# poll: coke **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 30, 2002, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coke/121524 "2002-07-30T13:21:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coke/121524/21 "2002-07-31T21:13:41Z")
I think that the main advantage of the Mexican Coke is the fact that it is made with sugar rather than the almost universal U.S. practice of using corn syrup. If you read the list of contents on the U.S. version it always says sugar/and/or/corn syrup, but the politics of the situation have made it so that corn syrup is always cheaper than sugar. I think that some of the glass-bottled stuff in the U.S. may also contain sugar, but this is just a WAG. Corn syrup means that it bubbles differently, and sugar gives a crisper taste, in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coke/121524/22 "2002-07-31T21:47:52Z")
Dude, you’re so right. I always thought that too, but I figured I must be crazy because…well, coke is coke. 1. Paper cup (as in from a fast food joint)- I really like these 2. At a restaurant in a glass- although sometimes I get the impression that they’re giving me Pepsi and passing it off as coke. 3. Straight out of the can, ice cold. After muchos refrigeration. Although really the above three are pretty interchangeable. 1. Out of a glass- I mean, it’s like I’m drinking a different substance. It takes an effort to finish it off- yuck. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coke/121524/23 "2002-07-31T22:58:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lothos2002 \* > \*\* > > By the way, in Mexico we have Coca Cola flavour Kool Aid. (Imagine drinking coke that has gone flat and lost most of its taste, that is what it is like. I LOVE IT, though…) \*\* We have something like that in the US too. We call it “RC” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coke/121524/24 "2002-07-31T23:35:04Z")
The difference, I believe, is in the water used to make the stuff. Check the labeling, and you’ll find that the cans are filled in a different city from the glassies. The plastic is bottled in a third city. Fountain Cokes are made with the water where the fountain is. ---
**Author:** ![Sivalensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Sivalensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sivalensis)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coke/121524/25 "2002-07-31T23:37:15Z")
i think i’d put coke out of a machine last…the mix just doesn’t come out right! even coke poured into a glass is better than that, though i don’t like either one much. they’re totally different drinks than straight from the can or glass bottle. never had rc, though i suppose i should’ve, since those are my initials in rl… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coke/121524.md?page=1)