Wow. Mexi-Coke is really good.

[Liberal Veteran]

I bought a few bottles of imported Coca-Cola made with cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup and it taste SO MUCH BETTER than the shit they pass off as Coca-Cola domestically.

[boston bean]

1. how can you get it, I would like to buy some. and is it safe? nt

[Liberal Veteran]

3. I was at Albertson's grocery store and they had a cooler full of them...

I looked on the green tinted glass bottle and saw the word "sugar" instead "high fructose corn syrup" and decided to buy a few (they cost a dollar for a 12 oz bottle), but the taste is so much better.

[trackfan]

8. Here's a place that sells it

http://www.sodapopstop.com/products/detail.cfm?link=36

[seemunkee]

2. I still have a little Kosher Coke left

Also made with cane sugar. I should have stocked up.

[Kajsa]

4. Is there anyway to get HFCS banned?

It tastes like crap and is nasty stuff.

:think:

[Liberal Veteran]

5. I'm with you....let's turn our corn into fuel and put real sugar back in our food.

:D

[Kajsa]

7. Absolutely!

I'm all for it.

;-)

:thumbsup:

[Celeborn Skywalker]

9. Is it really that much worse than sugar?

I thought both pretty much have the same effect on blood glucose levels.

[Kajsa]

18. Jaredh, the jury is out on that one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup

Going by taste, cane sugar has HFCS beat, IMHO.

Since its use is so widespread, even Hansen's Sodas
uses it! yuck- it's going to be a tough battle to prove it's unhealthy.

But as another member posted here,

it may be self banning, which would be great!

;-)

[AmyDeLune]

10. It's almost self-banning--

due to rising costs, soda companies are looking to go back to cane sugar and other less expensive sweeteners. :D

[Kajsa]

19. That would be great!

Thanks, Amy!

:D :thumbsup:

[begin_within]

6. There is a Dr. Pepper bottling plant in Dublin, Texas that still uses cane sugar.

http://dublindrpepper.com/

[Frank Cannon]

11. I have a friend in Albuquerque who supplies me with them

They come in glass bottles and taste just like the Cokes of my childhood.

[conscious evolution]

12. The real thing

Nothing better than a cane sugar coca cola.
I'm convinced the new coke fiasco in the 80's was really a distraction to hide the switch to HFCS in colas.

[SmokingJacket]

29. You're right.

When they reintroduced "Coke Classic" it wasn't the same as before -- it now had HFCS.

[bicentennial_baby]

13. Oooh, that's what I had in France...

It is SO good.... :9

[libnnc]

14. we have a large hispanic grocery store

right by the house. I get them all the time. When I want to stay up all night, I drink a bottle with my dinner.

Cheaper than crack cocaine. :thumbsup:

[slj0101]

15. I get Jarritos every time I go to my local Mexican place.

Jarritos uses real sugar as well. Yummy stuff. :9

[libnnc]

36. I've never tried Jarritos. Is it carbonated?

They sell tons of it in all flavors at our neighborhood store

[slj0101]

37. It is, but it's a bit less carbonated than American soft drinks. Fruitier.

I highly recommend the Jamaican or Pineapple. :)

[Rhythm]

16. Passover Coke...

They make Coke with 'cane sugar' here in the States, too, but you can usually only find it in places with high concentrations of Jewish folks, and only in the springtime; corn syrup is not kosher for Passover.

[Kajsa]

20. High Fructose Corn Syrup isn't kosher, period.

Here's another good reason it should be eradicated.

[thefool_wa]

23. why not?

I am completely ignorant of such things so I am truly curious what it is that makes Corn Syrup not Kosher.

[Kajsa]

24. I don't know in the

traditional sense/ use of the word kosher.

I was using it as a term for 'acceptable'.

HFCS is not an " all natural" ingredient, no matter
what the new 7-Up ads state.
That may be a reason.

[thefool_wa]

25. I see

I agree - not Kosher, bad for the body, bad for the mind, and certainly bad for the teeth.

[Kajsa]

27. You got it.

:hi:

[Ignacio Upton]

32. It's weird that corn-based products would be

prohibited since Judaism predates the "discovery" and movement of corn to Europe from the Americas. What about tomatoes or squash or chocolate?

[thefool_wa]

33. I was kosher (little k) not Kosher (big K)

and the comment was meant more euphamistically than religously :)

[Kajsa]

34. I'm not familiar with Kosher dietary laws.

Anyone here know the answer to this?

[AngryAmish]

17. told you so

[Not_Longer_Than_20_C]

21. It's not just the sugar..

It's more about the extra ingredients in their water.

[thefool_wa]

22. I have a question...

Does Mexi-Coke come in Mexi-Cans?

:rofl: :rofl:

(I kill me!)

[undeterred]

26. I think the whole southern hemisphere drinks coke flavored with cane

I tried it when I was in Brazil, but I never got used to it- way too sweet for me. Course I'm used to the diet stuff, so it was really impossible to switch.

[GirlinContempt]

28. I'm pretty sure Canadian coke uses real sugar too

[applegrove]

30. Sounds like I'd like it!

[Ignacio Upton]

31. HFCS is only used because it's cheaper

I think that cane sugar used to be the norm for sweetened products until just a few decades ago.

[Hissyspit]

35. Yeah, I've noticed that too, and it just tastes better in glass bottles, period.

When I've been able to get a hold of Mexican-bottled Coca-cola. I'm in NC and some of the local tienda (sp?) have them.

[ContraBass Black]

38. Surely, I'm not the only one thinking about a different kind of coke

Every time I read the thread title.

[peekaloo]

40. thoughts of baby laxative in the mix

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[smtpgirl]

39. Any soda made with HFCS is, well beyond putrid

Since Coke went on the cheap, followed by Pepsi in the late '70's, I have only imbibed in diet soda.

But I hate coke really, ever since my mom gave me Coke syrup (you needed a prescripion for that in the '60's) for nausea, I can't stand the taste of the stuff.