The Greek-Canadian Origins of the Hawaiian Pizza
The Greek-Canadian Origins of the Hawaiian Pizza
This controversial pie came from Ontario, not Oahu.
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The Greek-Canadian Origins of the Hawaiian Pizza
This controversial pie came from Ontario, not Oahu.
by Dan Nosowitz June 4, 2015
The Greek-Canadian Origins of the Hawaiian Pizza
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Pizza has been a core food for North Americans for so long that we forget that it is, relatively speaking, a new dish on our shores. Most people over the age of about 75 can remember the first time they ever saw, heard of, or tasted pizza; the New York Times first introduced the dish to its readers back in 1944.
But Sam Panopoulos*, 81, of London, Canada, a small city about halfway between Detroit and Toronto, can take it one step further. He can remember inventing what’s now one of the most popular pizzas in the world: the Hawaiian pizza.
The Hawaiian pizza doesn’t come from anywhere near Hawai’i. It comes from Ontario, and was concocted in 1962 in a restaurant serving typical mid-century food without any particular focus. Since its creation, it has become a divisive and fiercely debated entry in the pizza lexicon; a reader-created post on BuzzFeed even called it “the most insulting and offensive pizza in the world.”
Melding canned pineapple and small squares of ham atop a regular cheese pizza, the Hawaiian is a niche pizza. In North America, you would never buy it for an office party or to feed hungry friends at a bar, at least not without a thorough interrogation to find out each eater’s stance on the pie. Pizza is a dish that is universally loved in the U.S. and Canada, but Hawaiian pizza is, very often, despised.
Sam Panopoulos left Greece on a boat bound for Canada in 1954. His first exposure to pizza was in Naples, where the boat briefly stopped. Naples reigns as the worldwide birthplace of pizza, but even there, it’s a fairly recent creation. As the story goes, the cheese and tomato-laden version of the dish that we recognize today was first baked in 1889 to honor the Italian monarchs King Umberto and Princess Margherita, who were visiting the city. Enter the now-classic margherita pizza.
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Panopoulos didn’t know anything about pizza’s history; he just knew that the pie he had during his brief foray into Naples was pretty tasty. When he got to Canada in 1954, he settled in the town of Chatham, an hour from the border with Michigan. Panopoulos, who speaks with a thick Greek accent after 60 years in Ontario, achieved success early on, opening a restaurant called the Satellite in Chatham, which still stands (it’s now under different management).
“Pizza wasn’t known at all, actually,” says Panopoulos in a phone interview. “Even Toronto didn’t know anything about pizza in those days. The only place you could have pizza was in Detroit.”
Soon, pizza landed in Windsor, a Canadian city just across the river from Detroit. However, thanks to the execution, it wasn’t especially popular there. “I visited Windsor, and the pizza in those days was three things: dough, sauce, cheese, and mushroom, bacon, or pepperoni. That was it,” says Panopoulos. “You had no choices; you could get one of the three [toppings] or more of them together.”
The mushrooms were canned, the dough was pre-made and bought in bulk. The ovens were small electric ovens, certainly not suitable by modern standards. A standard pizza oven today cooks at around 800° Fahrenheit to achieve the charred crust we associate with good pizza. Panopoulos’ oven, and the ovens of the other pizza sellers in Detroit and Ontario, were nothing more than a standard apartment oven.
“The pizza in Canada in those days was primitive, you know? In the States and Detroit and all this, it wasn’t bad, but it was nothing special,” says Panopoulos.
Panopoulos’s diner cooked the sort of food that people ate in the 1960s: pancakes in the morning, burgers and fries for lunch, and liver and onions for dinner. But he was eager to try out any new dishes that might entice customers. At one point, he hired, he says, an Asian cook and put him to work making American Chinese food. Later came pizza.
After watching how pizza cooks in Windsor were making their pies, he came home to Chatham and started experimenting. The concept of pizza was totally foreign to his customers, and even to the general public. A 1962 recipe from the Toronto Star included a recipe for “Spanish pizza,” a strange concoction of yellow rice and Vienna sausages, piled on a dough made from biscuit mix.
There weren’t even pizza boxes for quite a few years. Panopoulos said that he used to cut circles out of cardboard boxes he got from a furniture seller next door, place the pizza on top, and wrap the whole thing in aluminum foil.
Without really knowing or caring much about any traditions regarding pizza, Panopoulos began throwing together combinations to see what worked. Some of his discoveries were simultaneously discovered by other like-minded pizza pioneers, like the addition of salty toppings like olives and anchovies. But the pineapple was something else entirely.
Hawai’i had only become a state in 1959, and soldiers coming home from World War II brought back tales of an island paradise in the South Pacific. Tiki culture, epitomized by fruity cocktails like the mai tai, became hugely popular from the 1940s through the 1960s. Canada wasn’t immune to the charms of Hawai’i, either, and canned pineapple became a staple of every household, advertised by grocery stores relentlessly in newspapers throughout Ontario.
Panopoulos changed pizza history when he picked up a can of pineapple in 1962. BW Folsom/shutterstock.com
“In those days, the only sweet and sour thing you would get is Chinese pork, you know, with the sweet and sour sauce,” says Panopoulos. “Otherwise there was no mix.”
He was already serving Chinese food at the Satellite, and felt that people would connect to sweet and savory flavors together. So one day in 1962, he took down a can of pineapple, drained it, and threw the pieces of fruit on a pizza.
“People said ‘you are crazy to do this,’” Panopoulos remembers. But he liked it immediately, and starting advertising his crazy new pizza topping. Amazingly, it caught on. The classic union of ham and pineapple was an accident, a result of only having a few different toppings to work with.
Originally, Panopoulos did not market it as the now-set combination of tart pineapple and savory ham or salty bacon. But the inventor called his new creation the “Hawaiian pizza” from the start, and it quickly solidified into the version we know today. He told me more than once that he wishes he’d found a way to register or patent the pairing.
I ask Panopoulos if he still orders it today. “Yeah, I do,” he says. “I still like it.”
*Panopoulos passed away on June 8, 2017. This article was updated with minor edits on August 19, 2020.
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Instant Noodles Are Linked to Stroke, Diabetes, Weight Gain, and Even Cancer According to Studies
Instant Noodles Are Linked to Stroke, Diabetes, Weight Gain, and Even Cancer According to Studies
The Ingredients in Instant Noodles Could be Toxic and May Cause Cancer
TBHQ in instant noodles could cause cancer
MSG in instant noodles could have possible toxic effects
Eating Instant Noodles Could Cause Stroke and Heart Attack
Eating instant noodles is linked to stroke, diabetes and heart conditions
Instant Ramen Noodles Don’t Break Down After Hours of Digestion
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Instant Noodles Are Linked to Stroke, Diabetes, Weight Gain, and Even Cancer According to Studies
By Jenny Hills, Nutritionist and Medical Writer Food & Nutrition
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Instant noodles are a convenient and tasty dish that is popular worldwide. The number one global consumer is China, and the United States is ranked sixth in instant noodle sales, with 4.1 billion units sold in 2017. However, studies showed that eating instant noodles is linked to heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure and possibly cancer.
In the US, instant noodles are often referred to as Ramen. However, real Japanese Ramen is not a fast food dish. It’s a noodle soup which is Japan’s cultural icon, so a lot of care is put into its preparation.
When instant noodles were first invented, they were sold under the brand name ‘Chikin Ramen’. Soon, instant noodles became known as Ramen outside of Japan, even if they are technically not Ramen.
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The Ingredients in Instant Noodles Could be Toxic and May Cause Cancer
If we look at the composition of instant noodles, it becomes clear where the danger comes from. They are high in fat, high in salt, high in calories, and they’re processed.
Instant noodles also contain tertiary-butyl hydroquinone (TBHQ), which is a chemical preservative that comes from the petroleum industry.
TBHQ in instant noodles could cause cancer
Tertiary-butyl hydroquinone (TBHQ) is a preservative that can be found in instant noodles and has been a source of many health discussions.
TBHQ is used to extend the shelf life of oily and fatty foods, so it can often be found in fast food. It’s also used in varnishes, cosmetics and perfumes. TBHQ is highly toxic in bigger doses, but has been allowed in the food industry in small doses.
