03-01-2019, 09:43 AM
Didn't know if this should be here or with coffee and tea. It is not coffee or tea sooo I put it here.
I was shopping in a local dollar store yesterday, came across a rather nice wooden display of Mexican Coke.
For some who may not know, Mexican Coke is made with pure can sugar versus the American Coke, which uses
beet sugar. Sugar is sugar, right? WRONG
American 12 oz. has 140 calories, Mexican 150.
Mexican is sweeter, has less "fizz". When I was a little kid, I remember the change to beet sugar .
I've done a little research on this....For example, a rich silicon valley man imports Mexican Coke by the truck load
for his office and will drink no U.S. Coke. A bottler in N.Y. makes pure cane sugar Coke once a year for
customers, they place a solid red cap to differentiate from "regular". To clarify.....I'm talking about Coca Cola....
I was shopping in a local dollar store yesterday, came across a rather nice wooden display of Mexican Coke.
For some who may not know, Mexican Coke is made with pure can sugar versus the American Coke, which uses
beet sugar. Sugar is sugar, right? WRONG

Mexican is sweeter, has less "fizz". When I was a little kid, I remember the change to beet sugar .
I've done a little research on this....For example, a rich silicon valley man imports Mexican Coke by the truck load
for his office and will drink no U.S. Coke. A bottler in N.Y. makes pure cane sugar Coke once a year for
customers, they place a solid red cap to differentiate from "regular". To clarify.....I'm talking about Coca Cola....

03-01-2019, 12:57 PM
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03-01-2019, 04:00 PM
(03-01-2019, 12:57 PM)timwcic Wrote: [font=.SF UI Display][font=.SFUIDisplay-Semibold]Coke does a special run of cane sugar once a year for Passover. It came out and sells out quickly. It has a Kosher yellow top.[/font][/font]
Hey Tim, that's pretty interesting. Sorry for my ignorance of Kosher laws, but is there something about the Coke available the rest of the year that makes it non-Kosher?
03-01-2019, 05:20 PM
(03-01-2019, 04:00 PM)BrickHud Wrote:(03-01-2019, 12:57 PM)timwcic Wrote: [font=.SF UI Display][font=.SFUIDisplay-Semibold]Coke does a special run of cane sugar once a year for Passover. It came out and sells out quickly. It has a Kosher yellow top.[/font][/font]
Hey Tim, that's pretty interesting. Sorry for my ignorance of Kosher laws, but is there something about the Coke available the rest of the year that makes it non-Kosher?
I am not Exactly positive, but to the best of my understanding corn syrup is not kosher. Do not know way. Cane sugar is. I buy it in Florida at Publix when I go to Miami. It makes a great cuba libre, don’t forget fresh lime
03-02-2019, 01:57 PM
(03-02-2019, 01:47 PM)DannyZ Wrote:(03-01-2019, 10:30 AM)WegianWarrior Wrote: Beet sugar beats high fructose corn syrup... also when it comes to soda/pop/coke/"other regional name for fizzy drink"
Where I'm from, if you order a coke you'll be asked what kind. Coke is synonymous with any soda.
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It's a Southern thing I guess.. y'all keep it weird

On a lark - if I may go on a tangent to the thread - I just figured out why the common Norwegian name for carbonated sugerwater (aka soda/pop/coke) is "brus"... turns out it's short for "bruslimonade"; which translate as "fizzy lemonade" (I'm assuming the first carbonated sugerwater available in Norway was carbonated lemonade... which sounds pretty tasty now that I think about it).
So we're basically calling it fizz... still tastes better with real sugar.
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