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hey gang,

i don't know if this has been talked about, but the family was doing our normal costco trip yesterday when i saw a pallet of coke.  i bought one of course.  355ml bottles all hecho en mexico.

i thought there was no getting this up here anymore.

I have not seen any in Costco, but here in Memphis just about any corner market seems to have it.  I tried it once and could not really tell the difference.

Marvin

How much was a case (I assume you bought a 24 flat)? 
I get the 8oz at Sams.

i think it was about $15 for the flat of 24 bottles.

Most of  the Latino grocery stores & quicky marts have it up here in the Detroit/Pontiac area, Pepsi in .335 ml too Up in Saginaw you can get Squirt & Fresca in the old fasioned bottles from Me'hico.     :drinking:   & I've even gotten 7up in Glass too!

My nephew works for the Detroit Coca Cola bottling plant, and he mentioned to me this weekend a distributor has cut a deal to import Mexicali Coke and is aiming for grocery chains and big warehouses. I should have asked him if it was limited to Michigan or  country wide.
The one obstable they had to overcome was  the deposit law return  values  and  adding UPC codes, which  are handled by adding a printed label to the bottle.

      I heard from an exectutive of Coca Cola that this Christmas
they will be launching a new seasonal product package. Coke
will be sold in a Hutchison bottle. He is going to bring me a case
in the next few weeks & I will post a pic.

That should be pretty cool? I'm assuming a capped version though? not the old stopper style?
Will it vend?

I still get bottles filled at the Winona MN plant a few times a year... nothing better than new product out of the old thick Glass bottles!!!  :drinking:

Greg,

Did you happen to look at the ingredients?   Do the Mexicans use cane sugar or the all american toxic High Fructose Corn Syrup?   FYI Dr. Pepper still manufactuers cane sugar pop in Dublin Tx., but shipping will kill you.

Larry

I thought the Mexican Cokes still used sugar? I'm not sure... I'm gonna run to the grocery store over lunch and look.

      I have a Mexican bottle with ingredients
      Contains carbonated water, high fructuose, corn syrup
and / or sucrose.......etc.

The label reads Cane sugar and or cornsyrup (blended) , but I know that Mexico has a cane sugar industry that insists on the use of cane sugar, plus they have imported cane from Cuba too. this drives Coke nuts! ( they prefer the cheaper/subsidized USA Corn syrup) plus Mexico has jobs at stake in the refilling & bottling plants & refillable bottle suppliers too.
besides enviromentally speaking refillables make more sense than one-way plastic made from petrol. but the bottles hate to handle all that glass & transport costs, etc. the bottom line is the profit margin per/unit.

I figure that with the event of ethanol based fuels, the price of cornsyrup will rise & maybe the cane sugar version will re-appear here in the states.

I wish that would happen. It would take us trading with Cuba again though. That is why it changed in the first place right? Over here in Asia all soda's are cane sugar. It is a huge difference. Unfortunately I live in Singapore now and they don't use glass here like in Thailand

Ya know that Michigan grows large quantities of beet sugar. The sugar you buy in the store in 5lb. bags is beet sugar. Big Chief, Pioneer, ETC. That used to be the sugar that they put in our pop.

Pope

hey gang,

sorry it took so long to get back to this.  the label says:

"carbonated water, sugar, caramel color, phosphoric acid natural flavors, caffiene"

also, the price was $17.99

i grew up in michigan and remember the mountains of sugar beets.  i kinda miss that.

Hey, you gotta drive up I-75 near Saginaw then! they're cooking the beets at the Big-chief (Pioneer) sugar plant, mmmm that one-of-a-kind smell in the air! ( for those of you who don't know what a sugar-beet smells like when it's being boiled/cooked to render the sugar out of it , think of boiling cabbage, rotten garbage & compost all together...Yum!) now picture a mountian of sugar beets about 40-feet high & covering about 50 acres or more...quite the sight (& smell) but hey, they'll tell you up in beet country, "that's he smell of suger & money being made"  amen bro'    :laugh:

I've said this before, but why doesn't Coke make a cane sugar version, sell it in the 8-oz. glass bottles and call it "Coke Deluxe" or something? How much extra could it cost per bottle... 10 cents or so? I'd pay that in a heartbeat. You'd think they would have gotten the hint when they saw how much Mexicoke Americans are buying.

Speaking of which, I have to go on a Mexicoke hunt tomorrow, since I refuse to use the corn syrup stuff on my Coca-Cola basted ham.

I have a Mexican store that will sell me a case of coke for $21. What are you guy's paying for it?

Is that for the larger bottles?  Seems about right.  The manager at the one by me during the summer said $20 for a case of anything they carried.

 That's for the 12 ounce bottles. Anyone notice the coke is not coming in retornable bottles anymore? 

This is also available at the two local Sam's Clubs in my area for the same price.