kaiotes said:how is 20 bucks a hot deal for some cola!?!??!?!?!?

It is a hot deal if you are drinking the REAL thing. Real Coke was made with cane sugar. In fact, the United States is the ONLY country in the whole entire world that uses high fructose corn syrup as the sweetener in Coke. Everyone else outside of the U.S. uses pure cane sugar.

The closest FW analogy is that you are buying Crucial-branded RAM and paying a premium for it instead of buying cheaper no-name generic brand RAM.

cnIsfg said:As discussed in similar FW threads earlier this latest pure case sugar Coke imported from Mexico and sold through Costco is not really 100% cane sugar despite Costco's deceptive advertising otherwise. It is about 10% cane and the other 90% is beet sugars. There IS a difference between this and true 100% cane sugar Coke still sold outside the US

Please elaborate on this and provide links and/or proof. I'm not questioning your claims but would really like to know where you heard that the Mexican Coke that Costco is selling is not 100% pure cane sugar.

MCnDaHouse said:What does it matter whether it's cane sugar or fructose sugar? Just sounds like a way to make more money for no reason to me.

MC

Please look up the U.S. sugar industry in Wikipedia. Here is the short and sweet of it, in my own words:

Many decades ago, sugar farmers and the corn farmers in the U.S. wanted to get rich and they asked the U.S. government to help them. The U.S. thought that it is politically expedient to support the sugar and corn farmers without hurting anybody. So many decades ago, the U.S. imposed extremely high tariffs on sugar imports, thus effectively locking out cheap imports of cane sugar. Around the same time, they also gave billions in price subsidies to corn farmers (actually agribusinesses such ADM and Cargill) and the corn farmers grew corn like there was no tomorrow. They decided to convert the surplus corn into something else and thus was born High Fructose Corn Syrup (and ethanol later on).

The sugar farmers became overjoyed by the tariffs that locked out sugar imports and started charging monopoly prices for their domestic sugar to the U.S. consumers. One of the biggest consumers of cane sugar was none other than Coca-Cola Company and because of intense competition, they did not want to raise the prices of Coke to reflect the higher price of monopoly domestic sugar.

They looked around and saw that the corn "farmers" ADM and Cargill were producing so much corn that they were converting much of it into high fructose corn syrup. And the syrup, which was indirectly subsidized by billions in U.S. government aid, was extremely, extremely cheap, on par with the sugar prices outside of the U.S. So Coca-Cola company made a historic decision to change the formula of the original Coke and replaced cane sugar with high fructose corn syrup. And so history was made and the U.S. became the only country in the world to produce and consume Coke without pure cane sugar.

We are truly alone in the global stage with our consumption of HCFS Coke and the world laughs at us as we ignorantly drink an inferior Coke product because of our illogical sugar tariffs and corn subsidies. I always look forward to drinking Coke outside of the U.S. in my travels as I know that I am getting the REAL thing which actually tastes better than the almost-real thing in the U.S.

Long live REAL pure cane sugar Coke!

Umm. Cane sugar is nearly pure sucrose. Very little glucose. Very little fructose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hfcs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hfcs#Cane_sugar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarcane

FleaBay said:there is not too much of a difference between cane sugar, and HFCS

cane sugar is 50/50 glucose to fructose

HFCS is 45% glucose 55% fructose

minus a small bond in the sucrose, and a 5% difference, they are nearly identical, especially in their ability to cause insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome.

Actually, I just completed a lecture series at Duke University with a very well known and respected Biologist and Animal Scientist who suggests that HFCS actually slows the metabolism rate in humans because the body can not process it properly and is a very prevailent cause of the American obesity phenomenon. The facts tend to support this. They started using HFCS in the mainstream in the early 70's. Since then the obesity rate in this country has risen several hundred percentiles. This can't all be attributed to video games and the internet. In fact there is statistical evidence to prove that humans who take in two 20 ounce softdrinks per day will still struggle to lose weight even on a 1400 calarie per day intake. There are alot of academics who believe that this will be the new "trans fat" in this country and might be banned one day. The person above sounds more like a chemist than a biologist, and as we have learned from the many recent drug flops, you probably shouldn't listen to the chemist when it comes to putting things in your body. It's hard to avoid HFCS because they put it in everything, but you should probably try to limit your intake as much as possible.

I just moved from by that store, the one on stockton blvd by Office Depot.

umcanes11 said:Since then the obesity rate in this country has risen several hundred percentiles. Not sure what you are trying to say here. Look up the definition of percentile if you want to know why I'm confused.

honestly, I personally prefer the taste of HFCS since I am so use to it. Drinking cane sugar coke taste funny to me. And I love coke!

Jarritos are definitely good. But has anyone detected any sugar cane Coke nearby Atlanta?

It's sad to see that even in its own city, this company is behaving like that.

If anyone is interested in Dr Pepper with pure can sugar you can order it online from Texas for $10.00 a case. Shipping is only $5 for up to 2 cases....

so

2 Cases 24 pack cans...$25.00

Old Docs Soda Shop