From McDonald ’s Big Mac sauce to KFC ’s 11 herb and spice , companies that trust on trade secrets go to capital lengths to keep them secret .
In fact , it ’s long been rumour that only two people eff the normal to Coca - Cola — and actually , they each only know half , so even if one of them turned traitor , the complete formula would still remain a mystery . What ’s more , those two executivesaren’t allowedto change of location on the same plane for fright that if a clangour take place , the total formula would be lose forever .
Great tale , ripe ? But according toSnopes , the legend is much embellished to incite the great mystery , which has been feature in several advertizing campaigns . And though it may once have been that only two people knew the formula , they each bonk the whole affair — and there have been time that at least four people within the companionship were secluded to the magical recipe .
Additionally , the airplane tarradiddle was likely concocted to sports fan the flames of the secret formula . A handwritten recipe has been in the ship’s company ’s possession since at least 1925 , when theydeposited itsecurely at SunTrust Bank in business district Atlanta . In 2011 , it was moved to a massive , multi - million dollarvaultat the World of Coca - Cola in Atlanta as part of the holidaymaker attraction there . But if an actual formula exists somewhere other than the brain of two of Coca - Cola ’s top executive , why would it matter if those bigwigs went down on the same flight ?
All of this secrecy and security around the rule may be for naught , anyway . In 2011 , the folks at NPR’sThis American Lifefound anold recipein theAtlanta Journal - Constitutionarchives they had reason to believe was the real thing behind the Real Thing . The Coca - Cola Company was nonplused . “ I ca n’t tell you how many people have come forward over the years and claimed to have the formula for Coca - Cola,”saidPhil Mooney , prescribed archivist for the Coca - Cola Company . “ I probably have three or four dozen examples of that . And they ’ll say , well , I knew this old pharmacist — almost the same story that you secern me . ”
But that ’s precisely what Coca - Colawouldsay , is n’t it ?
