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This is different to soft drinks in other countries... how? Change the drink to whiskey, another popular one, and you can be sure that there's a difference betw
by vacri 9y ago
This is different to soft drinks in other countries... how? Change the drink to whiskey, another popular one, and you can be sure that there's a difference between what the American rich and poor drink.
> no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good
And coke is not the same everywhere either. My guess is that the prez isn't going to be drinking much watery post-mix coke with his meals.
Similarly, coke in glass bottles is nicer than post-mix coke, and it's more expensive. 'Regular' cokes are in-between. And, for the US with its HFCS coke, you can import the much better-tasting sucrose-coke, which is more expensive to obtain if you're importing it yourself (although a lot of places on the Mexican border already have it).
- njarboe 9y agoYou can buy Mexican cokes now in California Safeway's and Lucky's supermarkets.
- squeaky-clean 9y agoThey're common even in South Florida convenience stores. Not every single one, but maybe 25% of stores.
- adventured 9y ago> This is different to soft drinks in other countries... how? The US - along with a select few nations - was a pioneer when it comes to mass-consumer economics that leverage a relatively free market to deliver high quality goods to both rich and poor. It required a dramatic leap in productivity, manufacturing output, to get the scale necessary to drive prices down to such an extent. Ford's Model T was arguably the earliest, best example of that. Over eight years post introduction it went from $850 (6k unit sales) to $360 (577k unit sales), eventually bottoming out under $300 (and incomes climbed substantially over that ~16 year total period). Whether we're talking mass production soda, or cars, or radios, or kitchen appliances, the US was particularly a global pioneer at it from ~1880-1980. > And, for the US with its HFCS coke, you can import the much better-tasting sucrose-coke To be fair, that's a Warhol quote from 1975. At the time he said it, Coke was still using sugar in the US market. It was 1984 when Coke and Pepsi announced plans to switch to HFCS.
- petecox 9y agoYes, Coke does taste different depending on the country. (And I've tried it on 5 different continents.)
- Macha 9y agoWhenever I go to the US, I always switch to diet coke. Not because of cutting down on that area to compensate for holiday food intake, but because aspartame coke tastes nicer than HFCS coke.