- Elon Musk tweeted Wednesday that he would like to buy Coca-Cola.
- His reason? He wants to “return the cocaine” to the soft drink, the billionaire said in a tweet.
- Many Twitter users have posted offers for other companies that Musk should buy.
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Elon Musk tweeted Wednesday that he would like to buy Coca-Cola to “put cocaine back into” the drink.
Musk’s announcement came two days after the billionaire acquired Twitter in a $ 44 billion deal. “Let’s make Twitter as fun as possible!” He tweeted less than an hour after expressing his plans for the beverage company.
Although Musk’s comments about Coca-Cola are probably ridiculous, they carry some historical truth.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, cocaine was legal in 1885 when John Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, first prepared the drink.
At the time, Pemberton’s recipe included cocaine extract derived from coca leaves. He describes the drink as a “patented medicine” and a “brain tonic and intellectual drink”.
A 1988 New York Times article for The Coca-Cola Company also reported how cocaine was originally included in the drink, but eliminated it in the 1900s.
Representatives of The Coca-Cola Company did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.
Musk’s tweet about Coca-Cola, which spread viral, sparked a response from spokesman Lauren Böbert, who attacked the documented drug use by Hunter Biden. “Does Hunter ask you for favors?” she wrote.
Since Musk’s acquisition of Twitter was announced, many users of his platform have tweeted suggestions of what companies to buy next.
A Twitter user wrote that Musk had to “buy Fox” to get the green light for another season of the TV series Firefly, to which Musk replied: “Some science fiction that actually includes science fiction would be great. “.
Another Twitter user wrote, “@elonmusk needs to buy the History Channel and make it for history,” to which Musk responded with emojis crying with laughter.
Twitter has seen huge changes in the number of its users since the buyout, with left-wing political accounts losing thousands of followers and right-wing users gaining them en masse.
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