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From: jdb@mordor.UUCP (John Bruner)
Newsgroups: net.misc.coke
Subject: Re: Coke drinkers are morons Reply
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Date: Sun, 1-Sep-85 15:49:20 EDT
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> I would like to know where you get your facts, about coke using
> 100% corn syrup and still having the can say sugar.  IF the can 
> said sugar, and there was no sugar in it, some smart lawyer somewhere
> would be relaxing in the bahama's now drinking pina collada's.

Fructose IS sugar.  It just isn't sucrose.

In the grocery store yesterday I looked at the list of ingredients
on the cap of a 16 ounce bottle of "New" Coke.  It said "sugar".
Do I therefore assume that New Coke in bottles is different than
New Coke in cans?  No, I assume that Coca Cola hasn't changed the
bottle caps yet (or the bottler is exhausting his inventory), just
as they hadn't changed the labels on the old Coke cans when its
formula changed.

I remember seeing newspaper articles about Coke's use of 100%
months ago, long before the current hoopla over the real formula
vs. the new formula.  Face it, if you didn't notice when it
really did change, you wouldn't notice it now unless (perhaps)
you really were looking for it.

While I wouldn't put it as strongly as the original author did,
I'm quite amused by the perception that Coke Classic isn't
old Coke because the label is different.  The fact that many
people cannot even distinguish the tastes of New Coke and
real Coke in a blind test, yet have no difficulty when the
containers are clearly visible, makes me extremely skeptical
that anyone would have complained if Coca Cola had retained
the word "sugar" on the label of Coke Classic.

(I wonder how many people would have noticed that pennies are no
longer made of copper if the change weren't announced?)
-- 
  John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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