<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Well, I will try to resist, but I can’t help being curious as to how the Coke from Mexico would taste - thnx, UMDad!!!</p>
<p>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…</p>
<p>worknprogress, I have only found Mexican coca cola in bottles.</p>
<p>I love ginger-ale -Schweppes in a bottle is my favorite with Canada Dry an ok replacement. I dont like Vernors.</p>
<p>All this talk about Vernor’s makes me yearn for a Boston Cooler!</p>
<p>What’s a Boston Cooler, UMDAD?</p>
<p>That’s interesting that Costco is selling Mexican Coca Cola. Bottlers aren’t supposed to infringe on each other’s territories.</p>
<p>A Boston Cooler is an ice cream float made with Vernor’s and vanilla ice cream.</p>
<p>Sounds weird, but they are really good!</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Coke Lite in Europe tastes like Tab–ugh!!!</p>
<p>Remember the ads the sugar lobby created years ago, in newspapers and in broadcast using the voice of actor Eli Wallach? The ads chastized the U.S. soda industry for turning away from cane sugar. I still hear Wallach’s gravely voice urging soda lovers to protest and demand that cane sugar be restored to soda. We all know how that worked out.</p>
<p>Costco is no longer selling Coke!!! (Mexican or otherwise!)
BUT, I can now fin Mexican Coke at Target.</p>
<p>^^Not “no longer”. It is until they settle a “pricing dispute”, according to a Costco spokesperson.</p>
<p>But a holiday without cane sugar Coke? If my sober (but Coke swilling) brother finds out, he will never show up for Thanksgiving.</p>
<p>My parents grew up in MI and Vernor’s is a staple in our family</p>
<p>I looooooooove Vernor’s! It’s great when you have a cold.</p>
<p>Here is more on the pricing wars between Coca-Cola and Costco:</p>
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<p>[Costco</a> nixes Coke products over pricing dispute - Yahoo! Finance](<a href=“http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Costco-nixes-Coke-products-apf-2225277826.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=6&asset=&ccode=]Costco”>http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Costco-nixes-Coke-products-apf-2225277826.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=6&asset=&ccode=)</p>
<p>^^^ … and the stock price for Coke went up today, and Costco went down…</p>
<p>Since one of my kids had an allergy to corn products when he was younger, we were always on the lookout for products from elsewhere that used cane sugar rather than corn syrup. We discovered that many Canadian products filled the bill. We don’t have a Costco in this town, so I didn’t even know Coke with sugar was available.</p>