Now bring back the coca extract and we’ll
Make Coca Cola great again!!!
Sirhr
Finally! We are going to catch up to Mexico!!!
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Now bring back the coca extract and we’ll
Make Coca Cola great again!!!
Sirhr
I guess so much for MAHA.
Cane sugar is better than High Fructose Corn Syrup!
And Coke was intended as a treat/snack/pause that refreshes.
Not a 2 gallon a day habit.
So bring back cane sugar... And let Americans drink what the market bears.
As Kennedy said, "If you want your Coke and your Big Mac, you should stilll be able to get them." It's his job to help people understand the consequences of abusing the food available to them. (I paraphrase...)
This is how responsibility works.
But getting the 'food manufacturers' to remove dangerous shit from food is also a priority. And reminding people to look at the ingredients list. The very term 'Food Manufacturers' is disgusting... Food should be grown, raised, harvested, etc. Not manufactured. Manufactured stuff is not food. It's Soylent Green
Sirhr
I quit drinking soda 15 years ago. If you have a 1 a day habit of you quit you’d lose 12 lbs in a year. Thats how much sugar those poison cans have.
Yeah, I get that real sugar is the lesser of the two evils, but it just seems like an oxymoron to think of soda as healthy. Fun fact, from a health perspective, beer is actually healthier than soda.
I have a '3 Jarritos Lime' a month habit. I love that stuff. When I am grocery shopping, I buy three bottles. Mexican soda. Loads of sugar. Great flavor. Probably colored with shit from an antifreeze manufacturer. That's my 'soda habit.' Yup, it's a lot of sugar. But it's my treat and I am sticking to it. I am sure that's not what will kill me in the end...
Cheers,
Sirhr
There’s no meaningful metabolic difference between sucrose and hfcs. Sucrose is a disaccharide, consisting of glucose and fructose monosaccharides. HFCS is a mixture of glucose and fructose in roughly equal measure. Sucrose is readily broken down by the body into glucose and fructose. Whether it gets there via a disaccharide, or 2 monosaccharides, the metabolic impact is the same.
Manufacturers in the US use HFCS because we grow a ton of corn, which is federally subsidized; making it substantially cheaper than cane sugar, which is imported and subject to tariffs…
HFCS is also easier to work with, as it is liquid at room temp, making it easier to blend into liquids.
The only thing that removing HFCS from soft drinks does is make them more expensive, for no benefit.
That’s a terrible use of govt effort.
I've always heard that it was the carbonic acid in soda that was the worst for you. Rotting your teeth and GI tract.
Much less acidic than the hydrochloric acid in your stomach. Mostly, it breaks down into H2O and CO2. You know, carbonated water… Biggest effect is gas build up, causing you to burp and/or fart.
I live just a few miles north of the mexican border. If given the choice when I have that rare soft drink, Ill spend the extra money for a bottle if the mexican coca cola.
First we get Mexican coke
Now do Jew Dew ( made for passover). That stuff is like crack.
Now do Jew Dew ( made for passover). That stuff is like crack.
Interesting.
Years ago I was hanging out in Pureto Angel Mexico, 1200 miles south of the border. At that time (mid 90's) a quart/liter of Gatoraid made in Philadelphia (they put the manufacturer location n the lable) was selling for $1.50 or so stateside. I paid 3 pesos or about $00,30 cents in Puerto Angel.
I remember $00.15 pre pack in the 50's in Virginia where the finest light 'baca' is grown.Well, it worked for cigarettes. CA made them over 7.50 a pack and people started smoking less.
or maybe standing at a vending machine with a roll of quarters for that one pack
Back at my last house when Wal-Marts used to be open 24/7, I used to take walks at around 3-4AM to Wal-Mart and back. Usually didn't go into the store to buy anything, just walked to the front and used the vending machine and then walked back home. Anyways, one morning the only thing that was available in the machines was Mountain Dew. So I buy a bottle and out comes some stupid gamer shit with the Mountain Dew label on it. I didn't give a shit because I was thirsty and had that whole bottle drank by the time I hit the next block. Tasted like shit, but hey it killed my thirst. Anyways, while back at home my stomach was making awful noises and a few hours later I had the shits like crazy! It literally gave me the same symptoms I get from food poisoning. Never touched a Mountain Dew product ever again.
Clearly you were never in the military. It functions almost solely on Mt. Dew and Marlboros.
Cane sugar tastes better.... Unless there is some other reason that Mexican Coke tastes way better than 'American Coke.' I thought it was because real cane sugar was used? Or maybe the glass bottles?
But whether it is chemically the same or not... Taste is why I drink an ice cold soda! Not organic chemistry. But I get your point... one is not worse or better for you.
Or maybe it is if the byproducts of extracting the corn syrup involve lots of shit that leaves massive residual chemicals. Wouldn't know. Never been in the sugar business!
But thanks for the clarification!!!
Cheers!
