One word: plastics..
We’re doing it right now.
For the past few summers, Pepsi has sold Pepsi with Cane Sugar as part of their line up. It’s the same price, but marketed as another Pepsi option rather than the default (with HFCS). I’m thinking Coke with cane sugar will be along the same lines.
But what and I don’t mean politically.
Wasting hours on the Internet.
I think it’s kind of odd that people can’t tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi. Coke burns when you drink it. That’s why I loved it so much. I drank it for the burn, and I always picked it in the Pepsi Challenge.
I could not, however, tell the difference between American Coke and Mexican Coke. And neither could anyone else (out of five people) when we did the blind taste tests that we used to love doing so much.
I don’t really drink soda anymore, though. I actually prefer the taste of Diet Coke over any other soda these days. I think the last time I had one was in March.
I like that battery acid tang, too.
Canned milk was everywhere. Even small stores without refrigeration had it, and of course in rural areas there were these things called “cows”. 
Only about half to 2/3rd of people can tell the difference or express a preference.
Cows cost money. Then you gotta feed them, house them. Do the work to milk them.
In the time period the documentary I watched was based, most people didn’t keep a milk cow.
It was clearly 60s and 70s.
Even canned milk has to be refrigerated when open. If you can’t sterilize water for powder, how can you do it for canned.
I hope life has changed in Appalachia.
Sorry – I should have been more explicit. I meant like in the context of this thread, in response to that ad of 7-Up being advertised as healthy for children. So culinary beliefs about health. A recent example is how we view the pasta craze of the 80s. It was portrayed as some sort of health food, and a good diet was high in carbs and low in fat. We look back now and see things quite differently. But that question was also meant to be more rhetorical, as it could hijack the thread.
I’m hypoglycemic, so while I sometimes carry regular Coke and sip a 16oz bottle through the day if my sugar is tending low, if it is staying in the 80s (where it should be, for me), or I want something to chug, diet Ginger Ale and Root Beer are what I like-- Canada Dry and Barq’s, specifically, unless I can find Dog n Suds, which is rare.
I HATE diet Coke, and will tolerate Coke Zero in a pinch, but it isn’t really that much different.
I remember having a Tab someone thoughtfully brought just for Me, to a school picnic.
I nearly puked.
Yeah, thanks room mother.
Huh. Coke and Barq’s root beer are caffeinated, and Canada Dry ginger ale is not. I never drink those interchangeably.
I’m annoyed that Coke bottles for regular coke and coke zero look too similar. I have been burned more than once.
I wonder about the bottled soda factor? I inherently prefer drinking out of a glass bottle. I’m not sure I’ll give a rat’s ass about cane sugar Coke if it’s not in a glass bottle.
I was just talking about what I like in diet versions vs the regular versions.
I can’t chug something sugary without upsetting my blood sugar.
Yes, we discussed this. In doing blind taste tests they used canned coke vs bottle Mexican coke, as they found out that the Coke in a plastic bottle did have a detectable off taste.
Many people claim that the glass bottles taste better. They have a point.
Pepsi is sweeter. It’s obvious to me.
It uses phosphoric rather than citric acid. I have almost no sense of taste and I can tell a difference. I can also tell the difference between HFCS and sugar out of the can because HFCS leave a syrupy texture in my mouth that sugar doesn’t. But out of a fountain like at a restaurant it doesn’t.
Speaking of Coke and bottles, my absolutely favourite type of Coke packaging is the smaller 300 ml plastic bottle that is sold in shrink-wrapped 8-packs. For some reason the taste (and fizz) is so much better drinking it straight out of the bottle than any other way, including glasses with ice, with or without straws, or cans, or anything else. What pisses me off is that this style of packaging is literally twice as expensive as cans. A case of 12x 355 ml cans costs less than 8x 300 ml plastic bottles!
But on the subject of sugar, that’s one thing I totally do not care about. I’m a steady consumer of Coke Zero. I generally don’t like artificial sweeteners – I’ve tried sugar-free iced tea from Nestle and it manages to taste simultaneously both bitter and too sweet. But the Coca Cola company has apparently got the balance of their artificial sweeteners with their other ingredients down to a fine art, at least with Coke Zero.
The reason why I stopped drinking soda, or one of them, is because that battery acid tang does a pretty awesome job satiating thirst, but it doesn’t help a whole lot with actual hydration. I moved to the desert, and that suddenly became kind of important.
So it’s a texture thing and not a taste thing?
I can relate to that with a lot of things, but I think the reason why I can’t really tell a difference between HFCS and cane sugar is because sweetness in flavor is extremely intense for me, and everything made with any kind of sugar leaves a nasty film in my mouth that is quite intolerable.
I was also raised in the land of sugar beets, raised on good ol’ fashion American Crystal beet sugar. I wonder how that factors into the equation.
I think this is interesting. When comparing glass to plastic, I think the difference is kind of obvious. It’s like keeping your beer mugs in the fridge. There is nothing better than drinking out of a cold, glass bottle or glass.
When comparing mini bottles to regular bottles, I wonder if Coke changes the amount of CO2 in the beverage to compensate for the smaller volume.