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These days, the story is a bit more complicated. Not all Mexican coke is made with sugar anymore[0] > In 2013, a Mexican Coca-Cola bottler announced it would s
by lhorie 5y ago
These days, the story is a bit more complicated. Not all Mexican coke is made with sugar anymore[0]
> In 2013, a Mexican Coca-Cola bottler announced it would stop using cane sugar in favor of glucose-fructose syrup. It later clarified this change would not affect those bottles specifically exported to the United States as "Coca-Cola Nostalgia" products.
> A scientific analysis of Mexican Coke found no sucrose (standard sugar), but instead found total fructose and glucose levels similar to other soft drinks sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup, though in different ratios.
The shift to plastic, as I understand, mostly has to do with freight economics: glass is heavier and more fragile.
Personally, I wouldn't mind a third alternate consumption model: fill your own container. Many places already have fountain drink machines. It's really not that big of a stretch to allow reusable bottles there
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Coke https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Coke
- lobocinza 5y agoCoke on Brazil has a returnable container. It's not glass though but a thick plastic. When you return it to the store you pay a lot less. Returnable glass bottles for beer are also predominant here. Logistically it makes sense because the trucks would return base empty otherwise.
- nielsbot 5y agoWhat about a home carbonator and cola syrup?
- AYBABTME 5y agoHow about not drinking pop? I know a "just change your behaviour" response isn't fashionable, but in the case of pop... it's a completely harmful and unnecessary product.
- sigstoat 5y agonecessity is a wonderful sounding criteria when being applied to things you don’t care for, and ghastly when applied to things you enjoy. we could sooner justify the elimination of all alcohol products on these grounds than soda. sugary beverages just have calories; alcohol has got the calories along with liver damage, alcoholism, drunk driving etc.
- wincy 5y agoAlso if horribly unhealthy sugary drinks were banned, who would sponsor professional sports? They’ve already banned the tobacco companies from sponsoring them like in the good old days.
- AYBABTME 5y agoI'm not suggesting banning anything, or taking any position as to whether pop should or shouldn't be banned.
- a_lost_needle 5y agoHow about enjoying life? I weigh in at a 130lbs at 5'9", and have the body and skin of a woman much younger. Moderation, not abstinence, is where the happiest life is.
- dtgriscom 5y agoWhat are you going to do when she asks for it back?
- a_lost_needle 5y agoLucky for me, I'm the sculpture and the sculptor. edit: Disambiguated a word.
- AYBABTME 5y agoYou can smoke, do crack and do all sorts of provably harmful things in moderation too. I guess the question is whether all pleasurable things are pleasurable enough to justify the harm they cause. Maybe to you, pop is. I'd say that empirical evidence shows that pop is a clear negative to society, is a recent addition to human diet and isn't universally consumed (so isn't actually necessary to anyone's life), so it seems like it's not far fetched to believe that it's probably not a bad idea to write it off our lives.
- a_lost_needle 5y agoYea, that's kinda what free will is all about. I've made that decision. You're allowed to do whatever you want hun, but abstinence is a fools ideology. You have one life, and the end isn't the good bit.
- aj7 5y agoTry buying the syrup. Report back.
- nielsbot 5y agoGoogle search turns up lots of results for "cola syrup"
- a_lost_needle 5y agoI love it, I don't like pop often, but I like soda water all of the time. And Pepsi came out with syrup for home use, so I just keep that in the cupboard and on weekends watching a movie or something, I'll throw in some syrup. Easy peasy, and I can make it as sweet as I want.
- alsobrsp 5y ago> The shift to plastic, as I understand, mostly has to do with freight economics: glass is heavier and more fragile. Having tried to do online pasta sauce, I can confirm glass is expensive to ship. 6 jars cost us $30USD to ship and some would break. We insured the shipment and made more on the broken reships than a normal sale.
- megablast 5y agoSoda stream.
- nebula8804 5y agoNo matter how hard I try I cannot replicate the exact bubbles of big brands with Sodastream. Also, unless I want to just make seltzer, I am stuck with their branded syrups that attempt to copy drinks like coke, sprite, dr.pepper and others. They are all terrible and produce soda on par but typically worse than dollar store brands. Combine this with the added cost of doing all this, makes the system uneconomical. Finally, I know some will have qualms of supporting an Israeli company but this is much worse than that. This company has been mired in controversy for years first for operating a factory on settlement lands, mistreatment of the Palestinian workers, and finally after years of protests in UK and european countries, the closing of the factory and laying off all but 75 Palestinian workers who were then denied a permit to move to the new factory. There has been so much back and forth that we don't even know the exact truth about what really happened. Some say the workers were treated very well. Others say that the workers feared doing anything to piss off the Israeli bosses who could easily just replace them. Given that the product itself is not revolutionary it seems better to consider other brands such as Drinkmate. I tried using a special bottle designed to circumvent their proprietary bottle system (SodaMod) but I found that it does not produce any better bubbles than the OEM sodastream bottles. My next experiment will be to purchase an alternative system once my Sodastream runs out in the hopes that the mechanism to dispense the CO2 will be better in the new system. Other than that I am all out of ideas to replicate the great bubbles and taste that the OEM brands produce.