Whats the only place in the world you can taste nearly 70 different sodas — free?
Edward Rothstein, the closest thing to Walter Benjamin currently on the payroll of the New York Times, took a walk on what — for him at least — was the wild side with a recent visit to the Coca-Cola company’s new museum (above) in Atlanta, Georgia. Long story short: In the museum’s final gallery were “… five pillars, surrounded by taps offering the company’s sodas, each pillar devoted to a different continent.” He wrote about his adventure in a July 30, 2007 article, which follows. Ingredients: Carbonated Water, High-Fructose Corniness … You can’t beat the feeling. Life tastes good. It’s the Real Thing. I have just emerged from the Coke side of life here, where the Coca-Cola Company had its origins in a patent medicine concocted by an eccentric, ailing and possibly drug-addicted entrepreneur in 1886. And after visiting the company’s new museum; after sitting in a theater, wearing 3-D glasses, feeling floating bubbles pop against my skin from well-timed puffs of air; after strolling
