Mexican Coke in NYC??? Made with real sugar not corn syrup!

[justlooking]

Now We'll See If Slinkybender Is Reading This Thread

Does Dr. Pepper come in a bottle?

 

[DaveNJ]

Does Dr. Pepper come in a bottle?

Yeah, ever since his wife died.


Personally, I don't see why he doesn't just use a towel.

 

[Ozzy]

The green bottles (aka "Georgia Green") are better than the clear... something about the light having an affect on it.


And Coke on tap beats them all.

 

[justlooking]

And Coke on tap beats them all.

BIG DITTO to that.

Nothing beats a fountain Coke.

Nothing.

 

[RuffToy]

...Nothing beats a fountain Coke....

Yeah but how do you get it up your nose?

 

[Ozzy]

You obviously never saw Scarface...

You just pour a shit load out on a table and stick your nose in it.

 

[JusAsexToy4women]

I know this is a old thead but I just bought some coke a cola thats made with cane sugar from mexico. They have it at Stew Leonards for $1.39 a bottle or 4 for $5

 

[Ozzy]

I'm seeing a lot of canned and bottled soft drinks (mostly on iced teas and energy drinks) lately using "real sugar" and proudly saying so on the label. How times have changed when the word sugar means a good thing.

 

[JusAsexToy4women]

I'm seeing a lot of canned and bottled soft drinks (mostly on iced teas and energy drinks) lately using "real sugar" and proudly saying so on the label. How times have changed when the word sugar means a good thing.

I have a feeling the people in the sugar industry started this whole HFCS scare

 

[Ozzy]

There's a TV commercial defending HFCS'. Gotta be on Youtube if someone can find it.

 

[franca]

Def check the label first. The last Mexican Coca Cola I bought turned out to have HFCS instead of sugar.

 

[puffin]

I have a feeling the people in the sugar industry started this whole HFCS scare

I think the quantity of simple sugars that are consumed is a greater hazard than the type of simple sugars. I avoid HFCS, but I don't freak over it either. Splenda creeps me out more.

It's best to just drink water.

 

[franca]

Sugar tastes better than HFCS, and Splenda tastes better than Nutrasweet. If I'm drinking a cola, I'm already drinking something I know isn't good for me. I'm not concerned about which is healthier, but which tastes better.

 

[rajah]

HFCS is immediately perceptible, does not taste like sugar, is gagworthy IMHO. (So is Pepsi, in all its forms.) I haven't had a Mexican Coke in years, and that was in Mexico, but I remember instantly thinking it tasted like Coke used to taste before they ruined it with HFCS.

 

[spaq]

There's a TV commercial defending HFCS'. Gotta be on Youtube if someone can find it.

Here's one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEbRxTOyGf0&feature=related

And here's a rebuttal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYiEFu54o1E

 

[paulbunyon]

Interesting videos spaq, I think I've seen those. The bottom line for me is that soda made with real sugar just tastes better, just about everybody on here agrees.

In a related story, I drank Canada Dry Ginger Ale from a bottle, for the first time since probably like 1975, last week when I was in Central America. Just tasted better to me too. Im sure it was made from real sugar even though I couldnt find the ingrediants listed on the bottle. Tasted sweeter than the Ginger Ale you find in the states.

 

[ereuben]

Coccaino!

 

[Queue]

yeah, they say the cost of sugar is cheaper outside of the US which is why it is made with corn syrup here but sugar in mexico.

its where the idea that coke in a glass bottle is better but its because most of the glass bottle coke you find is from mexico.

 

[paulbunyon]

Well that makes sense.
But here's another question, why the prevelence of the use plastic instead of glass bottles in the U.S.? How/why/when did plastic win the lion's share of the US market over glass but why is it seemingly the reverse in Mexico and Latin America?

 

[Queue]

It has to do with volume. The number of coke made in the US is such a high volume they use plastic bottles because its cheaper and break less in shipping.