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24/02/2024 12:43 pm
Danbury Mint's 1925 Ford Model T Coca-Cola Delivery Van loaded with barrels of Coca-Cola syrup brought back some memories. From 1950 to 1956, we lived in a small town with the classic soda fountain / drug store on the corner of my street. Whenever I got the stomach flu with nausea and diarrhea symptoms, my mother would go to the corner and buy a glass of Coca-Cola syrup to soothe the symptoms. Not only was it sweet and yummy, but it actually worked! It tasted a whole lot better than Pepto-Bismol. I googled it and it seems that many doctors still prescribe it today... although I'd have no idea where to find it as those mom and pop local drug stores with their soda and ice cream counters have all but disappeared and soda mixing machines are stocked by vendors and not handled by the shop owners.
Anyway, I love this little DM model that always gives me a smile.
24/02/2024 2:20 pm
It was called 'coke' for a reason. From Wikipedia:
Use of stimulants in formula
When launched, Coca-Cola's two key ingredients were cocaine and caffeine. The cocaine was derived from the coca leaf and the caffeine from kola nut (also spelled "cola nut" at the time), leading to the name Coca-Cola.[73][74]
Coca leaf
Founder, John Pemberton, called for five ounces of coca leaf per gallon of syrup (approximately 37 g/L), a significant dose; in 1891, Candler claimed his formula (altered extensively from Pemberton's original) contained only a tenth of this amount. Coca-Cola once contained an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass. (For comparison, a typical dose or "line" of cocaine is 50–75 mg.[75]) In 1903, it was removed.[76]
After 1904, instead of using fresh leaves, Coca-Cola started using "spent" leaves – the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process with trace levels of cocaine.[77] Since then (by 1929[78]), Coca-Cola has used a cocaine-free coca leaf extract. Today, that extract is prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey, the only manufacturing plant authorized by the federal government to import and process coca leaves, which it obtains from Peru and Bolivia.[79] Stepan Company extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it then sells to Mallinckrodt, the only company in the United States licensed to purify cocaine for medicinal use.[80]
Long after the syrup had ceased to contain any significant amount of cocaine, in North Carolina "dope" remained a common colloquialism for Coca-Cola, and "dope-wagons" were trucks that transported it.[81]
24/02/2024 4:38 pm
@perrone1 .....Rich opted for the big orange 13" depthgauges .......guess who`s buggy rolls into Frankfort first?
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24/02/2024 4:48 pm
@perrone1 .....Rich opted for the big orange 13" depthgauges .......guess who`s buggy rolls into Frankfort first?
Ah, Patton? Oh, wrong question! 
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