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Anyone had these?

Usually limit my soda intake to coke zero but I wanted to see if there was any difference in taste. The Pepsi is pretty good but I just picked up the Dr Pepper and its amazing. Best of all, they don't leave the nasty aftertaste that the regular stuff does.

No chance that they'd go back to making it this way?

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JohnLockesGhost

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Anyone had these?

Usually limit my soda intake to coke zero but I wanted to see if there was any difference in taste. The Pepsi is pretty good but I just picked up the Dr Pepper and its amazing. Best of all, they don't leave the nasty aftertaste that the regular stuff does.

No chance that they'd go back to making it this way?

They still do all over the world, just not in the U.S. because of a combination of sugar import quotas and corn subsidies. In America, corn is cheap, sugar is expensive.

I remember reading a couple of years ago about a Hershey's chocolate factory in PA that moved to Canada because the sugar in the U.S. was roughly 4 times as expensive as there.

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I've only seen the Pepsi throwback, and it has been great.

If I remember correctly Dr. Pepper was the last to go high fructose (sp?) and it has never tasted the same since. I'll have to take a look next time at the store.

As a side note, the CocaCola in Jamaica is made with real sugar and only sold in those little green glass bottles. It's out of sight good!

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I've had both Mountain Dew and Pepsi. I don't drink regular Mountain Dew with corn syrup so I can't tell you for sure, it does taste a bit different than when I REMEMBER last having Mountain Dew.

The Pepsi I had was originally in cans and canned soft drinks always taste different so I wanted to wait until I could find a bottle. I DID and it was pretty good.

Blame the US government and the sugar industry that only existed in this country due to protectionism and price supports. If it had been a free market, we'd have international sugar, cheaper (no domestic producers or very limited 'boutique' producers) and maybe not corn syrup in our goddamn sodas.

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If it's pretty much agreed upon that the Sugar soft drinks are better...why wouldn't Pepsi keep them available (or switch back over for good)?

Price and sales weren't hurt enough before.

But it's weird, if they have it in other parts of the world, considering how cheap it is to import and ship, is it really THAT hard to just replicate the process by which they make it in Mexico (or have it shipped there) and then just do it here?

It's almost like a conspiracy, like somehow they got tax breaks or subsidies from the government to rub the backs of the goddamn corn growers here in Iowa and in Nebraska. Like that ethanol criminal enterprise.

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I prefer Coke over Pepsi, but the Pepsi with sugar was pretty good. It's worth a try if you can find the small single bottles.

I saw mexican coke in the stores in CO in december. You can probably find it.

"The product is Coca-Cola that is made and bottled in Mexico. I’m not the only person who believes that it’s better: there’s a Mexican Coke Facebook page with more than 10,000 fans. “I am a (Mexican) Coke fiend,” wrote Richard Metzger on the Web site Dangerous Minds this past August. “It is SO FREAKING DELICIOUS.” Mexican Coke is “a lot more natural tasting,” another fan recently told a news program in Idaho. “A little less harsh, I would say.”

Mexican Coke cultists of course have a rational explanation: Coca-Cola bottled in Mexico is sweetened with sugar, while the U.S. version is (almost) always made with high-fructose corn syrup. That is so. And it’s surprising, given the degree to which uniformity defines the Coke idea. Who knew the “secret formula” could accommodate ingredient variation? Andy Warhol once suggested that Coke’s sameness united us all: “A Coke is a Coke and 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. Liz Taylor knows it, the president knows it, the bum knows it and you know it.”

My own induction into this product cult was inadvertent and based on aesthetics. Some years ago I noticed a glass bottle of Coke for sale, and that was something I hadn’t seen in a while. It looked great; I enjoyed drinking it immensely. I didn’t notice the “No Retornable” and “Refresco” phrases on the 12-ounce bottle, or the ingredients. My rational explanation was that Coke tastes better from a glass bottle than from a plastic one or from a can. It happens that Popular Science examined this very contention on its Web site not long ago and allowed that as the “most inert” material in which the cola is packaged, it’s possible that glass results in a subtly more “pure, unaltered” product than plastic or aluminum. Of course a commenter on that site promptly chimed in that glass-bottle Coke often comes from Mexico: “In the United States, Coke is made with CORN SYRUP. . . . It’s disgusting.”

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Price and sales weren't hurt enough before.

But it's weird, if they have it in other parts of the world, considering how cheap it is to import and ship, is it really THAT hard to just replicate the process by which they make it in Mexico (or have it shipped there) and then just do it here?

It's almost like a conspiracy, like somehow they got tax breaks or subsidies from the government to rub the backs of the goddamn corn growers here in Iowa and in Nebraska. Like that ethanol criminal enterprise.

Isn't the agricultural industry in general all about subsidies and import tariffs?

I just bought a 24 pack of Mexican Coke in glass bottles from Costco! Cant wait to try it...I just put it in my garage since its practically freezing in there so I can try one tonight with dinner!

I love glass bottles for soda, but I think people exaggerate about the taste differences between HFCS and sugar.

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