I also don’t drink soda, but I seemed to recall that a few years back Coca Cola did a limited release of the cane sugar version when they finally caught on to how popular Mexican Coca Cola was in the US.
But when looking for that, I found the regular annual stock of the same thing.
My guess would be another limited release, and when the average consumer balks at even the tiniest price difference, they knock this down to a trickle of a steady supply only to fit purely political/ideological demands. Keep a single bottling plant in Texas running cane supply 2 days a week, that kind of thing.
It’s not limited. Coke in the USA sells a knock off version of Mexican coke. Same style of bottle, similar labeling, but the bottle won’t be all fucked from recycling.
If your “Mexican” coke bottle isn’t beat to shit and you’re in the USA, odds are you’re drinking the American version.
Yeah. Back when sugar-Coke was a thing (it was going around in popular media about “better” Coke being available around Passover) we searched around and found some and tried it. I couldn’t tell a difference, but that’s probably because I don’t like Coke to begin with and hadn’t tasted the corn-syrup version in decades so had nothing to compare it with. It was putting lipstick on a pig.
You’re right that Coke-Cola’s just going to fine ways to cut corners. My guess is that they’d start with sugar, but slowly start adding corn syrup back in in increasing amounts until it’s back to mostly corn syrup and some token sugar.
I haven’t ever done a side by side comparison, but the European and most African versions seem less shockingly sweet to me. Like there’s just an extra super-sweet edge to the American one, and more carbonation. But maybe I’m just imagining that.
That’s the corn syrup. There’s a definite difference; corn syrup is more cloying. Side by side, it’s easy to tell the difference. My comment was just that not even sugar could make Coke more palatable.
I also don’t drink soda, but I seemed to recall that a few years back Coca Cola did a limited release of the cane sugar version when they finally caught on to how popular Mexican Coca Cola was in the US.
But when looking for that, I found the regular annual stock of the same thing.
My guess would be another limited release, and when the average consumer balks at even the tiniest price difference, they knock this down to a trickle of a steady supply only to fit purely political/ideological demands. Keep a single bottling plant in Texas running cane supply 2 days a week, that kind of thing.
It’s not limited. Coke in the USA sells a knock off version of Mexican coke. Same style of bottle, similar labeling, but the bottle won’t be all fucked from recycling.
If your “Mexican” coke bottle isn’t beat to shit and you’re in the USA, odds are you’re drinking the American version.
Oooooooh! A deception!
Yeah. Back when sugar-Coke was a thing (it was going around in popular media about “better” Coke being available around Passover) we searched around and found some and tried it. I couldn’t tell a difference, but that’s probably because I don’t like Coke to begin with and hadn’t tasted the corn-syrup version in decades so had nothing to compare it with. It was putting lipstick on a pig.
You’re right that Coke-Cola’s just going to fine ways to cut corners. My guess is that they’d start with sugar, but slowly start adding corn syrup back in in increasing amounts until it’s back to mostly corn syrup and some token sugar.
I haven’t ever done a side by side comparison, but the European and most African versions seem less shockingly sweet to me. Like there’s just an extra super-sweet edge to the American one, and more carbonation. But maybe I’m just imagining that.
That’s the corn syrup. There’s a definite difference; corn syrup is more cloying. Side by side, it’s easy to tell the difference. My comment was just that not even sugar could make Coke more palatable.
Lol, fair point