The myth, of course, is that Coca-Cola is the same everywhere you go, and that that bottle marked “Original Formula” actually uses the original formula.
As more and more people from Mexico live in the U.S., whether legally or not, one thing they don’t want to live without is Coca-Cola. But as they discover, much to their surprise, when they arrive, is that Coca-Cola in the U.S. isn’t the same as the “real thing” they grew up with.
In the 1980s, Coca-Cola in the U.S. switched from using cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup. At about the same time, it introduced its ill-fated New Coke product. Three months later, when Coca-Cola Classic came back, instead of sugar, it contained the high-fructose corn syrup. Those with sensitive taste buds can tell the difference, and especially in the Hispanic community, the preference for sugar is clear.
The middle shelf in the soft-drink aisle at Las Tarascas, a Latino supermarket in Lawrenceville, Ga., was bare last week. But store manager Erik Carvallo couldn’t call the local Coca-Cola bottler to replenish his stock of Coke. The Coke Mr. Carvallo’s customers had snapped up comes in scuffed glass bottles stamped “Hecho en Mexico” – made in Mexico. It found its way to this Atlanta suburb through an underground supply chain that flouts Coca-Cola Co.’s long-established distribution system.
Mexican-made Coke is such a popular taste of home for many immigrants that Las Tarascas sells about 20 cases a week, or nearly 500 12-ounce bottles at $1.25 apiece. “It’s what they grew up with,” says Mr. Carvallo. Meanwhile, he sells fewer than five cases a week of the cheaper U.S. version, in cans and plastic bottles on a nearby shelf after his Mexican supply is gone. (A plastic 20-ounce bottle of U.S. Coke sells in some parts of the country for about $1.)
Coke from south of the border is a big business, fueled by the Hispanic population, the fastest growing minority group in the U.S., and soda connoisseurs drawn to its taste and the old-time look of the iconic bottle. Fans insist the Mexican cola, made with cane sugar, has a better “mouth feel” than the U.S. formula. — Associated Press
So Coca-Cola has been sending cease-and-desist letters to the bottlers who dare import this beverage which its customers want. Customs and Border Protection won’t stop the shipments because the Mexican Coke is real. And those of us old enough to remember Coke with sugar are secretly cheering on the Mexican bottlers.
To Coke’s credit, it has started a test program where it is importing a very small amount of Mexican Coke to San Antonio, Texas. But the company doesn’t have any plans to expand the program.
Coke made with real sugar can be obtained in some parts of the U.S. around Passover. These special runs always contain the OU-P symbol and most of the time a distinctive yellow cap.
It’s been almost 21 years. Can we have the real Coca-Cola Classic back now?
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Jan 13, 2006
The reason they use corn syrup now is because the corn syrup lobby was successful at getting the government to raise the tariff on cane sugar while keeping the cost of corn products down. The soft drink industry had little choice.
As for ‘New Coke’ — this was an attempt to unify the formula instead of having regional differences. What ended up happening was that nobody liked it.
Kevin Fields
Jan 13, 2006
Wow, $1.25 for 12oz? I think that speaks volumes about the amount of money that Mexican immigrants will pump into the local economy. That store is making making 2x+ the profit on Mexican Coke as they are domestic Coke.
I miss the old formula too. Actually I miss a lot of the mexican sodas that I used to drink once I discovered them. About a year after I started drinking them regularly, most of the grocery stores stopped carrying them (Kroger, Wal-Mart, Food Lion). Sav-A-Lot only carries two flavors of Mexican sodas that I don’t like at all.
I suppose I should take a trip down to the local Mexican foods store if I ever get a craving for them again. Diabetes sucks, though.
george
Jan 17, 2006
I really do enjoy the Mexican C.C. and had purchase it many times in Spokane, WA. The store told me that the Canadian Coca Cola is also made with Sugar, but they are unable to get it past the border guards.
