Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta sells the first Coca-Cola

Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta sells the first Coca-Cola

The product that has given the world its best-known taste was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on 8th May 1886.
Dr. John Stith Pemberton, a local pharmacist, produced the syrup for Coca-Cola.

He carried a jug of the new product down the street to Jacobs’ Pharmacy, where it was sampled, pronounced “excellent” and placed on sale for five cents a glass as a soda fountain drink.
Carbonated water was teamed with the new syrup to produce a drink that was at once “Delicious and Refreshing,” a theme that continues to echo today.

The first newspaper ad for Coca-Cola soon appeared in The Atlanta Journal, inviting thirsty citizens to try “the new and popular soda fountain drink.”
Ads at the time claimed that the drink included 3.5g of Cocaine….

In 1998, a Coca~Cola company spokesmen told The New York Times, that the original recipe brewed in 1886, included cocaine, but the drug was then eliminated from the recipe…..
The cocaine in the drink was more specifically ecgonine, a precursor to cocaine.
It was derived from extract from the coca plant.

Personally, i prefer mine with added vodka