Irish Uncles Always Say Mineral Waters

When you're a child at an irish funeral, there's always an uncle who appears out of the crowd. They offer to buy you a mineral - we call our fizzy drinks like cork and fanta. Uncles always say mineral because it comes from mineral waters that had medicinal properties. But let's go back to these temperance cons in new york in the 18 nineties or early twentieth century. There was a typical drink that they would have been drinking in around 19 o five in one pharmacy: cocacola. It was literally just a drink of cocane. A fello pemberton got addicted to morphine after getting injuries,. He developed this drink, cocac