Michael Hampton
Jan 17, 2006
That’s odd. I was able to bring in a 12-pack of Canadian Coca-Cola on the I-5 border crossing. I even pointed it out to the border guard. Maybe they object if you try to bring in a hundred cases or whatever.
Randy Lee
Jan 19, 2006
Hello! That was the whole purpose of the “New Coke” scam – to switch to corn syrup. But hey, you can only fool the American consumer for 25 years before THEY catch on. I think. Oh, wait a minute, it’s the immegrants who notice the difference. Oh well.
Now I am going to go buy a new Chevy. They are such great cars – at least that’s what everyone told Andy Rooney.
:) Have a nice day!
Randy Lee
Jan 19, 2006
immigrants – oops!
Charles W. Stricklin
Jan 26, 2006
In Dublin, Texas there exists the oldest Dr. Pepper bottler in the world, and they adamantly use only the original recipe which calls for Imperial Pure Cane Sugar. Plus, they only sell in glass bottles.
People from all over the world buy cases upon cases at a time, because their palates can indeed discern a difference in taste between cane sugar and high fructose corn syrup. Outside of the bottler, the only place you can purchase a Dublin Dr. Pepper is at the Dallas/Ft. Worth independent restaurant chain LOve & War in Texas.
Chris A
Jan 29, 2006
Yesterday I bought a 20oz Coke Classic at Subway on Centre Square in Easton,PA…Tasted different, crisper and les sticky than I’m used to. Checked the ingredients and only sucrose is listed, not corn sugar…No bottler listed.
Anyone know where this came from ?? It was great!
FrontPage
Jun 01, 2006
I tasted a bottle of original Coca-Cola (not Coke Classic… the original, silver-capped green bottle which pre-dates the tampering of the true formula. The cola was superb. I still have around 3 or 4 bottles remaining. These are the ones with sugar in the formula, not any kind of corn syrup. I think I also have one bottle, a quart-sized green Coke bottle with a white-painted cap, if I remember. It’s also in my closet.
When I heard that the original formula had been changed and that distribution had been started throughout the country for this new formula, I was in a small town in Arkansas at the time. I went to one small store in which the owner hadn’t even heard of the change, and I bought out his original formula stock (all of about 10 bottles). I have no idea what I want to do with those bottles. But the “Coca-Cola Classic” has always been a reinvented soda, not the true original.
ddp
Jul 24, 2006
Oh, the irony…
I’ve traveled all over the world and you can always tell when you’re in a country with bottled sugar Coke because everyone’s drinking it. There’s still Pepsi countries out there too. It’s all over Africa, India, Morocco, the Middle East, and most of Europe. Maybe elsewhere, I can’t remember drinking anything other than beer in Oz. :-)
Apparently Coke gives each country latitude on what sweeteners they use. Mind you, there’s also worse Coke out there. From Germany on up into Scandinavia you tend to find another formulation which is much worse than the US domestic formula; it’s very bitter. There are two competing diet formulas there too (marketed locally as Diet Coke and Coke Lite), one of which contains saccharine, both of which taste significantly worse than Diet Coke does here in the US. The stuff in Finland is particularly vile.
Fortunately I live in San Francisco and it’s easy to find Mexican Coke here. I don’t drink US Coke (at all) and haven’t, in retrospect, since the switch to corn syrup. I also think that the switch from glass to aluminum contributes to the taste diifference. And nowadays, I try to avoid corn syrup entirely as the science seems to suggest that it’s not good for you and I do think the spiraling obesity rate is related to our increased consumption of HFCS and trans-fats (along with a general lack of unrefined grains and vegetables). HFCS is in everything these days and it’s really not clear it’s good for you.
Bottom line: travel more. Most of the rest of the world still enjoys decent Coke.
ddp
Jul 24, 2006
For some reason I’m fascinated by this topic…
The corn syrup lobby got the tariffs on sugar raised, but that’s only half the story. Remember that the US used to raise cane sugar, and lots of it, from Hawaii to Texas, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. (We also used to import boat loads from Cuba before the 1962 trade embargo began.) Unfortunately labor unions ended up bargaining labor costs up to the point where it was suddenly no longer economically feasible to produce sugar domestically. The tariffs did the rest and the transition was quick.
