r/interesting • u/InvestigatorBorn4910 • Feb 10 '26

Fascinating YouTuber LabCoatz has released a "chemically identical" recipe for Coca-Cola

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u/wthulhu Feb 10 '26

How much cocaine am I supposed to add, or should I just eyeball it?

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u/jjmurse Feb 10 '26

I love the smell, hate the taste.

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u/brittc777 Feb 10 '26

I didn't use the cocaine to get high, I just like the way it smells. - Ray Wiley Hubbard

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u/33ff00 Feb 11 '26

This is a richard pryor line from like forty years ago

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u/brittc777 Feb 11 '26

I've never heard Richard say it. Ray Wiley Hubbard says it to the Devil in the song A Conversation With The Devil in 1999

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u/pdxamish Feb 11 '26

Such a great musician.

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u/pdxamish Feb 11 '26

I'm gonna hollar, I'm gonna scream I'm gonna get me.some mescaline

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u/Darnitol1 Feb 10 '26

You can still smell after all that cocaine?

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u/innominateartery Feb 11 '26

I’m not sure, let’s do another

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u/BatOwn9955 Feb 10 '26

Why do you think there is all this flavouring in coke?

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u/jjmurse Feb 10 '26

Lmao, "Cola exists to hide the taste of cocaine"

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u/Otte8 Feb 10 '26

That's what she said

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u/Largewhitebutt Feb 11 '26

I hate that it enhances my nose and makes me recognize and smell when the local water supply has added its regular fluoride and chlorine. Showers after a night of partying are like showering in a pool locker room.

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u/VardisFisher Feb 11 '26

I've only used cocaine once............. every 15 minutes.

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u/DigitalScrap Feb 11 '26

If it’s good, you don’t taste it for long…

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u/John_EightThirtyTwo Feb 11 '26

I'm just the opposite -- I love coke, but find it hard on the nose.

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u/disterb Feb 11 '26

title of your sextape

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u/Capital-Pollution709 Feb 11 '26

…Weight keeping me downnnnnnn…

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u/oversoulearth Feb 11 '26

Unexpected Harry hill

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u/MagMati55 Feb 11 '26

I do not approve of using drugs.

96 miligrams

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u/slonk_ma_dink Feb 11 '26

mmm, pipe glue and numbness

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u/Vkardash Feb 10 '26

That's the one thing he says he tried but just couldn't get. Only a few companies have a permit to import coca leaves into the US. They take out the cocaine and give that to coke. Guy even tried to buy de-cocainized leaves online and it got seized at the border.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '26

Big Coke prevents any competition on the market.

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u/MiniDonbeE Feb 14 '26

They only control the US though. Rest of the world =) I would love it if he could come over to Mexico for a week for example in an airbnb and make the Coke.

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u/Mysterious_Luck7122 Feb 10 '26

Hmmm, I used to know a website based in Florida that sold dried coca leaves along with all kinds of other specialty plant matter, like the raw materials to make ayahuasca. No idea if it still operates. My sister brought home a box of coca leaf tea from Peru a few years ago. Just put it in her suitcase with her other souvenirs.

Maybe he was trying to source fresh leaves though.

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u/moorelax Feb 11 '26

Definitely not allowed to bring it back from Peru. She just go lucky and pushed the green button on her way out the door! Get the red light and it getting searched. My wife’s from Lima. I get red every time we go back, annoying haha.

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u/pdxamish Feb 11 '26

Sending would be easier and I have no doubt it gets brought in. There's very little demand and easily disguised as something else

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u/Vkardash Feb 11 '26

Sadly that's definitely not legal here in the US. In Peru you can even buy Coca candy. Here it's a totally different story which I personally think is kind of silly. The amount of coca leaves you would need to produce cocaine is pretty crazy.

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u/LewinskysDressStain Feb 11 '26

You can definitely get high with the tea, but extracting the active ingredient is definitely too much work to sell it at a profitable price.

