Was coke originally green?
I’ve been looking at a ‘list of facts’ e-mail sent to me at work. Most of the outlandish claims in it have so far proven to be false. This is perhaps the ‘fact’ that has been easiest to disprove however:
Coca-Cola was originally green.
A quick Google search instantly reveals a page on the Coca-cola Company’s website denying the rumour. In barely two lines of text, they say:
This is indeed just a rumor. Although the famous contour bottle is green, Coca-Cola has always been brown in color, since its start in 1886.
The rumour could perhaps be a confusion of the other common conception that the Coca-Cola ‘father Christmas’ figure used in early adverts wore a green coat. I’ll be looking at histories of this particular story in more detail at a later date.