A number of studies have shown that prolonged exposure to high doses of TBHQ may be carcinogenic. But the conclusion is inconclusive because some studies have shown that TBHQ could prevent cancer.
Small doses of TBHQ have been approved for consumption by the FDA.
The FDA has set the limit of up to 0.02% of the total oils in food to be TBHQ. If you consumed 1 gram of TBHQ, this would very likely cause an adverse reaction, and 5 grams could be lethal.
Nobody is really sure what the safe limit is, but it doesn’t seem like a good idea to have TBHQ lingering in your gut.
MSG in instant noodles could have possible toxic effects
Another potentially toxic substance that is found in instant noodles is monosodium glutamate or MSG. This is a chemical called excitotoxin that overexcites your nerve cells.
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The Experimental and Clinical Sciences journal reported that “MSG has been linked with obesity, metabolic disorders, Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, neurotoxic effects and detrimental effects on the reproductive organs” The journal also adds that “in conclusion we would like to state that although MSG has proven its value as an enhancer of flavour, different studies have hinted at possible toxic effects related to this popular food-additive”.
Clearly, an odd package of instant noodles won’t kill you, but no one can say with certainty what this processed food will do to you in the long run.
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Eating Instant Noodles Could Cause Stroke and Heart Attack
In June 2014, a comprehensive study was published in The Journal of Nutrition that revealed the dangers lurking inside your cup of noodles. According to the international group of scientists, instant noodles are associated with cardio-metabolic risks, which mainly refer to the risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. It seems that the handy and delicious dish comes at a price.
The study was conducted in South Korea, which has the highest per-capita number of instant noodle consumers in the world. Also, in recent years, a higher proportion of Koreans started developing conditions such as heart disease and obesity, so it seemed worthwhile to explore the reasons behind this decline in health.
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A total of 10,711 adults (54.5% women) between the ages of 19 and 64 were included in the study. Their dietary patterns were analyzed by Hyoun Shin, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard School of Public Health, and his colleagues.
Two major dietary patterns were identified:
“ traditional dietary pattern ”, rich in rice, fish, vegetables, fruit, and potatoes.
“ meat and fast-food pattern ”, rich in meat, soda, fried food, and fast food including instant noodles.
The researchers observed that people who ate traditional food, were more unlikely to suffer from high blood pressure.
Fast food diet was associated with abdominal obesity, higher levels of LDL cholesterol (the ‘bad’ cholesterol), and high triglycerides, which all increase the risk of heart disease and metabolic syndrome.
Eating instant noodles is linked to stroke, diabetes and heart conditions
When Shin looked specifically at instant noodles, the analysis showed that women who ate more than two portions per week had a higher chance of developing metabolic syndrome, which is linked to heart conditions, stroke and diabetes.
The association was found even among young women who were slimmer and more physically active. The correlation was not observed in men.
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Instant Ramen Noodles Don’t Break Down After Hours of Digestion
In another study, scientists put a little, pill-sized camera inside the stomach of a person who just ate instant Ramen noodles. This enabled them to follow the digestive process and observe what happens once the quick meal reaches the stomach.
The results were disheartening for all instant noodle lovers. It appears that the body has great difficulty breaking these noodles down.
After two hours, the meal was still more or less intact, which is very unusual. For comparison, when the participant ate homemade noodles, these digested much quicker, so after two hours there was hardly anything left to see in the stomach.
This small study was conducted by Dr. Braden Kuo of Massachusetts General Hospital, and was the first experiment of its kind. Dr. Kuo points out that his experiment doesn’t show instant noodles are necessarily harmful for you.
The sample was too small, and further research is needed to establish the effects the slow digestive process has on the gastro-intestinal tract and your body as a whole. Dr. Kuo even admits still eating instant Ramen noodles himself, but he does it in moderation.
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You should be extremely cautious about eating instant noodles after this latest revelation. By staying in the stomach for so long, the noodles put a strain on the digestive tract as it has to work continuously.
Also, instant Ramen contains a lot of different additives and preservatives, which remain in the digestive tract for so long. It’s not sure what the long exposure does to the body, but it’s probably not that beneficial to your health.
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To this day, Coca-Cola still imports coca leaves which are used to manufacture cocaine in the United States
To this day, Coca-Cola still imports coca leaves which are used to manufacture cocaine in the United States
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To this day, Coca-Cola still imports coca leaves which are used to manufacture cocaine in the United States
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(NaturalNews) Coca leaves have been chewed and consumed as tea for thousands of years in the high Andes. They are rich in many essential nutrients; they ease respiratory and digestive distress and are a natural stimulant and painkiller. Indigenous tradition and scientific studies have both confirmed that in their natural form, the leaves are completely safe and non-addictive -- it takes intensive processing and toxic chemical ingredients to produce cocaine. That's why more and more coca-containing products have started to hit the market in Andean countries in the past few years.
Yet the United States still aggressively pursues an eradication policy that encourages Andean governments to spray their forests with toxic chemicals to eliminate this medicinal crop. It is illegal to import or possess the leaves under U.S. law -- unless you're the Coca-Cola company. In an effort to preserve the traditional flavor of the best-selling drink, the company long ago convinced the U.S. government to exempt it from the law.
(Coca-Cola, by the way, used to literally contain cocaine in its original formula. The practice was halted in 1903, but the name persisted. The "coca" part of "coca-cola" is derived from the coca plant, and the "kola" comes from the kola nut which also flavored the original beverage.)
The secret history of Coca-Cola, coca leaves and cocaine
Coca-Cola is the only U.S. corporation that has been granted the right to legally import coca leaves into the United States, via a coca processing lab known as the Stepan Company ). In 1922, the Jones-Miller Act banned cocaine imports into the United States, but Coca-Cola (and its lab) was granted an exception. This exception remained a secret until the late 1980's when the New York Times seemed shocked to discover the truth.
As the New York Times published in 1988 ( http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/01/business/h...)
This week, details of how Coca-Cola obtains the coca and how it is processed emerged from interviews with Government officials and scientists involved in drug research programs. They identified the Illinois-based Stepan Company as the importer and processor of the coca used in Coke. After Stepan officials acknowledged their ties to Coca-Cola, the soft drink giant confirmed those details of its operations.
In a telephone interview from Coca-Cola's Atlanta headquarters, Randy Donaldson, a company spokesman, said, ''Ingredients from the coca leaf are used, but there is no cocaine in it and it is all tightly overseen by regulatory authorities.''
100 tons of cocaine ingredients each year - let's do the math
Approximately 100 metric tons of coca leaves are imported to the Stepan Company each year ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Company) under "special permission" from the DEA. Keep all this in mind when you consider the total fraud of the current "War on Drugs" and how young African American men are given ten-year prison sentences for pot possession while one of the largest corporations in America is actually importing leaves that are used to manufacture cocaine.
Once the coca leaves are imported into the USA under these special permissions from the DEA, the cocaine is extracted out of the coca leaves. Coca-Cola doesn't use the cocaine, you see. There is no cocaine in Coca-Cola today.
This brings up an obvious question: Where does all the white powder cocaine go if not to Coca-Cola? It turns out that this cocaine is sold to a St. Louis company called Mallinckrodt Incorporated.
Mallinckrodt receives not only all the cocaine from the Coca-Cola imports, but also imports opium from India ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallinckrodt ). In addition, this company also buys THC extracted from marijuana grown in the United States. So much for the War on Drugs, huh? It turns out if you buddy up to the DEA and federal regulators, you can make all the cocaine you want while buying opium and marijuana by the ton -- as long as you're a powerful corporation with ties to Coca-Cola and other wealthy organizations.
More than a quarter ton of cocaine for "medicinal" use?
It's a reasonable question to wonder where all this cocaine and opium ends up going after it arrives at Mallinckrodt. The official explanation is that it's for "medical use." But let's do the math on this and see if that explanation holds water.
According to various websites that are readily found in any search engine, it takes roughly 300 grams of coca leaves to produce 1 gram of refined cocaine. This means that 100 metric tons of coca leaves (100 x 1000 kilograms, or 100,000 kilograms) can produce roughly 333 kilos of cocaine each year.
