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In article <600@usl.UUCP> dkl@usl.UUCP (Dwayne K. Lanclos) writes:
>Meet the new coke, same as the old coke . . . ?
>_________
>
>I am more than a tad bit worried that when Classic Coke returns it will
>no longer taste like the old Coke (the Real Thing) we all know and love.
>For example, rather than using sugar, corn sweetner (yech!) might be
>used instead.  I can just see ads six months down the road announcing
>that the cola we've been drinking under the guise of "Classic Coke"
>is really the New Coke.  I think I'll go back to bed and pull the covers
>over my head.
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I hate to tell you guy, but according to NPR's "All Things Considered"
you've already been had.  Coca-Cola has been using "corn sweetener" in
Coke instead of (part of) the sugar since last October/November.  This
isn't so outside the US, incidentally.  For that you can thank the sugar
industry which insisted on protectionist tariffs and price supports 
which made corn sweetener a viable substitute even though it costs more
to manufacture.  Coke made outside the country (presumably in Mexico and
Canada) is sweetened entirely with sugar. 

Anyone want to engage in Coke-running from the Great White North?
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						Byron C. Howes
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