Coca-Cola isn't sweating a report that the original Coke recipe was created in a small Spanish village rather than by pharmacist John Pemberton.
El Pais reported late last month that the world’s most famous soft drink was first concocted 138 years ago at a distillery by three entrepreneurs in a small town in eastern Spain called Aielo de Malferit. One of the original distillers travelled broadly to give samples of its Kola-coca Superior Syrup in 1885, including in Philadelphia. A year later Pemberton…