Ask around... That's a lot of cocaine. Remember, too, that these are 333 kilos of cocaine approved by the DEA -- an agency which claims to be fighting a "war on drugs" but somehow grants immunity to Coca-Cola suppliers who are literally manufacturing hundreds of kilos of cocaine each year.
All this brings up the obvious question: What is the Mallinckrodt company doing with 333 kilos of cocaine each year? Throwing a big annual Christmas party or something? It is impossible to imagine that 333 kilos of cocaine are being used for "medical purposes" unless you have a very loose definition of "medical purposes." Although this is pure conjecture, I wouldn't be surprised to learn if a significant portion of this was handed out to top DEA officials as bribes to pay them off and keep the cocaine operation running.
Enough lines of cocaine for the entire U.S. Congress!
Continuing with the math, 333 kilos is (obviously) 333,000 grams of cocaine. How much cocaine is that, exactly? Well, according to TheGoodDrugsGuide.com, a typical "line" of cocaine (a "line" is what a typical user will inhale to ingest the cocaine) contains 50 - 75mg, or roughly 1/20th of a gram ( http://www.thegooddrugsguide.com/cocaine/faq... ).
This means that each gram of cocaine is enough to make up to 20 "lines" of cocaine, give or take, depending on how crazy you and your friends are.
Multiply that by the 333,000 grams of cocaine that could be produced from the 100 metric tons of cocaine leaves being imported into the USA each year, and you come to the astonishing realization that the coca leaves imported for the benefit of the Coca-Cola company can be processed into the equivalent of 6.66 million lines of cocaine each year!
Here's the math again (calculations are all rounded for the sake of convenience, so they're just rough estimates):
100 metric tons of coca leaves = 100,000 kilograms of coca leaves
100,000 kilograms of coca leaves produces 333 kilograms of cocaine
333 kilograms equals 333,000 grams
333,000 grams of cocaine can be divided into 6.66 million "lines" of cocaine
P.S. According to Wiki Answers, 333,000 grams of cocaine is worth roughly $16.7 million on the street (at $50 a gram).
It strains the limits of believability to think that 333,000 grams of cocaine are being used for "medical purposes" in America. How and where are 333,000 grams of cocaine being used for "medical purposes?" I mean, have you ever gone to your doctor and watched him write a prescription for cocaine? Nope.
This seemingly leaves only three possibilities for where all this cocaine is going:
Possibility #1) The Mallinckrodt company might be stockpiling massive amounts of cocaine each year, perhaps dwarfing Disneyland's "Space Mountain" ride.
Possibility #2) The Mallinckrodt company might be somehow destroying massive amounts of cocaine each year. (But human greed probably prevents this from happening, given that this white power is so darned valuable...)
Possibility #3) The Mallinckrodt company might be "losing track" of massive amounts of cocaine each year (i.e. is disappears out the back door and into the hands of DEA agents and politicians who keep the whole operation "legal"). This is one case where brown-nosing the DEA leaves a thin layer of white dust on your nose, too.
Or hey, maybe all this cocaine is being quietly distributed to all the doctors and pharmacists who are chronically addicted to drugs themselves -- it's a huge percentage of the medical workforce because they have access to drugs on a day-to-day basis and they think they need a pharmaceutical kick to survive their long work hours. 6.66 million lines of cocaine is enough to keep a few thousand pharmacists churning away, filling high-profit prescriptions for painkillers and psychiatric drugs that turn everybody else into addicts, too.
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Big Pharma has a long history of manufacturing cocaine
Interesting historical fact: At the turn of the 20th century, many giants of the pharmaceutical industry were manufacturing cocaine. These companies included Parke, Davis, Merck and Squibb.
Merck, the present-day manufacturer of Gardasil vaccines, dominated the cocaine market. (Source: Andean cocaine: the making of a global drug, by Paul Gootenberg). It just goes to show you that drug companies don't really care much about what they're selling you as long as it makes them a profit. Your doctor is your dealer, and Big Pharma is his hook-up.
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Scott O'Bryan • 4 years ago
I just love how speculation is enough to cast suspicion. The DEA has always had a policy to enforce the control of restricted substances. Cocane, along with other drugs, is a restricted substance. Notice I did not say illegal. It is illegal for Joe blow, selling drugs down the street, to give it to anyone with a c-note for recreational purposes.
Coca-cola has a deal with the companies that subject themselves to tight scrutiny by the DEA in order to ensure compliance with federal law.
The article also suggests that people in the DEA are paid in cocaine to look the other way. This is rediculous. The policies of allowing imports of cocoa leaves is made at a level much higher then the DEA. The DEA only enforces drug compliance, it does not make policy.
If you really are so offended by coca-cola, which this article admits doesn't contain containe, then write your congressman. For every one of you I can find about 10 Coke drinkers who would tell you they don't give a crap.
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Ortolegenda Scott O'Bryan • 4 years ago • edited
so what is your argument?
you are just denying all of this... but provide not a shred of evidence?
at least the author gave a couple of links and asked some valid questions..
you use words like "policy" hahah what policy, what does a policy mean from someone that is corrupt. that someone being your guvernment same as any other?
You are a sheep and there is no saving you.
CIA is your main drug import/export company?
you really think USA will pass on a billions and billions of dollars cut?
just because it's bad?
ye sure it's bad, but it's going to happen anyways, might as well take a cut from that business because it cannot be stopped. that's the way this world works
you better wake the fuck up.
sorry for my english. it's not my native language.
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Matt Firine Ortolegenda • 4 years ago
It's more believable that the processed cocaine gets sold to pharmaceutical companies, the benzocaine in your ora-gel to the novocaine in the shot you get from the dentist is a derivative of the alkaloids found in cocaine. So you have to ask yourself, who do all this backdoor behind the scenes shady shit, if you can just legally sell the cocaine for probably close the same price? I don't deny shady shit goes down, but not everything is a conspiracy.
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Ben Bachman • 4 years ago
Cocaine is commonly used in facial surgeries to reduce pain and bleeding. So, is very shortsighted to say it has no logical use since doctors don't write prescriptions for cocaine.
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Nicholas McNamara • 5 years ago
novacaine is also made from coca it is a pain killer for dentists they just took the buzz out of it
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Tommy • 5 years ago
For street level drugs, typically its cut 3 parts cutting agent to 1 part cocaine, so would only have 0.25 cocaine in a gram for $50, and thats if your lucky.
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ian • 5 years ago
stopped reading at 'young African American men'. as a black man myself I am sick and tired of everything being a race issue. plenty of white, Asian, Indian and everyone in between get arrested for drug possession. but you made a point to focus on African Americans. 'progressive' people like yourself are the reason racism lives on.
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Coke drinker 76 • 6 years ago
If you think that the coca cola company has stopped putting cocaine in the drink lol your crazyyyyy. They still do! Lol why else would they be exempt from the law???? Duuuhhhhh
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Scott O'Bryan Coke drinker 76 • 4 years ago
According to snopes, they had coca leaf products in the formula until 1928in very minute quantities. Also don't confuse coca leaf with cocaine. Thats like saying poppy seeds are heroin.
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Wake Up Health RaNGER • 6 years ago
novocaine, benzocaine, lidocaine, procaine, benzoylecgonine and articaine are all drugs made from Cocaine. So yes the 333 kilos is probably rendered into pharmaceutical drugs.
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Ortolegenda Wake Up Health RaNGER • 4 years ago
not true.
medical and pharmaceutical purposes are two very different things.
and pharmaceutical companies have their own DEA and FDA stamps with their own companies growing or importing coke leaves and cocain. and none of those drugs you mentioned is made of cocain.
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Tim OB Wake Up Health RaNGER • 6 years ago
Actually all those "caine's" you mentioned are manufactured in the lab using various amino acids and ethanol's. No cocaine is used. The medical use of cocaine is ironically used for nose and throat surgery. There is no other chemical that has the superior combined anesthetic and vasoconstricting properties like cocaine.
