Only two countries don’t have Coca Cola…

Coca-Cola is one of the most popular soft drinks in the world.

In fact over one billion cans of Coca-Cola re consumer every day.

But, did you know that only two countries in the world don’t have Coca-Cola and they are Cuba and North Korea.

Coca-Cola was first invented by a pharmacist called John Pemberton … as a medicine to cure headaches.

It is called “Coca-Cola” because of the original ingredients used in the medicine. Cola leaves and Kola seeds. Wine was also added in place of sugar similar to the coke we drink today.

It is fair to say that the drink has grown from selling nine drinks a day in a single country in 1886 to distributing 1.8 billion beverages in more than 200 nations.

Equally true is that it has produced some memorable and outstanding Television adverts over the years, no doubt we can soon look forward to seeing their annual burst of adverts along the theme of “holidays are coming”….

The company says that the 1971 vintage of “I’d like to buy the world a coke” remains as one of its most popular.

As you might expect with such a world famous brand there are heaps of facts about Coca-Cola, here’s just a few which caught my eye:

• If you accidentally got gum in your hair, rinse it in Coca-Cola and the gum will come out very easily
• Coca-Cola means “to make mouth happy” in Chinese
• If all the Coca-Cola bottles in the world were laid end-to-end the would reach the moon and back more than 1,677 times
• The name of the flavour base included in the secret formula for Coca-Cola is referred to as 7X
• Only a few people know the secret formula for the beverage. Concentrate for ‘Coca-Cola’ is made in a number of centralised production facilities, and is exported to all countries in the world that bottle ‘Coca-Cola’
• Artist Haddon Sundblom’s portraits for Christmas holiday advertisements, which began in the 1930’s, helped mould the image of a red-suited Santa Claus   
• ‘Diet Coke’ was launched nationally in Australia in 1983 … by the end of that year; it was already the second highest selling carbonated soft drink in Australia after ‘Coca-Cola!

 It's fair to say that the product has done well!