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A Mexican restaurant near us SELLS COKE MADE WITH REAL SUGAR!!! - Greg the dogsitter - 12-30-2008
What more can I say?
Re: A Mexican restaurant near us SELLS COKE MADE WITH REAL SUGAR!!! - freeradical - 12-30-2008
Flavored sugar water. Yummy!
:burnout:
Re: A Mexican restaurant near us SELLS COKE MADE WITH REAL SUGAR!!! - mattkime - 12-30-2008
can we over throw the corn lobby now??
Re: A Mexican restaurant near us SELLS COKE MADE WITH REAL SUGAR!!! - microchip - 12-30-2008
Yeah. It's commonplace here. You can get them at all the burrito shops and buy it at Costco. Speaking of, I think I'll go grab one.
Re: A Mexican restaurant near us SELLS COKE MADE WITH REAL SUGAR!!! - Mac1337 - 12-30-2008
So why and when did the change happen in here?
Re: A Mexican restaurant near us SELLS COKE MADE WITH REAL SUGAR!!! - gabester - 12-30-2008
Yeah, there's a mexican restaurant near my office that sells the real-sugar version of Coke in an old 12-oz bottle, no less. The kind I remember from my childhood.
And Jones soda at Target is made with something called "invert sugar"...
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Re: A Mexican restaurant near us SELLS COKE MADE WITH REAL SUGAR!!! - freeradical - 12-30-2008
gabester wrote:
Yeah, there's a mexican restaurant near my office that sells the real-sugar version of Coke in an old 12-oz bottle, no less. The kind I remember from my childhood.
And Jones soda at Target is made with something called "invert sugar"...
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When sucrose is heated with an acid, it breaks down into dextrose and levulose.
Re: A Mexican restaurant near us SELLS COKE MADE WITH REAL SUGAR!!! - volcs0 - 12-30-2008
Or in March and April (around Passover), you can get Coke made with sugar everywhere.
Re: A Mexican restaurant near us SELLS COKE MADE WITH REAL SUGAR!!! - guitarist - 12-30-2008
There's a whole culture/advocacy thing around this, I had that discovery once in a restaurant in LA near where I used to live. I was so excited. Tall, frosty bottle of Coca Cola, with real CANE SUGAR in it.
The story, as I recall, goes something like this. Back in the '80s, when Coke did it's ill-fated "New Coke" recipe, the consumer backlash forced Coke to return to the original recipe. All is happy again, right? Not so fast. As turns out, Coca Cola never went back to the original recipe. It was during that transition that corporate bean counters replaced cane sugar (more expensive) with the now-ubiquitous corn based sweetener (cheap and abundant) and most consumers never noticed the switch. American-bottled Coca Cola beverages havn't been the same since. Now hardly any of the major soft drink brands use cane sugar anymore.
A funny sort of loophole in all this is that Coca Cola beverages bottled in Latin American countries didn't have to make this switch. The beverages are mixed and sweetened in the regional plants they're bottled in. Latin American countries have cheaper local access to sugar plantations? Beats me. Anyway, Mexico, and Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Panama (you get the idea) still use pure cane sugar. As a result, the only places you're likely to find Coke (and maybe Pepsi, too) with real cane sugar are restaurants and markets that get their product from Latin American or overseas bottling plants. Or, during passover, as mentioned above. There may be other exceptions as well.
There's more to the story, but that's the outline. Corrections welcome.
This renewed interest in beverages sweetened with cane sugar has produced a sort of boutique industry. Smaller soft drink companies that make specialty root beers and ginger ales and colas, etc., are offering--and advertising--that their brand uses only the finest pure cane sugar, instead of cheap corn sweeteners. I'm a fan of these smaller companies' products, and often get these products, when I want to enjoy a bubbly beverage that doesn't diminish their product with cheap corn syrup.
Is cane sugar healthier? You bet it is. (not that any sugar is 'good for you', but within reason) according to medical experts who have explored this question, if you were denied food and water, but had to live only on a glucose drip, you'll survive much longer on one comprised of sugar water made with real sugar. The same drip, with corn syrup, you wouldn't last very long. Why? Beats me. But it's another reason to be suspicious of corn sweeteners being used on consumers in such monumental abundance.
Moral of Story: If you're gonna do sugar, do the real thing when possible.
And if you can't get a Coke, enjoy an ice cold FANTA! Latin Americans LOVE the stuff!
Re: A Mexican restaurant near us SELLS COKE MADE WITH REAL SUGAR!!! - mrbigstuff - 12-30-2008
....er, just by "coincidence," there's a thread above about diet and exercise.
I'm just saying... (and I need to follow this advice myself)