One person said: “The drink undeniably had some cocaine in it in the early days, and it’s not bulls***, the coca stands for coca leaf which is the source of alkaloid, cocaine.”.
In fact, Coke still uses a coca (the leaf cocaine comes from) extract in the Coke formula.
Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine but not anymore, it still contains coca leaf extract though.”.
A third wrote: “Coca-Cola is Coca (the South American plant cocaine is derived from) and Kola (kola nut, a stimulant from West Africa).
The cocaine was extracted from the coca leaf and the the caffeine from the kola nut, which was spelt “cola” at the time).
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