With dry table sugar, at least, it would be a lot of work. A large Coke from McDonald's has about 70 grams of sugar* and a typical sugar packet contains 2.8 gra

With dry table sugar, at least, it would be a lot of work. A large Coke from McDonald's has about 70 grams of sugar* and a typical sugar packet contains 2.8 grams. You'd need to stir in twenty five packets to get to the standard recipe level of sweetness. *Equivalent amount of table sugar (sucrose)--the syrup may use high fructose corn syrup instead. Edit: on further reflection, we should do this. It's a much more vivid illustration of how much sugar we consume through soda than an abstract calorie number.