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11-01-2009, 01:37 PM
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#16 | | Senior Member
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| Vernor's Ginger Ale is great!
Is that the one they have at Safeway?
I don't care for it- To me it doesn't even taste like it has ginger in it- I like (common name for a rooster & bull) much better. Bull ginger beer - Shop sales, stores & prices at TheFind.com
( Vernors also uses high fructose corn syrup)
My daughter likes Buderim ginger brew.
Never did like Coke- I always liked ginger ale better.
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11-01-2009, 08:28 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
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Vernor's used to be great. It was really gingery. When it was bought out by Coke/Pepsi they made it blander.
I've always preferred gingerale and root beer to cola.
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11-01-2009, 08:38 PM
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#18 | | Junior Member
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You can buy Coke made with sugar instead of corn syrup during Passover. The cap is a different color to differentiate it from regular Coke. Corn syrup is not eaten during Passover by strictly observant Jews. I was at Epcot Tuesday and there is a Coca Cola building, with free samples of Coke from around the world. Watermelon, ginger, citrus, etc. Great for real Coke lovers.
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11-01-2009, 09:19 PM
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#19 | | Senior Member
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This article offers a few details about the differences: Coke vs. Coke, high-fructose corn syrup vs. sugar
Also, the taste of the Mexican Sprite is quite different. I'd say it is much better, but others might disagree.
For the inquiring mind, you should know that the Coke products in Mexico are more expensive than in the United States. This, however, does not stop Mexicans to have one --if the not THE -- highest consumption per capita of soft drinks in the world.
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11-01-2009, 11:06 PM
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#20 | | Member
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UMDad, Yes, I am from Michigan, and I was just there last weekend...
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11-02-2009, 09:44 AM
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#21 | | Senior Member
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I am also a Mexican Coke aficionado. You can often find it in little hispanic food stores, and sometimes in Asian supermarkets with a hispanic food aisle. Coke in Europe also tastes better--I think they use beet sugar there. We've also tried some African Coke that was sold in an African food store, and some of it tasted the same as the Mexican Coke, but other samples tasted very strange.
I've always suspected that the whole "New Coke" episode was a secret plot to cover up the transition from sugar to corn syrup in regular Coke.
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11-02-2009, 09:54 AM
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#22 | | Member
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I have a very healthy diet. Oatmeal for breakfast, fruit for snacks, sardines for lunch, lots of hearty bean/vegetable soups for dinner - you get the picture. My one weakness is coke. I love it - but only in cans. I cannot keep it in the house or I will want one by noon. I vow time and again to give it up and when I abstain I can tell you how long it has been since I had one (yesterday, one of those little 8 oz. cans). I would love to try the Coke from Mexico. I really believe that we are more satisfied by real sugar than by HFCS. I see the sugar content of sweetened iced tea (Turkey Hill, e.g.) and I don't think any of us would shovel in a comparable amount of table sugar.
Well, I will try to resist, but I can't help being curious as to how the Coke from Mexico would taste - thnx, UMDad!!!
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11-02-2009, 10:21 AM
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#23 | | Senior Member
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In Guatemala we had Pina Fanta--pineapple-flavored Fanta--that was unusually delicious. It isn't generally available here, although there are other brands of pineapple soda. I'm now wondering whether part of the good flavor was cane sugar, rather than HFCS...
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11-02-2009, 10:36 AM
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#24 | | Member
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worknprogress, I have only found Mexican coca cola in bottles.
I love ginger-ale -Schweppes in a bottle is my favorite with Canada Dry an ok replacement. I don’t like Vernors.
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11-02-2009, 10:45 AM
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#25 | | Member
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All this talk about Vernor's makes me yearn for a Boston Cooler!
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11-02-2009, 10:52 AM
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#26 | | Senior Member
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What's a Boston Cooler, UMDAD?
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11-02-2009, 04:02 PM
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#27 | | Senior Member
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That's interesting that Costco is selling Mexican Coca Cola. Bottlers aren't supposed to infringe on each other's territories.
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11-02-2009, 04:25 PM
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#28 | | Member
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A Boston Cooler is an ice cream float made with Vernor's and vanilla ice cream.
Sounds weird, but they are really good!
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11-02-2009, 04:33 PM
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#29 | | Member
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I love VERY gingery ginger ales since my cocktail of choice is a moscow mule.(REAL Ginger Ale, lime, and vodka) I do think that the newer Vernors doesnt have the strong ginger taste it used to. Reeds Ginger Brew and Blenheims both use natural ginger and are quite good. I think Whole Foods carrys Reeds, but the Blenheims I need to buy at Galcos Soda Pop Shop. Well worth the trip.
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11-02-2009, 04:42 PM
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#30 | | Senior Member
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Coke Lite in Europe tastes like Tab--ugh!!!
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