Comments on: Mexican Coke

By: Received the Mexican Coke | NSLog();

Received the Mexican Coke | NSLog(); — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:25:52 +0000

[...] like to thank the two folks with whom I worked out a deal for some smuggled Mexican Coke. I received my first set and, well, it's great. Not only is it nice to drink from a bottle again, [...]

By: eric

eric — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:00:44 +0000

Canadian coke is indeed made with real sugar (glucose/fructose) instead of corn syrup. Only in the US is Coke made with corn syrup.

By: bud

bud — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:56:41 +0000

Hoard the kosher passover coke while you can. It is widely available usually in markets that may not have many celebrating passover. But Coke distributors tend to be more constrained by time windows, its all about marketing to event.

Coke is playing around more with marketing the corn syrup slop in glass bottles again too, so be careful.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:22:06 +0000

Ooh, I remember going to a friend's house and all they had was Coke...it tasted terrible. After a couple more cans of that, I resolved never to drink Coke again.

Chalked it up to having a Pepsi every day of high school, but that never seemed right.

Thanks for the tip, I'll see if I can find some of this stuff here. Is the only indicator the yellow cap, or is the ingredients list/nutrition information any different?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:32:55 +0000

Wow - I must find a source for this stuff too!

But around here (NC) that shouldn't be much of a problem - we have a HUGE Mexican population around here... I'll just ask the next time I hit a Mexican restaurant.

Thanks for posting!! Ever since "New Coke," I have missed the sugar version. Today's "original formula" is anything but - that corn syrup isn't the same.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:52:40 +0000

Not only subsidies of corn, but the government also keeps domestically produced prices artificially high and there are huge tariffs on importing sugar. I did a bunch of browsing on sugar and sugar alternatives, like stevia (interesting story). I can't remember where I read everything, but the Wikipedia article on high fructose corn syrup was informative. So is this chart:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Usda_sweeteners.jpg

It is amazing how much industry lobbies even affect things as basic as sugar.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:42:47 +0000

I sent you an e-mail. The stuff at CostCo is made in Mexico and it's $18 for a 24 pack. I guess "[Coke spokesman Mart] Martin declined to specify what action the company has taken to curb the gray market trade of Mexican Coke" because they haven't taken any.

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:41:14 +0000

I don't live near a Costco's, unfortunately. I think with Ben and Nathan, I might be set. Thanks, everyone.

Ben said on April 16, 2008:

As far as I know the rest of the world drinks real coke sweetened with sugar.

Well I can see Canada from where I live, but I think they still get the same corn syrup Coke as we do in the states.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:28:31 +0000

It's not really Mexican Coke.

The only Coke that I know of that is sweetened with corn syrup is American Coke.

As far as I know the rest of the world drinks real coke sweetened with sugar.

I hear this is related to corn subsidies in America making corn a much cheaper alternative to sugar.

By: Tim Buchheim

Tim Buchheim — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:27:11 +0000

Galco's Soda Pop Stop has 12 ounce bottles in stock: http://www.sodapopstop.com/products/detail.cfm?link=36

Shipping will be rather expensive.

I've seen it cheaper in other local stores (Galco's is a specialty store, so they price accordingly) but I'm not willing to ship it for you, sorry.

This time of year you should keep an eye out for the "Kosher for Passover" Coca-Cola, if it's available in your area. Look for a yellow cap on the 2 liter bottles. (They're yellow if they're made with sugar, in southern CA at least.)