"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

We have the Mexican Cokes in Walmart here, I've not seen a cane sugar Dr Pepper in a long time though. IBC is made with cane sugar, their cream soda is pretty good.

There is a Coke product called Coke Life, it's made with cane sugar and stevia. It's not bad at all and is only 60 calories, available in an 8 ounce glass bottle. I have to watch my carb intake...
 
Prester John said:
I live in south Texas, and it's pretty easy to get the Mexican Cokes because they're everywhere. Cost a little more, but I don't buy corn syrup in plastic bottles, so it's worth it. Sometimes I find glass bottled cane sugar Big Red. Also, Pepsi, Sprite, maybe 7-Up. And the Dublin sodas (from Dublin, Texas) all have cane sugar. Favorites are Vanilla Cream Soda and Red Cream Soda. Can't find Dr Pepper with cane sugar here though. Went recently to San Marcos with my wife (she had a conference), and I drove to nearby Wimberly to the Ace Hardware store (to check out their knives, of course!), and found glass-bottled cane sugar Dr Pepper! Went there three days in a row.
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I, too, prefer buying Mexican Cokes made with cane sugar instead of the regular stuff made with HFCS. For one thing, they just taste better. I've cut down a lot on that stuff in general, but still enjoy one every now and then. Regular old Coca-Cola is my favorite, but I like Dr. Pepper, too.

I noticed when we visited England last summer that all their cokes are still made with sugar instead of HFCS. Just don't get a Dr. Pepper there and expect it to be like taste like regular Dr. Pepper in the States. They've replaced half the sugar with artificial sweetener (aspartame, I believe), and it tastes like it. :confused:

It's probably been 20 years since I've had a Big Red. :D
 
btb01 said:
I, too, prefer buying Mexican Cokes made with cane sugar instead of the regular stuff made with HFCS. For one thing, they just taste better. I've cut down a lot on that stuff in general, but still enjoy one every now and then. Regular old Coca-Cola is my favorite, but I like Dr. Pepper, too.

I noticed when we visited England last summer that all their cokes are still made with sugar instead of HFCS. Just don't get a Dr. Pepper there and expect it to be like taste like regular Dr. Pepper in the States. They've replaced half the sugar with artificial sweetener (aspartame, I believe), and it tastes like it. :confused:

It's probably been 20 years since I've had a Big Red. :D
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I think most of the world uses cane sugar. It's probably some stupid government regulation that must make it cheaper for Coke to use the corn product in the US.
 
What surprises me the most in the "enlightened" and "politically" "correct " times we live in...is how the brand name Coca-Cola is allowed to even exist.
Originally it was one of many "tonics" that contained cocaine...there were loads. In those days and in earlier 1800s Laudanum was a popular pick me up /cure all. It was made of opium. Cocaine and opium are now illegal in most Countries ...as is methamphetamine which was invented in Germany in the early 1930s. It was also marketed as a pick me up for housewives and other stressheads as Perveteen and sold in yummy chocolates.
The blitzkrieg was fuelled by it ...Guderian telling his men they needed to stay awake for 3 or 4 days in order to get the tanks over the Ardennes....some 90,000,000 tablets were produced. During the desperate retreat from Stalingrad the German troops were starving and freezing,barely able to move .It is reported that after being issued with Perveteen they began marching away in drill order,singing!!.
What they didn't know however is that staying awake for 3 or 4 nights in a row is not very good for people's minds....
So I wonder why they clung so vehemently to the coca in the name/brand coca cola having removed the active ingredient years ago and replaced it with caffeine and so much sugar it has caused an obesity and diabetes epidemic.
 
Prester John said:
I think most of the world uses cane sugar. It's probably some stupid government regulation that must make it cheaper for Coke to use the corn product in the US.
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Per DiabetesHealth.com...

"HFCS is a ubiquitous sweetener in America because it’s so cheap here compared to sugar. The government placed production quotas on domestic sugar and an import tariff on foreign sugar in 1977, but it subsidizes corn production by paying growers. Consequently, the U.S. and Canadian prices of sugar are twice the global price, while corn syrup is cheap."
 
I read a while ago that our fighter pilots must take speed when taking off and downers when they come down, if they want to fly and get promoted. Called speed-balling in non-patriotic circles. Obviously can't be true.
 
veitsi_poika said:
Per DiabetesHealth.com...

"HFCS is a ubiquitous sweetener in America because it’s so cheap here compared to sugar. The government placed production quotas on domestic sugar and an import tariff on foreign sugar in 1977, but it subsidizes corn production by paying growers. Consequently, the U.S. and Canadian prices of sugar are twice the global price, while corn syrup is cheap."
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I KNEW it!
 
meako said:
and so much sugar it has caused an obesity and diabetes epidemic.
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I'm a big advocate of educating my family, friends and co-workers about the dangers of sugar and especially high-fructose corn syrup. I stopped drinking alcohol and sugared soft drinks almost 5 years ago and within the first 6 months I lost 50 lbs! Didn't change anything else and did not do any added exercise although increased energy levels automatically make you more active. If you have kids that eat a lot of sugar or are just curious, there is a documentary on Netflix called "Fed Up" hosted by Katie Couric. It is an eye opener and I highly recommend it for a rainy day watch :)

Edit: I removed the movie trailer... don't want to be too political ;)
 
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meako meako I have to disagree that sugar and HFCS causes obesity and diabetes. It's people's lack of self control. It no more causes obesity than a gun jumps off a shelf and fires. If people took responsibility for their own shortcomings this world would be better off.
 
joeradza said:
meako meako I have to disagree that sugar and HFCS causes obesity and diabetes. It's people's lack of self control. It no more causes obesity than a gun jumps off a shelf and fires. If people took responsibility for their own shortcomings this world would be better off.
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I think that is true for adults Alan, but I'm not so sure kids should be expected to have the self control needed to take on the barrage of advertisements for soda, energy drinks, cereal, candy, fast food, etc. That's partly on the parents and partly on society in general.
 
veitsi_poika said:
I think that is true for adults Alan, but I'm not so sure kids should be expected to have the self control needed to take on the barrage of advertisements for soda, energy drinks, cereal, candy, fast food, etc. That's partly on the parents and partly on society in general.
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Absolutely. Not only that but even trying to eat/drink healthy you need to be able to translate the nutritional labels.
 
joeradza said:
Absolutely. Not only that but even trying to eat/drink healthy you need to be able to translate the nutritional labels.
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I did notice that Coca-Cola was putting recommend daily intake values for added sugar on their labels a while back... get this, one 20oz bottle of Coca-Cola had something like 185% of your recommended daily intake of added sugar! :eek: Nutrition labels are supposed to be updated for most products next year with that information, I hope it doesn't get held up in the process. o_O
 
In an effort to cut back on sodas, I once tried buying only the little 7.5oz cans and limiting myself. In the end, it wasn't very effective and I would just drink two of them. However, they do make your hands look huge so I kept buying them for a while.
 
Kroger has a house brand of cane sugar sodas -- they come in an 8-pack at the same price point as 12 of the HFCS sodas.
taste enough better it's worth it - especially the birch beer.
 
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