# Coca-Cola Imported From Mexico **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 30, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522 "2013-12-30T23:04:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/1 "2013-12-30T23:04:00Z")
Comes in that tall glass bottle and ain’t cheap, but it does taste a lot better doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Dana\_Scully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@Dana\_Scully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dana_Scully)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/2 "2013-12-30T23:16:48Z")
I don’t know which version they sell in Europe, so I couldn’t say. But I HAVE heard that his version tastes much better than the high-fructose version foisted off on Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/3 "2013-12-30T23:42:51Z")
Has a blind taste test ever been done to see if people can tell the difference? I’ve paid extra for Mexican Coke but I’m dubious that I can really tell the difference. ---
**Author:** ![Domesticated\_Primate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Domesticated\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Domesticated_Primate)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/4 "2013-12-30T23:53:19Z")
Didnt know coke was being imported from Mexico. Is it in a bottle or can labeled as being from Mexico? Available where in US? ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/5 "2013-12-31T00:00:46Z")
You can find it at grocery stores in the Hispanic/Chinese aisle even in the Midwest. Yes, there’s an obvious difference, but it is more of a difference in mouthfeel than taste. The cane sugar doesn’t have that cloying mouth-coating feel. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/6 "2013-12-31T00:26:09Z")
Mexican Coke is readily available in Houston. _Some_ of it is sweetened with HFCS–read the label. (There’s an English label glued to each bottle.) The \*\*Houston Press \*\*did a nonscientific study. Their results: People who grew up drinking cane-sugar-sweetened soft drinks prefer them to the ones with HFCS. I do–for a very rare treat. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/7 "2013-12-31T00:40:04Z")
> [@Domesticated\_Primate](#): > > Didnt know coke was being imported from Mexico. Is it in a bottle or can labeled as being from Mexico? Available where in US? It’s typically glass bottles like the one shown [here](http://www.lifeofjustin.com/mexican-coke-3043/). If you don’t see it where you are, look in a taqueria or a Hispanic grocery store. I’m fairly certain the importation is done with the cooperation of the Coca-Cola Company. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/8 "2013-12-31T00:44:19Z")
I’m a die-hard Pepsi drinker, but I think most soft drinks, especially Coke, benefits from cane sugar. It gives Coke a snappier taste and cleaner finish, IMHO. I buy Mexican Coke if it happens to cross my path. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/9 "2013-12-31T01:03:13Z")
In the spring, we get kosher for Passover Coke on the shelves that has cane sugar instead of HFCS. I don’t know if it’s available everywhere (my area has a sizeable Jewish population) but the bottles have yellow caps with Hebrew printing. Excellent stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/10 "2013-12-31T07:37:03Z")
You can get Mexican Coke pretty much everywhere here in California these days; it’s generally marked on the shelf as “Mexican Coke”. Interestingly, the Coca Cola Company has recently announced that they are going to start using HFCS in their sodas in Mexico…but only for soda that’s to be \*sold \*in Mexico. For “Mexican Coke” intended for export to the US, they will continue to use sugar. [http://articles.latimes.com/2013/nov/06/business/la-fi-mo-mexican-coke-cane-sugar-20131106](http://articles.latimes.com/2013/nov/06/business/la-fi-mo-mexican-coke-cane-sugar-20131106) ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/11 "2013-12-31T07:44:15Z")
> [@chizzuk](#): > > In the spring, we get kosher for Passover Coke on the shelves that has cane sugar instead of HFCS. I don’t know if it’s available everywhere (my area has a sizeable Jewish population) but the bottles have yellow caps with Hebrew printing. Excellent stuff. Yep, here Passover Coke has a bit of a cult following even among us goyim ;). ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/12 "2013-12-31T09:02:07Z")
In Russia, Coke has sugar. And it does taste better to me. HFCS is of course so common in American foods because of the huge subsidies corn/corn sugar get. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/13 "2013-12-31T09:05:30Z")
I can buy this at any grocery store where I live in Ohio. Also, Pepsi and a couple others are available with sugar in 4 packs of glass bottles. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/14 "2013-12-31T11:59:13Z")
I’m not sure if the Coke I was drinking in Montreal was the real-sugar stuff, but it tasted different. I don’t really enjoy Coke as much as I used to, now that I’m living in the States. Fountain Coke is still ok, but cans and bottles taste too sweet and syrupy to me. I keep seeing the “Mexican Coke” around here and I keep meaning to try it to see if it’s more like the Coke of my youth. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/15 "2013-12-31T13:39:54Z")
> [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#): > > I can buy this at any grocery store where I live in Ohio. Also, Pepsi and a couple others are available with sugar in 4 packs of glass bottles. [Throwback Pepsi and Throwback Mountain Dew](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwback_(drink)) are available pretty much everywhere in the Twin Cities area at least. It isn’t everywhere? ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/16 "2013-12-31T14:06:41Z")
The “throwback” versions seem to be like McRib - they pop up every so often, but aren’t constantly available, at least not around here. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/17 "2013-12-31T14:40:10Z")
We get it at Costco, and yes, I think it tastes better. ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/18 "2013-12-31T14:43:52Z")
We get Coke imported from all round the world here and some of the European ones definitely taste different. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/19 "2013-12-31T15:11:53Z")
The Mexican coke and American coke taste the same, to me. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522/20 "2013-12-31T15:18:19Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > You can find it at grocery stores in the Hispanic/Chinese aisle even in the Midwest. > > Yes, there’s an obvious difference, but it is more of a difference in mouthfeel than taste. The cane sugar doesn’t have that cloying mouth-coating feel. This right here - and I’m someone who grew up on the sugar-sweetened variety. Both my husband and in independently noted the better, less-cloying mouthfeel. I’m sad to see that Mexico may end up not making it any longer. ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coca-cola-imported-from-mexico/677522.md?page=2)