FTR, Canadian Coca-Cola is still made with cane sugar. There is a perceptable difference in taste between what I get at home and what I get when I’m in the U.S. or Japan. I personally prefer the cane sugar version, as do most people that I’ve talked to that are aware of the difference.
There’s a Kosher supermarket not far from me. Would they have Passover Coke year 'round?
Apparently not.
Strictly speaking, it’s up to the individual bottler whether to use sugar, corn sweetener, or a mixture thereof. The Coca-Cola corporation provides the ‘flavor’ ingredients, the bottler provides the carbonated water and sweetener (subject to the rules laid down by Coca-Cola). But corn sweetener is so much cheaper that virtually nobody uses sugar anymore.
There’s a small bottler here in Texas that makes Dr. Pepper syrup with 100% cane sugar for the sweetener. There’s at least one small deli in the Dallas area that not only buys from them, but uses an old-style dispenser instead of the new-fangled automatic mixers. The servers put the syrup, carbonated water, and ice individually into a glass and mix it up with a spoon … Damn, that’s good stuff.
Where is this place? I must know!
No. From what I understand, Coke makes a special run of corn-syrup-free Coke for about two weeks or so and then switches back to the corn-syrup version.
Zev Steinhardt
Although Passover was only two months ago. It can’t hurt to ask them if they still have any of the Passover stuff in stock, it’s possible.
I believe Coke in the UK is still made with sugar, but as I only drink Diet Coke I can’t check the label. Can’t find any real cites - just message board posts about it.