BTW, that’s the reason why Kona coffee is so expensive. It’s not that it’s that special or anything, it’s just that the labor costs of harvesting it in Hawaii are quite high compared with “outsourced” coffee harvested by migrant / tribal labor elsewhere.
Corn syrup probably seemed like a good idea at the time and if you recall all those Coke / New Coke / Pepsi taste tests around the time of New Coke’s introduction, the evidence suggests that a lot of the public can’t tell the difference. And of course the health issues relating to HFCS were not understood then. A similar fate also befell our candy industry, which followed suit and switch to HFCS around the same time. I’m prety sure that’s why bubble gum sucks nowadays too.
I can imagine labor costs associated with the bottle distribution network must have been growing as well. And it’s precisely that network which developing countries with very cheap labor can afford to sustain. Nonetheless I do think that Coke could probably bring back a premium sugar-based Coke-in-a-bottle and that such a product could be profitable. For proof I’d point to the micro-brew revolution, which has certainly taken beer to a new level (or more accurately, brought it back to pretty much where it was before prohibition.) The point being that Sierra Nevada and Red Hook are successful beers marketed to a small, but devoted, market share yet people still drink Pabst Blue Ribbon for reasons that are completely beyond me.
Unfortunately America in 2006 seems to almost universally prefer cheap and crappy…
Charles
Aug 26, 2006
Has anyone done a blind taste-test between sugar-sweetened coke and HFCS coke?
I’m an American living in Germany and I like the coke here a lot – I didn’t really drink it much in the US but I have a little 6 oz cup just about every day here, where it is sweetened with sugar. But I’m not 100 percent sure that it’s not a psychological thing. I’d just be curious how a blind taste-test would go. I once knew someone who claimed they could taste the difference between caffeine-free coke and regular coke, and I challenged him to a blind taste-test and he lost.
I also was in a lecture held by the CEO of Coca-Cola Germany and he said the whole thing about coke having different formulas in different countries is bunk (except, of course, that the sweeteners are different). He said they have really strict controls to make sure that it is the same formula no matter where you buy it.
I know he has every reason to claim that, even if it’s not true, but his claim does seem reasonable on the other hand. It is in the interest of international corporations like McDonalds, Coca-cola and Burger King to keep their product the same wherever you get it.
Michael Hampton
Aug 26, 2006
It seems to me that if the sweetener is different, it’s a different formula. It’s only a quirk of the law which allows him to say that it’s the same. :)
As for taste testing, I have gotten hold of bottles of Mexican Coca-Cola, and there’s definitely something different about them. In high fructose corn syrup-sweetened Coke, you can taste the corn. It’s disturbing.
pat
Oct 29, 2006
We have a time share in Mexico and always stock up on Coca Lite. it is way better than diet coke here. don’t know why, but it is!
Shawn
Dec 04, 2006
Jones Soda has announced it is switching over to sugar and dropping HFCS starting in Jan. 2007. Hooray!
ddp
Dec 04, 2006
For those in the Bay Area, there’s a store in San Francisco called Yum (on Market Street, Castro side) who stock sugar sodas by the case. They even have sugar Dr. Pepper from the original factory, usually only available at the factory in Texas. www.yumfoods.com
coke fanatic
Jan 16, 2007
I live in the Seattle area… does anyone know where I can get some bonafide pure sugar coca cola? A friend of mine said canada has it… but I’d rather not get arrested at the border with a trunk full of delicious, sweet, yummy, bubbily delight!
Michael Hampton
Jan 16, 2007
I brought Coke across the border from Canada without trouble. I even showed it to the border patrol agents.
