"Moxie was the nation's top-selling beverage until the 1920s, when it was overtaken by…Coca-Cola"

August 29, 2014 Chapter 8 - [Rum and Coca-Cola] Moxie was the nation's top-selling beverage until the 1920s, when it was overtaken by a soft drink of even more exotic ingredients. Its inventor was a pharmaceutical chemist from Atlanta named John Pemberton. He concocted it with infusions of the coca plant from the Peruvian Andes and the high-caffeine kola nut from Africa, then tempered it with seven secret flavoring agents. Pemberton named the drink after its principal ingredients: Coca-Cola. All Excerpts From Curtis, Wayne. “And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails.” THREE RIVERS PRESS, 2007. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.