Exactly 135 years ago, on March 29, it was created a recipe for a popular drink Coca-Cola.
In March 1886, in Atlanta, Colonel John Stith Pemberton, a pharmacist by education, was trying to find a palliative for headaches. For this purpose, he brewed an unusual caramel-colored syrup.
The recipe of the drink included a decoction of coca leaves, sugar and caffeine because of its effect, the drink turned out to be quite stimulating.
The syrup was sweet and thick Mr. Pemberton rather appreciated the taste of his creation. He decided to sell it through Jacobs Pharmacy. The first servings of syrup were sold here for five cents a glass. At first, the coca was sold out for nine glasses a day.
Later, carbonated water was added to the drink. Around the same time, the drink was called Coca-Cola. The name and the original font were coined by Frank Robinson, a friend and partner of John Pemberton.
After Pemberton’s death, successful businessman Asa Candler purchased a Coca-Cola recipe from his widow for $ 2,300.And then Candler placed the drink in a metal bowl, in which he brewed it together with his own patented Plant Blood Balm.
For the next ten years, Coca-Cola was strengthened in the name of medicinal drink.And on January 31, 1893, the Coca-Cola trademark was officially registered in the United States.
By the way, it was in the same 1893 a young pharmacist from New Bern, Caleb Bradham, conducted an experiment to create a pharmaceutical mixture of carbonated water, sugar, vanilla, rare oils and cola nuts.
This unusual mixture under the unvoiced name Brad’s drink began to be sold in pharmacies as a laughing, strengthening and digestive drink.Five years after the invention, Mr.
Bradham gave the drink a new name Pepsi-Cola and registered it as a trademark.The name was made up of the names of the ingredients pepsin (a digestive enzyme) and kola nut.
Four years later, in 1902, Caleb Bradham organized the Pepsi-Cola Company. And for more than a century, Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola have been fighting for the title of the most popular drink in the world.
The Turkmenistan Coca-Cola Bottlers Business Company, located in Ashgabat and producing Coca-Cola Classic, Coca-Cola Şekersiz, Fanta Mandarin and Sprite beverages, has been functioning in Turkmenistan for a long time.
The plant has been operating since 1998 and is the official bottler of the Coca-Cola company.Working directly with distributors, it provides with its products more than 11,000 sales outlets throughout Turkmenistan.