“The original 19th century Coca-Cola formula had some residual amount of ■■■■■■■ precursor in it, but that amount was drastically reduced to mere traces by the early 1900s and entirely eliminated by 1930.”
I doubt that there was enough of the original coca leaf extract to get anyone high. Still, that’s where the nickname came from. It’s not at all unusual for a nickname based in the past to stick around for a decade or two after the ingredient disappeared. The blocked out word is c.o.ca.i.n.e.
Oh good grief, it redacted the words hard core with only one space, but as one word it’s OK, and as separated words OK, but only put one space in there and ■■■■ it’s blocked out.. WOW po-of is redacted also…
Who ever wrote this redacting algorithm is a freaking idiot… lol
And idiot is OK, but stu-pid is not?? Wow, just wow!!!
When I lived in Santa Monica the city mistakenly installed speed bumps on a road; they had to take them out to replace them with speed humps. It was big news in Santa Monica.
Albuquerque has added a lot of speed humps when they renovated roads, along with roundabouts.
Thomas Wolfe used the word dope for coke in ‘Look Homeward, Angel’. He also used an old regionalism for brazil nuts I won’t even spell - you’ll have to look it up for yourselves.
No different then saying hand me that Skill saw instead of circular saw, or Bobcat instead of Skid Steer etc etc…
And no, coke is not a daily topic, but it does come up whenever you get someone new to the south that says soda or whatever… or hear someone call a skid steer a Bobcat, or or or…
