Finding Coke made with sugar in the US
 

Recently in Australia I had the pleasure of drinking Coca-Cola made with sugar, as opposed to the corn syrup used in the States. Does anyone know where I can get the Australian formula of Coca-Cola in the US? Thanks.

I believe most (all?) Coca Cola produced in Mexico is made with sugar. Just take a look in your local Mexican grocery store - they'll usually have it in the bottle.

I read a newspaper article not too long ago that one of the things immigrants missed most about Mexico was the "real" Coca Cola.

Yep - just be discrete about it. Some Coke distributors have gotten upset about Mexican grocers 'importing' the Mexican coke.

Go to El Paso, drive 15 minutes to Mexico, buy yourself some, then head back, and spend one hour on the bridge going back to El Paso ;)

There's a limited supply of non-corn syrup Coca-Cola in the US. It's the "Kosher for Passover" formula, released every year starting mid-February to early March (it's long gone by now - sorry). They change the cap colors as an easy indicator...

There's usually an annual article in a major newspaper about the Coca-Cola "purist" who buys a pallet-load to last him the year...

If your local supermarket doesn't stock significant kosher for passover food products, try to find the name/phone number of the nearest Orthodox Jewish synagoge and asking them for suggestions about where to do passover food shopping!

Try a search for "Kosher Coke" or "HFSC".

http://web4.flyertalk.com/forum/show...ht=kosher+coke

I believe the Hawaiian distributor is also allowed to use the formula that contains cane sugar and not HFSC.

Otherwise, come to the US right before Passover - the Kosher blend of Coke is released and you can stock up.

Actually, it's available all over the U.S. for a couple of weeks every Spring in conjunction with Passover. Corn (and corn products, like syrup) is not kosher for Passover, so many/most Coke plants make Coke with sugar instead of corn syrup so that it is kosher for Passover. I don't recall the color of the cap this year which differentiated the bottles. In heavily Jewish areas, you can often get it in the regular large supermarkets. Otherwise, try a kosher foods store.

Yellow cap with the special symbol on it. :)

Folks in Northern California have been finding flats of Mexican Coke at Costco at times recently.

I <3 Passover coke :-)

In Minneapolis-St Paul you can get it at Lund's. In Denver, the East Side Kosher Deli (and they SHIP!).

Coke already has 30 different varieties of "coke", perhaps it's time for "SugarCoke" :D

I saw the "Mexican" Coca Cola at my costco in San Diego. The box contained 24 "traditional" glass bottles for the whopping amount of $17.99 USD!! :td:

I'd rather just drink Mexican water at that price...

Here is the OMNI thread containing my annual Passover Coke sightings:

http://web4.flyertalk.com/forum/show...ar#post7556375

I bought a couple hundred two litre bottles in April and May which are projected to be gone by the end of the year, as the plastic bottles don't retain the carbonation much beyond a few months.

The glass bottles are expensive, as they can be returned and buy filled ones at a cheaper price

$20 is about the price of a "reja"

HEB sells them in most of their stores in Austin for 99 cents a bottle.

Probably much cheaper to do jfe's suggestion, but a little less convenient for those of us who do not live in a border town. ;)

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Is Coca Cola in Canadia also made wtih sugar (like Cuban sugar?) When I HAVE to have Coke it seems to taste better overseas.

That Canadian Coke formula tricked me when I did a Pepsi Challenge there during a YYZ do a few years ago. ;)

Still a PEPSI person and loving the stuff.

I seem to remember that drinking Coke & Coke products in Japan last year tasted way better. But everything tastes better in Japan, except for Mexican food.

Catman - I was solidly Coke only until the Diet Pepsi Max came out a few weeks ago. It's the best tasting Pepsi I've ever had.

I remember when they first introduced the corn syrup-flavored Coke. It was right after the "New Coke" debacle in the 80s. After all the huge protests against New Coke, the company announced, to much fanfare, that they were going to bring back "Classic Coke." Upon my very first sip of the re-released "Classic," I knew that it was not the true, original Coke. Sure enough, a review of ingredients confirmed that it was flavored with corn syrup, not sugar!! It was NOT the original Coke, despite the public assurances from company executives! Real Classic Coke never returned!!

