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Man Claims to Have Found Long-Lost Coca-Cola Recipe

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:11:53 +0000

Maybe you can beat the real thing. Cliff Kluge, of Ringgold, Georgia – who describes himself as a “treasure hunter” — claims to have come across an item as steeped in Americana as baseball and apple pie: a 1943 recipe for Coca-Cola. Since Coke protects its secret like a guard does Buckingham Palace, this could [...]

Could Coca Cola Super Bowl Ad Lure Visitors To Cody? [VIDEO]

Gailen Sprague — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:41:11 +0000

The town of Cody is getting name checked in connection with a Coca-Cola ad set to air Sunday during the Super Bowl.Coca-Cola’s ad has a group of cowboys racing showgirls and scavengers for some soda. The cowboys’ hometown isn’t mentioned in the ad itself, but the fictional online biography that Coca-Cola posted for the cowboys [...]

Coke or Pepsi?

Tom McCarthy — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:06:22 +0000

Sure your dentist lectures you about it, but there's no denying that we all love a good sugary, carbonated beverage. The question is, which is your favorite?

Coke Billboard in the Philippines Reduces Air Pollution

Shauna Wright — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:46:44 +0000

Billboards are usually just meant to promote a product or Donny and Marie Osmond’s latest casino residency, but this sign in the Philippines is doing a lot more — it’s reducing air pollution, too.

Coca-Cola and the World Wide Fund for Nature (known Stateside as the World Wildlife Fund) collaborated on a 60-by-60 foot billboard made of 3,600 potted Fukien tea plants. The plants are potted in discarded bottles from Coca-Cola company products and specially modified to grow sideways with an efficient drip irrigation watering system. The billboard can absorb as much as 46,800 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.

Spanish Man Claims Family Invented Coca-Cola

Jon Michaels — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:30:54 +0000

You can’t beat the real thing, but you can take credit for inventing it. A man in the small Spanish town of Ayelo is taking credit for Coca-Cola, claiming his family is responsible for creating the world’s most popular soft drink. Seventy-two-year-old JuanJo Mica runs his family’s distillery, originally known as Cola Coca, which features [...]