Contributions from these ethnic foods have become as common as traditional " American " fares such as hot dogs, hamburgers, beef steak, which are derived from German cuisine, ( chicken-fried steak, for example, is a variation on German schnitzel ), cherry pie, Coca-Cola, milkshakes, fried chicken ( Fried chicken is of Scottish and African influence ) and so on.

It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke ( a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company in the United States since March 27, 1944 ).

The company produces concentrate, which is then sold to licensed Coca-Cola bottlers throughout the world.

Such bottlers include Coca-Cola Enterprises, which is the largest single Coca-Cola bottler in North America and western Europe.

The most common of these is Diet Coke, with others including Caffeine-Free Coca-Cola, Diet Coke Caffeine-Free, Coca-Cola Cherry, Coca-Cola Zero, Coca-Cola Vanilla, and special versions with lemon, lime or coffee.

Coca-Cola is a major international brand, and is associated with the United States.

As a result of this, there is demand in the United States for imported Mexican Coca-Cola.

Kosher for Passover Coca-Cola sold in the U. S. around the Jewish holiday also uses sucrose rather than HFCS and is also highly sought after by people who prefer the original taste.

* Kofola is the third best selling soft-drink in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, behind Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

The Peruvian soft drink brand is marketed in many countries by the Coca-Cola group.

It is the number one selling soft drink in Peru outselling Coca-Cola nationwide.

An example of an in rem case is United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola ( 1916 ), where the defendant was not The Coca Cola Company itself, but rather " Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola ".

* 1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.

* 1894 – Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn.

While STS-51-F's primary payload was the Spacelab-2 laboratory module, the payload which received the most publicity was the Carbonated Beverage Dispenser Evaluation, which was an experiment in which both Coca-Cola and Pepsi tried to make their carbonated drinks available to astronauts.

In a heavily-publicised marketing experiment, astronauts aboard STS-51-F enjoyed carbonated beverages from specially-designed cans provided by competitors Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

It has tried to maintain the exclusive right to sell products using the " Coca-Cola " name and its diminutive form " Coke ", by suggesting the alternative of " cola drink " as a generic name for similar types of carbonated soft drinks.

* 1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named " Coca-Cola " as a patent medicine.

According to Beverage Digests 2008 report on carbonated soft drinks, PepsiCo's U. S. market share is 30. 8 percent, while The Coca-Cola Company's is 42. 7 percent.

* May 8 – Pharmacist Dr. John Stith Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would be named Coca-Cola.

* Lift ( soft drink ), a brand of carbonated beverage produced and marketed by the Coca-Cola Company

Fanta is a global brand of fruit-flavored carbonated soft drinks from the Coca-Cola Company.

In response, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have introduced new carbonated drinks that are fortified with vitamins and minerals, Diet Coke Plus and Tava, marketed as " sparkling beverages.

A Coca-Cola fountain dispenser ( officially a Fluids Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus-2 or FGBA-2 ) was developed for use on STS-77 as a test bed to determine if carbonated beverages can be produced from separately stored carbon dioxide, water and flavored syrups and determine if the resulting fluids can be made available for consumption without bubble nucleation and resulting foam formation.

The company is one of the world ’ s largest Coca-Cola bottlers and has carbonated soft drinks bottling operations in 14 markets.

Traditionally made by combining lemon juice with carbonated mineral water from the town of Paeroa, it is now manufactured by multi-national Coca-Cola.

Coca-Cola promoted Odwalla products in 2006 when the company aimed at removing carbonated soda products in schools.

Lift is a range of soft drinks produced by The Coca-Cola Company that has been available in Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe since the 1970s, which is carbonated and flavored with fruit juice.

In 2009, the Coca-Cola Company held a higher market share in carbonated soft drink sales within the U. S. In the same year, PepsiCo maintained a higher share of the U. S. refreshment beverage market, however, reflecting the differences in product lines between the two companies.

Coca-Cola Hellenic's product line includes carbonated ( CSD ) and non-carbonated ( non-CSD ) soft drinks, juices, water, sports and energy drinks, and ready-to-drink beverages such as teas and coffees.

There is also a Coca-Cola Freestyle self-serve machine, which can dispense a guest's choice of over 100 carbonated and non-carbonated beverages produced by the company.

The moving spirit behind the club ’ s founding was Joseph Jacobs, the Atlanta pharmacist and drug-store owner at whose suggestion Coca-Cola was first carbonated.

Beverly is a carbonated soft drink often consumed as a non-alcoholic apéritif made by The Coca-Cola Company and sold in Italy.

Gold Spot was one of the three brands of carbonated soft drink ( Soda ) started in India by Parle under the initiative of its founder Ramesh Chauhan in 1977 after the exit of Coca-Cola and Pepsico from the Indian market.

Future Cola is a cola-flavoured carbonated beverage manufactured by Hangzhou Wahaha Group of China, where it holds a 7 % market share, making it the third-largest manufacturer of soft drinks in China behind Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola.

* Pepsi and Coca-Cola in the soft drink market

Innovative and sometimes controversial marketing campaigns have kept it as the number one selling soft drink in Scotland, where it competes directly with global brands such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

Targets included three Ford showrooms ; Peugeot and IKA-Renault showrooms ; Goodyear and Firestone tire distributors, the pharmaceutical manufacturers Riker and Eli Lilly, the Union Carbide Battery Company, the Bank of Boston, Chase Manhattan Bank, the Xerox Corporation, and the soft drink companies, Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola.

By most accounts, Coca-Cola was India's leading soft drink until 1977 when it left India after a new government ordered The Coca-Cola Company to turn over its secret formula for Coke and dilute its stake in its Indian unit as required by the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act ( FERA ).

) In return, the soft drink companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi have issued ads in the media regarding the safety of consumption of the drinks.

On May 3, 2006, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, Cadbury Schweppes, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and the American Beverage Association announced new School Beverage Guidelines that will voluntarily remove high-calorie soft drinks from all U. S. schools.

* Sprite ( soft drink ), the brand name of a lemon-lime beverage produced by The Coca-Cola Company

As the President of Coca Cola Mexico, Fox helped Coca-Cola become Mexico's top-selling soft drink, increasing Coca-Cola's sales by almost 50 %.

The company has also released Cherry RC — a cherry flavored version of the RC soft drink — to compete with Coca-Cola Cherry and Pepsi Wild Cherry.

* Coca-Cola, a soft drink originally based on coca leaf extract

** Cola, any soft drink similar to Coca-Cola

The soft-drink truck was owned by Valley Coca-Cola, a division of the soft drink giant.

Cocaine ( not the other extracts from the Peruvian coca leaf ) was prohibited from soft drinks in the U. S. after 1904, and Coca-Cola no longer uses kola in its original recipe.

Diet Coke is a sugar-free soft drink produced and distributed by The Coca-Cola Company.

On March 12, 1894, the popular soft drink Coca-Cola was bottled for the first time in Vicksburg by Joseph Biedenharn, a local confectioner.

The soft-drink truck was owned by Valley Coca-Cola, a division of the soft drink giant.

In 2003 the Coca-Cola Corporation released a new version of their soft drink Sprite with tropical flavors under the name Sprite Remix.

Analysis is focused on the pop culture aspect of soft power, such as movies, television, pop music, Disneyland, and American fast-food brands including Coca-Cola and McDonald's.