Coca Cola:We discovered that Coca Cola was made by a doctor it was so post to be a medicine but instead it was a soft drink “ better cooled”🤪We also got to try all the soon new Coca Cola flavors it was gross and delicious at the same time. The floor was sticky too it was gross. This was a great experience!
THE DEEPER STORY 🥤
It really did start with a doctor — in 1886, an Atlanta pharmacist named John Pemberton mixed the first batch a few blocks from where you were standing, and Jacobs’ Pharmacy sold it for five cents a glass. The recipe has been a guarded secret ever since: it sat in a bank vault for 86 years, was once used as collateral for a loan, and since 2011 it’s lived inside the vault in this museum. Nobody gets in.
About “gross and delicious”: the bitter one in the tasting room is called Beverly, an Italian aperitif soda that was discontinued years ago. It survives only here — kept on tap as a prank with decades of straight faces behind it.
TRIP FACTS 📍
Downtown Atlanta · invented 1886 · first sold at Jacobs’ Pharmacy for 5¢ a glass · formula in the vault since 2011 · Taste It! room pours 100+ drinks from around the world
IF THIS GRABBED YOU… 🐇
The secret formula’s whole saga → en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_formula
Inside the Vault exhibit → worldofcoca-cola.com/explore-inside/explore-vault-secret-formula
Beverly, the infamous one → en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_(drink)
