Elon Musk to buy Coca-Cola, Wants 'to put cocaine back'
After buying one of the biggest social media platforms - Twitter, Elon Musk has expressed his will to buy Coca-Cola company.
On Thursday, Automobile company Tesla and SpaceX owner Elon Musk tweeted about buying Coca-Cola company and putting the cocaine back in it. The tweet is trending among social media users. Within two hours, Elon's tweet has crossed 1 million likes, 200K retweets, and 60K quote tweets. Recently, he bought one of the biggest social media platforms, Twitter for $44 billion.
Elon Musk's tweet about buying Coca-Cola
On Friday, taking it to Twitter, Elon Musk wrote, "Next I'm buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in."
Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022
He also tagged an old tweet of himself in which he wrote that he wants to buy McDonald's too. While tagging an old tweet, he wrote, "Listen, I can't do miracles."
As per a report by CNN, after the deal with Twitter for $44 billion, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has become the richest man in the world.
The statement by the world's richest man
In a statement, Elon said, "Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated."
Further, he said, "I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spambots, and authenticating all humans. Twitter has tremendous potential - I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it."
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Coca-Cola's history with Cocaine as an ingredient
In the initial phase, when the soft-drink Coca-Cola was launched, it actually used cocaine as a key ingredient. In the 1890s, cocaine was used as a medicinal drug in the US due to its medicinal properties. Even the brand name Coca-Cola is derived from the main ingredient caffeine which is sourced from the kola nut and another ingredient as cocaine which is derived from the coca leaf.
The drink was launched in the market as a brain tonic and an intellectual beverage and it was advertised as a patent medicine that cures headaches, upset stomach, and fatigue. However, by the year 1929, the ingredient was totally removed from the drink during the Prohibition Era in the US.
