Eighteen

Oct 7 2009, 07:48 PM

Pepsi for me. It tastes better (yes, I can tell the difference), it never contained cocaine or claimed to be a medicine, and I like the company, which also makes Mountain Dew and Lays chips.

lulzmach1ne

Oct 8 2009, 10:10 AM

Eighteen

Oct 7 2009, 07:48 PM

Pepsi for me. It tastes better (yes, I can tell the difference), it never contained cocaine or claimed to be a medicine, and I like the company, which also makes Mountain Dew and Lays chips.

Er, that's where you're wrong. Completely wrong, in fact. It was originally sold flat as a cure for headaches in the late 19th and early 20th century, and contained a tiny amount of cocaine until it was made illegal in 1986 or whenever it was. I still much prefer it to Pepsi, though. But the ULTIMATE carbonated soft drink for me, is DR. PEPPER. It's awesome and I'm addicted.

Sandvich

Oct 9 2009, 04:02 PM

They taste exactly the same to me, besides, root beer is better.

Also, just because the ingredient in Coca-Cola comes from the same plant as cocaine doesn't mean it has cocaine in it.

Wiki

 

Coca — cocaine
Pemberton called for five ounces of coca leaf per gallon of syrup, a significant dose; in 1891, Candler claimed his formula (altered extensively from Pemberton's original) contained only a tenth of this amount. Coca-Cola did once contain an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass, but in 1903 it was removed.[28] Coca-Cola still contains coca flavoring.

After 1904, instead of using fresh leaves, Coca-Cola started using "spent" leaves—the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process with cocaine trace levels left over at a molecular level.[29] To this day, Coca-Cola uses as an ingredient a cocaine-free coca leaf extract prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey.

In the United States, Stepan Company is the only manufacturing plant authorized by the Federal Government to import and process the coca plant,[30] which it obtains mainly from Peru and, to a lesser extent, Bolivia. Besides producing the coca flavoring agent for Coca-Cola, Stepan Company extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it sells to Mallinckrodt, a St. Louis, Missouri pharmaceutical manufacturer that is the only company in the United States licensed to purify cocaine for medicinal use.[31] Stepan Company buys about 100 metric tons of dried Peruvian coca leaves each year, according to Marco Castillo, spokesman for Peru's state-owned National Coca Co.[32]