Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola is one of the most popular soft drinks in the world. It was first made by Dr. John Pemberton in Atlanta, America in 1886. Dr. Pemberton was not a real doctor, but he sold syrup to the people who were ill. At first, he made his Coca-Cola drink with syrup and soda water. Then he gave it to his friends to try. They like it but asked him to make it even better.

To improve his drink, he decided to add coca leaves, cola nuts and some other things that he kept in secret. Meanwhile, 99% of it was still sugar and soda water. He called his new drink “Coca Cola.” However, it did not sell well at first, so he sold his secret, and he died two years later.

In 1892, Asa Candler bought the secret and started the Coca-Cola Company. At that time, people had to drink the soft drink in the shops. When Coca-Cola became very popular, people wanted to take bottles of it home, so Mr. Candler agreed to sell it in bottles.

In 1919, Mr. Candler sold his part of the company for US $ 25 million. Today, Coca-Cola Company is one of the largest companies in America, and people can buy Coca-Cola in many countries. It is still the same drink that at Dr. Pemberton made in 1886.

Kellogg's

Kellogg’s

Will Kellogg, an American, was born in 1860. He discovered new breakfast by mistake. Compared to his brother who was a doctor, he had little education. He worked with his brother at the Battle Creek Health Center in Michigan. They tried to make new healthy food from wheat for the patients. They boiled it and rolled it out flat, but nothing seemed to work.

One day, Will cooked some wheat as usual and had to leave. When he came back, the wheat had become stale. He decided to roll it, and he was very surprised to see it become flakes. After baking, they were light brown in color. Then he developed his wheat flakes until there was no stale wheat. He began serving his patients new breakfast. They loved it so much and bought it home, also.

Later, he made a new cereal from corn called corn flakes. His business grew very well, so he decided to start his cereal company, the Toasted Corn Flake Company. Since then the way we eat breakfast has been changed.