If not what color was it originally?
2006-07-15 04:25:05 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Non-Alcoholic Drinks
Hi..Cremedelacreme,
Now almost over 120 years old ..and selling in more than 200 countries..
Invented in 1886 by: John Pemberton..
I put 2 links, below..who says it all, I guess!;)
My regards!
2006-07-15 15:29:33 · answer #1 · answered by Kimberly 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
If you mean the bottle: the bottle was once a great deal smaller and a light green, with nice spirally ridges.
If you mean the contents: well that's an interesting subject. The original color was a bit clearer, more brownish, because in the beginning Coca Cola contained coca... that's the plant that cocaine is derived from, and it was pretty damned addictive. If fact the Federal government tried for about 20 years to get them to replace it with something less controversial, but since the company was transnational they were able to dodge this bullet.
People loved it as a drug: in the south some people still refer to coke as dope. It wasn't until about 1948 that Dr. Harry Anslinger, head of Truman's new Food and Drug Administration, was able to successfully force the company to remove the coca.
At first the company tried different bitter tropical berries with varying degrees of addictivity (because they knew that was a large
part of the appeal of the product)... but eventually the sugar chemists at the company discovered that caffeine and lots and lots and lots of sugar made it as addictive as they needed it to be, and completely legal.
In the eighties they upped the addictiveness by switching from cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup, which is lovingly called in the business 'the heroin of processed sugars'...
The fact that people let their kids drink this stuff sometimes several times daily is a testimony to how unaware most Americans are about the nature of the products they consume.
2006-07-15 05:11:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think I read in Uncle John's Bathroom Reader that Coca-Cola was orignally green.
2006-07-15 04:28:47 · answer #3 · answered by candace 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-10 09:58:20 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The packaging used to be blue I think.. but the actual drink has always been that dark brown colour.
2006-07-15 04:28:58 · answer #5 · answered by Sorcha 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it's always been brown from the carmel surup that is added.
Although apparently the president of Russia (Krushchief?) was such a big fan that they made a clear version for him to drink, so the russian people wouldn't know he wasn't drinking the national drink of vodka
2006-07-15 04:30:00 · answer #6 · answered by SunyJim 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Normal CocaCola has always been caramel, to my knowledge.
However, in 1994, Coke did introduce CocaColaClear. It was flavored like coke but was totally clear. It didn't survive.
2006-07-15 04:28:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the actual color of coke is green and not a nice green either the ucky green, they added colour to make it more appealing
2006-07-15 04:29:37 · answer #8 · answered by in ur face 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you mean red? i've never seen a vintage bottle any other color than red!!!
2006-07-15 04:28:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope..it was originally green. cool huh?
2006-07-15 04:28:41 · answer #10 · answered by sacred_90 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