Stephen Gill
Jan 28, 2007
I visited Cambodia’s Phnom Pehn city in July 2006 to get engaged to a Cambodian girl. When I went to a restaurant with the family I ordered a Coke. It is bottled in Phnom Pehn city not Thailand. When I took my first sip I felt like I was 9 years old again (I’m 46 years old). I looked at the ingredients label that is written in Khmer and English and it contains Pure Cane Sugar ONLY. My future mother in-law gave me two cans to take back to the USA. I saved them and saviored the pleasure. I knew I would never taste it again unless I went back to Cambodia on vacation. The majority of Coke drinkers were born after 1980 so they cannot compare it to the Original Coke that I remember. I just wonder how Coca Cola gets away with calling it’s beverage Original Formula when it’s not. So much for accurate labeling. I guess only accurate lobbying is all that is needed.
Jodi Cohn
Feb 05, 2007
When we were in Seattle at Labor Day, there was a Mexican market at Pike’s Place that had Mexican Coke in bottles.
Jodi Cohn
Feb 05, 2007
We can only get kosher coke in 2 litres. Does anyone know a place in the Chicago/central Illinois region where you can get it in smaller containers (cans or bottles)? The 2 litres go flat after a few weeks.
Shawn
Feb 05, 2007
I was just in the UK and France – where Coke was made with sugar (and also a German can on the plane). Sadly, I am now back in the States where it is made with the corn slurry they call “Original”. With the exchange rate in the UK a coke cost between 3 and 4$ but it was worth every cent.
Richard
Mar 10, 2007
My family and I did a blind taste test with pure cane sugar Dr. Pepper and HFCS Dr. Pepper. The cane sugar DP came from the bottler in West Jefferson, NC, who still uses sugar in all his drinks including Mountain Dew, Nehi, Sunkist, and Cheerwine and DP. My wife and I are 42 and our kids are 17, 17, 13, and 11. Everyone of us could easily tell the difference. You didn’t even have to taste it; the smell gave away the HFCS version. In my view, HFCS is a nasty chemical that is ubiquitous in our food supply and is a major contributor to health issues like obesity and diabetes. Cane sugar drinks satisfy your hunger and you don’t want more that 10 or 12 ounces. When I was a kid, the machines dispensed 10 ounce bottles and I don’t recall wanting another one. Now with HFCS, you drink a 42 ounce big gulp and you still want more since HFCS does not satisy the body’s thirst or hunger since that chemical is not recognized like sugar. Think about it. I avoid any food or drink with HFCS like the Plague that it is.
Charles
Mar 10, 2007
To Richard: what you say really turns on a light for me in understanding one of the main reasons I like the colas in Germany. As I said in my earlier post, just 6 ounces are generally enough to be really satisfying – and they’re more satisfying somehow than 12 ounces in the US. There’s something direct and immediate about the taste of the sugar, which I guess is what you’re talking about with respect to the body recognizing the substances differently. I wish this topic would get more publicity somehow so there would be pressure on the manufacturers to offer sugar-based colas. I would gladly pay an extra few cents per can if it were offered in US supermarkets.
Charles
Mar 11, 2007
I just wrote to the Coca-Cola company saying that they should make cane-sugar-based soft drinks available in the US. If you would like to this as well go to:
As soft drinks are increasingly targeted for causing obesity, you’d actually think it would be in the interest of manufacturers to make and advertise colas that don’t contain HFCS. And since diet colas are artifically sweetened, the advantage of sugar is that it’s natural, which, coupled with the better taste, would surely sell some soft drinks.
Charles Kaye
Mar 22, 2007
It’s true the rest of the planet gets the real thing…so why not just charge a quarter more and give us back the coke we grew up on ?
Chris
Mar 27, 2007
To Jodi, Comment # 21 – Chicago definitely produces Kosher for Passover Coke in 6 packs of cans. Check out for the thread detailing the Passover Coke. Specific locations are posted there!
