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Old 09-14-2007, 10:51 PM
MikeLM Offline
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Interesting sidelight on Coke...

My son is a controls engineer who has settled into the food/candy industry. He designs and installs the computer systems that control the machines that make the stuff (he does packaging machinery, too.)

Before his present position, he was with a company that was designing a system to squirt Coca-Cola syrup into the containers for an Indiana bottler. They wanted a machine that would measure the syrup to the fraction of a milliliter! Was it for taste control, I asked him?

He said no, they bought the super-secret Coke syrup in heavy plastic containers which were essentially a cube about two feet on a side.

Each container, about eight or nine years ago, cost $14,000.

They just didn't want to put in an atom of extra syrup.

Never drink it myself, though I have known two or three people who were addicted to it and needed a dozen or more bottles a day.

Mike
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