Yankee Girl Survives First Year at Southern University

[southbymidwest]

Thumbs up for cane or beet sugar coke. For those of you who don't know the difference, coke with sugar kinds of burns while it goes down your throat. Ahhhhhh. HF corn syrup coke doesn't, and has a slightly mellower, syrupyer (duh) taste.

I also prefer cans to plastic bottles and fountain. (I so rarely get glass bottles anymore that I can't really include them.) Fizz factor is important, by golly. My husband just looks at me and squints on this. Knows better than to roll his eyes, ha. Although foaminess/head/whatever is important to beer drinkers, so why not to sodas/pops?

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by southbymidwest

I also prefer cans to plastic bottles and fountain. (I so rarely get glass bottles anymore that I can't really include them.) Fizz factor is important, by golly.

Yes! Cans are the best. I completely understand.

[fascination]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Yes! Cans are the best. I completely understand.

Yes, but the can has to be chilled first, and it must be in a glass with ice. It just doesn't taste as good if you pour a room temperature Coke over ice, no matter how much ice you add. (Which is why I always get juice on an airplane instead of Coke, because they don't chill the cans.)

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by fascination

Yes, but the can has to be chilled first, and it must be in a glass with ice.

No way. Just the can. But I agree that it must be cold.

[HQWest]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

No way. Just the can. But I agree that it must be cold.

If you can get Mexican Coke - it is still made with cane sugar and comes in a glass bottle. Chilled and out of a washed bottle is still the best!
If you don't have a bodega or taqueria near by some grocery stores hide it in the ethnic foods aisle.

You can actually taste the difference between the cane sugar Mexican Coke which has a higher sucrose content. Coke bottled in Dallas which has more beet sugar and some fructose but a higher sucrose content, and Coke bottled in Atlanta which has a higher fructose content.

[LXA SE285]

Anybody ever try the Dr. Pepper bottled in Dublin, TX? It was made with cane sugar, and it was delicious. The local bottler ws forced to stop making it due to a trademark dispute with Dr. Pepper corporate, but you can still find it (for now) on eBay and Amazon.

[HQWest]

Originally Posted by LXA SE285

Anybody ever try the Dr. Pepper bottled in Dublin, TX? It was made with cane sugar, and it was delicious. The local bottler ws forced to stop making it due to a trademark dispute with Dr. Pepper corporate, but you can still find it (for now) on eBay and Amazon.

The dispute was with the local bottler. It is no longer from Dublin, but you can still get cane sugar Dr. Pepper in Texas.
I have it imported....

[AnchorAlum]

Originally Posted by LXA SE285

Anybody ever try the Dr. Pepper bottled in Dublin, TX? It was made with cane sugar, and it was delicious. The local bottler ws forced to stop making it due to a trademark dispute with Dr. Pepper corporate, but you can still find it (for now) on eBay and Amazon.

My son has a carton of it in the glass bottles.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Yes! Cans are the best. I completely understand.

I also prefer cans to plastic, but I like fountains (assuming they're blended right and working properly) better than cans.

FWIW, the formula for Coke, and I'm assuming for most other soft drinks, is different for cans and personal-sized bottles compared to the formula for fountains and larger bottles, like the 2-liter ones. That's because they assume that people will drink directly from cans and small bottles, but that they'll use ice for fountains and larger bottles. So the Coke from fountains and larger bottles is slightly stronger to allow for dilution from the ice.