David
Apr 01, 2007
I’ve taken over as many as 10 12-packs of Canadian Coca-Cola over the border from BC into Washington. I’ve been doing it long enough that the guards no longer care. And if anyone is in Seattle, its only a ferry ride into BC where you can get the good stuff. Try the Canadian 7up too…it tastes like a sweeter Perrier Lemon.
Wendy M Rath
Apr 09, 2007
David: According to 7-UP ALL their drinks will now be made with only NATURAL flavors. Who know if this’ll make a difference. Not realizing you could still get real Coke anywhere, I bought probably 100 cases when the news of “New” Coke very first came out; when I got down to the last 4 bottles I saved one for each of my kids. I still have them in a dark box for whatever they decide to do with ‘em.
socialflea
Apr 09, 2007
Wow and here I thought the “original formula” had traces of cocaine in it. The “coca” in coca cola, the main ingredient to relieve headaches. That is why it was so good. Here’s to more tooth decay. Raise another glass of the dark bubbles.
Kris
Apr 26, 2007
Outside of the bottler, the only place you can purchase a Dublin Dr. Pepper is at the Dallas/Ft. Worth independent restaurant chain LOve & War in Texas.
That’s not true.. you can get Dublin Dr Pepper lots places. Rudy’s Barbeque in Waco as well as Austin carries it. Central Market grocery stores in Austin carry it (not sure about Dallas).
May 07, 2007
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Paul
May 10, 2007
In Canada, they are selling it as simply Coca Cola, they’ve dropped the “Classic” part, as New Coke isn’t sold anymore, and there’s no need for differentiation. When I attended Calvin College in Michigan, I noticed the coke tasted different, sure enough, HFCS. Whenever I went home, I made sure I brought some real coke back with me, never a problem at the border. I can smell the difference (let alone taste the difference) between Coke and Pepsi, I can probably smell the difference between Canadian Coke and US Coke.
Mike
May 25, 2007
We as Coca Cola drinkers demand that the original cane sugar formula be brought back. This is crazy. Why should Coke drinker have to smuggle the original formula across the borders because of some crooked lobbyists that conned us into the corn syrup junk that adds to tha American weight problem. I’m going to quit Coca Cola until the original is brought back permanatly.
Larry G
May 29, 2007
I live in Arizona and there are numerous fast food restaurants (Mexican, non-chain) where imported Coke may be obtained in the Phoenix area. The product comes in the old green glass bottle, and what’s funny is that the label says “Coca Cola”, not “Coca Cola CLASSIC”, which would indicate to me that there is in deed a different formula for each, otherwise all the coke would be labeled similarly.
As to the taste, there is no comparison, the American version being a syrupy, bad tasting concoction, not worthy of mixing with a good bourbon, or other expensive spirit, no less being drunk alone. The Mexican and other foreign coke products are far superior to the American one and I purchase them when I can regardless of the increased price.
Unfortunately, the bottom line has ruined another aspect of life here in the U.S., our air transportation system is like a Greyhound bus, our food products in supermarkets are loaded with additives, as much of the meat and poultry is now injected with 10% or more of various “solutions”, to enhance flavor. I don’t think so. Water is cheaper than meat, so you’re paying steak prices for water. The old bottom line again.
I got off on a tangent, nevertheless I think the Coke executives pulled off a mega-scam with the “New Coke”, and Coke Classic switcheroo, and further, unfortunately, the average American consumer is too stupid to realize it. It seems that the average, obese American, feeding at the local hamburger joint, choking down a supersized gut bomb only cares that he can get a 72 ounce Coke like substance to wash the grease down at a cheap price. C’est la vie!
Will
Jun 04, 2007
Interesting people point out labor costs but fail to mention the 50-70 million dollars that the CEO of Coca-Cola makes each year. That is just one person too. Other executives make a killing as well.
BG
Jul 11, 2007
Old Coke, new coke, sugar,corn syrup, blah-blah-blah!
