Coke’s Archivist Confirms That Their Secret Recipe Has Not Been Leaked!

Yesterday, we told you about how the top-secret recipe for Coca-Cola might have finally been leaked out into the wild.

John Pemberton is the inventor of Coca-Cola, and back in 1979, a few pages of his journal were printed in the "Atlanta Journal-Constitution".  And one of them seemed to list all the ingredients in the recipe for Coke.

We also told you that a spokeswoman from Coca-Cola announced that no, that ISN'T the secret recipe.

She wouldn't say if it was an early attempt at the recipe, or if ingredients were missing, or if it was something else entirely... just that it's not the recipe, and the real recipe is hand-written and kept in a bank vault.

(Of course, my cynical side thinks it USED to be the recipe, but all the ingredients like lemon oil, caramel, and real sugar were replaced by chemicals a long time ago.)

Phil Mooney has been the archivist for Coca-Cola since 1977, and yesterday he said that the recipe floating around isn't just wrong... it's the same old wrong list that everyone always shows him when they think they've cracked Coke's secret.

He says that over the past 34 years, three or four dozen people have approached him, allegedly with the secret formula, and it's always the same, incorrect list as the one that's making the rounds this week.

(Time)