Has this man found the original recipe for Coca Cola in an old drawer ?

[dipsydoodle]

Has this man found the original recipe for Coca Cola in an old drawer? Antiques dealer puts 'secret formula' on eBay for $15MILLION.

A Georgia man claims he has found an original top-secret recipe for Coca-Cola in an old box of papers he purchased from an estate.

Now, Cliff Kluge trying to sell the formula on eBay for $15million.

The Coca-Cola Company, which has turned the secrecy surrounding its 19th-century cola recipe into the stuff of legends, says the formula might come close to Coca-Cola, but it's still not the real thing.

Kluge, an antiques dealer from Ringgold in northern Georgia, told WXIA-TV that he found the 1943 recipe in a box of personal papers and letters he purchased at an estate auction for a famous Georgia chemist.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324106/Coca-Cola-formula-Georgia-man-says-secret-1943-recipe-Coke.html#ixzz2TG5CBpmk

[davidpdx]

1. Then that would be the one without Cocaine in it

Darn.....

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Yeah we were told as children, it was wired !!

Which would have had the same effect as the corn syrup, they started adding in 1968 .

[davidpdx]

4. That is before my time

[aristocles]

3. I own the deed to a bridge in Brooklyn...

...that I found in a desk I recently bought at auction. Turns out it belonged to an engineer named Roebling.

Bidding starts at $10,000.

[BlueJazz]

5. "It's simply amazing" high-fructose corn syrup 55, caramel coloring type E150d,

..phosphoric acid, vanilla, cinnamon, caffeine, carbon dioxide.

Every DU'er who reads this post owes me 63 cents. Thank you very much.

[TrogL]

6. OK, so where's the lemon smell come from?

There's also a bit of maple finish.

[BlueJazz]

9. Hey..you didn't think I'd give it ALL out. That would cost you another 63 cents.

[hrmjustin]

8. Welcome to DU my friend!