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Mr. Iaminlove • 6 years ago
cool story bro #addict
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Vince • 6 years ago
Merck cocaine is legendary. Very pure, it came in brown glass bottles that said, "small fluffy crystals". Just ask Keef !
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Alan Robert • 6 years ago • edited
This is an interesting topic and adding controversy to where all the cocaine goes adds to the article. But take some time to actually research topics. Cocaine is used, actually quite frequently, in nose surgeries as a local anesthetic. It is excellent for this purpose because it constricts the many small blood vessels in the nose, which decreases bleeding. Many ENT surgeons can do 5-10 cases a day. Each case using the cocaine and the rest of the vial cannot be used for the next patient and gets wasted. This happens 5 days a week in the operating room at a lot of hospitals and surgery centers around the country. So would it be realistic that this is actually being used for medical purposes. I would say 100% this could be the case.
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Dean • 6 years ago
Possibility #4: Mallinckrodt turns the cocaine into cocaine hydrochloride which is a topical anaesthetic used in some medical procedures of the ear, nose and throat.
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UDEM • 6 years ago • edited
Well, well, well. Coca Cola stopped using cocaine in the formula back in 1920's you say! Saying, that they have tightly regulatory inspection that keep a tight rope on the Coca Cola process is like saying...Trust me honey, I wont c** in your mouth!
If Industrial HEMP has to contain less then .01 THC for consumption, then what is the percentage that Coca Cola has to follow for cocaine processing that's within the drink?
Haven't you ever wonder why drinking Coke makes you feel good right away? Oh what, it's the bubbles that make you feel good? Then why don't I get that way when I drink Mineral water?
For the US Government turns their head and looks the other way, to allow Coca Cola to use coca leafs and then not tell us exactly what percentage of cocaine that's still in the coke we drink, then why are they so worried about pot?
Answer: Big Pharma. When is the FDA going to come out with a warning on Coca Cola?
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Scott O'Bryan UDEM • 4 years ago
I get no more pleasure from coke then I do Pepsi, I just think it tastes better. Leads me to believe the pick-me-up is due to, oh I don't know, caffeine?
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Ayylmao • 6 years ago
"The cocaine that Stepan derives from the plants is sold exclusively to Mallinckrodt. An official for that company who asked not to be named said, ''We purchase a crude extract and purify it further into one chemical form, cocaine hydrochloride U.S.P.''
That product is sold to hospitals and doctors ''primarily as a local anesthetic used by eye and ear, nose and throat specialists,'' she said.and ear, nose and throat specialists,'' she said.".
Just quoting something you didn't quote from your only source :)
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Frank Lee Speaking • 6 years ago
The facts and information in this hit-piece are interesting. The opinions, suppositions, and inuendos are dumb.
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Derek Smith • 6 years ago
I like how everything has to be about race. He said, young african american men are getting 10 years for pot possession. Well my (white) buddy just got 12years for pot possession. I guess the white people get forgotten about as usual. Other than that it was a good article. He must be a Yankee though. Down south we (black and white) would say it like this "young American men are getting 10 year's for pot possession". But then again we are the ones considered racist.
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Enigma • 6 years ago • edited
I enjoyed your article. Something that should additionally be noted is that the fact that large corporations, government entities, etc. can indeed buy, process and sell controlled substances. However, there is a major difference between that of a normal everyday individual and that of these organizations, the use for these substances. Perhaps, there is corruption, there always is with any type of human structure but in large these corporations are not slinging kilos of cocaine on the corner of the street for junkies to get a recreational high off of. Nearly every plant that can be used for a recreational high has medicinal potential and purpose, the difference between some pot head allegedly using it for medicinal purposes and a pharmacy dispensing a tabular form of THC is precision, purity, and explicit purpose and dosage. Hey, but if you do not believe me, next time you break your leg instead of getting morphine from the doctor just go smoke a pipe of opium. Cocaine is used in a lot of pharmaceutical drugs for various medicinal purposes, I highly doubt the government is selling off extra coke on the side. Printing money off at the federal reserve would be easier for the U.S. government in contrast to some convoluted supply chain and selling of cocaine.
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Tim Chisholm Enigma • 6 years ago
I respectfully disagree completely.
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Jock Doubleday • 6 years ago
"The Coke Files" - Five 110-character questions asked on the morning of May 11, 2015 . . . and Coke's five bizarre answers
#1 Where does Coca-Cola get the cocaine for its "secret recipe"? Is the coke "medicinal" (government-approved)?
Coca-Cola: We regret to inform you that our recipe cards/cookbooks are
no longer in print. However, you may wish to visit the Heritage section
of our Company website. Here you will find a variety of delicious
recipes that utilize products of The Coca-Cola Company in the ingredients. All recipes are printable in our Heritage page.
#2 What are the best recipes for a family beverage that contains cocaine? My entire family is addicted to Coke!
Coca-Cola: Our brands are not addictive. The degree to which some
people consume soft drinks and other food products depends on their
liking for them rather than a habit they need to satisfy. People
continue to drink Coca-Cola simply because they enjoy the taste.
#3 How does Coca-Cola get away with not listing the ingredients of its secret recipe? Doesn't the FDA ask you to?
Coca-Cola: As you can imagine, our flavor formulations are our most
valuable trade secrets. Therefore, we do not discuss the flavor
composition of any of our products.
#4 If I created a new soft drink, the FDA would ask me to release the entire list of ingredients. Coke is exempt?
Coca-Cola: For ingredient information on many of our U.S. brands, click
here (PDF). Or you can look up a specific ingredient at the Beverage
Institute for Health & Wellness.
#5 Thank you. You've answered my questions in exactly the way an agent for a covert operation would. Thank you!
Coca-Cola: You're welcome.https:// www.facebook.com/photo.php?...
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Nikki • 7 years ago
Go to the dentist and get extensive work done? They probably used cocaine on you. Had a bad nose bleed that required medical attention? They probably used cocaine on you. Had pain severe enough to need a narcotic pain reliever ie: norco, Vicodin, morphine? Those are opioid based pain medications. Quit complaining people! Be thankful these things are available for you when you need them. Oh, I bet you like Coke too.
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Monty Ehrich • 7 years ago • edited
The Coca-Cola Company gets this sweetheart deal because it supplied free Cokes to our fighting men in World War Two.
Even Adolf enjoyed Coca-Cola.
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Patricia López • 7 years ago
This doens't make sense at all. Cocaine is not on the coca leaf, cocaine is a chemical produced from proccesing the coca leaf with sulfuric acid, gasoline, diesel, sodium, glue, cement, pothasium and other chemicals that make the coca leaf produce an alkaloid named Erythroxyline being a very dangerous drug. You cannot extract cocaine or the alkaloid out of the coca leaf since there isn't any in the coca leaf, it only appears after the chemical proccesing. That is why it is allowed to be imported to the USA with DEA approval, since coca leaf per se is not a drug.
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cliffr Patricia López • 6 years ago
coca leaf, and a few related species of erythroxylum have for the "most part"
( meaning as a general wholesale analysis performed over years on various regional populations and related variant cultivars and batches of import/export materials collected into "batch lots" and NOT INDIVIDUAL LEAF SAMPLES)..... been empirically proven to contain cocaine amongst the other bioactive alkaloidal compounds verified via over a century of chemical analysis ...though levels fluctuate depending on genotype, regional/local environmental conditions, agricultural practices, and most likely unknown causative reasons.
it is true that various alkaloidal components that occur in these leaves can be further processed into cocaine, as they are precursors to cocaine, or intermediates in the biosynthetic pathway of alkaloidal molecular construct known as metabolic or catabolic biosynthesis.
so your statement above does carry some truth, but also some error. to further complicate the subject, variant forms of alkaloids are formed via the attachment of other elements or molecular groups to the alkaloid structure, this can enhance,or detract from the bioavailability and chemical reactivity of said compound, thus freebase cocaine and other freebase (alkaline) compounds can have pronounced activity, reactivity, and I guess in regards to each specific compound type, may also have reduced activity or reactivity.
