[Sca-cooks] Re: Cola was Mo+ie way 00P

[Dan Phelps]

Was written:

> > Curious, I thought it was called "cola" because it originally contained
> kola
> > nut extract (from the seeds of either Cola acuminata or C. nitida) which
> is
> > a lovely cocktail of caffeine and theobromine.  Of course, that
definition
> > makes "caffeine-free cola" an oxymoron.
>
> True... but the amount of kola nut extract in modern colas is on the order
> of parts per million, and is essentially undetectable in the flavor.

> Avraham

Avraham:

Two questions, it is my understanding that the kola nut is new world,
...correct?

I understand that coca cola's "original original recipe"  other patent
medicine ingredients.  When did they take cocaine out of coca cola or is
this a very persistent myth.

Daniel Raoul