00:00Have you always wondered how your favorite soft drink got its name?
00:03One thing that many of the early soft drinks had in common is that they were created and sold in pharmacies.
00:09They claimed to be elixirs that could cure all kinds of ailments.
00:13Headaches, fatigue, nerve disorders, even morphine addiction.
00:17But in the end, people drank them because they tasted delicious.
00:20The very first glass of Coke was poured in 1886.
00:24The formula for Coke is the stuff of legends.
00:26It's very secretive and supposedly only a select few have ever known the actual recipe through the ages.
00:32It was named for two of its main ingredients, the coca leaf and the cola nut.
00:36And yes, cocaine is derived from coca.
00:39And yes, the earliest versions of Coke did contain some cocaine.
00:43But the process was changed and cocaine was eliminated by about 1903.
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