# Are you buying the retro sodas made with sugar?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** soda-softdrinks\
**Created:** [August 6, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-buying-the-retro-sodas-made-with-sugar/591755 "2011-08-06T18:14:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-buying-the-retro-sodas-made-with-sugar/591755/22 "2011-08-06T21:26:46Z")

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I absolutely prefer cane sugar varieties in all cases where I’ve made the comparison. This is how I put it last time,

> [@Giving up HFCS](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-up-hfcs/579275/30):
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> People experience tastes different ways.  
> …  
> For me personally, I want to say HFCS seems sweeter, cloying, but it may be more a matter of the character of the sweetness. HFCS sweetness seems heavier, more “filling” and “coating” the mouth, and simpler, drowning out other flavors. Cane sugar seems livelier, or just seems to let other flavors through more distinctly.

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