Liars!

:mad: :mad:

The whole idea that Coke suddenly switched from sugar to HFCS is largely an urban legend, as Coke had been using HCFS as early as 1980 - five years or so before the New Coke fiasco:

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/newcoke.asp

That being said, though, I've read various articles (whether they be rumors or just wishful thinking, I don't know) that have suggested that Coke and other soda makers may switch back to sugar, with the increasing price of corn. I live in a place where Mexican Coke is abundant, but it'd be nice to not have to pay a dollar or more per bottle, either.

Mike

I guess that is why Coca-Cola in the Philippines taste so good too. I thought it was the glass bottle:) You can buy them in a Filippino store (maybe Asian stores too) if you have one in your area.

Here is a link to the WSJ article from Jan 2006:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113694582481843377.html


Taste Test
U.S. Thirst for Mexican Cola
Poses Sticky Problem for Coke
Though It's the Real Thing,
Soda's Route Across Border
Breaks Company Rules
Investigating an 'Irritation'
By CHAD TERHUNE
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
January 11, 2006

The middle shelf in the soft-drink aisle at Las Tarascas, a Latino supermarket in Lawrenceville, Ga., was bare last week. But store manager Erik Carvallo couldn't call the local Coca-Cola bottler to replenish his stock of Coke.

The Coke Mr. Carvallo's customers had snapped up comes in scuffed glass bottles stamped "Hecho en Mexico" -- made in Mexico. It found its way to this Atlanta suburb through an underground supply chain that flouts Coca-Cola Co.'s long-established distribution system.

Mexican-made Coke is such a popular taste of home for many immigrants that Las Tarascas sells about 20 cases a week, or nearly 500 12-ounce bottles at $1.25 apiece. "It's what they grew up with," says Mr. Carvallo. Meanwhile, he sells fewer than five cases a week of the cheaper U.S. version, in cans and plastic bottles on a nearby shelf after his Mexican supply is gone. (A plastic 20-ounce bottle of U.S. Coke sells in some parts of the country for about $1.)
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Mexican cane sugar coke is in Denver area Costcos.

Hmmm. I had never even heard any of the rumors or the urban legend. I was speaking directly from my own personal experience. And I remember very vividly that the taste of re-introduced Classic was clearly different from the original (pre-New Coke) drink. It was then that I noticed HFCS on the label. I suppose HFCS might have been there before New Coke, but I could have sworn the Coke I drank before was flavored with sugar. :confused:

I dunno about that. I remember very vividly that compared to the prior product, New Coke tasted flat, gummy and greasy, and you couldn't seem to get it cold enough; it had no bite. When we got "Classic Coke" back a couple of months later it could have been the stuff we were drinking before, but now it was hard to be sure. We regarded the Coke label with new suspicion. The New Coke debacle screwed up brand perceptions something fierce, which is one reason why (A) Coke abandoned the one-true-cola position, the "Real Thing" thing, and began generating dozens of weird variant brand extension products, and (B) I switched to Diet Pepsi.

Also, maybe glass bottles do have something to do with taste clarity and retention. I used to buy Diet Coke 16-ounce returnable bottles by the case in the early 1980s and it tasted great. Today's Diet Coke in plastic or cans tastes like water with potting soil in it.

That's what I thought as well.

You meant it tasted kind of oily?

IIRC, I think I might have seen them in Sams Club in GTA as well.

This I've got to try out. :)

I've always found Pepsi to be more sticky towards my gum that coke after drinking them.

:cool:

Mexican Coke is also in SF area Costcos!

Mexican Coke on sale this Labor Day weekend in a Seattle-area Costco for $17,99 per case. Delicious! Now regular cans of Diet Coke taste even worse.

Why dont they fulfill the demand instead of being "upset"?