Coca-Cola Using Cocaine

[Will]

Story broke today on national news,no longer urban myth.   About 03-05 I worked on a project with CC #3 person Atlanta.  CC had a 20 year window to from DEA to find a replacement and were cut off. CC came out with the New Coke and it flopped.  CC pleaded with DEA nothing else gives CC that  "bite"  and they are on verge of going bankrupt worldwide. The DEA gave them another long extension. People laughed when I would tell them this story,of course the Coke us uncoked and dead from the DEA.  When people would visit the President in Atlanta CC and ask what is the secret  ingredient in the safe he would have them go over to the open safe and pull out the only paper in there with one word printed on it        Cocaine.     If the Govt. hid this for seventy years,what else are they hiding.   People used to laugh when I told them this story including some of my Federal buddies.

[Whisper]

I started typing a response to this and then I noticed today's date.  You almost got me.

Whisper

[FUJIMO]

I've always heard it was in the original formula but hadn't heard they were still using it that recently. Very interesting 

[FUJIMO]

Just now, Whisper said:

I started typing a response to this and then I noticed today's date.  You almost got me.

Whisper

He got me i guess lol. 

That doesn't change what I grew up hearing. Or what our GVT is capable of

[Luckyforward]

[Links2k]

2 hours ago, Will said:

Story broke today on national news,no longer urban myth.   About 03-05 I worked on a project with CC #3 person Atlanta.  CC had a 20 year window to from DEA to find a replacement and were cut off. CC came out with the New Coke and it flopped.  CC pleaded with DEA nothing else gives CC that  "bite"  and they are on verge of going bankrupt worldwide. The DEA gave them another long extension. People laughed when I would tell them this story,of course the Coke us uncoked and dead from the DEA.  When people would visit the President in Atlanta CC and ask what is the secret  ingredient in the safe he would have them go over to the open safe and pull out the only paper in there with one word printed on it        Cocaine.     If the Govt. hid this for seventy years,what else are they hiding.   People used to laugh when I told them this story including some of my Federal buddies.

Good one.
 

I thought it was general knowledge back in the day that CC contained cocaine. It least, that was the urban myth. 

[Will]

No Aprils Fools.  Story broke today,  Daily Mail  I would link it but do not know how. True story on my part.  

Daily Mail.com                   They are out of UK and break all/most stories hours to days ahead of any US reporting outlets.

Edited April 1, 2023 by Will
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[Johnny Rotten]

From my windows 95 operating manual

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[Will]

What a sad site this is,nobody  believed me!! LOL     but not a story to tell on April !st

[Will]

3 minutes ago, Johnny Rotten said:

From my windows 95 operating manual

control C

highlight

control V

 

 

Got a new Chromebook,still trying to figure things out.

[Whisper]

4 minutes ago, Will said:

What a sad site this is,nobody  believed me!! LOL     but not a story to tell on April !st

We believe you; it's just that this story didn't break today.  It's been reported often over the years; do a quick search and you'll find many stories dating way back.  Also suspicious in your first post was the mention of the DEA; Coca-Cola products are regulated by the FDA, so that was a red flag for fake news.

[Whisper]

As a follow-up, I found the Daily Mail story, which did indeed come out today.  But the Daily Mail is pretty much like the National Enquirer, in that they make a up a lot of stories, and not just on April Fool's Day.

Coca-Cola makes cocaine in this secret New Jersey factory | Daily Mail Online

[GlockSpock]

I’ve read that for years. Something to the extent that they grow it in the US, take the “tame” components and make cola and the “bad” components get used in pharmaceuticals. 

[Will]

6 minutes ago, Whisper said:

We believe you; it's just that this story didn't break today.  It's been reported often over the years; do a quick search and you'll find many stories dating way back.  Also suspicious in your first post was the mention of the DEA; Coca-Cola products are regulated by the FDA, so that was a red flag for fake news.

First time I seen the story in news with actual facts and photos.  FDA yes,but DEA is in place in plant and is delivered by DEA Armed Agents twice a year.    Why is it DEA controlled,as per CC do you know what value this would have on street for dealers to cut Coke with instead of baby formula.

[monkeylizard]

The Daily Mail has a calendar too. They know what day it is.

[ArmyBrat61]

Do any of you remember The Cola Wars of the 90s?  Richard Pryor was burned by coke and Michael Jackson was burned by Pepsi.......

[FUJIMO]

I still have a couple cans of "new coke" somewhere. And a crystal pepsi

[Luckyforward]

55 minutes ago, FUJIMO said:

I still have a couple cans of "new coke" somewhere. And a crystal pepsi

LET'S PARTY!

[Will]

2 hours ago, monkeylizard said:

The Daily Mail has a calendar too. They know what day it is.

Daily Mail? Never seen a bogus story from them,

[monkeylizard]

You're right. I went back and read the article. The article seems legit, but the title of this thread is not. Zero cocaine in Coca-Cola.

[BigK]

6 hours ago, GlockSpock said:

I’ve read that for years. Something to the extent that they grow it in the US, take the “tame” components and make cola and the “bad” components get used in pharmaceuticals. 

The Mrs and I watched a documentary about Coca Cola on the History Channel. It was quite interesting.

When the feds forced them to stop using cocaine, Coca Cola was cool w/ leaving it out since it added so little to the taste. Good ol Uncle Sam jumped in and said if they did they'd have to change their name. So, they hired a NJ company that imports coca leaves directly from Peru legally. The company sells the "spent" leaves to Coca Cola and sells the legally extracted cocaine to a pharmaceutical company for profit. Apparently this is all possible because the NJ company has some kind of exclusive sweetheart deal with the feds that lets them import the leaves.

[monkeylizard]

That's pretty much the gist of the Daily Mail article.

[BigK]

25 minutes ago, monkeylizard said:

That's pretty much the gist of the Daily Mail article.

My bad, I couldn't relinquish enough self-respect to click on the Daily Mail link.

[Whisper]

10 hours ago, Will said:

Daily Mail? Never seen a bogus story from them,

Then you haven't read them very much.

Daily Mail - Media Bias/Fact Check (mediabiasfactcheck.com)

Here's one of their classics: "Woman, 63, 'becomes PREGNANT in the mouth' with baby squid after eating calamari"

But it's a free country, and you get to believe what you want to believe.

Cheers,

Whisper

[Will]

OK so you do not  believe  The Daily Mail articles then please prove this story fake and post article here.