Feb 15

Coca-Cola Secret Recipe Outed – Report

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Coca-Cola’s recipe is said to be one of the best kept secrets in all the world (particularly now that we all apparently know what goes into a bucket of KFC)–you know, the one that only two people in the world know, so they’re not allowed to fly on the same plane, because if it were to crash, we’d be plunged into an age of Coke-free darkness.

Oh, and also, there are armed guards who stand outside a vault holding the secret recipe all day, every day. So we hear.

Now the secret has apparently been blown by the folks at Public Radio International’s This American Life. Yep, Ira Glass and his bespectacled minions have blown the lid off of this sucker. That’s actually the recipe above. There’s also a PDF on This American Life’s site.
Coke, for its part isn’t comment directly on the discover. Instead, the company is saying things like, 

The ingredients used in our beverages are listed on the product labels and many people have tried over time to crack the secret formula of Coca-Cola. That secret combination of ingredients holds a special place in the history and mythology of Coca-Cola -something we continue to celebrate as we mark our 125th anniversary this year.

Among the ingredients are: alcohol, orange oil, lemon oil, nutmeg oil, and cinnamon.

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