Sirhr
If you tell the hfcs=bad people this in real life they meltdown. My only real issue with corn sugar is all the chemicals they could be using on the corn (herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers, etc). Maybe they use that crap on sugar cane too. Mexi-coke definitely tastes better than corn coke. I’ve had a bunch of both. Coke was an important part of my diet when competitive cycling was my thing (I’m reformed now). Still use it for energy and recovery from strength training. I love coke.
I also think the Mexican cokes taste better. Why? Is it the cane sugar? I don’t know. Could be the glass bottles. But, I think there is a subtle, but real, formulation difference. Sorta like how a drink from one fountain can taste different than “the same drink” from another.
Ever seen videos of granulated sugar being moved around with a grimy front end loader? They’re out there…
I thought that had been replaced by Red Bull, Ripped Fuel and Redman?
But then I am old and out of touch!
Sirhr
They said sugar was the white death. So, alternate sweeteners came out and people said those were made of various things and not healthy.I guess so much for MAHA.
I get a kick out of the fake sweetener I use. It says it's "plant-based." Wait a minute - isn't sugar cane also a plant?
Anyway, get plenty of rest, eat healthy, get exercise, reduce stress when you can. Drink only in moderation. If cancer and such does not run in your family, then sometime between the age of 70 and 100, you will die.
I like Dublin (TX) Dr Pepper and I can say for certain it's the cane sugar.
Stands to reason that cane sugar in coca cola would also make it taste better.
I prefer to make my coca cola taste better with Evan Williams.
Stands to reason that cane sugar in coca cola would also make it taste better.
I prefer to make my coca cola taste better with Evan Williams.
I love coke (a cola) I can tell you where it's bottled by the flavor. Mexican is a little light on the carbonation, but great, bottled in Atlanta is the best, more orangie than any other. Atlanta poaches on other territories. Warren Buffet drinks 5 a day. Vegetarians are susceptible to fiber blockage in the small intestine. If it's not too bad Coke can dissolve it. Great stuff! Out.
Ripped Fuel?!
When I saw your living room cannon I thought, he’s def an “old guy” but brining up Ripped Fuel now I know you are old AF! Me too.
The fact is, white cane sugar is one of the worst things you can put into your body...other than out and out poisons or polonium. Increases liklydood of all sorts of diseases, rots your teeth, and makes you obese. Cancer loves it.
"But it makes my coke taste better." Which is certainly does. LOL
I dont know if corn syrup is as bad.
Coca cola never went back to the old formula. They took so much heat for changing the formula (the new shit tasted like pepsi), that they claimed they changed it back but it never tasted the same. Mexican coke tastes like coke from the 70s.
Very worthwhile read…
I remember the grain crash and arguments in the 1980’s about subsidies. So knew a bit of the history. But this lays things out really well!
Healthier or not? As said above… consuming significant quantities of sugar is not healthy. But taste is taste. That the HFCS vs Sugar is more political than economic or agricultural is interesting.
As usual, subsidizing one thing has unintended consequences… so does a tariff to be realistic. But in this case, it was not market forces, but protecting farmers during the vicissitudes of Cold War grain sales policy… and remember the all-critical Iowa vote…. That’s corn country!
Sirhr
Sirhr
I remember the grain crash and arguments in the 1980’s about subsidies. So knew a bit of the history. But this lays things out really well!
Healthier or not? As said above… consuming significant quantities of sugar is not healthy. But taste is taste. That the HFCS vs Sugar is more political than economic or agricultural is interesting.
As usual, subsidizing one thing has unintended consequences… so does a tariff to be realistic. But in this case, it was not market forces, but protecting farmers during the vicissitudes of Cold War grain sales policy… and remember the all-critical Iowa vote…. That’s corn country!
Sirhr
Sirhr
Corn syrup is worse.
But you're probably old enough to remember the lies of corn syrup being healthy back in the 1940s...
Cane sugar reacts with other chemicals in the coke recipe to end up nearly just like corn syrup, through chemical reaction, to a 50/50 sucrose and fructose, which is really close to corn syrup 55/45. So sugar wise its basically the same.
Health wise in this regard the difference is negligible.
BTW this is true of all cane containing sodas.
Health wise in this regard the difference is negligible.
BTW this is true of all cane containing sodas.
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Ever wake up and say “today, I just want to see the world burn?” Well, today’s the day.
A cup of strawberries is not significantly different than 2 teaspoons of granulated white sugar, brown sugar, HFCS, coconut sugar, or whatever other source of refined sucrose has become fashionable + a multivitamin + a fiber pill.
A cup of strawberries is not significantly different than 2 teaspoons of granulated white sugar, brown sugar, HFCS, coconut sugar, or whatever other source of refined sucrose has become fashionable + a multivitamin + a fiber pill.
So yer saying that strawberry ice cream isn’t healthy? Even though it’s fruit and dairy?
No, what I’m saying is that it’s not the ID of the ingredients. It’s the quantity.
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