Drink water or Green Tea. It’s better for you!
i want sugar
Jul 12, 2007
does anybody know where I can order the real thing online, somewhere???????
TRACEY PRETEAU
Aug 12, 2007
While on a recent trip to Grand Forks I bought a case of coke. After my first sip of coke I realized that the coke tasted terrible. When I got home to Winnipeg, Manitoba I compared the U.S. coke ingrediants with a can of Canadian coke.
I was suprised that the ingrediants were different. While I sit here eating my ketchup chips and drinking my Canadian coke, I can honestly say Canadian Coca-Cola does taste better!!
Cornelius
Aug 29, 2007
HeM Coke is now available at Costco. Saw it last night at the Kirkland, WA warehouse. Sadly it’s not available online, though. :-)
Sir Mildred Pierce
Sep 13, 2007
seriously, all you people wondering where to get Sugar Coke, the article above spells it out. Just find a local tienda, that’s a grocery store catering to usally mexicans, but also guatemalans and many other latin americans. They are very present in many parts of the country, but most big and even medium cities should have at least a few. They don’t care if a gringo comes in and buys some coke.
TO Guy
Oct 01, 2007
I drink Coke rarely, maybe once a month, but then I want a good product. Recently I bought a can of Coke and I found the taste too sweet and kinda repulsing. I remembered I used to buy ‘Classic’ Coke, went to the store to find it, but they say this is the one. I don’t believe so.
QC Queen
Oct 13, 2007
I used to work quality control at Coca-Cola in a plant in Canada…all across the country they import HFCS 55 from the USA because it is still significantly cheaper than cane sugar. However, there are a lot of differences between product as you cross the boarder…my experience is that the CFIA and Health Canada are a lot more strict about what goes into food and beverage than the FDA in the USA. If you want to drink coke with cane sugar (in Canada) about once a year at passover Coca-Cola comes out with Kosher Coke. It looks the same as regular coke except that it has a “Kosher for Passover” sticker on it. Product is made in 2L bottles and contains no corn product or any other grains that can’t be consumed by orthodox jews during passover. It does taste a lot different!
Greg Daniel
Oct 25, 2007
Hello, I found CANE SUGAR Dr. Pepper in 16 oz cans at the 99 cent store(Sacramento, California) 50 cents each. Also c Mexican Pepsi and Coke are everywhere in Sacramento. Greg
athenebelle
Oct 26, 2007
I was born after the “new Coke” (and probably Sprite too as I will explain in my story later) came out so I never really knew there had been a difference. However on my honeymoon in Costa Rica I ordered a Sprite (which came out in a can). I was amazed with the taste and knew they had used a different kind of sweetener. I turned the can so I could read the ingredients. “Azucar” (sugar) immediately jumped out at me. It also had how many calories it had on the label and was also shocked at how much healthier (calorie-wise anyway) it was from American Sprite. Been missing it since but thanks for the heads up, I’ll have to peek into the local Mexican foods store and see if they carry it.
former coke drinker
Jan 14, 2008
I’ve not read the various posts, but the small bottles of coke at the various mexican markets is the cane sugar version, and I recently saw it at Costco in Shoreline. Good luck!
willamina c.
Jan 23, 2008
Yep, I get it at the Shoreline Costco, too. God, I love living in Seattle. Our state government stands up to the idiot Feds, no income tax, Dick’s Drive-In, $600 a month for a 1br when I make the same 40 grand I made in New York, and, oh yes, real Coke in real glass bottles.
I was in disbelief when I saw it. I looked carefully, inspected the bottles, and sure enough…”hecho en mexico” and that little thermal label in English that told of the real sugar goodness.
I kicked HFCS a few years back. Mysteriously, I dropped about 35 pounds in 3 months. I still mostly go sugar-free for soda/iced tea/what have you, but there’s nothing like a real sugar Coke. Slightly lower in calories, much “drier” in taste, and with a delicious finish that pairs with foods like a hamburger and fries as well as it does with duck-gorgonzola quesadillas.
