If you are politically correct, you must avoid drinking Coca-Cola..
Confederate Colonel John Pemberton, wounded in the American Civil War and addicted to morphine, also had a medical degree and began a quest to find a substitute for the problematic drug. In 1885 at Pemberton's Eagle Drug and Chemical House, his drugstore in Columbus, Georgia, he registered Pemberton's French Wine Coca nerve tonic. Pemberton's tonic may have been inspired by the formidable success of Vin Mariani, a French-Corsican coca wine, but his recipe additionally included the African kola nut, the beverage's source of caffeine.
It is also worth noting that 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.
In 1886, when Atlanta and Fulton County passed prohibition legislation, Pemberton responded by developing Coca-Cola, a nonalcoholic version of Pemberton's French Wine Coca. It was marketed as "Coca-Cola: The temperance drink", which appealed to many people as the temperance movement enjoyed wide support during this time. The first sales were at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886, where it initially sold for five cents a glass. Drugstore soda fountains were popular in the United States at the time due to the belief that carbonated water was good for the health, and Pemberton's new drink was marketed and sold as a patent medicine, Pemberton claiming it a cure for many diseases, including morphine addiction, indigestion, nerve disorders, headaches, and impotence. Pemberton ran the first advertisement for the beverage on May 29 of the same year in the Atlanta Journal. From Wikipedia
There is no doubt in scientific circles that Coca Cola and other fizzy sugary drinks are partially responsible for the obesity, Type 2 Diabetes around the world, now knowing this bit of history of its origin by a CONFEDERATE GENERAL would help those people, especially those have near or distant connection with slavery and also any of the marginalized, to quit drinking Coca Cola. This would be a good advice to Mexicans who gulp gallons of that stuff per day..
- There is a church known as the "Coca-Cola Church" in Chiapas, Mexico.
- At the church, which is really called St. John the Baptist, Coke is used as decoration, for healing, and for religious services.