consider that arecoline in betel nut can be used as a precursor to synthesize cocaine in the lab, and now with the advent of gene splicing to augment biosynthesis pathways in organisms, I expect that already or soon enough various plants, microbes and higher organisms could also be designed or even possibly via natural mutation come to produce compounds not formally possible under current conditions.
as the DEA doesn't currently generally set a minimum parts per milligram per gram, kilo, ton, of illicit or controlled substances unless specifically addressed
in a formulated compounded approved medication, the natural world and the created or augmented world of humans commodities invariably are beset with controlled substances in civic and natural water sheds, money, sewage systems, agricultural products, and even in natural standing populations of plants and animals.
until the DEA sets standards for allowable amounts of controlled substances in objects/substances in the parts per trillion, billion, million, and milligrams per gram, a grey area of legality will continue to expand.
consider this,
humans and most animals produce ENDOGENOUS morphine...this is an empirical discovery. This happens mostly in the brain, unless you consider white blood cells are gene encoded to produce endogenous morphine when sepsis happens in the blood stream. that is why usually morphine doesn't show up in urine during drug testing unless the animal consumes morphine, or its precursors like L-Dopa, and I suspect will be found in the urine in patients that are suffering from sepsis.
some plants also produce morphine precursors like reticuline and salutaridine....these compounds occur in some plants in the USDA food supply, and in various parts of animal tissues such as brain.
Morphine and codeine have also been detected in bovine and human mothers milk, and I suspect are not always a product of exogenous consumption, but probably will be found to be a product of endogenous production for good reason.
True, coca leaf can be brought into the USA most times in small amounts as a personal carry-on item via ship, train, plane or automobile or foot traffic crossing borders. But that is more a matter of providence and "good luck" or knowing the right official or probably most times neglect of officials in knowing phytochemistry and botanical taxonomy and identification......getting an import license for technical commodity industrial and commercial importation is basically a monopoly of organized corporate special preference, and I suspect, also a benefit for corrupted military and corporate organizations, though those groups generally just import relatively pure cocaine and don't bother with bulky leaf importation.
By far the most likely, largest method of coca leaf importation into the USA outside of the licensed corporate benefactor is done by private courier corporations and I suspect most successfully via the USPS....as US customs is hard pressed to search even 10% of packages coming into the USA for drugs of illicit, to their credit the US customs officers are most successful in detecting ions for the detection of explosives....but that doesn't mean they open every package in every shipping container or plane or boat bringing international mail or commodity shipments.
so cocaine does indeed occur in nature...its not solely a synthetic product produced in labs, it is however augmented, or synthesized, adulterated, catabolized, metabolized and.
cocaine analogs have been created, many of them, and compounds that occur in nature have been used as precursors for such, as have synthetically created intermediates that do not occur naturally.
consider that arecoline in betel nut is not generally considered a controlled substance, except by the FDA as a food additive and dietary supplement, although that doesn't stop many asian markets selling the betel nut and its products in the USA, and until recently around the early 1900's, was considered the most prolifically consumed stimulant besides caffeine known to man until nicotine and tobacco consumption increased and in many cases tobacco was added as an ingredient to the betel nut quid.
pure arecoline is a somewhat common fine chemical, available for relatively cheap from thousands of chemical vendors and corporations, and in pure form, hardly controlled at all except by compounding for medications or veterinarian preparations.
and definitely cocaine can be and is taken out of the coca leaf, as are many of the other alkaloids, this is a common practice for processing the plant material for some purposes, such as for use by the coca cola company, as they must protect their trademark rights on their name by including a scant minuscule amount of coca leaf extract in their product or they will lose the trademark protection.....the word coca and cola/kola are common words, not proprietarily owned by that corporation per se, its the trademark and recipe and artistic control they are after....not retaining the original recipe.
the point of detection via analysis at some point doesn't detect minuscule amounts, just as hemp and hemp protein and oils at some point of processing are not detectable to contain THC, and thus in the USA have been vigorously fought for legality as commodities in courts by corporate lawyers well funded by corporations and some individuals afforded by the boon of income generated in regards to the study and exercise of human and corporate rights as applies to economic botany provided by the consumption of natural products by billions of human beings.
I don't think analytical equipment is generally used, or maybe even exists that can detect molecules in matrixes or solutions in the parts per trillions....consider that cocaine adulterates water supplies, physical objects, an currency around the world, because it is a natural and synthetically produced commodity consumed by millions of people, maybe even billions, in some cases, legally, and would be found to be a material that would invariably be a cross contaminating substance in analysis of the very, very minute scale.
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Bread Sandwich • 7 years ago • edited
You can't just "take the cocaine out of the coca leaf" and then use whatever is left in the leaf in order to obtain anything of value: mild stimulant properties and/or anesthetic properties, or even coca leaf flavoring, if Coca Cola only wanted that. Those 3 things are the only things Coca Cola would be interested in for its drink - unless they are interested in whatever else is left out of a coca leaf after making cocaine out of it, which is likely only kerosene-laden fibrous plant cellulose. So unless Coca Cola is using discarded chemically polluted coca leaves to flavor their drink, or they have innovated some new way to take cocaine out of the leaf and render it "drug-less" while still maintaining something left of the leaf that can still be legally put into the drink - I don't think the company or anyone else is using those leaves for cocaine. The only other viable probability is that there isn't actually coca in the drink at all and they are just outright selling the leaves to make cocaine instead. I doubt that.
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Joe Shmoe • 7 years ago
Invested in Mallinckordt. How can you not invest in a monopoly?
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Oliver • 7 years ago
I struggle to see the significance of any point made here.
Yet another anti-establishment conspiracy that will have you gripped from end until finish.
I'm quite surprised that there wasn't a mention of Coca-Cola's Santa being used to distribute the Cocaine.
Would have been an interesting turn in the fiction
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Ethan • 7 years ago
There is 1 FDA approved medical use for cocaine. This is why Pot is schedule 1 and cocaine is schedule 2. It is used as an eye anesthetic for surgery.
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Monty Ehrich • 7 years ago • edited
Wow! I've been drinking Coke since I was like 3, and all this time, turns out I'm a cocaine addict? Trying to limit myself to one 12oz can a day of that delicious drink, and it's all I think about. The way Coke goes down is amazing!
Update: Well, it's not ALL I think about, but when I wake up in the morning, I'm like, "I'm going to the fridge for a Coke. There's nothing like that first, ice-cold Coca-Cola of the day, but the second one's not bad, either!"
I really think that cocaine should be decriminalized. Here's my reasoning:
1. It was, for many years, a legal, lawful product in America.
2. People who want it, get it. Right now. The war on drugs is a failure.
3. Yes, it will f--k some people up, but is that
a good reason to ban it? A small but significant fraction of folks cannot handle
alcohol, but that's still legal.
4. Most people that I know use cocaine responsibly.
5. It is only self-destructive, self-hating people who end up dying from their addictions, and this group is always quite small percentage of the population.
6. Only people who are self-destructive and self-hating will ever become addicted in the first place. These folks are hellbent on self-destruction, and they will do it, whether it's through illegal drugs or not.
No, I'm not a shrink, but I know a PhD in psychology from Columbia who has had 50 years working with these people, and his
stories are in line with my experience.
There are ways to decriminalize cocaine
while, at the same time, passing laws to stop food manufacturers from adding it to their products to get us addicted, as they do with caffeine, msg, just the right combo of fat, salt, and sugar, etc.
Bottom line: It's my life, and if I want cocaine, I shall purchase same, be it lawful or extralegal.
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Karstein Stuverud • 7 years ago • edited
Coca leaf is the Real Thing.Without it,Coca cola would taste like coffee with alotof sugar.
The secret to coca colas famous taste is: Coca leaf & its wonderful bouquet.
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Patricia López Karstein Stuverud • 7 years ago
I have tasted coca leaf and it doesn't taste like Coca Cola at all. The flavor comes from the Kola nut.
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Karstein Stuverud Patricia López • 7 years ago
agree to disagree.coca-cola tastes of coca leaf and yes,kola nut.
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Dincontri Italia • 8 years ago
bleah...coca cola stinck
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DerickL • 8 years ago
Cocaine is a schedule 2 drug. That means that it has a high risk of abuse but that it also has medicinal properties: it is a topical anesthetic. It is used in eye drops and as a rub on gums. Opium is what morphine is made out of. Case closed.
