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IcyPeas

(21,904 posts) Tue May 11, 2021, 12:08 AM May 2021

1961 - Coca-Cola's first commercial (it'll keep you thin)

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1961 - Coca-Cola's first commercial (it'll keep you thin) (Original Post) IcyPeas May 2021 OP

Did it still have cocaine as an ingredient in '61? nt Laffy Kat May 2021 #1

Nope, that was out of the formula decades before that commercial. cstanleytech May 2021 #2

According to Google ... left-of-center2012 May 2021 #4

Ahh, the good old days, when sugar and caffeine were slimming, and... LudwigPastorius May 2021 #3

Laffy Kat

(16,386 posts)

1. Did it still have cocaine as an ingredient in '61? nt

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Tue May 11, 2021, 01:19 AM

May 2021

cstanleytech

(26,319 posts)

2. Nope, that was out of the formula decades before that commercial.

Reply to Laffy Kat (Reply #1)

Tue May 11, 2021, 02:37 AM

May 2021

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)

4. According to Google ...

Reply to Laffy Kat (Reply #1)

Tue May 11, 2021, 09:17 AM

May 2021

Coca-Cola stopped putting cocaine in Coke in 1929.

My mother who was born in 1905 said she drank a lot of Coke when she was in college.
She mentioned that if she didn't drink it she would get terrible headaches.

I don't think she ever knew that there was cocaine in it.

LudwigPastorius

(9,167 posts)

3. Ahh, the good old days, when sugar and caffeine were slimming, and...

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Tue May 11, 2021, 02:47 AM

May 2021

unfiltered Camels gave your throat a "vacation".

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