1. Coca-Cola Once Contained Cocaine Via artpulsemagazine.com In 1885, Coca-Cola was so named because of two of its ingredients: kola nuts and coca leaves. In the use of liquid extract from coca leaves, it was inevitable that at least a small amount of cocaine was included in Coke until the substance was altogether eliminated in 1929. In fact, in 1891, when discussions about the negative aspects of cocaine were beginning, the makers of Coke wanted to get rid of coca leaf extract as an ingredient altogether. However, they were worried that it wasn’t right for the product to be named “Coca-Cola” without at least a little coca leaf in it. Nevertheless, even when the product did still contain some cocaine, it was only in such a small amount that it couldn’t have possibly caused any significant effects in consumers.
2. Martin Luther King, Jr. Called For A Boycott Of Coca-Cola The Day Before He Died Via shambahallanewearth.com Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” delivered on April 3, 1968 is best known for how King seemed to foresee his impending assassination, which indeed took place the very next day. What isn’t often mentioned about the lengthy speech is that in it, he uttered the following line: And so, as a result of this, we are asking you tonight, to go out and tell your neighbors not to buy Coca-Cola in Memphis. King advocated the boycott of “white goods” as a non-violent means of protesting against racist businesses. At that time, white workers in Coca-Cola plants were getting paid a much higher wage than their black counterparts, while it was the latter who were being made to stay long hours and do the difficult work. That practice seemed to continue many years later, as in November of 2000, Coca Cola agreed to pay a large group of minority employees $192.5 million to settle a class action racial discrimination suit brought against the company. Today, however, Coca-Cola is one of the leading companies in terms of the diversity of its workforce.
3. A Coke Advertisement Was Recalled Due To Obscenity Koka-Kolin-poster-iz-1995.-godine-sa-jasnom-seksualnom-slikom Just as obscene images have managed to make their way into some of Disney’s animated films for children, an obscene image was also snuck into a supposedly wholesome Coca-Cola poster released in South Australia during the mid 80s. The advertisement was in support of a campaign to promote the reintroduction of the original contoured Coke bottle, and thousands of posters were distributed to bottle shops and hotels across Sydney. To the great shock and embarrassment of Coca-Cola executives, retailers began complaining about the risqué image in one of the ice cubes on the ad. Predictably, the company ordered the recall and destruction of the posters. Furthermore, the artist responsible for inserting the obscene image was fired and sued.
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