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1886 Birthday of "Coca-Cola" - a recipe for this popular drink in the world
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In March 1886, in Atlanta, Colonel John Pemberton, a pharmacist by education, was trying to find a remedy for a headache. To this end, he cooked an unusual syrup caramel color. The recipe for the drink included a decoction of coca leaves, sugar and caffeine. Because of its effect, the drink turned out to be quite stimulating.
The syrup was sweet and thick, Pemberton appreciated the taste qualities of his creation rather highly. He decided to sell it through the pharmacy "Jacobs". The first portions of the syrup began to be sold here at five cents per glass. At first, the coca was bought in the amount of nine glasses a day.
Later in the drink began to add carbonated water. Around the same time, the drink was called Coca-Cola. The name and original font was invented by Frank Robinson - a friend and partner of John Pemberton.
After the death of Pemberton, the successful businessman Aza Kendler purchased the recipe for Coca-Cola from his widow for $ 2,300. And then Kendler placed the drink in metal utensils, in which he cooked it together with his own patented "Balsam from the Blood of Plants". Ten years later, Coca-Cola was strengthened in the name of the "therapeutic drink". And on January 31, 1893, the Coca-Cola trademark was officially registered in the United States.
Incidentally, it was in the same year in 1893 that a young pharmacist from New Bern, Caleb Bradham, conducted an experiment to create a pharmaceutical mixture of carbonated water, sugar, vanilla, rare oils and cola nuts. This unusual mixture under the silent name "Brad's drink" began to be sold in pharmacies as a cheerful, firming and digestive drink. Five years after the invention, Bradham gave the drink a new name - "Pepsi-Cola" and registered it as a trademark. The name was made up of the names of the ingredients - pepsin (digestive enzyme) and cola nut.
Four years later, in 1902, Caleb Bradham organized the Pepsi-Cola Company. And for more than a century Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola have been fighting for the title of the most popular drink in the world.