Watch the “Eureka” moment when American pharmacist John Pemberton innovated one of the world’s biggest and probably (in the eyes of dentists) most regrettable inventions: Coca Cola. What initially began as a new medicine with some interesting applications ended up as the addiction of tens of millions around the world and an essential accompaniment to popcorn at the movies.
This “Drunk History” moment is brought to you by ingenious comedy writer Derek Waters, a very drunk Jenny Slate (narrator) and brilliant actor Bill Hader, who plays John Pemberton.
Video Source: Comedy Central, as seen on the YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-mU4pf3ywU
Canadian born and South African raised, Thea Beckman AKA Wander Woman Thea, is an experienced travel, food, and wine writer and (amateur) photographer with a devastating love of all of the above. She is a travel bug, a bookworm, and mildly alarmed by how many arthropods she can be at once. When she’s not writing for a living and for pleasure, she enjoys bird-watching, reading, drinking wine, cooking, and SHORT walks on the beach because the summer southeasterly winds in Cape Town are a real bitch.
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5 thoughts on “Drunk History: The Invention of Coca Cola”
My wife loves Drunk History. (And so do I. She just sneaks a lot more of it in when I’m at work.)
Drunk history is way better than Sober history. There’s also Next Morning With a Hangover History, but probably that wouldn’t fly as a You Tube channel. Or maybe it would.
My wife loves Drunk History. (And so do I. She just sneaks a lot more of it in when I’m at work.)
I mean, it’s clearly superior to Sober History.
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Oh gosh, who has time for Sober History??
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Ha ha ha! Thanks for sharing this video! 😀
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Drunk history is way better than Sober history. There’s also Next Morning With a Hangover History, but probably that wouldn’t fly as a You Tube channel. Or maybe it would.
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