Discovery of the day

[rikibeth]

The import aisle at Shaw's has half-liter glass bottles of Mexican Coca-Cola. MADE WITH REAL SUGAR, not high fructose corn syrup.

This could be dangerous.

Comments

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed.

(And am also thinking that it may be a Good Thing that there isn't a Shaw's near to me. ;-)

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Beware! I've gotten some Mexican Coke here that *does* have HFCS in it. Read the labels!

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I read it. It said sugar!

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Yeah--it's a crapshoot, running about 3 good bottles to 1 gross one.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Actually they slap the white import label on some of the glass bottles to try and trick you, but generally it contains sugar. If it's a plastic bottle without and and/or on there, you might be right. But, you can tell by the foam.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Not without opening the bottle...unless you have a secret that you'll tell me? And the reason I'm sure about the HFCS is that I bought a bottle and noticed it tasted funny.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

http://www.bevreview.com/2007/08/21/review-mexican-coke/

See the label that says corn syrup and/or sugar that turned out to be bullshit?

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I wasn't clear. I'll try again: I can tell the difference between corn syrup and real sugar, and I got a bottle of Mexican Coke that tasted like corn syrup.

edit: really, is there a way to tell corn syrup from sugar in the bottle? Because I'd be all over that!

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

This could be dangerous, but as I was reminded by having real Coca-Cola in Israel, sodas with real sugar make you feel full.

If you can override that, then yes, you're in danger.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

"Don't fill up on your soda before the food comes!" my mom always said when we went to restaurants, when I was a kid. (Which was the only time we got soda, pretty much.)

I'd forgotten that.

I'm pretty good at stopping when I'm full. But it'll still be an occasional treat.

[sheyeblaze.livejournal.com]

*sighs* I miss living right next door to a Mexican market. I make do with Jones Cola. (Also made without HFCS.)

[seaya.livejournal.com]

You live close to Boston. This means you have the easy ability to get Guaraná Antarctica, nom nom, also with sugar.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Sheye's on the other coast, and I can't handle guarana -- it wires me much more strongly than caffeine does, and I hate how it makes me feel.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I like Boylan's.