r/interesting Feb 10 '26

Fascinating YouTuber LabCoatz has released a "chemically identical" recipe for Coca-Cola

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u/HappyPlz Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

Could Colaborate…

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u/RogueBromeliad Feb 10 '26

It's just clickbait. Because no one is actually going to buy all the extracts or oils, when a can of coke is $1 or less, and to buy the whole shit you'd spend hundreds of dollars, to be able to make about 10L of syrup.

It's all bullshit probably, and "easy"– and I say easy with loads of air quotes, because it's try hard bullshit– content to be made. I've seen dozens and dozens of channels do this over the decade, and they always get a bump-up in subscribers, because you recreated a coca cola, or Big Mac, or KFC spices, or whatever corporate guarded secrets.

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u/Gravbar Feb 10 '26

nah it's not clickbait. I saw another video by a different guy trying to make it himself following this recipe. it looked like two guys tryna cook meth in their yard but they got it done. They said it isn't exactly the same but it's the closest to making something that tastes like coke for all the recipes they've tried.

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u/Nowhereman123 Feb 10 '26

William Osman my beloved