Traditional Recipe: Elon Musk Teases Twitterians, Promising to Get Cocaine Back in Coca Cola

08:14 GMT, 28 April 2022

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Evgeny Mikhaylov

The eccentric billionaire has acquired the networking service Twitter for roughly $44 billion. This stirred up a major discussion in the US media regarding freedom of speech and online censorship, since Musk is believed to have bought Twitter to loosen the rules on the platform.

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It looks like Elon Musk is really happy about buying Twitter, so he is ready to return some other products to their good old ways... but maybe, they were not so good, after all. The Tesla CEO decided to crack a classic Coca-Cola joke, declaring that he is buying Coca-Cola next, in order to put the cocaine back in.

A screenshot of a post by Elon Musk, joking about buying Coca-Cola

The American soft drink, invented in 1885, indeed used to contain an extract of the coca leaf (thus, the name "Coca-Cola"). Back then, cocaine was legal in the US and widely used in medicine. However, it was excluded from the recipe by 1929, as people learn more about the drug and its effects.