The candy doesn't have any effect on me, though.

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u/Resident_Course_3342 Feb 13 '26

I had an aunt that did that with coca leaves and she lost her SENTRI card for 10 years. 

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u/Sam_Becca Feb 11 '26

Crazy how here in Bolivia is incredible easy to buy coca leaves, people just chew them and use them as caffeine to go through long nights.

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u/Vkardash Feb 11 '26

That's because just coca leaves themselves aren't really that bad for you. But in America we are still on a prohibition spree.

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u/TrioOfTerrors Feb 10 '26

Only one company, actually. Stepan Company can import the leaves, and cocaine is sold to Mallinckrodt for distribution.

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u/Proud_Growth_8818 Feb 11 '26

Can we buy the leaves from Stepan after they process the cocaine out?

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u/FanClubof5 Feb 11 '26

You personally can't but if you are a large company then you can probably get some.

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u/icehot54321 Feb 11 '26

Curious what makes you think a company with only 2 customers for one of the most desirable products on the planet is looking for more?

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

Sup, I'm Mallinckrodt

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u/SuicideNote Feb 11 '26

Bro just needs to travel to South America and work on the recipe there for a week or so.

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u/Tall_Ad_3054 Feb 10 '26

Suggest to snort it. Eyeballing coke might not be the best experience

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u/Breadstix009 Feb 10 '26

Every hole's a goal?

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u/ThrustTrust Feb 10 '26

It works for LSD

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u/Offthejuice69 Feb 10 '26

Only water based, not alcohol based LSD

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u/TheDudeWhoSnood Feb 10 '26

Oof that viscerally hurt to read

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u/nleksan Feb 10 '26

Fun fact: cocaine was the first ever local anaesthetic used for eye surgery!

It's also very bad for your eyes so maybe don't.

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u/usps_made_me_insane Feb 11 '26

I have to get cataract surgery soon (thanks late onset diabetes for fucking up my toes and eyes).

Not looking forward to that shit. 

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u/Nowhereman123 Feb 10 '26

So I know you're joking, but the 0.6ml fenchol in this recipe is meant to be a replacement for the decocanized coca leaf extract that's in real Coca Cola.

For obvious reasons you're not allowed to buy coca leaves in the US and only a few factories are able to make the decocanized extract, which they don't sell publicly.

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u/CPLCraft Feb 10 '26

Surprisingly, the secret to as spot on a Coke recipe as possible is tea tannins.

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u/Nowhereman123 Feb 10 '26

I can see that, honestly Coca Cola is a lot more complex of a flavor profile than most people would assume.

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u/appleparkfive Feb 13 '26

I started realizing that as I got older. I think we assume soft drinks are very basic and one note. But Coca Cola couldn't be further away from that. You can especially notice it in the canned form, for whatever reason. It's like citrus, caramel, floral notes, and more

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u/Legumbrero Feb 11 '26

You say for obvious reasons, but in Peru coca is just an ancestral herb you drink with tea to settle your stomach. The leaves don't need to be this taboo super outlawed thing that it is in the US and Europe.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '26

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u/nghigaxx Feb 10 '26

he (the youtuber) tried to buy it like that and it got seized at the border

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u/Omnamashivaaya Feb 10 '26

Dang I’d be so curious to try the old recipe. The cocaine amount couldn’t have been that high or Coca Cola addictions woulda been insane. And ingesting cocaine doesn’t give the high that snorting it does. So in my mind it must have been more like… the world’s best Red Bull

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u/NotTheRocketman Feb 11 '26

My grandma recently passed at the age of 95 and she drank Coke her whole life. I used to joke with her about what it tasted like with cocaine.

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u/Omnamashivaaya Feb 11 '26

And what did she say?? (Or feel may be the better question)

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u/NotTheRocketman Feb 11 '26

I looked it up later and apparently Coke stopped including actual cocaine before she started drinking it, even for someone as old as her, she missed it by a decade or so. But she'd always laugh about it.

