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Passover Coke 2008/Corn syrup is evil
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I know some people get all jazzed about this, but most people seem to forget.
Anyhow, Coke is (in some places) using real sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. This makes it taste better, and makes it slightly less awful for you. It's the one time of year I'll actually consider picking up a Coke.
edit: Last year's thread:
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=18290
Anyhow, Coke is (in some places) using real sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. This makes it taste better, and makes it slightly less awful for you. It's the one time of year I'll actually consider picking up a Coke.
edit: Last year's thread:
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=18290
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HFC has a slightly higher amount of the shittier form of sugar in it or somesuch, making it slightly less filling than other forms of sugar. I'm not sure what the issue is beyond that and the taste.
Also fuck corn.
From what I've heard the body knows how much cane sugar its supposed to eat, but not how much HFCS. Therefore, the body will send a signal to stop drinking something with sugar, but not something with HFCS.
:edit: Your pancreas also doesn't process HFC the same way it does sugar.
That's slowly converting over to HFCS too. Only a certain size of the bottles is made with sugar now.
Everything ever invented by mankind will give you cancer in proper doses.
Edit: Atlanta, here I come.
I was telling someone about Passover Coke the other day, as well as MexiCoke.
Then, I realized that I know why Passover Coke has sugar in it, but why does Mexican Coke?
Mexico doesn't subsidize the fuck out of their corn industry, artificially deflating the cost of corn to the point where corn syrup is cheaper than real sugar.
From wiki:
The preference for high-fructose corn syrup over cane sugar among the vast majority of American food and beverage manufacturers is largely due to U.S. import quotas and tariffs on sugar. These tariffs significantly increase the domestic U.S. price for sugar, forcing Americans to pay more than twice the world price for sugar, thus making high-fructose corn syrup an attractive substitute in U.S. markets. For instance, soft drink makers like Coca-Cola use sugar in other nations, but use high-fructose corn syrup in their U.S. and Canadian products.
Large corporations, such as Archer Daniels Midland, lobby for the continuation of these subsidies.[16] Since local and federal laws often put a limit on how much money one particular lobbyist can contribute,[17] ADM's contributions are often given by numerous smaller entities under the authority of ADM. This is commonly called bundling political contributions.
Actually it's more like sugar is overpriced in order to protect Hawaii (originally).
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Write your congressperson to lobby for more ethanol-gasoline mixtures, and that'll mean less corn for HFC.
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Corn is the devil.
And more for useless biolfuel!
Iowa isn't sharing the love.
Actually, we're eschewing wheat to grow corn to meet the ethanol demand. I doubt it would have a huge impact on HFCS sales.
On topic: last year, I saw Passover Coke in a mid-sized town in the middle of Texas (not a particularly large Jewish population), so don't immediately assume you won't be able to find it wherever you are. (On the other hand, HEB has pretty great selection in general, so it might have just been them being awesome.)
I've been meaning to ask, what's the difference between cane sugar and inverted cane sugar? Because that's what Jones Soda has listed on their bottles (at least for the root beer).
Wouldn't surprise me if it was high fructose cane syrup. :P
I know they have high fructose rice syrup.
It's basically the same as corn syrup.
That's what I figured.
Fuckers. Although I guess that's why I wasn't all that hot on their root beer. I just really enjoy drinking cold soda out of a glass bottle. One of the nicer experiences in life.
I really need to order me a case of Dublin Dr. Pepper.