Coke 'Classic' no longer

More fun too.

LOL, true.

I get it on sale all the time at the supermarket.

Here, here!! If they want to appeal to younger consumers, who may tend to be more health conscious, then drop the HFCS junk. Its bad for your health.

There is also a good argument that the market for HFCS distorts the commodities markets by providing money to the big agriculture companies so they can pay expensive lobbyists and buy political favor for their corporate welfare.

Yes, smaller packaging but at the same price. Or higher!

have you looked at coffee cans (39 ounces down to 32 or 33 ounces), bagged noodles (16 ounces down to 12 ounces), salad dressing, chips...you name it and it has shrunk but still costs the same or more!

Ice cream. too. Check out the Breyer's next time you're at the market. They have reduced the volume by around 15% and raised the price! We just have to be extremely careful consumer's. Read labels and check weights and measures of any processed food product you buy. We buy very little processed food and are saving money weekly. We make our own ice cream in 20 minutes using the Cuisinart Ice Cream freezer. Tastes better than anything bought in the store. We don't buy any soft drinks because the cost is prohibitive.

Mostly its the High Fructose Corn Syrup that doesn't taste as good as real sugar. But the HFCS is cheaper, so the beverage makers use it instead. Unfortunately its bad for your health and it screws with the market because of entitlements for the producers that they have lobbied our legislators to make.

whatever-815315 you are right. Glass bottled coke is best, and you can still find 6-paks in some stores but they are only 8oz. bottles and perty spendy. I treat myself once a year and get one.

Wack, I love your tag name!!

I gotta say I love my Coca Cola. It is one of many of my vices. I take offence that they are gonna try and stick it to us, like all other groceries, and do some size shifting, however.

Everyone is out to screw us.

You can get the COKE without HFCS during Passover, Look for it at the supermarket. It isn't cheap though. Anout a buck a can.

It also is definitely not the "original." The original Coke had real cocaine in it to begin with!

They used it as a ploy to switch from sugar to HFCS. You can still find Coke with real sugar in Mexico - they sell this version in glass bottles in our local Costco here in the US.

You may be able to find it at Whole Foods, too. I know they sell the orginal formula Dr. Pepper that has real cane sugar.

They sell coke with real sugar in Mexico and Europe all the time, even in glass bottles! I live in a border town, even the Mexican markets in my town sell it. Your can also find it in areas with large Jewish populations near Passover as HCFS isn't kosher for that time.

Honestly it does taste sweeter and has a more cola flavor with real sugar

it depends where you live I don't even give my pets the tapwater where I live, its hard, full of sediment and scale.

no way! do you know what water does to gun barrels?? lol

You must have been paying attention to the Corn Refiners Assoc. propaganda then! Did you hear about mercury being found in several different items with HFCS? I'd prefer good old natural sugar over genetically modified, mercury-laced HFCS.

Coke that is produced in Mexico under license from the Coca-Cola company is still made with real sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup. You can buy the imported variety in the U.S. at Mexican supermarkets. It DOES taste different, certainly not as sweet as the "Coke Classic" that we've been drinking for the last 25 years.

Wikipedia has an article on HFCS at:

It explains the difference between HFCS and other sugars. They are different.

As I remember (and I could be a little foggy about it) they came up with New Coke that was sweeter and tasted more like Pepsi. Pepsico, Inc. then gave all their employees the day off in celebration, taking that as a"white flag" fom CocaCola.

So the reason New Coke was created was that CocaCola was changing sugars?