415236 Tue Jun 26 07:14:26 -0700 2007 12 27 General Chowhounding Topics 0 2694887 We have a Mexican Grocery/Taqueria Store up here in Southern Oregon that has a cooler full of 500ml. glass bottle Pepsi. I don't remember seeing it around these parts before, though the Coke is everywhere. Is it, like the mythic Mexican Coke, made with real sugar? Where is it bottled? Being a Pepsi but not a Coke Fan, I am in Heaven, except for being 40 miles away from that store. Tue Jun 26 07:14:26 -0700 2007 10651 bbqboy 1 2694897 We've got the same taquerias here selling old returnable bottles of Coke, Pepsi, Fanta, etc. According to the label, they're made in Mexico, but using the same corn syrup as the American equivalent. No sugar cane. My brother was in Beruit a few years back. Their bottler used sugar cane for their Cokes. Also, there's a Dr Pepper bottler somewhere in the south that still uses sugar cane in their returnable bottles. It's available from a few outlets online. Tue Jun 26 07:19:20 -0700 2007 2694887 12359 monkeyrotica 1 2694953 At least one Costco in San Diego sells Mexican Coca Cola. I haven't tried it, but I have had Cokes in Mexico. I noticed a very slight difference. Not enough for me to go out of my way for the Mexican version. I wonder if monkeyrotica is correct about Mexican Coke not containing cane sugar. I always heard it did. I think Costco says theirs does. Sorry, no experience with Pepsi. Tue Jun 26 07:35:07 -0700 2007 2694887 65475 donsd 1 2695042 As far as I know, true Mexican Pepsi (and Coke) uses sugar instead of corn syrup. I live in a predominantly Mexican area of California and we have several mercados and taquerias that sell Mexican Pepsi and Coke. They have a distinctly different mouth feel than their American counterparts If the guys that run the store expect you to speak Spanish when you walk in the door, they probably are selling the true Mexican sodas. If you're getting the corn syrup version of the sodas in glass bottles, your local bottler is probably just buying the bottles back from somewhere and putting the American soda in there as a novelty. Tue Jun 26 07:58:48 -0700 2007 2694887 72501 cb_ 1 2695193 I shop at a "Mexican style" grocery store, Chavez Market in Sunnyvale CA, 2-3 times a week. A couple of months ago, they had Coke in glass bottles with yellow caps. I looked at the ingredients, HFC. There was another customer who was also looking, he pointed out HFC on the ingredient label, shrugged and made a comment about HFC. They had the "yellow cap" Coke for a few weeks after that but recently, they have not had the yellow cap coke in glass bottles. I have read on Chowhound and in the local newspaper that Nor Cal Costcos are selling coke with cane sugar but didn't see any on my last trip to Costco (Sunnyvale) on May 23. Anyone else reading labels ? Tue Jun 26 08:33:32 -0700 2007 2694887 13661 Alan408 1 2695198 So is it a myth that Mexican Sodas are made with Sugar? That's Dublin Dr. Pepper, the original place in Texas.... http://www.dublindrpepper.com/ 10-2-4 We get that Coke up here(Rogue Valley) at Costco and other stores, but the Pepsi is something that I hadn't seen up here. No ingredients listed on the bottle though. Tue Jun 26 08:34:38 -0700 2007 2694887 10651 bbqboy 2 2695582 It wasn't a myth until very recently. Thanks to US government pressure, Mexico cut its tarrifs on American government-subsidized corn products starting last fall, so sugar is quickly giving way to HFCS. Tue Jun 26 10:11:14 -0700 2007 2695198 10465 hatless 3 2695678 Thats sucks, because corn syrup is bad for you, not that cane sugar is better, but your body processes better and easier. Tue Jun 26 10:29:22 -0700 2007 2695582 11279 Burger Boy 4 2696050 HFCS being "better" than sugar for your body, I think like the legendary all-sugar Mexican coke, is little more problematic than you may realize: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/business/yourmoney/02syrup.html?ex=1183003200&en=6c586d2f72194998&ei=5070 Tue Jun 26 11:54:11 -0700 2007 2695678 15750 Mandymac 2 2695729 No. It is not a myth that Mexican sodas are made with sugar. Look at the ingrediants on any Mexican soda like Jarritos or Sidal. It will have sugar. Check the ingrediant list on the Pepsi bottle at your grocer. They have ingrediants in both English and Spanish. You can see if there is sugar or HFCS. Depending on where Mexican coke is bottled, these days it might have HFCS or sugar. Check the label. Another secret. If you buy Mexican groceries, the products from Mexico like jam will have sugar and not HFCS. There are less preservatives and junk in foods from Mexico. When did the US become a third-world, third-rate country food-wise? When groceries in Mexican, Indian, ... heck ... Polish ... take-your-pick ... markets have better ingrediants that the similar product in mainstream US markets, it says alot. Tue Jun 26 10:42:00 -0700 2007 2695198 10264 rworange 3 2695849 When the govt subsidies Corn Farmers that can sell their processed product for less to Coke & Pepsi, who cares about obesiety and diabetes. Wait we just realized Obesiety and Diabetes are costing Big Business and the Gov't billions, that they are bad for you, but HFCS is Cheap and Cane Sugar costs more. Hummmmmm! What to do, Profit line or peoples health? What will we do? Tue Jun 26 11:07:31 -0700 2007 2695729 11279 Burger Boy 1 2697437 I definately think it depends on where in Mexico the product comes from. I try to only buy sodas with real sugar so I spend a lot of time reading the labels. Some Coke from Mexico has sugar and some has a combination of corn syrup and sugar. Recently every bottle of Coke I've seen in the Chicago area is sugar only. I have not seen Pepsi without corn syrup in a really long time however. My current favorites are a Coca Cola product from India called Thumb's Up and the Whole Foods 365 brand cola. Tue Jun 26 17:53:53 -0700 2007 2694887 62405 cheapertrick 1 2698638 It matters if you can distinguish the taste between HFCS (to me, it's just sickly sweet) and cane sugar (sweet enough). I ordered a root beer at a restaurant once, and they accidentally gave me Sprite. One sip and I nearly went into diabetic shock. I found a place that carries Pepsis bottled in Lebanon using cane sugar. When you pour the stuff out, the head just sits there and doesn't dissipate, like a rootbeer head. The flavor wasn't sickly sweet, just slightly sweet, almost medicinal, the way I remember Coke used to taste. Wed Jun 27 06:31:02 -0700 2007 2697554 12359 monkeyrotica