Pepsi with real sugar coming to USA...

[Kimbear 53]

i hate pepsi to be honest..it tastes sooo flast compared to canadian coke. but if its got real sugar i'm willing to try it

[Krikit 1,165]

i hate pepsi to be honest..it tastes sooo flast compared to canadian coke. but if its got real sugar i'm willing to try it

Flast?

[^KK^ 3]

I'm not a big coke or pepsi drink..I don't even no the difference between real sugar and HFCS

[trailmix 77]

I'm not a big coke or pepsi drink..I don't even no the difference between real sugar and HFCS

Blashphemy!! But thanks for contributing

Anyway - on the up side - the pepsi with sugar in it does not have that syrupy consistency!

However, it does taste really sweet to me.

[Kimbear 53]

LOL d'oh..i meant FLAT as in no fizz

Edited April 28, 2009 by Kimbear

[July09Bride 1]

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.

Someone FINALLY answered the question regarding the "new" recipe. It only took me 20-something years to find out what the change was.

DPX, you rock!!!

[Marilyn. 340]

I saw a commercial for Snapple Green tea yesterday and they are now using real sugar in that too..

[CBR 0]

Could be old news since I don't usually buy it, but I found applesauce with "NO HFCS" on the label. Going to try it for lunch today.

The Pepsi throwback didn't taste any different to me. Just kinda .. the same. And Pepsi is my soda of choice.