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From: John <>
Subject: Re: [APG] APG Digest, Vol 3, Issue 156
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:03:46 -0600
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> Since *Coca* Cola got its name from one of
> its ingredients, the coca leaf (raw material for
> cocaine) and was made this way until I think the
> mid 1950s (I knew someone who used to go down to
> Mexico where some of the old stock was sold into
> the 1970s), it certainly ought to taste a bit
> different than the modern version.

According to Snopes - the experts on Urban Legends - Coca Cola was
completely free of cocaine by 1929. And it was as little as 1/400 of
a grain of cocaine per ounce by 1902..

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp

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