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Breaking: Elon Musk tweets on why he’s ‘buying Coca-Cola’

Breaking: Elon Musk tweets on why he’s ‘buying to buy Coca-Cola’

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Breaking: Elon Musk tweets on why he's 'buying Coca-Cola'

ELON MUSK has joked that he wants to buy out soft drinks giant Coca-Cola so that he can put cocaine in the recipe.

The world’s richest man has already had an offer to take Twitter into private ownership accepted in a £35.02bn ($44bn) takeover. With Tesla and SpaceX already under the control of the tech mogul, Mr Musk’s 87.2 million followers were treated to yet a humorous update from the tycoon.

Mr Musk tweeted: “Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in.”

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The tweet quickly went viral receiving close to 370,000 retweets, as well as 2.2 million likes.

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Needless to say, the memes and comments came rolling in following the news.

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Baby Doge tweeted “new packaging?” as he shared a picture of a small self-sealing bag labelled “Coke” with a quantity of the soft drink replacing white powder.

Whilst others jokingly replied “can you buy Facebook?” and “can you buy Instagram?” and then “delete” them.

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Elon Musk’s tweet went viral after posting online (Image: Twitter)

Another user, CryptoWhale, joked: “Can you buy McDonald’s and fix those damn ice cream machines?”

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Coca-Cola did previously list cocaine as one of its ingredients.

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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, cocaine was legal in 1885 when John Pemberton, a pharmacist from Atlanta, first brewed the drink.

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The original recipe included an extract taken from coca leaves, hence giving rise to the name we all know today.

Mr Pemberton described the drink as a “patent medicine” and “brain tonic and intellectual beverage”.

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A 1988 New York Times article on The Coca-Cola Company also reported how cocaine was initially included in the drink but eliminated by the 1900s.

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