what is a cola? as in coca cola?

Answer 1

Coca-Cola (often abbreviated to "Coke") is a carbonated cola drink, and is the world's most popular soft drink. The Coca-Cola Company's headquarters are located in Atlanta, Georgia, where the drink was first concocted around 1886. Coke's inventor John Pemberton was not a shrewd marketer of his drink, but the ownership of Coke eventually passed to Asa Candler, whose company remains the producer of Coke today. Candler's successful marketing, continued by his successors such as Robert Woodruff, established Coke as a major soft drink first in the United States and later around the world.

Originally designed to be sold at soda fountains, Coca-Cola was later sold in bottles, whose distinctive shape have become a part of the drink's branding. Major advertising campaigns have established Coca-Cola slogans such as "The pause that refreshes" as part of popular culture. The formula for Coke, whose status as a trade secret has been embellished by company lore, once contained trace amounts of cocaine (about 1/400th of a grain, or 0.16 milligrams, per ounce of syrup, in 1902)[2], although this was removed around 1906 as health regulations were tightened. Nevertheless, Coca-Cola has been criticized for its possible negative health effects, with many urban myths surrounding it. In addition, the commercial success of the drink has been periodically challenged, in particular by its main rival Pepsi-Cola. This tension reached its peak during the 1980s, at the height of the Cola Wars, which eventually resulted in the heavily-publicised introduction of "New Coke", intended to replace the original Coca-Cola. The widely unpopular decision was eventually rescinded in the face of public opposition.

The Coca-Cola Company has on occasion introduced soft drinks under the Coca-Cola brand name. The most famous of these is Diet Coke, which has become a major diet cola, but others exist, such as Cherry Coke. There are also some drinks marketed by the company but which remain unaffiliated with Coca-Cola the drink, such as Sprite.

The famous Coca-Cola logotype is said to have largely been created by John Pemberton's business partner, Frank Mason Robinson, in 1885. It was Robinson who came up with the name, and he also chose the logo’s distinctive cursive script. The typeface used, known as Spencerian script, was developed in the mid 19th century and was the dominant form of formal handwriting in the United States during that period.

The equally famous Coca-Cola bottle, called the "Contour bottle" within the company, but known to some as the "hobble skirt" bottle, was created in 1915 by a Swedish former glassblower, Alexander Samuelson, who had emigrated to the US in the 1880's and was employed as a manager at The Root Glass Company in Terre Haute, Indiana, one of Coca-Cola's bottle suppliers. According to the Coca-Cola Company, Samuelson took time to ponder a possible new design for the bottle after production at his plant was shut down due to a heat wave. Inspired, he considered the possibility of basing a new design on the kola nut or coca leaf, two of the drink's flagship ingredients. He sent an employee to research the shape of the two objects in question, but a misunderstanding led to the man returning with sketches of the cacao pod — a crucial ingredient in chocolate, but not Coca-Cola. According to the company, it was this mistaken design that was accepted and put into production.

Although endorsed by the company, this version of events is not considered authoritative by many who cite its implausibility as difficult to believe. One alternative depiction has Raymond Loewy as the inventor of the unique design, but although Loewy did serve as a designer of Coke cans and bottles in later years, he was in the French Army in the year the bottle was invented and did not migrate to the United States until 1919. Others have attributed inspiration for the design not to the cacao pod, but to a Victorian hooped dress.

Answer 2

cola as in coca cola as just a ending for a soad pumped with drugs now cola mean nothing it is a a few things mixed to make one flavor and is very good

Answer 3

The cola in Coke-Cola refers to its original flavoring: the extract of the kola nut. It's a bitter West African nut reknown for its caffeine content. Nowadays, most cola manufacturers do not use real kola nut extract for their sodas (instead, they use artificial flavoring like caramel extract and citric acid), but a few still does.

Outside of West Africa, the kola nut grows along the Equator.

Answer 4

widely used coca-cola is genuinely somewhat more beneficial effectual for you because nutrition plan coke (like maximum products categorised nutrition plan) includes man made sweeteners which may reason an analogous complications as sugar plus about 80 more beneficial health complications. To get an entire recognize-how study man made sweeteners (e.g. aspartame, sucralose, etc.)

Answer 5

cola is the flavour but what is coca? maybe they made the word up from choca-late cos it looks like chocolate?

Answer 6

It started off as a health tonic -- part of the mid-late nineteenth century health craze -- invented 1886 in Atlanta by Dr. John Pemberton, orignally contained cocaine. History in links below.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

cola is a bean that has caffine that they use to make coke-a-cola

Answer 9

It's a type of nut, cola or kola nut and it contains caffeine.

Answer 10

the second word in the name of a highly popular multi-million pound soft drink