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beast • 8 years ago
Can I get some to for medical research and do a survey with users?
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Alliavath • 8 years ago
This is probably one of the most onse sided articles I have ever read. I'm all for freedom of speech and conjecture, but I'm sure had someone actually taken the time to do some ACTUAL research (I noticed Wikipedia as the most sited source for this article,) then they may have learned that there is probably control upon control upon control watching where all (if any) of the cocaine is going. The DEA letting that stuff fall into the streets? Fat chance.
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Libro Alliavath • 7 years ago
Look up "freeway Ricky Ross" and his story with coke-then into crack which ended up coming from the CIA--the CIA has been busted flying in C-130s full of TONS of coke in the 80's MANY A TIMES---the DEA does NOT care if coke or heroin fall onto the streets lol---invasion of Afganistan after 9/11=country where 90+% of the worlds poppy plant cultivation was//90+% of where the heroin was coming from---just in the past months Afganistan reached an all time high in poppy production--every heroin addict in the USA can thank their government for their end product--this topic could on n on n on
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ImCleaningMyOven • 8 years ago
I Thought CoCo Leaves Were Used To Make Chocolate??
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Dmitri Desgoffe-und-Taxis ImCleaningMyOven • 6 years ago
That's cocoa leaves. Totally different.
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ABjr ImCleaningMyOven • 8 years ago
Cocoa beans for chocolate; kola nut (caffeine source) and coca leaves (cocaine source) for soda. :-)
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Sam ABjr • 5 years ago
cocoa is actually made from the cacao beans. cocoa is the cooked and pasteurized, outcome
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Jeffery McCormick • 8 years ago
This is full of holes and bs. You do know cocaine isn't strait from the leaf and it has to be mixed with a bunch of toxic chemicals before it is close to being real "cocaine"
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ModelGoddess Jeffery McCormick • 8 years ago
Cocaine is purified coca leaves with water. (thats the liquid one)... Then to make crack cocaine, thats when you "mix it with a bunch of chemicals." Which is known as crack cocaine.
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Jow Jeffery McCormick • 8 years ago
Jeff that's what the middleman do to increase profit. That not real cocaine! Those are fillers. Real cocaine comes from the leaves and is extracted using chemicals
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PalermoAnthony Jow • 7 years ago
Did you know that's exactly what Jeff said, minus "toxic"
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jwilso11 • 8 years ago
Are you saying that the Coca-Cola Company would jeopardize their entire operation, involve themselves in some huge cocaine smuggling conspiracy and go through all the trouble of bribing the FBI, Congress and all the rest of your tin-foil-hat nonsense for $16.7 million a year? You realize they make 10 times that EVERY DAY SELLING SODA? And without having to pay anybody off. This is just stupid. You just can't live with how mundane the world around you is, so you come up with these ridiculous conspiracy theories.
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Quantum computers could crack Bitcoin by 2022
Quantum computers could crack Bitcoin by 2022
Quantum computers could one day be used to crack the encryption of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. And that day could come sooner than anticipated.
In brief
Bitcoin’s race to outrun the quantum computer
What are quantum computers?
How could quantum computers crack Bitcoin’s code?
“An adversary could insert its own blocks and undermine the entire blockchain.”
When will quantum computers pose a threat to Bitcoin?
What Google’s quantum computer means for Bitcoin
Are quantum-secure blockchains possible?

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Quantum computers could crack Bitcoin by 2022
Quantum computers could one day be used to crack the encryption of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. And that day could come sooner than anticipated.
By Robert Stevens
6 min read May 12, 2020
May 12, 2020
In brief
A 4,000 qubit quantum computer could, theoretically, crack Bitcoin's encryption in a matter of seconds.
The current generation of quantum computers max out at 54 qubits.
A quantum computer capable of cracking Bitcoin's encryption could be just two years away.
If you had a powerful enough computer, you could, theoretically, take control of the Bitcoin blockchain. You could credit your account with free Bitcoin or prevent others from making transactions. Since the private key to each wallet can be derived from a public key, you could access the Bitcoin wallet of whomever you wished. The keys to the $163 billion castle would be yours—of course, in that scenario, Bitcoin’s price would surely plummet as soon as its claims of invulnerability were found to be baseless.
Whereas even the most powerful supercomputer would take thousands of years to crack Bitcoin, there are machines that could, theoretically, do so in a matter of seconds. These ultra-fast devices are called quantum computers.
And they’re real—currently in development by some of the finest minds on the planet.
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Some experts told Decrypt that it’s already too late for Bitcoin; quantum computers, developed in secrecy by governments, could corrupt the blockchain in just a few years' time.
But others, including some developers of quantum computers, say that the anxiety is farfetched and distant; by the time quantum computers become reliable and powerful enough to attack Bitcoin, blockchain developers will have already patched this vulnerability.
Want to know more? This comprehensive guide contains everything you need to know about quantum computers and Bitcoin.
What are quantum computers?
Quantum physics involves the investigation of structures smaller than atoms. When looking at sub-atomic structures, the laws of physics go out the window and crazy things begin to happen. Quantum computers exploit those properties to perform calculations far faster than even the most powerful supercomputer.
Traditional computers, like the one you’re reading this article on, operate in terms of 1s and 0s. If something is “true”, then the transistor will register a 1. And if it’s “false,” the transistor will read 0. There are billions of transistors in each computer; an estimated 13 sectillion have been created since the first one was created in 1947, making it the most manufactured device, period.
But due to something called “quantum superposition”, the transistors in quantum computers can register both 1 and 0 simultaneously, meaning that a quantum transistor is exponentially more powerful than a regular computer.
How could quantum computers crack Bitcoin’s code?
Bitcoin uses something called the Elliptical Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) to sign digital signatures, and uses a cryptography standard called SHA-256 to hash blocks on the chain.
With Bitcoin, a private key, picked at random, is run through these algorithms to generate a public key. And the Bitcoin protocol uses the hash value of this to create a public Bitcoin address.
Google's quantum computer (Image: Google)
A quantum computer could reverse this process and derive the private key from a public one. And voila! Bitcoin’s claim of inviolability and unhackability is gone, and you have access to any Bitcoin wallet you want.
Two major quantum algorithms that threaten the current state of cryptography have already been developed: Grover's and Shor's algorithms.
“An adversary could insert its own blocks and undermine the entire blockchain.”
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Rob Campbell, President at Baltimore, Maryland-based Med Cybersecurity, told Decrypt that quantum computers using both Grover’s and Shor’s algorithm could also “mine much faster than everyone else, and therefore an adversary could insert its own blocks and undermine the entire blockchain.”
When will quantum computers pose a threat to Bitcoin?
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It’s estimated that you’d need a quantum computer with at least 4,000 qubits—the unit that denotes the power of a quantum computer—to crack Bitcoin’s code. The thing is, the most powerful quantum computers today are… decidedly less powerful. In October 2019, Google announced a quantum computer with 54 qubits; it’s the most powerful quantum computer announced in the public domain.
But Campbell said that major companies, such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM are making “rapid progress,” as are a host of smaller companies.
So how long until the quantum computing threat becomes a problem for Bitcoin? It depends whom you ask. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, was among the first major figures to put a deadline on it. He said: "In a five to 10 year time frame, quantum computing will break encryption as we know it today."
Some blockchain leaders are not worried by this timeline. At Web Summit 2019, Hedera Hashgraph founder Dr. Leemon Baird compared the quantum computing threat to the Y2K problem—a date formatting issue that doomsdayers thought would break the world’s major computer systems come January 1, 2000. Said Baird: “Like Y2K; yes, we had to make some changes to software at Y2K. Was it the end of the world? Actually, no.”
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Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, is also unfazed. He told Forkast News in October 2019 that, “For every cryptographic algorithm that quantum computers can break, we know that we have a replacement […] that quantum computers cannot break." Though these may be less efficient, "We have an upgrade path and we know what the upgrade path is,” he said.
