Omg. $24 for a case of coke?
That’s highway robbery.
@aceplace57 how much are your cases at Home Depot.
I’ll let @aceplace57 speak to his locale, but my Home Depot sells a 12 oz. bottle for $2.58 and a 24 bottle case for $34.98. I also don’t believe the glass bottle is returnable in my area for consumers, which is another reason I avoid it (except at restaurants, where I tell myself that they have a way of recycling the bottles).
That was my next query. What about the bottles?
Are they still returnable? I remember my older brother collecting glass bottles to by baseball cards.
Well, in blind taste tests the glass bottle - at least- seemed to make a difference. IIRC. Or maybe that was glass vs plastic bottles?
But in this blind taste test, regular Coke came out ahead-
and maybe someone with access can tell us what this test said?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/07/19/mexican-coke-vs-american-coca-cola-taste-test/
Yeah, paywalled.
I did some research and satiety rating- cane sugar vs HFCS. I had read an article that said HFCS has a lower satiety rating than sugar, thus allowing you to drink more. Sadly all the recent research is tainted as it is paid for by the corn syrup industry.
For example this study-
“The Nutritional Sciences Program has received prior research support from industry sources in the United States and the European Union.”
Kosher for Passover Coke also does not have HFCS, because corn is not permitted during Passover.
It gets complicated-- who uses corn in what form, because Conservative Jews changed the rules a few years ago, but many people, and pretty much all Haredi Orthodox, avoid HFCS.
So Coke makes batches with regular sugar labeled kosher for Passover every April.
The bottles have yellow caps.
Personally I find it better. It may very well be because of the glass bottle. I also prefer cans to the plastic bottle. I have no way of knowing if it’s the type of bottle or the type of sugar that makes the difference.
RFK Jr. Trump drinks Diet Coke so it isn’t that. There is a lot of speculation that it has to do with the Fanjul family who own the largest sugar conglomerate, are friends of Trump and use their billions to contribute to the Republican Party.
Thanks. That’s what I was wondering about. Apologies for the hijack.
We buy coke in glass bottles and here (Switzerland) they use sugar. Hubby still likes to buy Mexican coke, which is also in a glass bottle, because it seems bubblier. This is also the reason he prefers glass >> cans >> plastic bottle.
I’ll bet HFCS Coke isn’t going away. American bottled cane sugar Coke will be added to the lineup at a premium price, but HFCS isn’t going anywhere. The vast majority of Coke sold in the US will contain HFCS.
Yes, in my first cite, they used cans vs glass, as they knew the plastic would impart an off taste.
So I think- glass is the best, followed closely by cans, then way lower is plastic bottles.
Taste and preferences for glass bottles is all well and good til you find an old bandaid in the bottle after you drink it.
Apparently plastic bottles of Coke sell at significantly higher volumes than glass..by huge numbers.
It must not taste too bad.
I wouldn’t know personally. I’ve never more than sipped a coke. From a can.
I get 3 a week from Dialysis. I rarely open them.
Australian Coca Cola uses cane sugar, like Mexico. I’ve not done a Pepsi-Challenge head-to-head mano-a-mano style blind taste test, but did find in my travels that US Coke was notably different.
Its probably a matter of what your palate has been exposed to over decades. Other US soft drinks, which I assume are all HFCS, often put my teeth on edge. Their sweetness is icy brittle and sharp, rather than a smoother, back of the palate glow (my terminology is probably more onanistic that oenological, but i speak as an expert with Type 2 diabetes and shitty teeth).
Huh. I find HFCS soda less sweet than cane sugar soda.
Yep. Coca-cola and other sodas are hellish on teeth, not good for diabetics.
It doesn’t cause diabetes, but unless your blood glucose is real low for a time, probably best to drink water.
Stuff is not good for people.
I tried like heck to prevent my kids from having it as youngsters.
They will drink it now, but none are addicted to sugar of any kind.
We don’t buy it or keep it in the house because grandkids would chew their leg off for some. They’ve had a taste or two and were immediately drawn to it.
I was going to mention that. And because cane sugar tastes better then corn syrup, the kosher-for-passover coke is very popular, even among people who don’t keep kosher for passover. Like, i think all Jews know about it, even Reform Jews, most of whom have never avoided corn during passover.
My sense is taste isn’t as good as it used to be, but i certainly could taste the difference 20 years ago.
(Also, cane sugar tastes better than beet sugar, even though nutritionally they are both 100% sucrose. But the traces of molasses are tastier than the traces of whatever is in beet sugar. A friend used to wonder, when he was a child in Italy, why European sugar didn’t taste good. It’s because it was all beet sugar.)
HD locally charges $35 a case. I get over 2 months from a case. I usually drink a couple a week. I broke the Coke a day habit decades ago.
I remember the days when deposits were paid on bottles. My grandmother liked taking walks and we always collected a bag of bottles to turn in.
Coca Cola Bottle plants used to collect the bottles from the stores. Then wash and sterilize bottles for reuse. It must have been labor intensive.
They would never do that today.
I wondered why the tea we brought back from Russian didn’t taste like Russian tea when we made it in the US-- still was different from Lipton, but didn’t taste like Moscow, if that makes sense. Apparently, it was the beet sugar.
I can easily get beet sugar on Amazon now, but no longer have access to Russian tea.
I have reactive hypoglycemia, which I control with diet pretty well, but it acts up when I’m stressed, so on high-stress days, I carry a bottle of Coke (plastic; reclosable), and sip it throughout the day.
I also carry water to rinse my mouth out after a sip of Coke, or I pop in a sugar-free candy that has xylitol (suck, not bite), because I know how bad the Coke is for my teeth (xylitol is good for them*)-- albeit, if I end up in a vegetative state from having a blood sugar below 5 for a long time, may dental health is irrelevant.
*it inhibits the growth of cavity-causing bacteria-- careful, though-- it’s very toxic to dogs. I keep mine in a bag inside a Ziploc bag on a top shelf, and the ones I might need for a day in a pill bottle with a child-proof cap, and that stays in the car in the glove box when I’m not taking it into work.
I live in a country with sugar cane Coke. On at least three occassions, I’ve travelled to the U.S., bought a Coke, took a sip, stopped, and looked at the bottle/can to make sure i hadn’t bought some other soda by accident before remembering the whole corn syrup thing. That’s as close to a blind taste test you’re going to get.