McFreedom

This Guardian article about a cinema in Bristol that decided to make its own Coke. The story's a bit needlessly breathless, but I found two things interesting about it. First, when describing how the gum arabic they were using as an emulsifier broke their equipment, the article says "After the fourth mixer went west..." Is that the common Britishism, I wonder? Here in the US things "go south" when they break. I wonder if there are different geographically traveling euphemisms the world over?

Secondly, the article republishes the recipe they use (uncritically including their production notes, such as "1 ml cassia oil (nb. reduce cassia content for next production)" and the last line is "This cola recipe is released under the GNU general public license."

It frankly looks to be a lot of work to make your own coke, although I prefer Coke to Pepsi because the former is less sweet. If I ever end up with more time than I know what to do with, I've always wondered if a half-sugar Coke would taste any good. I guess if I want to, I could give it a shot...