# poll - would you pay a premium for a real Coke? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 14, 2006, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937 "2006-01-14T06:11:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Blonde\_Bomber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@The\_Blonde\_Bomber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Blonde_Bomber)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/1 "2006-01-14T06:11:33Z")
When I was a kid, nothing tasted better than an ice-cold coke in a 16 oz. glass bottle. Coke doesn’t taste the same as it once did. The biggest difference is the use of high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar, but I’m sure they’ve also changed anything else they could get away with to save money. So how about it? Would you pay a premium price to have a nice 8 pack of 16 oz. glass bottles of coke, made with the same ingredients (including real sugar!), or are you happy with what you get now? ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/2 "2006-01-14T06:35:58Z")
I’ll buy real Coke with real sugar any day. Otherwise, it isn’t worth it. Sure, I’d pay $2.00 for a bottle of real Coke with real sugar. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/3 "2006-01-14T06:40:37Z")
I drink Diet Coke these days. The other stuff tastes far too syrupy for my liking. I do think it tastes a lot better from a glass bottle, though. ---
**Author:** ![spankari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@spankari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spankari)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/4 "2006-01-14T06:41:04Z")
I miss those glass bottle 8 packs. I would pay more for those than for cans anyday, but then again, I think everythiing tastes better in a glass bottle. But then again, the true orignal Coke contained cocaine, so I suppose I would pay even extra for one of those, just to try it at least. Who knows, I might even get hooked on them, although I suspect that there was very little cocaine present. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/5 "2006-01-14T06:42:12Z")
There’s a section in the very amusing non-fiction book _Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure_ where he accompanies a Texan down to Mexico on a “Coke run”, which he initially thinks is a drug deal, but turns out to be the guy buying crates of Coke made with sugar, and in glass bottles. So clearly some people go a long way out of their way to get the real old-fashiond stuff. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/6 "2006-01-14T06:42:27Z")
I’d love to have the Coke of my childhood, but as it is, I’d pay to drink Coke instead of drinking Pepsi (or any other soda) for free. StG ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/7 "2006-01-14T06:47:35Z")
> [@spankari](#): > > But then again, the true orignal Coke contained cocaine… Pshaw. Not only did Coca Cola at one point contain _coca_, there was a fabled age in which it even contained _cola_. I’d like to know what that was like. I don’t really like the weird American corn syrup Coke. May as well replace the phosphoric acid and be done with it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Blonde\_Bomber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@The\_Blonde\_Bomber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Blonde_Bomber)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/8 "2006-01-14T06:52:28Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > There’s a section in the very amusing non-fiction book _Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure_ where he accompanies a Texan down to Mexico on a “Coke run”, which he initially thinks is a drug deal, but turns out to be the guy buying crates of Coke made with sugar, and in glass bottles. So clearly some people go a long way out of their way to get the real old-fashiond stuff. This may be a dumb question, but is Coke made anywhere in the world with real sugar and packaged in a real glass bottle? I may be heading to Mexico… ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/9 "2006-01-14T06:56:10Z")
As far as I can tell from the [article in Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_cola) (if anyone trusts it any more), _only_ the US uses high-fructose corn syrup. And in the US the company makes kosher Coke at Passover with real sugar. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/10 "2006-01-14T07:02:31Z")
As for glass bottles, I’ve seen them somewhere recently on my travels. Asia, probably, but I can’t remember which country. Possibly China. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/11 "2006-01-14T07:38:57Z")
Coke is one of my customers. In China it’s no problem to find Coke in bottles. You can get the old fashioned 8 oz (10 oz?) bottles. At work there is a whole refridgerator with \ ***free** \* chilled Coke (and Sprite). 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/12 "2006-01-14T08:33:24Z")
You can get Coke in glass bottles even in the US - and even with the US recipe that is presumably in it, it still tastes worlds better than when it’s delivered in any other type of container. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Blonde\_Bomber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@The\_Blonde\_Bomber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Blonde_Bomber)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/13 "2006-01-14T08:43:36Z")
