Always Coca-Cola? Ain't Nothin' Like The Real Thing!

Matt Deckard · Apr 22, 2006

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041109/news_1b9mexcoke.html

I heard tell they changed out the cane sugar in US coke for corn syrup back when Coca-Cola switched to New Coke (morons) back in 1984.

You can still get cane sugar in Mexican Coke... I can taste the difference and it is good...

I want my sugar back!

Brad Bowers · Apr 22, 2006

We have a store that carries the Boylan's brand of soft drinks. I think it was Wild Root that recommended them. They only use cane sugar, and they are really good! I think their cola tastes like Coke used to taste. Our favorite here is their Creamy Red Birch Beer, which goes great with our homemade pizzas every Saturday night!

Brad

Baron Kurtz · Apr 22, 2006

Coke is still made with sugar in Europe and Canada. And yes ... it tastes so much better (Spanish stuff is horrid, though). Neither the Baroness nor I can drink coke in the US - makes the teeth hurt. It's too sweet.

And of course the body can't metabolise corn syrup (fructose) as well as it can cane sugar. Instant recipe for extra weight gain! It goes straight into fat stores. There are whole books written about this topic.

Oh yeah almost forgot ... I want my phosphoric acid back! Coke used to melt coins in minutes. Now it takes hours. Give me more acid in my soft drinks.

bk

indyjim · Apr 22, 2006

I've used old Coke to take rust off chrome bumpers.

Lincsong · Apr 22, 2006

How about pouring Coke over a piece of pork and watching the worms come out.

Brad Bowers · Apr 22, 2006

Lincsong said:
How about pouring Coke over a piece of pork and watching the worms come out.

If we're talking fresh pork, I don't want to think about it.

Brad

magneto · Apr 22, 2006

Matt Deckard said:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041109/news_1b9mexcoke.html

You can still get cane sugar in Mexican Coke... I can taste the difference nd it is good...

I want my sugar back!

I sympathize! Sadly, (for at least the last year or so) all the Mexican Coke I've seen (admittedly, the kind imported to the US and sold in Mexican stores) has H.F.C.S. either in addition to, or instead of, the cane sugar, according to the label

BUT, you can get pure-sugar USA Coke-- it is made and distributed around Passover time for those people who keep Kosher..(there are special Kosher rules that apply during Passover, and corn syrup does not qualify for the "kosher for Passover" category) Easy to find in New York and LA I hear; elsewhere, not so much. Hit up a Jewish deli...

European sodas are great though. I just had a yummy Dutch-made Fanta from the fancy-food store (nothing like the luminous-fake-orange junk made for U.S. consumption); real sugar, almost worth the $5.00.

jdjs · Apr 22, 2006

Back in the sixties . . .

Back in the sixties, the local bottling plant was constantly at war with the local telephone company. Seems that the tank exhaust pipes were directly under a main phone trunk (back in the days when all utilities hung on poles). Every two to three weeks, the phone company had to replace their lines, which were eaten away by the Coke fumes!

Lincsong · Apr 22, 2006

If we're talking fresh pork, I don't want to think about it.

Brad

Yeah, a nice piece of fresh, raw pork.

Wild Root · Apr 22, 2006

I want my cane sugar! I'm going to buy soda at the shop over here in LA that sells soda's of the past, Peach NEHI is simply the best! Also, cane sugar Dr. Pepper is also a good one to enjoy!

Coke in Canada is Corn syrup... pretty much the same thing in the US. I've had Coke in Canada and it's the same thing... blah!

If you can find Coke in the glass bottles with Cane Sugar you're in Jackson! That's the best!

=WR=

Andykev · Apr 22, 2006

RC COLA or DR. Pepper ( I like prunes)

I hate Coke. It was screwed up when they went to the "new coke"...and then even when they went back to "Classic Coke" it was neve the same.

I used to drink about 4-5 cans of Pepsi....in my late 20's.

Now, if I want a cola, I ONLY drink RC Cola.

But mostly, I avoid sodas altogether. Bad for you.

Of course, Dr. Pepper has been the same for years....

Wild Root · Apr 22, 2006

Dr Pepper is different then the original... ever since the Corn Syrup crept into sodas in the 70's and 80's it's been bad since... I don't care for cans, only will drink soda out of glass when possible.

Royal Crown is good stuff Andy! I had a bottle of it with cane sugar and I just fell in love! :eusa_clap

=WR=

Miss Neecerie · Apr 22, 2006

Wild Root said:
Dr Pepper is different then the original... ever since the Corn Syrup crept into sodas in the 70's and 80's it's been bad since... I don't care for cans, only will drink soda out of glass when possible.

Royal Crown is good stuff Andy! I had a bottle of it with cane sugar and I just fell in love! :eusa_clap

=WR=

I still have a few of the DP in glass that you tried the other week...now those were nice indeed.....

