>florida water = the fountain of youth, used in hoodoo practices
>shares main ingredients with coca-cola formula
>closely guarded secret formula
Why did the ponce de leon springs vanish? What was John Pemberton trying to achieve?

>>40665651 (OP)
>What was John Pemberton trying to achieve?
Alchemy and Spagyrics

it's the fountain of youth, just like the image says. it may have gotten corrupted or it may still be there.

>>40665841
Are John Pemberton and the Candler family still alive? Supposedly Pemberton had a leg wound during the civil war and "developed" coca-cola as a painkiller.

>>40665858
they might very well be, achieving immortality is easier than one can imagine. kind of weird since coke doesn't have any painkilling properties, isn't it supposed to be energizing?

I read that Coca-Cola is still allowed to import coca leaves and denature them to extract proprietary favoring. Maybe they put more of it in Diet Coke as people that are into it drink it by the case and that incudes Trump.

The water in the St. Augustine area smells of rotten eggs as it's got a lot of sulfur in it.

Is there a tie between the makers of Florida Water cologne and Coca-Cola?

>>40666392
They're also likely blocking the sale of the Cocalero aperitif

>>40665651 (OP)
Stop listening to that retarded drug addict hippie

woah..

>>40666857
based coca chad spitting on cola niggers as always

Bump

>>40666392
It's because diet soda doesn't really fill you up like regular soda does. Your body tastes it but that taste prepares the body for the consumption of calories and it gets nothing - which just makes you crave more. You can drink it forever.

>>40666392
They were on opposite sides (yankee NYC vs. cracker Atlanta).

Florida water came out in 1808 and the company became Lanman & Kemp in 1861. (Immediately before the Civil War.)

1861-1865: Civil War (Atlanta burns)
1865-1871: First Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
1883: Founding of the “Capital City Club” (CCC) in Atlanta.
1886: Pemberton develops CoCa-Cola (CCC), supposedly to get him off morphine.
1888: Asa Griggs Candler becomes obsessed with buying out Pemberton’s recipe and eventually does.
1910s: Candler is a millionaire on Coca-Cola money and becomes the mayor of Atlanta. Atlanta burns again; Candler directs the rebuilding.

So I wonder if Coca-Cola is a Klan project. But it obviously doesn’t grant immortality, so is some ingredient missing? Why are they obsessed with selling “the real thing” worldwide?
Thought:
>coca-cola has to be readily available everywhere so the immortal sons can easily brew the elixir of life
>for the rest of the population it actually counteracts these effects
>remember, africans and indians use Florida Water for hoodoo. The klan would have wanted to prevent this! No better way to inoculate against it than to flood the system with the same compounds bound to corn syrup

Also
>A Spanish drink called "Kola Coca" was presented at a contest in Philadelphia in 1885, a year before the official birth of Coca-Cola. The rights for this Spanish drink were bought by Coca-Cola in 1953.

>>40665651 (OP)
https://youtu.be/riVfVkEuOZM

This is important.

>>40666862
Who? That old world Florida dude? I figured he made this post because no one loves Florida like he does. That guy thinks Florida is the garden of Eden and Atlantis and everything else good in the world

>>40669489

fun fact: coca-cola used to be marketed with the slogan "Coke adds life."

This only stopped when it was revealed that Chinese marketers were translating the slogan too literally with Chinese characters that meant "Coca-Cola brings your dead ancestors back to life."

So they ended
up changing it to characters that translated roughly to "Happiness in the mouth"

>>40665651 (OP)
>shares main ingredients
>Bergamot, orange blossom/neroli (same thing), lavender, rose, clove, cinnamon
Those ingredients are too widely used in other stuff, you might as well say perfumes are florida water too you dummy

>>40665651 (OP)
Great share, thanks!!

>>40670269
Great write-up anon. I'm not sure what went on with the brand during WW1, the roaring 20's and the great depression but WW2 ushered in a major chapter for Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola president Robert Woodruff worked with FDR to implement a program to deliver a botte of coke to any GI in both the European and Pacific theater for 5 cents a bottle. The program bypassed and dwarfed sugar rations and was a logistical feat that entailed 64 botting factories along with portable botting plants at the frontlines.

I remember National Geographic magazines often had a scene of a Coca-Cola sign or beat up vending machine in the most remote regions of the word otherwise untouched by modernity. Like that "The God's Must Be Crazy" movie.

Why distributing a soft drink initially at a financial loss was given such primacy during a world war is truly a mystery I can't claim to understand.

I don't know if the KKK was overly concerned over Florida Water. That sounds like a stretch. Hoodoo incorporates all kinds of kitchen items and household goods. FW doesn't play nearly that big a role in the tradition to warrant a crusade.

>>40669489
I get the metabolic argument but no. The behavior is unique to Diet Coe and doesn't translate to other diet sodas. My theory is that the denatured coca leaves used in the flavoring excite the addiction centers of the brain in a homeopathic or spagyric sort of way.

>>40670982
Op probably believes that too
This guy thinks Florida invented everything

>>40665651 (OP)
Cool thread