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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.misc.coke
Subject: Re: Don't forget Cherry Coke
Message-ID: <443@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 11:08:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: moncol.443
Posted: Fri Jul 26 11:08:44 1985
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]From: agx@pucc-i (Captain Kirk)
]Message-ID: <1085@pucc-i>
]Organization: The Starship Purdue University
]
]In article <1634@hao.UUCP> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes:
]>> They do have Cherry Coke here (Boulder, CO), and I have been drinking it
]>> for about three weeks now.  ....Does anybody
]>> know if its made with New C(h)oke, or just sweet from the Cherry?
]>  
]>  Check the ingredient list on the can. It looks exactly like the list for
]>the old Coke which is considerably different than the list for the new Coke.
]>Therefore, I think that Cherry Coke is based on the old formula. 
]
]   Well, I just bought the new Cherry Coke and I did check the label rather
]carefully and it read: Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup and/or
]sucrose, caramel color, phosphoric acid, natural flavors, caffeine.
]This, by the way, is the same as that for regular new Coke and does thereby
]prove (at least to me) that it made with the new formula Coke. 

Is it possible that Cherry Coke is nothing more than Coke with an added
cherry flavoring, just like a "real" Cherry Coke?

If so, is the following possible:

	Coca-Cola announces new taste for regular Coke. They immediately
	stop bottling the old stuff.
	
	Stuck with supplies of Old Coke syrup, they add the Cherry flavor
	and bottle it as Cherry Coke to get rid of syrup. (Yes, I know Cherry
	Coke came out before new Coke.) 
	
	Stock of old syrup depleted (no Coca-Cola Classic, yet), they start
	using the New Coke syrup (and change ingredients list accordingly).


This must be the case. I, too, read a Cherry Coke label that did not list
the HFCS.

Is anyone out there a regular Cherry Coke drinker? If so, have you noticed
any subtle change in the taste lately?


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