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I was using these when the real sugar dr pepper was a thing, and they never seemed accurate. At the time, anyway, it felt like they were flagging the whole reg
by lostapathy 6y ago
I was using these when the real sugar dr pepper was a thing, and they never seemed accurate.
At the time, anyway, it felt like they were flagging the whole regional grocery chain as carrying it, when only select stores ever actually had it. I'd go and there would be no stock, and no place on the shelf for it either.
- adzm 6y agoCan't you still get the real sugar Dr Pepper in Texas?
- lostapathy 6y agoI don't think so - wikipedia reads like "Dublin Dr Pepper" was discontinued in 2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Dr_Pepper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Dr_Pepper
- 082349872349872 6y agoIt may no longer be true, but several decades ago it was possible to find sugar-sweetened soft drinks in the US by looking for kosher labels. (I have a coke can next to me as I type; it is sugar-sweetened)
- toast0 6y agoIn my local grocery stores I've really only seen this for the name brands around passover; there will often be 2-liters of Coke and sometimes Pepsi with yellow bottle caps. But I haven't seen that in canned Coke (it may be seasonally or regionally available). Pepsi markets canned soda with sugar as 'throwback' with classic labelling, seemingly year round, but sometimes intermittently available.
- remote_phone 6y agoCertain bottling plants use real sugar instead of HFCS. I thought Cleveland did that.
- lostapathy 6y agoI've never actually seen coke made with sugar in cans! I've always heard of "kosher coke"/"passover coke" but never been able to find it. Pepsi was selling "Dr Pepper Heritage" (green/yellow cans) and "Pepsi Throwback" for a few years around a decade ago. It was pretty widely available at gas stations in the midwest, although 12-packs of the Dr Pepper was not very common. "Mexican coke" is still made with real sugar. Costco has it in glass bottles pretty consistently, and sometimes has pepsi in glass bottles with real sugar as well (although the pepsi isn't labeled like it's a Mexico product). They have glass bottles of pepsi and coke around Kansas City in Mexican grocery stores as well as, oddly enough, the gas stations on the Kansas Turnpike. Half liter bottles are more common in the Mexican stores, but wal-mart often has 12 oz bottles of Mexican coke in the Hispanic section.
- 082349872349872 6y agoSorry about that. I'm not sure why we get sugar* and you all don't, but it's probably something to do with the invisible hand. * just checked all the cans in my house. Six-packs in the fridge from the grocery came from the EU, and have sugar. Two-fours in the basement from the discounter came from some nordic-speaking country, and have sugar.