John in Covina · Apr 22, 2006

It's the Real Thing

Galco's Old World Grocery
5702 York Blvd.
Highland Park, CA 90042
323-255-7115
http://www.sodapopstop.com

THis guy finds all the bottlers that make stuff the old fashioned way. It is worth the pilgrimage, bring plenty of $$$. Found out about this place from a "Just Visiting with Huell Howser" episode, their subs (Hero's) are pretty darn good too. The block buster?

Jolt cola has cane sugar and twice the caffenine.

They have Dr. Pepper done the old way where the carbonation level is lower than what is done currently by most bottlers.

They have the old style seltzer bottles too all charged up and ready to go!

It's the real thing,
in the back of your mind
what you're hoping to find,
it's the real thing (coke is!)

Tony in Tarzana · Apr 22, 2006

Hey Root

Ralph's carries the "Kosher for Passover" Coke, hurry up and you can still find it. I had some, and it tastes just like the Coke from the good old days. I've sworn off sugared soda, but I did have some just for old times' sake.

Zepp · Apr 22, 2006

Wild Root said:
Dr Pepper is different then the original... ever since the Corn Syrup crept into sodas in the 70's and 80's it's been bad since... I don't care for cans, only will drink soda out of glass when possible.
=WR=

Root, you're so right. There's something different about drinking soda from bottles. Maybe it's my imagination, but I definitely prefer bottled soda to canned.

Another good soda brand is Faygo, a Detroit area bottler. I grew up on the stuff and especially enjoyed Redpop (strawberry) and Rock-n-Rye, a cream cola. Faygo is in very limited distribution outside of Michigan, but I have found one store in the Denver area that carries a limited stock of Faygo flavors in 16 oz. glass bottles. I'm in Rock-n-Rye heaven now! Red creme soda is a fair substitute, but it's just not the real thing.

Faygo trivia: in the 70s a popular commercial in the Detroit area was the "Faygo Boat Song", a musical tribute to simple childhood pleasures. It was filmed aboard the Bob-Lo boat, a 1910 era ferry that shuttled folks between the Detroit mainland and the Bob-Lo Island amusement park. Although I didn't know it at the time, the character leading deckloads of folks in song was Harold Peary, the one and only Great Gildersleeve of 1940s radio fame.

Remember When You Were A Kid (The Faygo Boat Song)

Comic books and rubber bands
Climb into the tree top
Falling down and holding hands
Tricycles and Redpop
Pony rides and Sunday nights
Roller skates and snowball fights
Climbin' through the window
Remember when you were a kid?
Well, part of you still is
And that's why we make Faygo
Faygo remembers
Flying kites and funny shoes
Easter eggs with speckles
ABCs and counting by twos
Washing off the freckles
Kissing a hurt to make it stop
Startin' school in September
So many things you almost forgot
Tryin' to remember
Remember when you were a kid?
Well, part of you still is
And that's why we make Faygo
Faygo remembers

Baron Kurtz · Apr 22, 2006

The best soda i ever had was at a mountain pass in the Himalayas. At a little tea shop. And yes, it was from a bottle. I saw the guy trot past me about halfway up ... about 100 bottles of coke and such in a basket on his back. About 3 hours later i caught up with him at the tea shop where he was making his delivery.

I got a bottle of Fanta. Bottled at 400 feet above sea level ... opened at approx 2500 feet. That stuff was FIZZY! (comparative partial pressures of CO2 and all that.) Great stuff. Horrid whiskey though (Everest Whiskey = dis-gus-ting).

bk

Senator Jack · Apr 23, 2006

There was a guy in Garfield,NJ who reopened his grandfather's defunct soda company about 10 years back. It was called Whoopee Cola, (established 1927) and it was made with cane sugar. When I first had a bottle, I flipped out, because it was so damned good. And I'm not even a soda drinker! (All right, I used it for cocktails - the lemon lime went great with white rum) Unfortunately, the guy didn't know how to market or get distribution - you could only find it in about 10 stores in Jersey - and last summer he went out of business again. :rage:

BTW, is Boylan's using cane sugar? I thought I read on the label it was corn syrup.

Regards,

Senator Jack

Brad Bowers · Apr 23, 2006

Senator Jack said:
BTW, is Boylan's using cane sugar? I thought I read on the label it was corn syrup.

We've only tried their cola, ginger ale, and birch beer. All have listed only cane sugar on the bottle. In fact, the cola says in big letters on the front "Cane Sugar Cola" or something to that effect. Don't remember right off hand.

I love their bottles, with the paint right on the bottle instead of a wrapper, and the raised logo on the glass. Very old-fashioned.

Their ginger ale has little flavor. It tasted like a really weak 7-Up. But their birch beer is good!

Brad

Absinthe_1900 · Apr 23, 2006

Wild Root said:
Dr Pepper is different then the original... ever since the Corn Syrup crept into sodas in the 70's and 80's it's been bad since... I don't care for cans, only will drink soda out of glass when possible. =WR=

You have to be in Texas to enjoy the original cane sugar formula.

http://www.dublindrpepper.com/

Yes, I'm drinking that one now.

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