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\u00a0 Well here’s one I’ve never heard before. \u00a0When you say “White Coke” I think most people would think of cocaine, (which was actually originally an ingredient in Coca-Cola<\/a>) but there was a clear version of Coke produced for a Soviet leader decades ago. \u00a0They have a lot of flavors–vanila, lemon, lime, cherry, coffee and green tea and also had the New Coke which didn’t go over well in 1985, but this one was actually made clear to look like vodka.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A lot of people drink Rum and Coke but I don’t think I’ve heard of vodka and Coke, but the way the market has been trending with flavored cocktails, I wouldn’t put it past Coke to come up with a vodka flavored one…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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From Mental Floss.\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n
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During negotiations over the division of Germany, Dwight D. Eisenhower, then the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, brought a little treat for Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union. The gift was simple, but Eisenhower was anxious to share<\/a>\u00a0it: Coca-Cola, a\u00a0favorite drink from back home. For Zhukov, it was love at first sip\u2014but\u00a0there was a problem. Coca-Cola was (and is) about as American as mom and apple pie. Though Zhukov had a reputation for being able to challenge Joseph Stalin and live to tell the tale, he knew his newfound love for Coke would never fly. So, he found a workaround.<\/em><\/p>\n

Zhukov made a request through top U.S. military officials\u2014some say<\/a> it went all the way up to President Harry Truman\u2014for a clear version of the drink that looked like vodka. Perhaps urged by the government to encourage diplomatic relations, Coke obliged, taking out the caramel syrup but retaining the flavor: White Coke.\u00a0In order to further disguise the distinctive beverage, it was shipped to General\u00a0Zhukov in cylindrical bottles labeled with the Soviet star. His first shipment was\u00a050 cases.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably good that Zhukov got it while he could. Though Pepsi was available in the Soviet Union beginning in 1973, Coca-Cola didn\u2019t make its legal debut<\/a> until 1985\u201411 years after Zhukov\u2019s death.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Well here’s one I’ve never heard before. \u00a0When you say “White Coke” I think most people would think of cocaine, (which was actually originally an ingredient in Coca-Cola) but there was a clear version of Coke produced for a Soviet leader decades ago. \u00a0They have a lot of flavors–vanila, lemon, lime, cherry, coffee and Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-trends"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}