But the threat could be far more imminent, Andersen Cheng, CEO of London-based cryptography company Post-Quantum, told Decrypt. In the intelligence world, which Cheng knows well—his company has worked with the counter-terrorism departments of organizations such as NATO, GCHQ, and NCSC—“there's been some evidence that it could well be around two years away.”
The Sycamore processor at the heart of Google's quantum computer (Image: Google)
Cheng said that Pichai’s prediction of five to ten years is based on commercially available quantum computers; no government is going to let on that they have a huge quantum computer “the size of a stadium” hidden away in an underground bunker, he said.
For Pichai to sell Google's quantum computer to other companies, it would have to be stable and practical. But for a government computer, none of this matters “so long as you can start cracking encryption,” said Cheng.
Cheng also dismissed concerns that a quantum computer would have to be purpose-built to crack Bitcoin’s code, and whether that could take even longer. Since Shor and Grover's algorithms already exist, “people know exactly what to do, but they just haven't got the power to do it.” Now, people are “just waiting for the power to arise.”
Are quantum-secure blockchains possible?
Right now, it’s up to the blockchain and cryptography community to build quantum-secure blockchains.
One major milestone is a competition to create post-quantum cryptographic algorithms run by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), the cryptography world’s standard setter. NIST’s winner would determine the algorithm for a blockchain that’s resilient to quantum computers.
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Then, blockchains could fork to a post-quantum-secure algorithm. Or, blockchains could start from the ground up. For instance, David Chaum, creator of digital cash, has begun work on Praxxis, a “quantum-resistant” blockchain that claims to use quantum-resistant digital signatures to sign transactions for the platform’s native currency, the xx coin.
But it’s too early to call things until NIST makes its judgment, which Cheng predicts would be as late as 2022.
Until then, Bitcoin holders will be living in a state of quantum uncertainty.
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‘Satan Shoes’ With Drops of Blood Announced By Company Behind ‘Jesus Shoes’
‘Satan Shoes’ With Drops of Blood Announced By Company Behind ‘Jesus Shoes’
The Shoes Are Promoted as Each Including One Drop of Actual Human Blood
Nike Is Suing Over Trademark Infringement
MSCHF Sold Jesus-Themed Shoes in 2019
Lil Nas X Has Tweeted Responses to Outraged Posts
Some Think This Is an Early April Fool’s Joke, But Others Disagree

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Satan.Shoes MSCHF's limited-edition Satan Shoes.
Limited-edition “Satan Shoes” are sparking outrage among some people online. The creative label MSCHF, which sold “Jesus Shoes” in 2019, is behind this new product that was recently announced. The company is partnering with Lil Nas X to offer 666 pairs of the limited-edition shoes for one day only. The limited-edition shoes are redesigned Nike shoes, and Nike has since filed a lawsuit against MSCHF over trademark infringement.
A product website for the shoes has announced that the shoes would go on sale on March 29 on MSCHF’s official app. They quickly sold out of all 666 pairs.
The Shoes Are Promoted as Each Including One Drop of Actual Human Blood
MSCHF x Lil Nas X "Satan Shoes" 🏹
👟Nike Air Max '97
🩸Contains 60cc ink and 1 drop of human blood
🗡666 Pairs, individually numbered
💰$1,018
🗓March 29th, 2021 pic.twitter.com/XUMA9TKGSX
— SAINT (@saint) March 26, 2021
The shoes were announced as a collaboration between MSCHF and Lil Nas X to create a limited-edition version of the Nike Air Max 97. According to the product’s website, the shoes are individually numbered and only 666 pairs will be sold. These shoes aren’t created by Nike. They’re revamped Air Max 97s by MSCHF made in collaboration with Lil Nas X, Page Six reported. The shoes cost more than $1,000 a pair.
A Nike spokesperson explained to Snopes that Nike had nothing to do with either the creation or sale of the shoes.
The product website notes that each shoe will contain “60CC ink and 1 drop human blood.” An animation on the product’s site shows the sole of the shoe filled with a red liquid that sloshes forward and back with each step.
The shoe also features a pentagram in bronze with engraving that says, “I SAW SATAN,” “MSCHF” and “LIL NAS X,” and the words “Luke 10:18” are featured on the outside of the shoe near the toe. This references the verse: “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven,” which is also part of a theme in Lil Nas X’s recent music video.
According to the product’s website, the shoe is going on sale on March 29 at 11 a.m. Eastern time and can only be purchased on MSCHF’s app.
Satan.Shoes MSCHF’s limited-edition Satan Shoes.
The release of the Satan Shoes is referred to as MSCHF Drop #43, but on MSCHF’s official website linked on Satan.Shoes, Drop #43 lists a release date of April 12 rather than March 29. However, it’s followed by a countdown clock to two days from now, which is consistent with the March 29 release date.
MSCHF
Directly underneath are the words “Tap here to get the secret drops,” which connects users to MSCHF’s app that can be used to buy the shoes once they “drop.”
Nike Is Suing Over Trademark Infringement
Nike is suing MSCHF over trademark infringement, false designation of origin/unfair competition, trademark dilution, and common law trademark infringement.
Nike is suing MSCHF over the blood shoes: pic.twitter.com/inFLwU8k0q
— Kevin Draper (@kevinmdraper) March 29, 2021
Some sites are wrongly reporting this as copyright infringement, but it is a trademark infringement case.
THANK YOU because that had me confused too.
So it IS trademark infringement. Can you explain the difference in this case? pic.twitter.com/iqkI3gI6XV
— тнe вαвy нυмαɴiѕт™ (@BabyHumanist) March 30, 2021
MSCHF Sold Jesus-Themed Shoes in 2019
MSCHF MSCHF’s limited-edition Jesus Shoes.
MSCHF, the creative label behind the Satan Shoes, sold Jesus-themed shoes in 2019, which were also a special design of the Nike Air Max 97 trainers. Rather than having blood and red ink in the soles, the Jesus shoes had holy water. One pair cost $3,000.
Business Insider reported that the Jesus-themed shoes were bought at retail price and repurposed, and Nike had no affiliation with the shoes’ creation.
In addition to the 60cc of holy water from the River Jordan in the soles, the Jesus shoes featured a crucifix on the top of one shoe and had been blessed by a priest. The shoes featured the verse Matthew 14:25, which reads: “And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea.”
Daniel Greenberg, head of commerce at MSCHF, told Business Insider that the Jesus shoes were meant to “make a statement about how absurd collab culture has gotten.”
Lil Nas X Has Tweeted Responses to Outraged Posts
The shoes are inspired by a music video recently released by Lil Nas X. The video shows Lil Nas X falling down from heaven, having sex with Satan, and then ultimately killing him at the end and taking his place in hell.
Lil Nas X has tweeted in response to some outraged posts about the shoes, including retweeting the message below.
why y'all mad at lil nas he literally killed satan we should be thankful
— pres (@coolgurlmonolog) March 27, 2021
Lil Nas X tweeted that the anger people feel about his shoes is similar to the anger he was taught to feel toward himself because of his sexuality. He wrote: “i spent my entire teenage years hating myself because of the sh** y’all preached would happen to me because i was gay. so i hope u are mad, stay mad, feel the same anger you teach us to have towards ourselves.”
i spent my entire teenage years hating myself because of the shit y’all preached would happen to me because i was gay. so i hope u are mad, stay mad, feel the same anger you teach us to have towards ourselves.
— nope 🏹 (@LilNasX) March 27, 2021
Some people on Twitter are expressing skepticism or anger about the shoes.
Nah Fam I’m GOD son 🧐 don’t need that dark negativity walking with me lol
— Vees 🧸☕ (@vees_1) March 26, 2021
Nah imma stick with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ thank you very much
— 𝕁𝕒𝕪👑🏀 ⁶𓅓 (@Waitingfora3rd) March 26, 2021
Some Think This Is an Early April Fool’s Joke, But Others Disagree
Some people online are doubting the shoes’ authenticity and think this might be an early April Fool’s joke.
Not one person recognized this as an april fool's joke.
— Melanie Blair (@MelTheHorsegirl) March 27, 2021
But others were quick to disagree with that guess.
I didn’t know April fools was in March?????