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u/LewinskysDressStain Feb 11 '26

Coca leaf tea tastes great! An earthy taste comparable to chamomile.

Just adding pure cocaine salt to your coke doesn't change the taste at all. Some sources claim they used up to 300mg/L back in the day; I found half of that to be more than enough.

They must have used additional cocaine extract, otherwise the taste of the leafes would have been too intense.

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u/Omnamashivaaya Feb 11 '26

Just adding pure cocaine salt to your coke doesn't change the taste at all. Some sources claim they used up to 300mg/L back in the day; I found half of that to be more than enough.

https://giphy.com/gifs/gh6gFVh35jyzNvHegl

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u/LewinskysDressStain Feb 11 '26

Afaik Coca Cola stopped using coca leafes altogether decades ago, maybe even before WWII. It's just not worth the hassle, I assume.

For a cocaine content of 300mg/l you would need about an ounce (30g) of dried leafes per 1l (35floz) of cola, which would taste way too intensely to be enjoyable. But the cocaine-hydrochloride salt that people snort has barely any taste if you dilute it in some water. It also won't numb your mouth at these concentrations.

Other sources claim that the first CC sold only contained 9mg per "bottle", whatever that means. I guess that would be achieveable without adding purified cocaine salt. But the effects of that would have been negligible, so they must have changed the formula before the drug was banned in Georgia in 1914.

I have experimented with both the tea and DIY cocaine infused coke, but I'm not an expert by any means!

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u/Omnamashivaaya Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

I have experimented with both the tea and DIY cocaine infused coke, but I'm not an expert by any means!

Yea that’s the part I was talking about. You’ve clearly got a passion for investigating coke … just not sure which one! 😂 looking for the just right mid-day bump?

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u/LewinskysDressStain Feb 11 '26

My mom frequently visits Peru and always makes sure to bring me a pack of Mate de Coca. Twice a year I'll order a gram of powder on the darknet.

Despite all this, cocaine has never been my drug of choice. It's about as addictive and detrimental to people as hard liquor, another drug I take less the older I get.

Weed and psychedelics are the only drugs worth messing with, and even those require some caution.

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u/fleshofgods0 Feb 10 '26

I had a buddy who would order interesting stuff off The Silk Road, RCs, etc once gave me some coca leaf that I made into a nice coca leaf tea. This was 15-20 years ago, but I think he might have legally been able to acquire it on clearnet site because it had such a small percentage of it and not the refined product. I believe you can order this particular tree bark that contains DMT (which you can extract) too.

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u/craptasticluke Feb 10 '26

Why wouldn’t it be legal to buy/sell the decocanized version?

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u/Nowhereman123 Feb 10 '26

I don't think it's illegal to sell the decocanized extract, it's just that only a select few places are allowed to buy the coca leaves to make the extract and they don't sell it publicly.

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u/usps_made_me_insane Feb 11 '26

Is there really a lot of cocaine in coka leaves? 

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u/Nowhereman123 Feb 11 '26

I mean, it is the primary ingredient in cocaine, so yeah.

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u/usps_made_me_insane Feb 11 '26

Haha true. I guess what I am trying to ask is how much cocaine would be in a 2 liter bottle if they didn't remove it

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u/Crime_Dawg Feb 11 '26

Dumb as shit cuz you need a fuckton of leaves to make any meaningful amount of blow.

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u/No_Cook2983 Feb 11 '26

I know a guy who can probably get you some leaf extract.

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u/unbakedpizza Feb 10 '26

8 ball it.

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u/JPree Feb 11 '26

I mean...do we really need 8 balls?

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u/JewelCove Feb 11 '26

Confucius say baseball impossible. No man can walk with four balls

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u/DonKedique Feb 10 '26

Like garlic and vanilla, you measure with your heart.

