Anyone tried this yet? It's what us old timers grew up with. IT is made with real SUGAR and not the high fructose abomination that gives you early diabetes.
I got both a carton of this Pepsi and a bottle of Mexican Coke without suger and tried both.
What a difference ! Damn, we have been cheated for far too long.
I forgot how good these really tasted at one time.
I don't drink soda much, but when I do I'll go to a taqueria or Mexican store and get Jarritos or Coca Cola made in Mexico, both of which brands use cane sugar. From what I was told, the sodas made with high fructose corn syrup won't sell if the stores carry the stuff.
Another thing, do you recall as a kid stopping somewhere to drink a soda when you were traveling, and might notice there was a slightly different flavor with almost every place you went to? This is because of the numerous independent local bottling franchises that served whatever areas they were located in, and they used the local water to bottle their product, which in turn gave it it's slightly different flavor. The husband of one of my dad's sisters was president of the Coca Cola bottling plant in Beaumont, Texas back in the 1950s-60s who told me this. If you ever look on the old glass bottles, you'd see that the name of the bottling plant was embossed on it so as to know what distributor it went back to after being returned for deposit. You wouldn't believe the amount of Coca Cola memorabilia they had in their house. What was really cool was that his desk had a resin plastic sheet on top of it with a mint condition bottle cap from every country in the world that bottled and sold Coke embedded in it.
Coming from the south, if you drank anything it was heavily sugar laden iced tea (delicious especially if it sat around a few days mellowing and sadly not tasted till 24)....However until 24 years old I only had a single soda at roughly 11 years old (1975 perhaps?). A "tin" can of pepsi.....To this day I can still remember the taste. IMO the tin can (and no doubt lead solder hehe) making all the difference. Whether the can, or ingrediants I can't say, yet it was stunningly better.
BTW.....Beet sugar FTW, support your local farmers! (as in the end sugar is sugar).
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The last coke I enjoyed was in Italy, proper bottle out of an old 50's vending machine, about 74'75. Gimme back my sugar
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The change got made to Coca Cola IIRC in 68. The syrup stuff is crud compared. The Pepsi Throwback and Mexican Coke will clear your throat and if chugged fast and cold the old burn is there.
Since the 80's there has been another choice -- JOLT Cola. It's the old CC formula with TWICE the caffeine. Just a shade more kick than Mt. Dew. Made in NY and 'exported' in limited quantities it can be hard to find.
I've tried a few cane sugar sodas, either stuff like Hansen's that is its own brand or non-HFCS big-name sodas like Coke. Recently Mountain Dew and Pepsi have had "throwback" versions with sugar rather than HFCS.
I don't really see much of a difference in taste, but I'd say the mouthfeel is nicer, it's more sparkly and crisper in taste and feel and feels much less syrupy. I don't drink much soda but when I do I'd prefer to get non-HFCS stuff, too bad it's harder to find.
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I drink a lot of Coke and Pepsi and this is a real shock.
I thought it's wouldn't make much difference but Holy Tap dancing Christ it's completely different.
As I said now I remember why I love my coke and Pepsi so much.
Damn government got into the act for the corn producers and ruined what were excellent products.
Well with ethanol production ramping up slowly, maybe soft drink producers will have to switch back to real sugar.Originally posted by stalkervision:
Damn government got into the act for the corn producers and ruined what were excellent products.
I tried the Mountain Dew throwback. I really couldn't tell the difference. I do miss the Coca~Cola in glass bottles of my youth. Nothing tasted better with pizza than that.
Pshhhhhaw!
You whippersnappers worrying about HFCS. I say put the coke back in Coca Cola. THAT'S when Coke was good.
I still drink sodas on occasion. I won't buy it to bring in the house as a regular beverage, but if I'm having a sub sandwich then I'll have one. It's then when I really like it.
As a kid we didn't have it in the house. 5 kids and one working parent didn't add up to a lot of excess, so it was on rare occasions that we got the syrupy sweet concoction. Now, go to our grandparents in PA and it was a different story. We'd visit for ten days a year and we had our fill of junk food. R/C Cola being a favorite beverage.
EDIT: I did try the real thing with real sugar when they brought it out several years ago as a marketing ploy. It tasted 'cleaner' but not necessarily any better.
Do a little digging. Processing corn to make HFCS involves the end product containing just a tiny bit of MERCURY, a cumulative poison that damages developing brains the most. But since the instant dose is below legal limits, it's okay and a great tax revenue collector.
Make sure eat a tuna sandwich while you drink your soda so as not to half-step.
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