thought of you this morning while reading about Vin Mariani, a wine popular in France in the 1860s. It was chocked full of cocaine and caffeine.
in the US during prohibition days, a Georgian entreprenuer came up with the nonalcoholic alternative, a sweetened cocaine caffeine concoction that he named Coca Cola--immediately popular, though food critics thought it tasted like liquid ka-ka. when cocaine was made illegal in the US, they just put in more caffeine and sugar.
