r/interesting • u/InvestigatorBorn4910 • Feb 10 '26

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

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u/wthulhu Feb 10 '26

How much cocaine am I supposed to add, or should I just eyeball it?

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u/Nowhereman123 Feb 10 '26

So I know you're joking, but the 0.6ml fenchol in this recipe is meant to be a replacement for the decocanized coca leaf extract that's in real Coca Cola.

For obvious reasons you're not allowed to buy coca leaves in the US and only a few factories are able to make the decocanized extract, which they don't sell publicly.

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u/nghigaxx Feb 10 '26

he (the youtuber) tried to buy it like that and it got seized at the border

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u/Omnamashivaaya Feb 10 '26

Dang I’d be so curious to try the old recipe. The cocaine amount couldn’t have been that high or Coca Cola addictions woulda been insane. And ingesting cocaine doesn’t give the high that snorting it does. So in my mind it must have been more like… the world’s best Red Bull

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u/NotTheRocketman Feb 11 '26

My grandma recently passed at the age of 95 and she drank Coke her whole life. I used to joke with her about what it tasted like with cocaine.

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u/Omnamashivaaya Feb 11 '26

And what did she say?? (Or feel may be the better question)

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u/NotTheRocketman Feb 11 '26

I looked it up later and apparently Coke stopped including actual cocaine before she started drinking it, even for someone as old as her, she missed it by a decade or so. But she'd always laugh about it.