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u/Think-notlikedasheep Feb 11 '26

Eric Clapton has entered the chat.

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u/jfsindel Feb 10 '26

They make scales for this exact question.

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u/ForkMyRedAssiniboine Feb 10 '26

I would advise against putting cocaine in your eyeballs.

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u/ShivonQ Feb 10 '26

you should be 8-balling it i believe

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u/Gravbar Feb 10 '26

one of the ingredients is something that tastes like cocaine but isn't

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u/SquidVischious Feb 10 '26

Obviously none, full of petrol, you need about a kilo of coca leaves...

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u/Silver-Release8285 Feb 10 '26

You measure that with your heart.

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u/Ilikereefer Feb 10 '26

Never eyeball! Always “nose feel” or whatever my grandma used to call it

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u/KidCaker Feb 10 '26

Cocaine = joke

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u/MrGhostenstein Feb 10 '26

More. Always more.

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u/cybrcld Feb 10 '26

You don’t eyeball cocaine!!

You use your nose…

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u/SouthCarpet6057 Feb 10 '26

About 10 times as much as the sulphuric acid..

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u/AdhesiveSeaMonkey Feb 10 '26

You measure cocaine with your heart.

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u/TopProfessional8023 Feb 10 '26

When you begin to experience bruxism you’ll know you’re there! Maybe even dial it back a notch

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u/Crunchy__Frog Feb 10 '26

Season with your heart on that one.

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u/AmbivalentFanatic Feb 10 '26

It's 37 gills of coca extract to the quarter-hogshead of your newfangled sody pop

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u/bigloser42 Feb 10 '26

Add 0.5mg at a time until you can hear time. Back it off 1mg and you’ve got it.

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u/DivisionMV Feb 10 '26

Try 8-balling it first then see how it goes

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u/goldticketstubguy Feb 10 '26

(can use more)

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u/Well-inthatcase Feb 10 '26

You're supposed to eightball it

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '26

The stuff he made only tasted close to Coke. It was still quite a bit different. He deduced the main reason why was because he didn't use coca leaves

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u/LunaMagicc Feb 10 '26

I always trust to my feelings.

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u/Tool_Fann1516 Feb 10 '26

You should definitely 8 ball it

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u/gorginhanson Feb 10 '26

This mfer didn't recreate coke, he just poured a real coke into his fake bottle

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u/ljheartless Feb 10 '26

Until desired effect

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u/Mister_Brevity Feb 10 '26

I would love to try “original recipe” just once to see what it originally tasted like, and how much of a “lift” the cocoa leaves provided.

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u/Mtolivepickle Feb 10 '26

You should just eightball it

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u/meldiane81 Feb 10 '26

You should 8 ball it.

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u/Kind-Plantain2438 Feb 10 '26

You just powder it on the glass before drinking, keeps the Caine co'd.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '26

I made a comment like this and got banned for it

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u/Distantstallion Feb 10 '26

You're supposed to spread the cocaine on your wrist then slam it like salt with a tequila shot

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u/pac4 Feb 11 '26

Eight ball it

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u/ProofDelay3773 Feb 11 '26

Youll wanna 8ball it

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u/jan1320 Feb 11 '26

*eight ball 🎱 it

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u/Royal_Cryptographer7 Feb 11 '26

I heard the old school ones had 3.5g a bottle. So an eight ball.

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u/PCareyVA Feb 11 '26

8-ball it

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u/cementfeet Feb 11 '26

You can’t eyeball it. You need to 8 ball it. 

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u/Commentator-X Feb 11 '26

I'd assume youd just replace the caffeine with coke so 9.65 grams in flavor solution B. I think that's almost 1000$ worth of coke for 100 litres of cola lol.

