The irony is that a significant proportion of the sugar in "old" Coke in the US was not actually cane sugar, but from sugar beets.
But the obsession over types of sugar is largely ephemeral. All sugars are highly processed and refined and equally bad. HFCS's only crime is it's cheapness and ubiquity.
Funnily enough, for interesting chemistry reasons, it doesn't matter which type of sugar you put in, it all breaks down into glucose and fructose anyway! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY66qpMFOYo
I can assure you, it tastes different... or at least Mexican Cokes in glass bottles do. Go find you one and drink it. It's substantially different and better. It's sooooo good.
Finally. HFCS is a nightmare, I hope this is the beginning of the end. Farmers wind up growing trash GMO monocrops for ethanol subsidies and syrup money, depleting the soil and sterilizing the land. HFCS is a direct cause of diabetes, it has a different breakdown path than other sweeteners, it spikes blood sugar. HFCS is so "sweet" it overstimulates the taste buds and ruins the sense of taste, people get no statisfaction and are trained into gluttony.
Gonna go make a highball to celebrate, with some of the last Mexican Coke I might ever have to buy....
Cain sugar is not much different. The only way to reduce the amount of sugar would be a sugar tax. Multiple countries implemented it and in all of them the sugar content dropped rapidly. Long term health benefits are not yet seen die the fact that the taxation started only a few years ago.
A lot of what fuels his decisions are very particular sense of nostalgia, hence the "Make America Great Again". Old things = good.
In this case it could also be a shifting away from US farm subsidies - since much of the reason we use corn as a sweetener in the first place is it's subsidization.
It's the same reason he's against EVs, against wind, against solar, against power-efficient lighting, against improved shower heads and toilets:
To claim power. To reject the world and assert oneself. To deny change. To soak attention with negative energy, to hide from the actual things a president should or could be doing that would be at all worthy of their time. To keep people mad and riled up, following after what Ivanka reported in 1990, that he kept Hitler speeches by his bed, admired him (his ability to rile people up & thus be manipulable). The praxis of the dark side is to be ongoingly aggresive, to always bring out the worst in people. This is just another swing at that.
legitster|7 months ago
But the obsession over types of sugar is largely ephemeral. All sugars are highly processed and refined and equally bad. HFCS's only crime is it's cheapness and ubiquity.
Funnily enough, for interesting chemistry reasons, it doesn't matter which type of sugar you put in, it all breaks down into glucose and fructose anyway! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY66qpMFOYo
johng|7 months ago
gsf_emergency_2|7 months ago
discoutdynamite|7 months ago
Gonna go make a highball to celebrate, with some of the last Mexican Coke I might ever have to buy....
stop50|7 months ago
PaulHoule|7 months ago
gsf_emergency_2|7 months ago
legitster|7 months ago
In this case it could also be a shifting away from US farm subsidies - since much of the reason we use corn as a sweetener in the first place is it's subsidization.
duxup|7 months ago
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/079/173/ed2...
There are lots of indications that he's influenced by what happens across on his social media feed, even to the surprise of his own staff.
jauntywundrkind|7 months ago
To claim power. To reject the world and assert oneself. To deny change. To soak attention with negative energy, to hide from the actual things a president should or could be doing that would be at all worthy of their time. To keep people mad and riled up, following after what Ivanka reported in 1990, that he kept Hitler speeches by his bed, admired him (his ability to rile people up & thus be manipulable). The praxis of the dark side is to be ongoingly aggresive, to always bring out the worst in people. This is just another swing at that.
Woodi|7 months ago
But "Make Cola not war" is nice.
duxup|7 months ago
All us industry bow before your uninvited consultant.
JumpCrisscross|7 months ago