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To learn about the birth of the most famous drink in the world, we have to go back at the end of
the 19th century in Georgia, Atlanta. There lived the Dr. John Stith
Pemberton, a chemist and pharmacist of the city whose curiosity led
him to create the formula of best-selling beverage in our days.
Georgia pioneered the State adopt the prohibition in the United States,
renouncing the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages during an
experimental period in the years 1886 and 1887. Industry and the work
involved grew at a considerable pace, and with them the working hours
of workers who demanded stimulating products that help them cope with
the daily effort.
Pemberton spent much time mixing ingredients to create a new drink "stimulating and
invigorating" (that was the claim of Coca-Cola in a home) conceived in principle among others
many remedies and elixirs of the time. But there was something different in it: Pemberton got
that unique flavor that characterizes Coca-Colamixing natural ingredients like the leaf of the
coca plant, the Kola nut and soda water in your laboratory. It was on May 8, 1886.
With the syrup in a pitcher, Pemberton turned towards the today famous Jacob's pharmacy,
where each cup of syrup, water carbonated and ice began selling at the price of 5
cents. Gradually this new drink was becoming a site between the local society and was sneaking
up on the everyday lives of Americans.
In this video you can see a recreation of the original formulation of Coca-Cola (Pemberton
mixed the ingredients by hand and eye in his lab!) and the way of consuming it in the beginning.
Frank M. Robinson , the accountant of Pemberton, was who suggested the name with which
the drink was made famous and even drew the logo thinking that the two capital letters C would
create a colorful design and that everyone would remember.
During 1888 Doctor Pemberton was selling small portions of his business and shortly before his
death sold the remainder to Asa g. Candler, whose business acumen made him buy additional
rights and take control of the beverage. Pemberton died without knowing the worldwide success
of the drink he had created.
The myth of the secret formula for Coca-Cola was born in 1892 when Asa introduced some
changes in the original soft drink formula and
transmitted them in secret to his sons and heirs:
thus they could only manufacture successful beverage
During 1895, Coca-Cola went from being a medicinal
elixir to become one of North America's most
popular soft drinks: their slogan became "delicious
and refreshing", and began to appear the factories
outside Atlanta branches, expanding United States and neighboring Mexico and Canada. At that
time appeared the first two official bottlers: Benjamin Franklin Thomas and Joseph Brown
Whitehead.
Already at the beginning of the century XX Coca-Cola wanted to not only its formula and flavor
were identifiable and unique, but also your bottle: it had to be curvaceous, very recognizable
(even in darkness or rattan) and should not have paper labels. From the hands of the
craftsman Earl Dean was born the iconicContour bottle.
In the Decade of the twenties the company began bottling in Europe, also reaching our country .
ejemplos de monlogo:
1. Mi primer amor
Un da entr una jovencita que tena el cabello negro y los ojos tan
azules como el lapislzuli, la piel era clara y su sonrisa sutil, tena la
mirada suave y una hermosa voz; ella se llamaba Isabel.
Fue amor al instante, pero tena que irse, yo lo comprend, tena que
esperar un poco. Pero de pronto se abri el pavimento y se hizo un
bache de 3 m de ancho y 2 de profundidad, y ah muri..,
Por que!, vida ingrata! Qu e hecho yo, para que me arrebates en tan
horrible transe el amor de mi vida?! Ella tan hermosa, y productiva! Era
la mejor persona que conoca!