citrate of caffeine

2 ounces of citric acid

1 ounce of extract of vanilla

6 drams (3/4 ounce) of fluid extract of cola

6 drams of fluid extract of coca

Don’t forget to mix with carbonated water before you drink it, like any

fountain drink. If you try it, let us know how it comes out.

Warning: Drink at your own risk.

(If they haven’t proved that any of these ingredients causes cancer yet, I’m

sure it’s just a matter of time.)

According to the Coca-Cola Company, the formula has never been given out. But

who knows? This could be the biggest leak ever…

http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-nature/emotions/happiness/being-happy/5-signs-not-happy.htm

This article, in the pathetic attempt to be some sort of authority, claims that an economic indicator is the sale of coke in a country.  Here’s a quote from the article and my response.

‘ In times of war and political strife in recent years, Coke sales have dipped; when stability returned, so did the soda consumption”

Are you kidding me?  Somehow a nation’s economy and happiness is based on coke sales?  talk about the dumbest thing I have read in a LONG time….geeze, let’s hope the sales of BMW’s aren’t affect by war either…..oh wait….

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I didn’t even bother read the rest of the article.  I’m sure other brain-dumbing and ‘not obvious to anyone with an IQ above 4′  facts are in there as well….like how a house will _actually_ get wet during a rain shower!  My god!  Car cruise nights attendance drops too!  Shocking but true!

It’s schlock like this that affirms the statement “The Internet makes you stupid.”

Personally, I’d like to know how that site gets funded when crap like that is spewed out.