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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
Tue May 14, 2013, 05:40 AM May 2013

Has this man found the original recipe for Coca Cola in an old drawer ?

Has this man found the original recipe for Coca Cola in an old drawer? Antiques dealer puts 'secret formula' on eBay for $15MILLION.

A Georgia man claims he has found an original top-secret recipe for Coca-Cola in an old box of papers he purchased from an estate.

Now, Cliff Kluge trying to sell the formula on eBay for $15million.

The Coca-Cola Company, which has turned the secrecy surrounding its 19th-century cola recipe into the stuff of legends, says the formula might come close to Coca-Cola, but it's still not the real thing.

Kluge, an antiques dealer from Ringgold in northern Georgia, told WXIA-TV that he found the 1943 recipe in a box of personal papers and letters he purchased at an estate auction for a famous Georgia chemist.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324106/Coca-Cola-formula-Georgia-man-says-secret-1943-recipe-Coke.html#ixzz2TG5CBpmk



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Has this man found the original recipe for Coca Cola in an old drawer ? (Original Post) dipsydoodle May 2013 OP
Then that would be the one without Cocaine in it davidpdx May 2013 #1
Yeah we were told as children, it was wired !! orpupilofnature57 May 2013 #2
That is before my time davidpdx May 2013 #4
I own the deed to a bridge in Brooklyn... aristocles May 2013 #3
"It's simply amazing" high-fructose corn syrup 55, caramel coloring type E150d, BlueJazz May 2013 #5
OK, so where's the lemon smell come from? TrogL May 2013 #6
Hey..you didn't think I'd give it ALL out. That would cost you another 63 cents. BlueJazz May 2013 #9
Post removed Post removed May 2013 #7
Welcome to DU my friend! hrmjustin May 2013 #8
 

orpupilofnature57

(15,472 posts)
2. Yeah we were told as children, it was wired !!
Tue May 14, 2013, 06:05 AM
May 2013

Which would have had the same effect as the corn syrup, they started adding in 1968 .

 

aristocles

(594 posts)
3. I own the deed to a bridge in Brooklyn...
Tue May 14, 2013, 07:19 AM
May 2013

...that I found in a desk I recently bought at auction. Turns out it belonged to an engineer named Roebling.

Bidding starts at $10,000.

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
5. "It's simply amazing" high-fructose corn syrup 55, caramel coloring type E150d,
Tue May 14, 2013, 10:13 AM
May 2013

..phosphoric acid, vanilla, cinnamon, caffeine, carbon dioxide.

Every DU'er who reads this post owes me 63 cents. Thank you very much.

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