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Welcome to I Am Your Target Demographic and today we're discussing Coca-Cola.
Some history, some facts, and a general sense of the company.
Our story begins in 1885 when a former confederate colonel named John Pemberton created a drink that served as a replacement for morphine.
He was wounded in the war and didn't want to rely on morphine, so this drink helped to ease him off of it.
He pitched this drink also to help with things like nerve disorders and headaches, almost a cure-all elixir.
It originally included alcohol, but with the dawn of prohibition, Pemberton created a non-alcoholic formula.
It was called Coca-Cola because it contained extract from the coca plant, which also creates the narcotic cocaine.
The amount of cocaine in the early days is incredibly minimal though, and it was also present in most other medicines of the time as well.
The last traces of cocaine were removed by 1929.
Some of the videos I'm using here are courtesy of a Comedy Central segment of "Drunk History" retelling this account.
