OT: Coke (was: leaky batteries!

From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Tue Dec 2 14:27:54 2003

And thusly vance_at_neurotica.com spake:
>
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Bryan Pope wrote:
>
> > > "carbonic acid" is water with CO2 in suspension??
> > >
> > > "Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup and/or glucose (formerly
> > > SUGAR), caramel color, natural flavors, phosphoric acid, and caffeine"
> > > even Jolt doesn't have much phosphoric acid.
> > >
> >
> > useless information: In Canada, all of the non-diet pop has sugar, not
> > high fructose corn syrup...
>
> Why?
>

I am not sure... I was told once that it has something to do with protecting
the local US natural sweetener industry. So it's probably cheaper to use
the high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar here.

Cheers,

Bryan
Received on Tue Dec 02 2003 - 14:27:54 GMT