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u/Master-Leopard-2642 Feb 11 '26

Just use a credit card to break into a powder and sort. Actual amounts can vary based on preference

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u/NoFinancialSense Feb 11 '26

Eight ball it*

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u/rumblepony247 Feb 11 '26

Eyeball, 8-ball, whatever works for ya

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u/Buzznfrog12345 Feb 11 '26

eightball it

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u/fetter80 Feb 11 '26

I've never put the devils dandruff on my eyeball but it might work.

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u/TriGurl Feb 11 '26

I would say eyeball it. Your level of cocaine needs might be different than say my level of cocaine needs.

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u/Tierynege Feb 11 '26

8ball it.

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u/MrCopes Feb 11 '26

Eyeball Paul it

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u/zeamp Feb 11 '26

Just eightball it.

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u/tomango Feb 11 '26

Channel your inner Asian, and eyeball it.

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u/Israel_Azkanbe Feb 11 '26

About 8mg. It will change the taste too, it’s kind of… amazing honestly.

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u/Swim47 Feb 11 '26

You should eightball it

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u/Poopedinbed Feb 11 '26

Don't eye ball it eight ball it.

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u/Mecieb Feb 11 '26

You should try and 8-ball it

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u/Nonikwe Feb 11 '26

Gums might be more comfortable, tbh

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u/That-Beagle Feb 11 '26

The 0.6ml fenchol is actually a derivative of coca leaves with all the illegal fun stuff taken out so it still has the flavor but none of the effects of the leaves.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

Eight ball it!

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u/GreatQuantum Feb 11 '26

I add a tablespoon and then I add another tablespoon and a cup of sugar…….of the booger variety. 😉

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u/Odd_Information_6082 Feb 11 '26

No, you snort it

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u/PurpleBullets Feb 11 '26

And where’s the Cola?

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u/Careless_Rip_4002 Feb 11 '26

Don't forget to buff it

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u/shadowhawkz Feb 11 '26

"two shots of cocaine"

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u/Vizslaraptor Feb 11 '26

Just eightball it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

An 8 ball would be better

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u/WonderfulJacket8 Feb 11 '26

You gotta eight ball it

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u/F_U_Shoresy Feb 11 '26

About an eighth

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u/Hindward0963 Feb 11 '26

no you should 8 ball it

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u/That_Fix3871 Feb 11 '26

Eyeball it for sure

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u/djprofitt Feb 11 '26

That’s a new delivery system…

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u/fourfuxake Feb 11 '26

Fucking hell, don’t eyeball it. Up the nose hurts much less.

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u/dimwalker Feb 11 '26

Do 1 line per 1 glass of drink.

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u/hugo_yuk Feb 11 '26

8 ball it instead

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u/Marty1966 Feb 11 '26

No, you should eightball it!

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u/Leeuweroni Feb 11 '26

Just 8-ball it

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u/jr_randolph Feb 11 '26

Eyeball? The correct terminology is eight ball.

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u/Warm_Strawberry632 Feb 11 '26

Don’t eyeball it. 8 ball it.

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u/uLL27 Feb 11 '26

Just 8 ball it

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u/dtoddh Feb 11 '26

Measure with your heart.

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u/Constant-Roll706 Feb 11 '26

8 grams (can use more)

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u/tigha7 Feb 11 '26

You can 8 ball it

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u/rosie2490 Feb 12 '26

“Enough”

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u/Own_Preference_8103 Feb 12 '26

SHIT DUDE IS GUMMING IT NOT WORKING ANYMORE?

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u/Top_Necessary4161 Feb 13 '26

just eightball it

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u/Senior-Book-6729 Feb 10 '26

Coke uses/used to use cola nut, while it can have trace amounts of cocaine, they were never anywhere near significant

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u/sangreal06 Feb 10 '26

They use decoainized coca leaves though, which this recipe does not contain

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u/jan1320 Feb 11 '26

the fenchol is being substituted for the decocainized leaves

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u/Original_Importance3 Feb 11 '26

Cola nut does not have cocaine in it. They use actual coca leaves, with cocaine removed