> [@China Guy](#): > > Coke is one of my customers. In China it’s no problem to find Coke in bottles. You can get the old fashioned 8 oz (10 oz?) bottles. At work there is a whole refridgerator with \ ***free** \* chilled Coke (and Sprite). 🆒 Can I send you a resume? Or perhaps, if you aren’t hiring, my address so you can send me a few of those free bottles? 🙂 > [@kiros](#): > > You can get Coke in glass bottles even in the US - and even with the US recipe that is presumably in it, it still tastes worlds better than when it’s delivered in any other type of container. Man, I wish I could find it somewhere. I can’t even remember when I last saw a glass Coke bottle. > [@jjimm](#): > > As far as I can tell from the article in Wikipedia (if anyone trusts it any more), only the US uses high-fructose corn syrup. And in the US the company makes kosher Coke at Passover with real sugar. Ok, now you guys are just messing with me. This is a great reason to convert to Judaism! ;j Do I need a secret handshake to get the kosher Coke? ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/14 "2006-01-14T11:51:52Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > There’s a section in the very amusing non-fiction book _Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure_ where he accompanies a Texan down to Mexico on a “Coke run”, which he initially thinks is a drug deal, but turns out to be the guy buying crates of Coke made with sugar, and in glass bottles. So clearly some people go a long way out of their way to get the real old-fashiond stuff. There was an article in the Wall Street Journal this week (I think it was Wednesday) about Mexican immigrants in the US and their preference for ‘Mexican’ Coke - because of the sugar differences. But, Coke didn’t traditionally sell that formulation in the US, so people started importing it, which Coke didn’t want because it took away from the local distributors. They have, apparently, started allowing one bottling plant to import some, but only into a couple of markets. As for me, I drink diet Coke, so it wouldn’t make a difference to me. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/15 "2006-01-14T12:11:58Z")
> [@The Blonde Bomber](#): > > This may be a dumb question, but is Coke made anywhere in the world with real sugar and packaged in a real glass bottle? I may be heading to Mexico… I don’t know about the sugar part, but when the holidays roll around I buy those cute little cokes in baby sized bottles for my niece. For one, she’ll actually drink the whole thing instead of leaving it half-finished on my desk or something. Plus, they’re so fucking CUTE! I love those baby cokes! (Not much of a soft-drink drinker…I usually can’t tell one from the other anyway.) ---
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/16 "2006-01-14T13:45:40Z")
There’s a little tacqueria(sp?) down the road from where I work that sells half-liter bottles of Mexican Coke. 2 _huge_ fajita tacos and a coke - 5 bucks . 🆒 The [Dr. Pepper](http://www.dublindrpepper.com/) from the plant in Dublin, TX is made with sugar too. An 8 oz. bottle costs about a dollar at area convenience stores. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/17 "2006-01-14T14:03:20Z")
> [@The Blonde Bomber](#): > > When I was a kid, nothing tasted better than an ice-cold coke in a 16 oz. glass bottle. Coke doesn’t taste the same as it once did. The biggest difference is the use of high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar, but I’m sure they’ve also changed anything else they could get away with to save money. > > So how about it? Would you pay a premium price to have a nice 8 pack of 16 oz. glass bottles of coke, made with the same ingredients (including real sugar!), or are you happy with what you get now? You have me except EVERYONE knows that “real” Coke is only good in the small bottles 😃 VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/18 "2006-01-14T14:18:13Z")
> [@The Blonde Bomber](#): > > Man, I wish I could find it somewhere. I can’t even remember when I last saw a glass Coke bottle. Check out the “ethnic foods” aisle of your grocery store. That’s where my local groceries keep the glass-bottled Coke with the Spanish labels. ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/19 "2006-01-14T17:14:10Z")
> [@The Blonde Bomber](#): > > Ok, now you guys are just messing with me. This is a great reason to convert to Judaism! ;j Do I need a secret handshake to get the kosher Coke? Just look for the Coke bottles marked Kosher for Passover. They don’t have anything else unusual about the labels – they look like ordinary Coke bottles. If you, like me, have a grocery store chain (Waldbaums, in my case) that is now or was originally owned by a Jewish family, you may have better luck. Waldbaums has a huge Passover section around the holiday, but I think they keep the Kosher Coke with the other sodas. (It probably helps that I live on Long Island.) ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937/20 "2006-01-14T17:20:12Z")
You can order Dr. Pepper with cane sugar right here: [http://www.olddocs.com/](http://www.olddocs.com/) Straight from the bottling factory in Texas. And it’s nummy. -Lil [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pay-a-premium-for-a-real-coke/339937.md?page=2)