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December 13, 2005
Coca-Cola vs Coke Classic
I am not alone in the world! The Ranting Raven expounds on an extremely important, but tragically forgotten, subject: the difference between Coke Classic and Coca-Cola.
Afterwards, we did a double-blind taste test. I'd noticed some Spanish on a coke bottle at the store. Hey! They still use sugar down there in Mexico, don't they? Maybe....? YES! It was "Coca-Cola," not "Coke Classic." Read the label: Sugar! So, I bought a bottle, plus a bottle of "Classic."
Explanatory aside for the young: Once upon a time, they made Coke with sugar. The knot-heads who ran the company came out with this "New Coke," that was essentially a Pepsi knock-off. It bombed, so they "reverted" to the old recipie for "Coke Classic." But these men-who-had-no-fathers-and-no-name decided to use corn syrup instead of sugar in the new "classic" formulae. Let me say out loud now the word to which I had alluded earlier: BASTARDS! End aside
The results of his test were inconclusive--the women present preferred Coke Classic, the men liked the original Coca-Cola. It's always bugged me that Coke replaced sugar with corn syrup. I just know that it tastes different than the drink I grew up with. I thought I was imagining things till we went to the Bahamas about ten years ago and discovered that the difference is indeed real.
It's things like this that result in lives lived in "quiet desperation".
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