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This is true for all sorts of sweets and drinks outside of the US. For example - in the Baltic countries you cannot buy real Coca Cola. It sure looks like the r
by iM8t 13y ago
This is true for all sorts of sweets and drinks outside of the US. For example - in the Baltic countries you cannot buy real Coca Cola. It sure looks like the real deal, but actually it's `a soft drink with cola flavours`.
- salgernon 13y agoYou also cannot purchase "real" coca Cola in the us as local bottlers all use high fructose corn syrup instead of cane sugar. However, many small grocers will stock coke made in Mexico and shipped north. It usually costs about 2x the local variant. I'm really surprised that the local bottlers aren't swayed by the possibility of charging more. Coke's response about their use of high fructose corn syrup is a claim that their customers are not able to tell the difference. bollox I say.
- rqebmm 13y agoOh man there's nothing better for a hangover than an ice-cold Mexican Coke
- NamTaf 13y agoHahahahahahaahaha really? We occasionally get it as a novelty here in AU and US Coke is so much more sickly. Real cane sugar shits all over HFCS.
- cclogg 13y agoOh man yeah tell me about it! The good news is you can find lots of specialty colas that make up for it lol. I live in Vancouver but down near Seattle this company has lots of great stuff: http://www.orcabeverage.com/ http://www.orcabeverage.com/
- jdrobins2000 13y agoPepsi, however, offers "Throwback" versions of Pepsi and Mountain Dew which use cane sugar instead of HFCS, and seem to be commonly available at many normal grocery stores in 12-packs for the same price as the regular ones. I prefer it to regular Coke, though Mexican Coke is a little better (but also much more expensive). I visited the World of Coke in Atlanta a couple years ago, and at the end of the tour they had machines dispensing samples of all kinds of their international sodas. I was disappointed to find that Mexican coke was not offered, although in retrospect, not surprising as they probably would prefer not to advertise how much better cane sugar Coke is.
- dagw 13y agobollox I say. Even very young me could taste the difference. As a young child, one of the things I always looked forward to when visiting my grandparents is the States was to drink American Coke since I though it tasted so much better than stuff they had in Europe.