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Cola leaf extract and coca nut juice

Cola leaf extract and coca nut juice. The Little Word that Could. “Coca-Cola” is 2 nd most well-known English phrase around the world 1 st is “OK” The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Invention , by Allan Metcalf 1 st use in Boston newspaper in March 1839.

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Cola leaf extract and coca nut juice

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  1. Cola leaf extract and coca nut juice

  2. The Little Word that Could • “Coca-Cola” is 2nd most well-known English phrase around the world • 1st is “OK” • The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Invention, by Allan Metcalf • 1st use in Boston newspaper in March 1839. • A joke abbreviated for “oll korrect,” an intentional misspelling of “all correct.” • Enemies of Andrew Jackson said he was barely literate and approved papers with the initials “O.K.” for “oll korrect”. • Telegraph operators began using it for “all clear.” • Another theory • Martin van Buren as “Old Kinderhook”

  3. Two “soft” drinks as rivals, but Devil = “hard” liquor http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=eiO_JES4yBY 0:32

  4. Should the Government Tax Soda?The push for a “soda tax” on sugary drinks • By the numbers: • Soda’s rank among all beverages consumed in U.S. = 1 • Soda’s percentage by volume of all beverages consumed in U.S. = 26% • Ounces of soda consumed per person annually in U.S. = 6,080 • Part of a larger debate about “junk food” taxes” and “fat taxes”, as well as other “sin taxes” • A tax of a penny per ounce would raise $15 billion in one year • CEO of Coca-Cola: “outrageous idea … it never works where a government tells people what to eat and what to drink”

  5. “cure” dyspepsia and relieve peptic ulcers “Great American Temperance Drink”

  6. Liquor part of U.S. history • Triangular trade, Whiskey Rebellion, “Alcoholic Republic” • War vs. Drink • Puritans: pleasure = sin • “Maine Law” • Progressive movement • Crime, abuse, accidents, disease

  7. 18th AmendmentJanuary 1920 • Manufacture, sale and transportation = illegal • 1919 Volstead Act to implement and enforce • .5% • Increased visits to church and doctor • “Great social and economic experiment” OR “drunkenness driven indoors”?

  8. Speakeasy Bootlegging

  9. “moonlighting”

  10. Alcohol Funny Car

  11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJdKK6L8Z2o

  12. 15 legal medical marijuana states and D.C. • California’s Proposition 19, to permit anyone over the age of 21 to have, grow, and transport marijuana for personal use, lost in November 2010

  13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLUlqkguf9k stop at 4:30

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