Coke is Kosher all year and isnt made with sugar all year, as in a previous post- For Passover it has to be made with Sugar only cant be made with HFCS, so unless the Coke around Passover time says Kosher for Passover on it you cant be 100% sure that its made only with Sugar. There is a distant differnce in taste and thats the only time I drink reg Coke as opposed to Diet Coke.

I've been applying the scientific method and have found that HFCS is indeed worse than "natural" sugar. My studies have shown that anything made with sugar is a heck of a lot tastier than anything made with corn syrup, so q.e.d. :D

Real Coke
 

Once on a flight from Hawaii I noticed they served us cans of Coke which I think were on the flight from Japan. I immediately looked as saw "SUGAR" as the ingredient. I asked the stewardess if I could have more (and pointed at can and showed her what I needed! She said she noticed Coke tasted different overseas but thought it was the water....)

Now live in Hawaii and there does not appear to be Kosher aisles in my supermarket.

However, we DO have an abundance of cane sugar. Just walk down the field and pick up a piece of sugar cane. Can't get less HFCS than that! :D

Coke is only made specially for Passover -- at which time it uses cane sugar (not beet sugar).

Coke is kosher all year long but has this additional requirement during Passover. If you live in a city which has a fair-sized Jewish population you will find "Kosher for Passover" Coke in every supermarket, at the usual prices, for about two weeks before Passover and until the stock runs out after the holiday.

As with virtually every product that is officially Kosher for Passover, I have always found Coca-Cola that is Kosher for Passover to be more expensive than regular Coca-Cola.

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In the Atlanta area, the Kosher Coke (as we called it) was not much more expensive. If regular 2 liters were $1.09 I think the store had the sugar stuff for $1.29.

If I remember, the caps were red or yellow and had "OPU" on the plastic bottle. After Passover they took the extra and just put them on the shelf with the "other" stuff.

I would go on scavenger hunts and take 5 or 6 from each store, leaving some ofn the shelf for our Jewish friends :D

Too bad Coke didn't make "Classic" Coke with sugar. I'd have paid more for it.

You can REALLY taste the difference.

If I remember correctly from my days in New York and the Philly area, when Passover came all Coke being sold in the local supermarkets was Kosher for Passover. There was no less expensive Coke available.

Lavarock7,

If you live in or near Honolulu, there is a Kosher Grocery store that Im sure imports the Coke for Passover. I saw it in PHX a few years ago was told its shipped in from Chicago, Ive seen it in LA.

Dont have the address its North of teh main drag in Waekiki Im sure its in the yellow pages just look up Kosher Food or call the local Chabad which is near teh DoubleTree and Im sure they will help you out.

Dovster,
No longer. they get in it maybe 1 shipment and then its gone till next year. Thats at my local ShopRite which has the largest Kosher selection near to the 2nd largest Young Israel Congregation inthe US. The local Waldbaums didnt have any at allthis year. and if Coke is on sale for $.99 then so is the Passover Coke. Did pick up 7UP in the 6 pack cans for $.99 that was for Passover with a very reliable heckshar.

Craz, you're going to have to move to Israel. All the Coke sold here for about a month before the holiday is Kosher for Passover -- even if you buy it in an Arab village.

The OP was when I wrote that.

Now his count is set back to 3 from 5 and his OP link and followup link to the Kosher Coke eBay auction are gone.

I just drank a cola my husband purchased from Whole Foods. It is made from 100% organic cane sugar. The brand is 365.

It was pretty good and definitely tastes different than HFCS sodas. I still have a bottle of passover Coke left - my shoprite was loaded with it. They probably order too much. I'll have to check to see if they have any more.

I'm not a real soda drinker. Water has always been my beverage of choice. However, when I do drink a soda I prefer it not be diet. I like sodas made with sugar much better - it's smoother & not as sweet.

You may want to try the sodas in Whole Foods before paying a small fortune or bothering too much to get Coke with sugar (unless it's around Passover).

I have a good friend with a lot of food product allergies - soy, corn, wheat, lactose, and so on.

HFCS is definitely on the "can't eat it" list, so Coke is out. Neither of us were aware of the "Passover Coke", so I'd like to thank you for this info. He may try it just to see what it's like.

Here's a challenge for you. If you're in the US of A, check ALL of the ingredients on what you buy the next time you go to your supermarket for your weekly food run. It's astonishing to me how many foods have HFCS in them when you wouldn't expect it - and it also seems that *everything* labeled "diet" has HFCS as the first or second ingredient.

The good side of this kind of allergy is that my friend is quite lean - probably 15% or less body fat. Since there's so much he can't or won't eat, he resorts to lots of vegetables and fresh-cooked foods.

Hmm ... I can see it now ... "The HFCS-free Diet" ... it might a popular book, at least until the leading HFCS manufacturers turn on their PR machines.

If the Good Lord had intended for you to drink Coke made with cane sugar year-round, he would have made Passover last much longer!

Has anyone tried the new Diet Cokes with Splenda/Sucralose and/or the new Coke Zero (Diet Coke with more aspartame/Nutrasweet)?

Diet Coke Splenda is way sweet and Coke Zero falls in between Diet Coke w/Nutrasweet and Diet Coke w/Splenda.

To add my two cents: I try to minimize HFCS whenever possible. Not that I think overloading on regular sugar is healthy either.