Pepsi with real sugar coming to USA...

[Sprailenes 47]

http://www.kottke.org/09/02/sweet-sweet-su...pepsi-throwback

My husband called this: "progress"

I call it "old news"

[Emancipation 2]

[mkg265 2]

Oh my god!!!! If only coke would make coke classic with real sugar I'd be a happy duckling. American coke is too syrupy for my taste. I've been drinking Boylans, Jones and the Whole Foods brand when the mood struck me for a soda but I'll be happy to buy sugar filled pepsi in a regular supermarket.

Thanks for the heads up!

[trailmix 77]

yay!

Edited February 18, 2009 by trailmix

[DeadPoolX 9]

Oh my god!!!! If only coke would make coke classic with real sugar I'd be a happy duckling. American coke is too syrupy for my taste. I've been drinking Boylans, Jones and the Whole Foods brand when the mood struck me for a soda but I'll be happy to buy sugar filled pepsi in a regular supermarket.

Thanks for the heads up!

There used to be sugar in American Coke. It got switched to HFCS in the 1980s with the introduction of "New Coke," which claimed to have a new formula and a better taste. While it wasn't hated, "New Coke" wasn't that popular either. Coca-Cola then decided to go back to the old formula (which is why Coke cans now have the label "Classic Coke"), but they still used HFCS.

The reason HFCS is used in the U.S. (and to some degree, Canada too) is because American farmers created a surplus of corn. The U.S. government subsidizes the farmers and so they make more corn. The corn is then sold at a lower price since every farmer is doing it and then the U.S. government once again subsidizes the farmers. Because there's so much corn -- which is bought by companies at a much cheaper price than sugar -- HFCS goes into just about everything.

To be fair, much of this wouldn't have occurred had tariff and sugar quotes been implemented in the late 1970s. The price of sugar (in both the Canada and the U.S.) is twice that of HFCS. So companies realized it was far more economical to use HFCS, rather than continue with sugar.

Oh and believe me... Canada is slowly switched to HFCS as well. The overall cost of sugar versus HFCS, that latter of which Canada can get a cheaper price, has become a huge deciding factor. Especially since importing products to Canada costs a lot, regardless of the item.

[Sprailenes 47]

Anyways.

[DeadPoolX 9]

Anyways.

Okay...

[The_Dude 1,142]

Oh my god!!!! If only coke would make coke classic with real sugar I'd be a happy duckling. American coke is too syrupy for my taste. I've been drinking Boylans, Jones and the Whole Foods brand when the mood struck me for a soda but I'll be happy to buy sugar filled pepsi in a regular supermarket.

Thanks for the heads up!

You can get Coke Classic with real sugar........ but only in SouthWest U.S. states. It is Mexican Coca Cola imported here. I buy it regularly. It tastes good. I think i've just gotten too used to the HFCS version though.

If only they'd do it on a wider scale. I just can't get myself to drink Pepsi. It just doesn't taste right. It's like a smoker who smokes Marlboro...... he won't smoke camels.

[Caladan 19]

Oh my god!!!! If only coke would make coke classic with real sugar I'd be a happy duckling. American coke is too syrupy for my taste. I've been drinking Boylans, Jones and the Whole Foods brand when the mood struck me for a soda but I'll be happy to buy sugar filled pepsi in a regular supermarket.

Thanks for the heads up!

Find yourself a grocery store that serves the Hispanic community. Our mini-mart imports Mexican Coca-Cola, and it has sugar, and is very very similar to Canadian Coca-Cola. We're in Connecticut and can find it at the mini-mart near our house (run by a Dominican family.)

[thetreble 19]

Find yourself a grocery store that serves the Hispanic community. Our mini-mart imports Mexican Coca-Cola, and it has sugar, and is very very similar to Canadian Coca-Cola. We're in Connecticut and can find it at the mini-mart near our house (run by a Dominican family.)

Really? All the south american countries I've ever gone to have sold coke which tastes very flat and syrupy. That's interesting.

[trailmix 77]

The reason HFCS is used in the U.S. (and to some degree, Canada too) is because American farmers created a surplus of corn. The U.S. government subsidizes the farmers and so they make more corn. The corn is then sold at a lower price since every farmer is doing it and then the U.S. government once again subsidizes the farmers. Because there's so much corn -- which is bought by companies at a much cheaper price than sugar -- HFCS goes into just about everything.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg.

Did the farmers create a surplus of corn, or did corn get subsidized and therefore that created a surplus?

Yes, Canadian companies are probably starting to shift to HFCS - however there is a backlash on the horizon, it's already started - so hopefully they will think twice.

Edited February 19, 2009 by trailmix

[thetreble 19]

Did the farmers create a surplus of corn, or did corn get subsidized and therefore that created a surplus?

[DeadPoolX 9]

The reason HFCS is used in the U.S. (and to some degree, Canada too) is because American farmers created a surplus of corn. The U.S. government subsidizes the farmers and so they make more corn. The corn is then sold at a lower price since every farmer is doing it and then the U.S. government once again subsidizes the farmers. Because there's so much corn -- which is bought by companies at a much cheaper price than sugar -- HFCS goes into just about everything.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg.

Did the farmers create a surplus of corn, or did corn get subsidized and therefore that created a surplus?

Yes, Canadian companies are probably starting to shift to HFCS - however there is a backlash on the horizon, it's already started - so hopefully they will think twice.

I'm not really sure. The details are in a book called "The Omnivore's Dilemma." I haven't read it in a while so I don't remember it all. What I do remember is the overabundance of corn is used in many products, including the creation of HFCS.

[TayL 0]

Is that where grits come from?

Kori tried to convince me to try some (he brought up a bunch for my Rover Advisor who used to live in the South) while he was up, but the little flakes and bits before it's cooked remind me of baby cereal, and that stuff's just GROSS. >.<

So did grits come from the corn surplus too? Cause they sure don't look like something a sane person would cook up. >.<

[trailmix 77]

Is that where grits come from?

Kori tried to convince me to try some (he brought up a bunch for my Rover Advisor who used to live in the South) while he was up, but the little flakes and bits before it's cooked remind me of baby cereal, and that stuff's just GROSS. >.<

So did grits come from the corn surplus too? Cause they sure don't look like something a sane person would cook up. >.<

I believe grits were around long before the corn surplus