Most of the tanks I have seen are plastic and sealed(they have screw off lids).
I dunno if purposefully putting a corpse in the tank is fair.
They tended to pick whichever they were told was the Mexican coke regardless of whether in reality it was (some of the testers always picked the one they were told was American regardless of whether it really was).
The last bottle (of Mexican coke) I had said that they use both cane sugar and cornsyrup. So I guess it is the same as US coke now.
Mountain Dew used to be my go-to soda, and I never liked it from glass bottles. Dunno why, it just didn’t taste/feel right.
Coca-cola bottlers in Mexico are allowed the option to use the sweetener of their choice. Many use HFCS and sugar. Some use strictly HFCS. I believe no bottler still uses solely cane sugar. This information was given to me by a family member of the owners of the largest Coca-Cola bottling plant in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
The water used in making soft drinks or beer here is purified at the plants. Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola and others also are huge sellers of bottled water. Coca-Cola markets theirs under the brand name Ciel. Pepsi-Cola sells theirs under the brand Santorini, which is what we have delivered to our home.
Municipal supplied water is perfectly safe to drink. The issue for lots of people is definitely the cisterns (which may be big vaults underground), and tinacos (the black ones often seen on rooftops). They are definitely sealed tight.
When I lived in Hermosillo we had our tinaco (in the patio, not on the roof) serviced every four months. The company essentially drained it and bleached it, and we were always given a water quality report. It only cost about $150 MN back then.
I used to work next to the large plant in Cuautitlan Izcalli. They used both. The glass bottled Coke was sugar-made, but anything in a plastic bottle used corn syrup.
It should be noted that sugar is much cheaper in Mexico than in the United States, as Mexico doesn’t have the same sort of government protected sugar cartel as the United States. It’s a much freer market.
I worry that they already are. That’s why I mentioned that I’ve never tested myself. What if I find out there is no difference (or I can’t tell the difference)? Then I’m wasting my money.
Here in New York, one can buy Coca-Cola bottled especially for Passover that’s made with sugar rather than corn syrup. I know, that’s pretty much what your link says, but it’s talking about Atlanta, I think. I thought the kosher Coke was bottled locally, but maybe they just ship the stuff up here to NY.
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I went to grade school in Venice, CA–part of Los Angeles City. Across a side street from the school was (and maybe still is) a Coca-Cola bottling facility, built while I was attending that school. ( My Dad called the place the “Botta-Botta Cocaling Company.”)
No, if that turns out to be the case, you’re just paying more to enjoy it more.
That’s the problem with blind taste tests: nobody (generally) drinks blind. Sure, it may be psychological, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t real enjoyment.
In Columbus, OH, I’ve seen this stuff in every decent-sized store resembling a grocery store as long as I’ve lived here. The Pepsi is fairly common, also. I definitely prefer the sugar to the HCFS versions, but I try to avoid all types of sweetened water as much as I can.
Well, yes- in fact about half or so can tell the difference between HFCS and Sugar, but some can taste the difference between canned and glass. Those than can tell, prefer glass and sugar a pretty high %.
I dunno, makes my mouth all dry, not really thirst quenching…
I think if Coke or Pepsi switched all their sodas at once to cane sugar they would get a big boost in sales for a while. As it is it’s too difficult figuring out which have HFCS and which don’t, and on top of that I’m trying to avoid soda anyway.
They bring Mexican Coke up here right before and during Passover, because the HFCS kind isn’t Kosher for Passover. The Cokes that come in plastic bottles will have different colored screw off caps than the usual stuff. I recall seeing it with yellow caps once, but I’m not sure if they use yellow every year.
I can definitely tell, but with Pepsi. Pepsi in a can has a weird (metallic?) taste that fountain and bottles don’t, and that Coke in cans does not seem to. If I have to drink Pepsi, it won’t be from a can.
Those two liter bottles are bottled here in the US, not brought from Mexico.
Yes, they do use the yellow cap every year. It also has some Hebrew characters printed on the cap.
But if you prove yourself “wrong” in a taste test, can’t you then Really Enjoy the cheaper version one thereafter?
In this can vs. glass test, did the testers drink it straight from the can/glass, or were the canned and bottled sodas poured into another container first?