Shoreline, Kirkland, Issaquah, and Everett have all had sightings. Anywhere else? There’s a couple of decent tienditas in my ‘hood that have it but not as cheap. Nevertheless, good in a pinch or when getting yummy food to go.
william e.
Feb 11, 2008
years ago i would get this weird nose burp when i drank coke. no more. is it my aging or the formula?
Timogin
Feb 12, 2008
More reasons to stay away from HFCS… Recently I caught a University of Washington Mini-Medical School lecture, “Understanding a Chronic Killer: Kidney Disease, Part 1″ where I heard Wendell Patrick Fleet, M.D., Professor, Nephrology- University of Washington School of Medicine, cite data showing the increasing rates of obesity in the US are exactly proportional to the increased use of HFCS in the American food chain since 1984. It’s not just in soda. Check that cereal your kids are eating, the candy too. Oh, and that non-dairy creamer and many canned & boxed food products. Pretty much any processed food with a sweet flavor is likely to contain HFCS. He specifically relates the use of HFCS to the growing epidemic of Kidney illness and IIRC, he mentions a relationship to diabetes as well.
Thanks to those mentioning where I can find non-HFCS soda here in the Northwest. It was all I could do to get my family to give up consuming the very harmful diet & aspartame product; there is just no way they’d completely give up pop… I’ll be checking the shelves at Costco for the non-HFCS stuff soon.
Matt
Jan 20, 2010
I like how no one has yet commented about the mercury that they put into high fructose corn syrup. If you don’t believe me, check out the article by the Washington Post at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601831.html
And yes…for those who are brainwashed…any amounts of mercury are hazardous to your health.
This is why I want to buy more of the Mexican Coca Cola. It is so good. Busch’s food market sells it…at least for now…and they have it in Mexican Town in Detroit.
Greg Shannon
Jan 25, 2010
I purchased a vintage coke machine over this passed weekend. This really was a miracle. I just entered an wmail asking if anyone had an oldmcoke machine for sale. tO MY SURPESE AN ADD FOR A MACHINE THAT HAD BEED SITTING FOR THE PAST 55 YEARS IN A BREAKROOM. iT IS IN EXCELLEMT, KEEPS COKES AT 36 DEGREES AND PRESENTLY VENDS FOR 40 CENTS. i AM GOING TO ORDETR ANOTHER COIN CHANGER THAT SELLS FOR 10 CENTS i BELIEVE. i PURCHASED SOME COKE FROM wALART AND IT JUST SAYS SUGAR, tHE OTHER COKE HAS CORN SYURP AND TASTES COMPLETLY DIFFERENT. cOULD THIS PRODUC HAVE BEEN MADE WITH CORN SYRUYP. sOORY ABOUT MY KEYBOARD OR IT MIGHT BE ME. wHERE CAN i BUY THIS GREAT PRODUCT. tHANKS gREG
gary
Feb 26, 2010
I BUY THE MEXICAN COCA COLE IN GLASS 12 ONCE BOTTLES FROM BJS WHOLE SALE CLUB HERE IN OLAND FL. FOR 18.75 A CASE BJ HAS IT ALL THE TIME .77CENTS A BOTTLE A LOT FO SMALL STORES AND SUB SHOP CARRIE IT AT ABOUT 1.75 A BOTTLE
Mark
Mar 11, 2010
Geez Gary that’s cheap. Here in the Buffalo, NY area a case if 12-oz bottles of Mexcian Coca Cola sells for $26.99 at our local Wegman’s grocery store. They also sell single bottles of the stuff for $1.50/bottle.
Sir Mildred Pierce
Mar 11, 2010
My latest thing has been the Red Bull Cola, so good. It’s a little more expensive but you can taste the ingredients, it tastes like actual stuff and not just “natural and artificial flavoring” If you like real cola, try it out, it’s good stuff.