where can I get pepsi made with sugar?

[cHeeZeFacTory]

recently came back from southeast asia.

The pepsi there taste noticeably better than the pepsi here in California.

Are there any stores that sells pepsi made with cane sugar in the states?

 

[scott916]

Try Mexican specialty stores, its the same way in Mexico.

 

[dullard]

Hmm. Most mexican stores in most towns sell Coke with sugar instead of corn syrup. But Pepsi, I don't know of. I'll be watching this thread.

 

[jman19]

Originally posted by: cHeeZeFacTory
recently came back from southeast asia.

The pepsi there taste noticeably better than the pepsi here in California.

Are there any stores that sells pepsi made with cane sugar in the states?

Check out stores that sell international foods... a place I used to go sold a lot of Mexican food and had Coke in a bottle that was made with cane sugar.

 

[jman19]

Ha, interesting to see the two threads that showed up before I submitted

 

[IBuyUFO]

Try south america I also want some pepsi or coke with sugar. I used to live in south america and thought the soda tasted a lot better there.

 

[chrisms]

You know I didn't even notice when I was in SE Asia. I spent a couple months in Europe before that, though, do they use corn syrup there too? Maybe I was just used to it.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Ugh, I want Coke with sugar to be available in the USA already damn it!

 

[K1052]

HFCS FTL

I could actually drink regular Coke in Europe. The mix in the States makes me ill.

 

[Mike Gayner]

WTF? American soft drinks are made with corn syrup? Why do American companies always insist on using the worst possible ingredients for any given task?

 

[cHeeZeFacTory]

wow i will definately take a closer look at the coke and pepsi products next time i go to the mexican supermarkets here in orange county.

 

[txrandom]

Dr Pepper with Imperial Sugar ftw!

 

[Kwaipie]

Whole Foods Market brand sodas are made from cane sugar.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Mike Gayner
WTF? American soft drinks are made with corn syrup? Why do American companies always insist on using the worst possible ingredients for any given task?

The US has a minimum sugar price law. It basically tripples the price of sugar. It puts sugar prices so high that it is often cheaper to buy candy/tea from other countries and break it down into sugar than to outright buy sugar.

The result? Places that use lots of sugar switched to high fructose corn syrup.

Americans pay big time (with their wallets and with their taste buds) to save a few American sugar farmer's jobs. In my economics books the number was a cost to American's of $800,000 per saved job and that was 10 years ago, it is probably well over a million per job for this. Note: this is the cost, not the profit, the sugar farmer's profit is quite small because farming sugar cane in the US is not a smart move due to the climate and soil.

As you can tell, I'd rather pay off the sugar farmers, say $200k/year to not farm, and end this silly law.

 

[Mike Gayner]

Americans are also paying big time with their health by consuming high fructose corn syrup. It's nigh on impossible to even find any products with that ingredient here in NZ - except in the American section of International Foods at the supermarket.

 

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: Mike Gayner
Americans are also paying big time with their health by consuming high fructose corn syrup. It's nigh on impossible to even find any products with that ingredient here in NZ - except in the American section of International Foods at the supermarket.

Can you record yourself saying "nigh on impossible"?

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Mike Gayner
WTF? American soft drinks are made with corn syrup? Why do American companies always insist on using the worst possible ingredients for any given task?

The US has a minimum sugar price law. It basically tripples the price of sugar. It puts sugar prices so high that it is often cheaper to buy candy/tea from other countries and break it down into sugar than to outright buy sugar.

The result? Places that use lots of sugar switched to high fructose corn syrup.

Americans pay big time (with their wallets and with their taste buds) to save a few American sugar farmer's jobs. In my economics books the number was a cost to American's of $800,000 per saved job and that was 10 years ago, it is probably well over a million per job for this. Note: this is the cost, not the profit, the sugar farmer's profit is quite small because farming sugar cane in the US is not a smart move due to the climate and soil.

As you can tell, I'd rather pay off the sugar farmers, say $200k/year to not farm, and end this silly law.

Can I have time to set up my sugar farm first?

 

[Mike Gayner]

Originally posted by: chrisms

Originally posted by: Mike Gayner
Americans are also paying big time with their health by consuming high fructose corn syrup. It's nigh on impossible to even find any products with that ingredient here in NZ - except in the American section of International Foods at the supermarket.

Can you record yourself saying "nigh on impossible"?

???

 

[Zenmervolt]

Canada does too.

ZV

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: Mike Gayner
WTF? American soft drinks are made with corn syrup? Why do American companies always insist on using the worst possible ingredients for any given task?

Because large government subsidies on Corn in the US make HFCS much, much, much less expensive than sugar.

ZV

 

[Indolent]

Originally posted by: chrisms

Originally posted by: Mike Gayner
Americans are also paying big time with their health by consuming high fructose corn syrup. It's nigh on impossible to even find any products with that ingredient here in NZ - except in the American section of International Foods at the supermarket.

Can you record yourself saying "nigh on impossible"?

lol

 

[Juice Box]

At the mexican restaurant my dad and I frequent, they sell both coke and Pepsi in tall glass bottles. I'll have to order one and check the ingredients to see if it is simply regular pepsi in a glass bottle, or actually sugared-pepsi (which would be awesome)

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Mike Gayner
WTF? American soft drinks are made with corn syrup? Why do American companies always insist on using the worst possible ingredients for any given task?

The US has a minimum sugar price law. It basically tripples the price of sugar. It puts sugar prices so high that it is often cheaper to buy candy/tea from other countries and break it down into sugar than to outright buy sugar.

The result? Places that use lots of sugar switched to high fructose corn syrup.

Americans pay big time (with their wallets and with their taste buds) to save a few American sugar farmer's jobs. In my economics books the number was a cost to American's of $800,000 per saved job and that was 10 years ago, it is probably well over a million per job for this. Note: this is the cost, not the profit, the sugar farmer's profit is quite small because farming sugar cane in the US is not a smart move due to the climate and soil.

As you can tell, I'd rather pay off the sugar farmers, say $200k/year to not farm, and end this silly law.

Yep:

http://www.freetrade.org/node/70

Protectionism always fails.

 

[Amused]

BTW, I was watching a special on "How it's Made" that featured a Coke bottler. They claimed that in multiple blind taste studies, people could not tell the difference between HFCS and sugar in their drinks.

It appears that is far from the case.

 

[zerocool1]

i love cricket cola.... but alas the only place i've found it is at potbelly's