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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Secret of Coca Cola - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 22-May-84 18:43:00 EDT
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trsvax!mikey    May 22 17:43:00 1984



Coca-cola had a LOT of Cocaine in the good old days.  It was originally
sold as a patent medicine for hangovers.  It was sold in syrup only in the
late 1800s.  According to legend (an old copy of either Rolling Stone or
High Times, I can't remember which) the use of Coca-cola with soda water
started to become popular at soda fountains in drugstores around 1890.  This
infuriated the people that control our morals so much that laws were passed
outlawing carbonated beverages (i.e. sodas) on Sundays.  Remember that sodas
consumed to excess then where not harmless.  Undocumented legend says that this
is where the term sundae came from, as it was about the only thing the drug
store soda fountains could sell on Sunday besides straight ice cream.

Mikey at trsvax

p.s.  This is probably where the bit about aspirin and coke came from.