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From: barmar@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Coke, classic coke and new coke
Message-ID: <2959@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 18-Aug-86 03:17:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 18 03:17:27 1986
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In article <332@encore.UUCP> corbin@encore.UUCP (Steve Corbin) writes:
>Checking the ingredients for classic coke showed one difference from coke:
>"high fructose corn syrup and/or sucrose" was substituted for sugar.
>It may well be that the classic 'formula' is the same as coke but the
>ingredients are clearly different and result in a different taste.

Sorry, but this change occurred before New Coke was introduced.  First
of all, sucrose == sugar, so the ingrdient above allows for old and
classic coke to be the same.  However, the point of this posting is to
point out that they were using corn syrup before they created New Coke.
Most of my friends believe this was merely because sugar is more
expensive than corn syrup.

The original poster also made some points about taste and foam
differences.  Since I am not a cola drinker, I won't comment on those
points.  I certainly believe that they are possible.
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    Barry Margolin
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