The Origin of Cola

There is an often-quoted adage that the original Cola beverage was created with an extract from the Coca Leaf (the basis for the homeopathic medicine 'Cocaine').

This is, not surprisingly, an untruthism; the original active ingredient of Coca-Cola was a liquid created from a melting pot of [what are now known as] cola bottle jelly sweets, which themselves were originally designed to resemble a map of Cuba, most famously known for its Cocaine-digesting muntjacs.