— cesar 🥁 (@sarceno_cesar) March 27, 2021
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Junk Explained: A Deep-Dive Into The “Armie Hammer Is A Cannibal” Allegations
Junk Explained: A Deep-Dive Into The “Armie Hammer Is A Cannibal” Allegations
Over the last week, you’ve likely seen Armie Hammer’s name along with the word ‘cannibal’ thrown around a fair bit.
Why Does Everyone Think Armie Hammer Is A Cannibal?
So, Is Armie Hammer Actually A Cannibal?

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Junk Explained: A Deep-Dive Into The “Armie Hammer Is A Cannibal” Allegations
A lot of weird things have happened in 2021, yet Armie Hammer allegedly being a cannibal is still the strangest storyline.
by Michelle Rennex 15 January 2021
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Over the last week, you’ve likely seen Armie Hammer’s name along with the word ‘cannibal’ thrown around a fair bit.
And even with the year we’ve already had, filled with riots on the US Capitol, Bean Dad basically starving his child for six hours, rumours about Jeffree Star and Kanye West having an affair, and Azealia Banks ~cooking~ her dead cat, the whole “Armie Hammer is a cannibal” rumour is still the most bonkers thing that’s happened in 2021.
Remember how celebrity news in 2016 was "Chrissy Teigen Is HILARIOUS on Twitter, Here Are 17 Of Her Best Tweets" and now in 2021 it's like "Armie Hammer is a cannibal and Azealia Banks dug up her dead cat and cooked it"
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For those playing at home, the gist of it is that Armie Hammer, the American actor in films such as Call Me By Your Name and The Social Network, has an alleged cannibal fetish which he has since vehemently denied.
But day by day, the number of screenshots and stories of Hammer’s cannibalistic alleged fantasies have continued to pour in, even including some from his own ex-girlfriends.
So, let’s breakdown exactly how and why did these cannibal rumours started.
*This article includes reference of sexual assault and disturbing sex acts*
Why Does Everyone Think Armie Hammer Is A Cannibal?
Over the weekend, a number of disturbing screenshots started to circulate, which showed alleged texts between Armie Hammer and a woman who claimed she was involved with the actor from 2016 to 2020 — even while he was still married to his wife of ten years, Elizabeth Chambers.
Posted onto House of Effie, an anonymous Instagram account with over 50,000 followers, these screenshots detailed graphic messages where Hammer allegedly called himself “100 percent a cannibal” and said “I want to eat you”.
In other texts, Armie Hammer is said to have sent the woman a number of equally concerning messages. “I need to drink your blood, I crave it,” reads one text. “I need to eat your entire body. I need to touch every part of you, inside and out. I want to bite pieces off of you,” details another.
As these messages started to go viral, House of Effie claimed that at least five other women also had consensual affairs with the actor, where he told them all that wanted to “run away with us… that he loved us” before “fucking us all in his and [his wife’s] bed”.
“So we all had apartments ready for him around the world. So he met all our moms and they all loved him,” the screenshot continued. “He told us all to be monogamous to him and wait for his divorce.”
Credit: House Of Effie / Instagram
With the women deciding to pool their messages together, House of Effie then shared one screenshot where Hammer allegedly tells one of his “kittens” that she will be his “slave” and talks about cutting off her toes.
“You just live to obey me and be my slave. I will own you… would you come and be my property till you die?” the text read. “If I wanted to cut off one of your toes and keep it with me in my pocket so I always had a piece of you in my possession?”
Later, unclear whether it is the same woman or a different one, Hammer appears to make the switch from asking, and shifts over to demanding. “Those are my bones, and if I want to break one to prove it I will — fingers, toes and if you need more proof… your fucking neck,” the disturbing text read.
“I was starting small,” the message thread continues. “If you tell me what I can and can’t break, I will break them all.”
In another, clearly with a huge fascination for breaking bones, the actor appears to say that he is “going to cum” from the thought of breaking the woman’s bones.
As these screenshots continued to be shared by House of Effie, it’s evident that there is a clear theme in all of these exchanges: While extremely horny, the person at the other end of these texts is very aggressive and has some very questionable kinks.
Multiple victims of Armie Hammer came out saying he used his fame to manipulate em to have sex, calling em "kitties" and drink their BLOOD, now WHAT IN HANNIBAL LECTER??? pic.twitter.com/LWxgZdXC4t
— tevin (@tevinauguste) January 10, 2021
So, Is Armie Hammer Actually A Cannibal?
While all the claims were originally from unverified screenshots by seemingly random women, the whole saga got a little more real when some of Hammer’s ex-girlfriends also weighed in on the matter.
Talking to Page Six, Hammer’s latest ex, Courtney Vucekovich, shared that the viral screenshots weren’t surprising to her based on her experience with him over their short relationship.
“He said to me he wants to break my rib and barbecue and eat it,” Vucekovich told Page Six. “He likes the idea of skin in his teeth. He says, ‘I want to take a bite out of you’. If I had a little cut on my hand, he’d like suck it or lick it. That’s about as weird as we got.”
Reflecting on her experience with the actor, Vucekovich admitted that while she thought the request was weird, she never really thought about it again. She did, however, share that Hammer is “good” at “active manipulation” and “quickly grooms you in a relationship”.
“He kind of captivates you and while being charming, he’s grooming you for these things that are darker and heavier and consuming,” Vucekovich said. “When I say consuming, I mean mentally, physically, emotionally, financially, just everything.”
“He did some things with me that I wasn’t comfortable with,” she continued. “You end up doing things that are very out-of-character for you, including sex acts.”
Similarly, Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, another of the Hammer’s exes, tweeted about the situation before making her Twitter account private.
In the tweet, Henriquez said: “If you are still questioning whether or not those Armie Hammer DMs are real (and they are) maybe you should start questioning why we live in a culture willing to give abusers the benefit of the doubt instead of victims”.
On her Instagram story, Henriquez also shared that “it takes an army to hide a predator” as “behind every abuser is a team of people working hard to cover up the trail”.
Everyone: Armie Hammer is a cannibal omg
Me: Come on guys, that’s gotta be an exaggeration
Armie Hammer: pic.twitter.com/goKoom9DmE
— Mitch (@czarmitch) January 11, 2021
As a number of Hammer’s exes have come forward with their own comments, concerning quotes from the actor’s past interviews have also resurfaced as the cannibal rumours continue to swirl.
In 2013, Armie Hammer told Playboy that he used to be a “dominant lover” and “liked the grabbing of the neck and the hair and all that”, but noted that since he got married his “sexual appetite” had changed.
“Well, if you’re married to a feminist, as I am, then it’s… I don’t know how much we can put here without my parents being embarrassed, but I used to like to be a dominant lover,” Hammer told the magazine. “So it becomes a new kind of thing that’s less about ‘I want to dominate you’ and more about both of us having a really good time. It’s just a different style.”
“I mean that for the better — it’s not like I’m suffering in any way. But you can’t really pull your wife’s hair,” he continued. “It gets to a point where you say, ‘I respect you too much to do these things that I kind of want to do.’”
After the interview, Armie Hammer told E! News that his explicit comments were just a result of “drinking during [the] interview” and blamed his crassness on alcohol.
But despite the mounting evidence against him from his past lovers and own quotes, Armie Hammer finally broke his silence and called the cannibal rumours “bullshit claims” on January 13.
“I’m not responding to these bullshit claims, but in light of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot in good conscience now leave my children for four months to shoot a film in the Dominican Republic,” Hammer told TMZ. “Lionsgate is supporting me in this and I’m grateful to them for that.”
The actor was actually slated to start filming for Shotgun Wedding alongside Jennifer Lopez immediately, so his role will now need to be recast.
Variety reports that a spokesperson for the production confirms that Hammer “requested to step away from the film” himself, but an anonymous submission to infamous gossip Instagram account, Deux Moi, says that “on agency side, studio [was] trying to replace [Hammer] in a hurry” following the allegations emerging.
So, that’s 2021’s latest bonkers storyline. Who knows what next week will hold?
Michelle Rennex is a senior writer at Junkee. She tweets at @michellerennex.